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Ancient & modern juxtaposition
Maiko and Geiko taking a taxi in Gion.
Is there anywhere else where the contrast between old and new can be this stark? Yet it's so much a function of the everyday life that it becomes an eminently unique character of this place.
An old shot given the monochrome treatment, with a little cyan tint added.
Been thinking about a lightweight high performing “slowish” basic lens (FF) kit although lens manufacturers typically steer away from making such options available simply because they prefer to sell us higher margin premium options like pro-spec f2.8 zoom and f1.2 prime lenses.
1. High quality lightweight hyper-wide prime 14mm or 15mm f4.5 with good close focus and can take screw on filters. As and when you have the occasional need to go really wide. No need for a fast aperture which only adds unnecessary weight and cost. Voigtlander has decent manual focus primes in this range but these are not great in the corners especially on high resolution sensors.
2. High quality lightweight ultrawide-standard zoom in 20-60mm f4.0. 20mm (not 24mm) is properly wide without getting too wide, a 20-60mm zoom will minimize lens change as opposed to using both an ultra-wide zoom and a standard zoom. Panasonic S has a decent quality lens in their S 20-60mm f3.5-5.6. Carrying 2 cameras to minimise lens change just adds on even more weight. Incidentally Tamron just announced the lightweight (365g) 20-40mm f2.8 Di III VXD (A062), personally would have preferred a longer albeit slower zoom lens in the longer 20-60mm range for E mount, even 20-50mm would suffice.
3. Good quality, relatively lightweight Tamron 70-180mm f2.8 Di III VXD already exists, hopefully this will get a V2 upgrade with lens IS and teleconverter compatibility. This Tamron weighs in at 815g, in contrast Nikon’s Z 70-200mm f2.8 VR S is 1,440g!
4. High quality 50mm f1.8 prime, options readily available. Personally quite happy with my FE 55mm f1.8 ZA.
So a better Voigtlander FE 15mm f4.5 APSH (IV?) update to pair with perhaps Tamron FE 20-40mm f2.8 VXD and FE 55mm f1.8 ZA plus a Tamron 70-180mm f2.8 (VR) update, this could be a more than decent lightweight kit.
Ancient & modern juxtaposition
Maiko and Geiko taking a taxi in Gion.
Is there anywhere else where the contrast between old and new can be this stark? Yet it's so much a function of the everyday life that it becomes an eminently unique character of this place.
An old shot given the monochrome treatment, with a little cyan tint added.
Been thinking about a lightweight high performing “slowish” basic lens (FF) kit although lens manufacturers typically steer away from making such options available simply because they prefer to sell us higher margin premium options like pro-spec f2.8 zoom and f1.2 prime lenses.
1. High quality lightweight hyper-wide prime 14mm or 15mm f4.5 with good close focus and can take screw on filters. As and when you have the occasional need to go really wide. No need for a fast aperture which only adds unnecessary weight and cost. Voigtlander has decent manual focus primes in this range but these are not great in the corners especially on high resolution sensors.
2. High quality lightweight ultrawide-standard zoom in 20-60mm f4.0. 20mm (not 24mm) is properly wide without getting too wide, a 20-60mm zoom will minimize lens change as opposed to using both an ultra-wide zoom and a standard zoom. Panasonic S has a decent quality lens in their S 20-60mm f3.5-5.6. Carrying 2 cameras to minimise lens change just adds on even more weight. Incidentally Tamron just announced the lightweight (365g) 20-40mm f2.8 Di III VXD (A062), personally would have preferred a longer albeit slower zoom lens in the longer 20-60mm range for E mount, even 20-50mm would suffice.
3. Good quality, relatively lightweight Tamron 70-180mm f2.8 Di III VXD already exists, hopefully this will get a V2 upgrade with lens IS and teleconverter compatibility. This Tamron weighs in at 815g, in contrast Nikon’s Z 70-200mm f2.8 VR S is 1,440g!
4. High quality 50mm f1.8 prime, options readily available. Personally quite happy with my FE 55mm f1.8 ZA.
So a better Voigtlander FE 15mm f4.5 APSH (IV?) update to pair with perhaps Tamron FE 20-40mm f2.8 VXD and FE 55mm f1.8 ZA plus a Tamron 70-180mm f2.8 (VR) update, this could be a more than decent lightweight kit.