!DAILY UPDATES! June. 366 days: your 2016 in photographs

[John Geerts]

The Df and the Angenieux were able to capture details from the 'dark' as it was underexposed.

This is a crop of another shot. I couldn't get too close to prevent a bee-attack   so it's at 70mm.

[Bruno Schroder]

Thanks, John

Bruno - I'm a bit impressed by the IQ of your phone.

Thanks, Lars. I picked it up for that but I'm often surprised too. It gives a 20+MB DNG file but the in camera jpg is most of the time good enough with a few tweaks from the basic phone editor.

Peonies rampage, under too much rain and a bit of cursors for the fun, and a surviving rose.

[Fons Baerken]

June 17 2016



Persicaria polymorphum
excellent species tall like the much hated Fallopia, but without the runners.


Df voigtlander 180mm f/4

[John Geerts]

June 17th 2016 Cloudy with sometimes a bit of sun.

The Pokeweed and its visitors

D800E-Rodenstock 75/4

[Frank Fremerey]

17 June 2016 ... anniversary of the unrest in Eastern Germany 1953 ...Former National Celebration Holiday in Western Germany

My picture: "meeting of the generations"

[Bruno Schroder]

The structure of your nice Pokeweed and bee made me think of the grapes slowly growing on a wall.

[Harald]

Wet today. All shot with my "i will not sell it" Samyang 85 1.4.

[Frank Fremerey]

Harald. I love your contribution. Esp the first one and the one with the white and red stripes.

[the solitaire]

This lens seems to be very interesting on the D600. I am tempted to buy the 1.4/58mm but the 1.2/55 seems to be a very interesting option too...

The 55mm f1,2, any version really, is a very interesting lens. As well as a lens I use a lot. It is usable wide open already, but becomes really sharp and contrasty at f2 and then turns into a very well controlled sharp lens at f5,6, so you could use it dreamy/swirly and glowing at f1,2, decied to use the still limited DoF with a very sharp subject at f2 or make excellent landscape shots at f5,6. Everything goes.

I know Chris Dees also likes his copy, and he recently had a copy for sale so you might contact him about that to see if he still has it.

John, lovely smooth background rendering. You hit the focus on both, which is quite good knowing how the DoF is thinner then what the focus screen on your Df shows you.

Frank, looking forward to what you can do with all those rolls of film

[the solitaire]

If however you are after a lens with a unique and special (read creative) look, you might want to either pick up the 55mm f1,2 or go all the way and look for a 5,8cm f1,4 Nikkor-S. That one will have to be converted to Ai if it has not been done by the previous owner. Ai conversion should be about 30 minutes work and I could help you with that if you decide to go that route.

[John Geerts]

Thanks Buddy. There is a little more room with fast moving cats at f/1.4    The focus-screen of the Df is actually very good.

[John Geerts]

Great stuff Harald.  The Samyang reminds me of the rendering of the Voigtlander Nokton.

[Frank Fremerey]

ocean paradise
post tower
ulb

[Frank Fremerey]

Frank, looking forward to what you can do with all those rolls of film

We will see. Lots of factors. Main problem as always: There I days on which I see and others when I am blind...

[the solitaire]

On the topic of meeting of the generations, no aperture ring on the 300mm