Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have found that newer lenses do much better on Sony sensors if resolution and detail are the goal. For character ymmv. On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:26 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > I've been up to my eyes fighting a local planning aberration - hence my > lacklustre recent photography - but had to take my camera to do > something in relation to the appeal. > > Because of a slight access difficulty, I decided to use one of my Pentax > lens collection - the M series 2.8/120 on a Fotodiox adaptor. The lens > seemed to work well enough on my various film Pentaxes, but I'm not too > sure about it on the Sony. Maybe I'll have to upscale the adaptor > quality? Thoughts? I'm also not excited by the Fotodiox on my Leica lenses. > > This is virtually the same size as it came out of the camera, but tilted > .05 to level the horizon and minimally cropped to lose the blank bits. > The image also had auto light levels applied, additional colour > saturation boost of 8 and was sharpened to 41 all in PSE, as it > certainly didn't look great straight out of the camera. > > Kite surfing etc. taken at sewage outlet at West Pier, Dun Laoghaire, > Co. Dublin close to Seapoint swimming area. > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/CoVid-19/Kite+Surfing+Dublin+Bay+1+10_10_20.jpg.html > > Sony A7II and Pentax-M 120/2.8 glass. Shot at either f8 or f11 1/1600s > at ISO 320. Detail can be seen at larger size. > > Douglas > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com