Lonely Tree
Lonely Tree by Graham Norton, on Flickr
Took the swmbo for a weekend in the Lake District for her birthday and managed to pop down to the shores of Ullswater on our first morning for sunrise for a very quick visit.
Not a breath of wind and I this peace of sure to myself. Has an added bonus I was lucky enough to get some lovely light,
Fuji XT-2 and Fuji 16-55
I have the SMC 50 1.7 Pentax and it's not a bad lens. I also purchased a Kiron 80-200 f4 macro. It's built like a tank and weighs a tonne!!!
I have that 50mm too (the K version) and I've taken some great stitched pictures with it in the past. I think it's lovely. My current plan is to put it on a Lens Turbo II and use it for street photography at night as a super-fast 35mm equivalent. Cheaper than buying the Fuji version!
I've had a play with the trial of Capture One. It seemed very capable, just a bit overpriced for what I would use for (I just do a basic process in LR, any heavy lifting is done in Photoshop). Worth a look though.
Very nice Dave........shot with classic chrome ?This picture has shown me how much I have to learn about photography. I mean, intellectually I know that when the sky is cloudy and the light looks bad, it's still worth going out. But nonetheless, on this walk (back on Sunday) I was thinking to myself "Well, I probably didn't get anything worthwhile, but I love Christchurch Meadow and I've still had a really nice walk". I must be bananas. OK, I had to combine exposures a bit (I was already stitching two to get the composition I wanted), but it wasn't that huge a challenge, and it's as nice a picture of this spot as I've ever taken. Moral: your eye sees things one way, the X-Trans sensor another!
Christchurch Meadow in autumn by David Hallett, on Flickr
Easiest thing is just go through all the menus and see what does what, it's what I do for every camera TBH. The X-T1 was pretty easy to get used to TBH, a lot less options than the D750 which I know you've just chopped in for the Fooj. That being said, the X-T2 has a few more AF options and apparently it takes a while to work out what works best. Shouldn't be an issue for you though as I know you're an AF-S only shooter
Thanks! But no, from RAW I always go with either Pro Neg Std or Adobe Std, depending on whether I want more contrast, or need the shadows a bit more open, etc.. Colour stuff after setting the white balance is mostly done with Photoshop, either Colour Efex Pro or occasionally Topaz Adjust (not so much these days, it's a bit unsubtle, but I might get an interesting look and then blend that layer back in).
Ooh. I hadn't heard that with Fuji, only with the weird Sony mount. Which body were you using it with?Be careful if you buy a lens turbo ii, the first one I had damaged the inside of my camera (only cosmetically but it created a circular mark inside the body). Replacement arrived with a badly scratched rear element. Costing quite a bit to keep sending them back to China
TBH John I tried a lot of the suggestions, capture one, irident, photo ninja, silkypix but they all felt second rate and clunky compared to LR. TBF Capture one did actually feel like a pretty decent bit of software but I didn't get on with it. Irident felt like going back to 15 year old software. Fortunately I have aperture (which I forgot about until after trialling all those above) and so use that for the files LR doesn't like. Sorry, doesn't help you much but I just don't think there's much to rival LR. Capture one has a free 30 day trial so maybe give that a go.
Interesting, thanks for the heads up. Clearly quality control is not what it might be, but that's not a huge surprise given how much cheaper it is than the Speedbooster. Makes me think it may be worth buying through Amazon for easier returns.
Good question. I'd probably start here, but not sure if that's the right place for 'feedback' or not.
Fuji X-Pro1 by Macvisual Photography, on Flickr
Many thanks - I have contacted them via the normal contact page, so now lets see
Thanks for that. I'm in Pret a Manger at the moment so can't do links.
I have no idea. It just followed from what Nod was saying. The thought was to transfer the info from the lens to the gun. But thinking about it the gun won't understand the signals will it?
I always blame Nod.
