Thank you for sharing this. What a beautiful home and garden setting.
When I bought my A6000 I skipped the kit lenses and ordered it with the Sigma 30mm f/2.8 in the Sony E-mount. Although it works fine in AF mode, I prefer to shoot in manual mode, including manual focus. I have since added the 19mm and 60mm lenses, at about $200 each, and they are all sharp as a tack.
Nice photo Al. I love stormy skies. Do you plan to do any editing on this photo, and if so, what?
Gene51, I understand the difficulty of explaining the Zone System in a forum like this. When I bought my first 4x5, a used Kodak view camera, in the early 60s, I also bought a skinny little, 100 page or so book titled "The Negative" to learn what a properly exposed negative looked like and how to get them consistently.
It took a lot of head scratching and experimenting to understand what Ansel was teaching, but it was well worth the effort then and still applies in spades.
I try to expose the highest value in the image to be just on the edge of blowing out to blank white. This is ETTR at the extreme. To do this, I have calibrated my hand held one degree spot meter with my camera to give an exposure compensation (+3.7 stops in my case) that will prevent over exposure but will also give adequate exposure to the low values (usually.)
I have been experimenting with my in-camera spot meter to do the same thing. So far so good, but there is a difference. The hand held meter is always one degree, but the angle of the in-camera spot varies depending on the attached lens. I may have to back down to +3.3 stops when using the in-camera meter because the highest value might be averaged with lower values in the larger spot area. Think bright edge of cloud next to not so bright.
Thanks for posting. Very refreshing review of a part of our past.
I believe this is a question of lines per millimeter. How many l/mm can a 50 mp FF sensor resolve? Then which lenses can resolve that many l/mm? Does anybody, ie DXO, provide that information?
Thanks for posting. Great refreshing humor.
I think Ansel Adams said it all: the negative is the score and the print is the performance. He made the best negative he could so he could realize his vision in the print using his darkroom skills. I believe he would have loved the PP tools we have today.
I have a question for Gene51. Since both Macs and PCs use Intel processors, can the Sager NP4658 be configured to run the OS X 10.10.x operating system?
Jim, thank you for this post. I haven't used either of these programs, but now I've got to try both of them.
John
I like the effect of your processing. How did you do that?
Nice pictures. Thanks for sharing.