"hollywood" landscape

[arhi_tectu1]

Hello there,
Here are some shots from my last outing ,
Lens: is the zeiss distagon 28mm f2 camera Sony A7 (nice combo they look good together )
Location: Eibsee Zugspitze
Here they are, hope you like them :








Cheers
Catalin

[fuzzywuzzy]

Beautiful!

[rbelyell]

awesome! which incarnation is this lens? ive been fantasizing about the zf version on the nikon df...but maybe i should be thiniking about the a7 instead...
tony

[arhi_tectu1]

the lens is the CY version
really nice lens but a bit over rated in my humble opinion (at the moment).
don't get me wrong it is a nice lens ,.
Thanks for stopping by

Cheers
Catalin

[kds315*]

Nice lens! Did you finally get it fixed?

[arhi_tectu1]

@ Klaus
Yes I did manage to get it to work properly
at these guys Grah Optik GmbH

cheers
Catalin

[kds315*]

Great hearing that!

[arhi_tectu1]

yes this is a good thing , but I'm considering selling the lens
tough I m still thinking bout it

[rbelyell]

ive not had one, but i understood it was one of the great lenses of all time, and perhaps the single best 28. can you share your opinion a bit deeper?

[uddhava]

Beautiful photographs!

[Rick1779]

Awesome!

[arhi_tectu1]

thanks for stopping by
I'm glad you like them. Thx

@rbelyell
the thing is that I expected this lens to blow me away from all
the talk that was and maybe is still going on about it , I did not used it as
much I liked to that's why I cant give a proper verdict on it ,It's not that its a bad lens or
anything like that its just that I expected better overall performance > one example is
that depending on how light hits the lens WO it has a bit of glow (some people call it leica glow or so ..
I got this from a blog where the person was talking about this efect when using it wo)
anyway this is a nice lens .

cheers
Catalin

[ManualFocus-G]

Very, very nicely done #1 and #2 in particular

[uddhava]

Could you please explain a little bit how you got such nice shots? What were the settings and where did you focus
for example? They look very nice. I am new at photography and it would be a big help to me. Thank you.

[arhi_tectu1]

Thanks for the kind words.

@uddhava
I don't have any special workflow or anything like this ,
for me its a question of mood when taking and editing the photos
setting wise for landscape I use mainly f8 or f11 (I never go above f11)
I use live view for focusing and a last thing for the output files I always use
re size with sharpen (standard option in LR) or websharpen action for PS
here are some links where you can find these actions

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/726816

http://www.andreasresch.at/2013/04/07/web-sharpener-better-sharpening-for-the-web/

that's about it

Cheers
Catalin

[uddhava]

Thank you for the reply. It is helpful.

[Nikos]

Amazing photos, especially #1!

The lens is very nice, and the resistance to flare is amazing for such a lens.
In my opinion, it is a bit bulky on the a7[r]. But I have yet to find something better on my a7r.
The adapter makes it too long and adds 100gr, making it about 40% heavier than the body.

[vlousada]

Thank you for sharing these beautiful photographs.
Also thank you for the tips.

[jamesbondaka007]

Wow.