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Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 AI-S, samples original size @ f/5.6
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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:22 pm    Post subject: Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 AI-S, samples original size @ f/5.6 Reply with quote
#1 @ f/5.6



#2 @f/5.6



#2 @ f/5.6


Original size uploads: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mureena/sets/72157617943993984/

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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Beautiful samples I love all of them. I think these pictures are good enough to show in Gallery.


PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Very kind of you Attila, I much appreciate it and it would be an honor to see them hosted in the gallery.


PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi Vilhelm,

the last hour I enjoyed the pictures on your web site. Excellent *2.

Would you be so kind and tell me (us Wink) something about your
PS and web workflow.

Many thanks in advance

Rolf


PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Very stylish, well executed composition and all.
Your photo site is quite enjoyable too.


PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi Rolf, of course I can!

#1 is exposed at f/5.6, ISO 200 and 1/1000s hand-held. RAW to JPEG conversion in Nikon Capture NX 2. Sharpness set to 5/9 and 14-bit RAW converted from Adobe RGB to Nikon sRGB color space. No other tweaking, if you want the RAW file I can send it to you (it's identical). High contrast is due to weather conditions, it was a clear blue sky today and mild wind attributed to this contrast-rich setting.

#2 is exposed at f/5.6, ISO 100 and 1/500s hand-held. If I had exposed it at ISO 200 it would be a little better especially with contrast, as the D3 native ISO starts at ISO 200 and the ISO 100 setting is simulated. Sharpness set to 5/9 and 14-bit RAW converted from Adobe RGB to Nikon sRGB color space. NC NX 2 as well.

#3 is exposed at f/5.6 1/1250s ISO 200. Don't judge sharpness from this photo, it's not properly focused (DoF was not enough to cover the closer flagpoles). I decided to post it because I like the composition depite focusing mistake. I pretty much raped the RAW file in Photoshop Elements 6.0, restoring highlights on the flagpoles and EV minus for the sky. Sharpness I think I did not change and my default is 25 out of 150 in PS RAW converter settings. Adobe RGB converted to sRGB.

zero JPEG compression on all image files.

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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
koji wrote:
Very stylish, well executed composition and all.
Your photo site is quite enjoyable too.


Arigato gozaimasu, I very much appreciate your kind words.

I am only starting out as an independent freelance photographer and it is encouraging to receive feedback like this, especially that it comes from experienced photographers with knowledge far exceeding mine.

The site is built by a friend of mine, http://www.taikalehto.fi - it's optimized for full-screen viewing on a fast connection but if you're on a slow connection just let it be for a while, the flash loads everything in a row and after that it's fast cache viewing. In image galleries, you can press F and arrow buttons for full screen easy navigation. I am still in the process of publishing more photos to the site (coming is an underwater gallery etc.) and some of the photos are not post-processed correctly (wrong color space) but it is ready enough that I felt encouraged to start spreading the URL.

EDIT: Forgot to mention why I took these photos Very Happy

It was nice weather today and the M4-2 needed it's monthly "spin" to ensure lube does not dry out so I loaded it with a roll of Velvia 100F. The late batch Canadian Leica is not equipped with a light meter, so I used my D3 and Nikkor 35/1.4 to validate exposures (slide film latitude is harsh).

I'll post the Summicron 35/2 shots once I've developed and scanned the roll.

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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 9:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 AI-S, samples original size @ f/5.6 Reply with quote
Esox lucius wrote:
#1 @ f/5.6




Really like this one, thanks for posting them (and for posting full-size JPEGS). From the MTF, this lens has quite different behaviour @ f/5.6 than it does af f/1.4 .. f/2


PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
This lens (Ai35/1.4S) is quite sharp after mid F-stop, mine went many
places in the world. Its helicoid lost oil after many year, OHed.
Even Bjorn praised this lens for its sharpness, and it uses 52mm filter
thread which is good for nikon lens users (not these days).


PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Esox lucius wrote:

zero JPEG compression on all image files.


Just to clarify, that's an ambiguous statement. I suspect what you mean is that you used a JPEG quality setting of 100%?

JPEG JFIF is a lossy format and always applies some compression. Firstly, in all common implementations, JPEG is restricted to 8 bits per component. Secondly, the image is converted from RGB to YCC and the two chrominance channels are subsampled, effectively reducing the colour resolution to 1/4 of what was there originally. Lastly, the subsampled image is divided into 8x8 macroblocks which are approximated by a discrete cosine transform (this is the part that is affected by the JPEG compression setting when saving). It can be more or less accurate depending on the setting, but is always lossy.

An 8-bit uncompressed TIFF of your boat image is 35,345k. Your full-size JPEG is 6,304k which, (ignoring for now the 31k of exif and 8k of ICC profile) means the image is compressed to around 18% of the original size at 8 bits. A losslessly compressed PNG is 12,593k, although one made feom the original data rather than the JPEG would contain more information and be somewhat larger.


PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 11:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 AI-S, samples original size @ f/5.6 Reply with quote
Esox lucius wrote:
#1 @ f/5.6




Sharp.
It's the hidden detail. Like, Michael Jackson at the window on the second top floor to the right. Smile


PostPosted: Sun May 17, 2009 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Another favourite with very impressive examples


patrickh


Chris ???? you can completely lose me with this math stuff Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy I just prefer jpegs derived from the raw rather than the in camera ones. tiffs seem so bloated.


PostPosted: Sun May 17, 2009 6:51 am    Post subject: Re: Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 AI-S, samples original size @ f/5.6 Reply with quote
ChrisLilley wrote:
I suspect what you mean is that you used a JPEG quality setting of 100%?


Yes, exactly.

Thank you everyone!
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