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Sunday small tour with Vario-Sonnar 35-70
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:08 am    Post subject: Sunday small tour with Vario-Sonnar 35-70 Reply with quote
These photos taken last Sunday (7 days ago) with Vario-Sonnar 35-70 on 5DMkII:

08.- Castle of Rivalta seen from the valley of river Trebbia (zoom on 35mm position):



07.- Same scene with zoom on 70mm position and from a slightly different standpoint:



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09. This is an old farm compound, partially renovated.
This photo is part of an ongoing project that I have, to document the architecture of the old farm houses of my region before they would disappear:


PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
what a great lens/camera combination. panos as ultrasharp and great color. such a different weight and feel from your leica rig!


PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
rbelyell wrote:
what a great lens/camera combination. panos as ultrasharp and great color. such a different weight and feel from your leica rig!


Thanks Rbelyell. The Biogon 2/35 that is on my M9, and this Vario-Sonnar 35-70, are both very sharp lenses. It would be difficult to tell which is sharper -
on image comparison the Biogon wins, but that's because the M9 is a sharper camera than the 5DMkII (since M9 has no AA filter).
The Vario-Sonnar wins in corner-to-corner performance (virtually no detectable difference in IQ between corners and centre,
whereas the Biogon being a non-retrofocal lens very close to film plane obviously suffers). The Biogon wins (hands down) in distortion control department.

The photos are not multi-takes panoramas, if that is what you meant by pano - they are single takes. The valley is huge and ultra-wide,
but I was far away and the view I had was clear of obstacles, so perhaps it might look like a compo, but it's not Smile

The colours are better than what one normally gets from the 5DMkII because I used a custom colour profile created with ColorChecker Passport.

Cheers

P.S. the white point you see in photo 07 (second photo) in the river is a bathing dog. The woman owner is on pebbles ground, more on the right. Smile


PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
the 35-70 is AKA Minolta, is that right ? Wink Super results. I think my favorite due to its slight surrealism is 05.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nesster wrote:
I think my favorite due to its slight surrealism is 05.


it is surrealist, isn't it? Very Happy
When I took the photo, I thought of them as "terminator metal spiders"
Laughing really
(try to half close your eyes, they look like a colony of metal spiders Laughing at least to me)
It's been one of the very few photos I ever took with a DSLR aiming to make a B&W of it even before firing the shutter.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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This photo is part of an ongoing project that I have, to document the architecture of the old farm houses of my region before they would disappear:

This is a great idea Orio,I can think of a few around here that may disappear over time.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
mo wrote:
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This photo is part of an ongoing project that I have, to document the architecture of the old farm houses of my region before they would disappear:

This is a great idea Orio,I can think of a few around here that may disappear over time.


You told me about it when I visited you. I am so looking forward to seeing this project grow, Orio!


PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
great series from the little zoom
I guess I would prefer a biogon if I had to choice


PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
@ Moira, Carsten:
it's a looong time, long term project. But I am looking forward to some progress, too! Smile
One problem is, not all people is happy with their house being photographed (although perfectly legal, I never enter private properties). Which does prevent me from the possibility of shooting from the best angles sometimes.

@poilu:
If I had to choose with a gun at my temple, I would also choose the Biogon. If for nothing else, for the money value Wink
But the reality is, they do complement rather than exclude each other.
In a situation like this of the far view of the castle, I will always choose the VS because of the corner performance, which is so important with natural landscapes. It is also nice being able to adjust the framing, because not always you can move around as you wish in a landscape (for instance, the photos above have been taken from a bridge, and while I could move horizontally, I had no chance of getting closer or farther).
With architecture, or for portraits/street, the choice is the Biogon for the faultless geometry (archi) and the fast aperture (people/street)


PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Great, I love the first two landscape shots. The color balance is really good and it feels very natural, something I always see with your landscape work. My first association for Contax Zeiss rendering are images like these, thanks to you I guess. Wink


PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
#5 stands out for me from this series, really superb... #1 I choose for the composition.

Cheers
Tobias


PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Great project Orio. With fabulous equipment and an eye to match. Excellent work


patrickh
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