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

[John Geerts]

Many flowers in the garden, Fons, Coincidence that so many are 'purple'?

You live in a beautiful surrounding, Lars.

[armando_m]

Beautiful garden Fons

[Bruno Schroder]

Through the hotel door, before crashing in the bed. Lumia 950 jpg.

[golunvolo]

New Workflow: DF - Usb-OTG - Amazon Cloud - Android - Photomate R3  Time for DSL@home.

   Love it

[armando_m]

and they ran into my shot ...

[golunvolo]

Production value!

   I like it. Do you have the shot without the runners to compare? I think I prefer this one thou

[Thomas G]

Impressive clarity on that bee shot !

Beach fun

vacaion pleasure impictured. Verynice.

[Frank Fremerey]

I like the shot with the beautiful waves AND women

[Fons Baerken]

July 19



Agapanthus umbellatus

this one's  from Madeira where they grow in the wild,
large species, moderately hardy.

D3 cv58mm @f/1.4 with the aid of pk-11a

[John Geerts]

July 19th 2016   - Promises to be sunny and warm

The Indian Pokeweed, ready to harvest 

D600 -  45/2.8P  + 4T

[John Geerts]

Sweet details on the Agapanthus umbellatus.

You like the CV58?

[Fons Baerken]

Sweet details on the Agapanthus umbellatus.

You like the CV58?

Too early to tell to come to a definitive conclusion, colours seem a bit on the harsh side, will have to spend more time and try different sensors.
This is the chipped sl-II version with the knurled zoom ring, well-built, snap-on cap doesnt fit that well with the sunhood on.
May add like it better with the aperture open than stopped down.

[Fons Baerken]

some more samples like the first but now @ f/5.6 still with the pk-11a, reminds me of the cv90/3,5



without ring wide open overexposed



hard to focus wide open what i see in the viewfinder doesnt correspond with the actual, i have similar issue with the zf 35 f/2 wide open. Maybe coma sets the focus off at near limit distance.

[John Geerts]

Thanks Fons, I have the SLII with the normal focus ring.  Usually I take HN-7 with stepdown ring as sun hood (or stepup with HN-24) in which case the cap is not needed.    Flare can be annoying.

Wide open I like it too. It excels wide open in low light.  When stopping down the lens gets very sharp, with a very high resolution, and indeed compares with the CV90/3.5 and with the 80/2.8. Bokeh compares with the older Nikkor 5.8cm  1.4 according to some reviewers.

[John Geerts]

Chicken-farm...