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The old HT : MIR24N first shots
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:33 pm
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Today I received ,at last ,my Nikon/Nex adaptor , so , I couldn't resist and gave a little tour in the city old center .I was curious if this combo can be used for handheld night city photography . I tried to avoid as possible the motion blur ,so I shot at 1/80 mostly ,and used ISO 1600 , for a first try even if I think I shouldn't be shy with the 3200 . Here are some first images , mostly wide open . I had to PP a little (raising exposure around 0,5-1 ,applying NR ,some slight sharpening )I shot RAW because I wasn't shure about the light , but the Tungsten setting was OK.














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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:49 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:49 pm
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such a nice lens and very good results.


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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:54 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:54 pm
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Feeling is pretty amazing I think to walk at such a light condition and we still able to capture result like this, which is excellent.

Today I did use parallel my Sony NEX and Panasonic G1 in crappy light conditions, I really won't take out much G1.


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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:20 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:20 pm
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ISO 1600 is really useful on the NEX, and your samples are really good.
Very well composed, and the light and colours have been caught in a realistic way.
Easy to imagine to be walking through those places. Smile

Regards.
Jes.


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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:35 pm
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Thank you , rbelyell ,Attila ,Jes !
I am pretty satisfied for the beginning , indeed ,with the results in that light , especially handheld .Probably I have to know better the lens ,and even the little NEX . I will try to repeat this shooting these days ,using the lens on tripod ,to compare the results . Of course , It should be much better ,but I am not a tripod fan ( I still I am sorry after my Sigma 30/1.4 for these handheld night snapshots ) .
Here's another one taken in front of the former Photo/Audio store from my childhood and youth ( here I lusted about the Praktica cameras

Laughing )



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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:38 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:38 pm
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Looks pretty good to me Teo, even at that high ISO!


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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:42 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:42 pm
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kds315* wrote:
Looks pretty good to me Teo, even at that high ISO!

+1 What a nice peaceful looking place.


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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 11:11 pm
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peterqd wrote:
kds315* wrote:
Looks pretty good to me Teo, even at that high ISO!

+1 What a nice peaceful looking place.

Thank you , Klaus and Peter !
About the "nice paceful looking place" this is the old city center of my hometown . Or better ,what remained from it , after the criminal action of the comunist municipality ,wich destroyed around 30-40% of the historic center , in order to "modernize" .This "opera" was continued by "forgetting" to strengthen and to renovate these buildings from XIX century and by transforming it in a slum .They moved the commercial and administrative center away ,and let the old one to die slowly.
Now , thank God, they renovated a part of the buildings ,and moved away all the "fauna" that didn't make a very friendly place this area in night time .

Now , a shot taken at f4 with 1/20 in anti motion blur ( ISO 6400 ) and postprocessed



the same , at 1/80 shutter priority wide open focus on the moon (as in the first one) 1600




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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 11:15 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 11:15 pm
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Quite surreal, I would say.
Interesting.


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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:39 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:39 pm
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this evening i took the tripod and went again to try the MIR at f8 .
This time , they turned on a fountain of questionable good taste Laughing .





Kitschy , isn't it ?


And a Cubist style image of the church :




Well , here are a set of BW ,wich usually I don't do ,It seemed to me that this style could match :









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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:55 pm
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in #4 I expect a horde of zombies to come out of one of the lateral streets Laughing
But I like the photos Smile


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Orio wrote:
in #4 I expect a horde of zombies to come out of one of the lateral streets Laughing
But I like the photos Smile

Laughing Exactly !
Very strange looking this deserted old town .It shows especially in night time ,during the day there are some rare people passing by , and the shops are open.
But belive , me the zombies are not much more dangerous than many of the inhabitants of these buildings in the last 20 years . Now , that they moved from the area , it's deserted but at least it's safe and strange (good for photos ) Laughing


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Your photos are enjoyable so thank you for sharing them.
I have always been intrigued by this lens and would happily hear about high definition results at low isos on the whole frame. If you could upload or send a link to some of your pics it would be nice.
Is someone using this lens on full frame? A7 or Nikon body? I am interested since I have repeatedly red that the lens has a strong reputation. I regret the Nikon rotation focusing but that is just me.
I used for a while a Mir 1b with same focal length and it was a fine lens on APSC format if stopped down to 5,6 at least for nice coverage. Colors were very nice though.
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