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Taken at Arambol beach, Goa, India after the sunset.. Long exposure of 0.8 secs, at F/2.8 and hand held.. Not very sharp, but not bad either.. The Antishake technology really helps!
I have just purchased a Canon 180 f3.5 macro. It is one of their top 'L' lenses. The aim was to have something for my Canon DSLR and also to adapt it to m4/3. This is the lens on the G9 today. It was shocking light but the antishake and lens peaking works perfectly and I am as pleased as anything with the results. I will be having a better trial when the sun is out.
My best panoramic portrait yet. 56 shots with the Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2 wide open for an 82.5 Megapixel crop.
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Lange musste die Konica Minolta Fangemeinde auf eine digitale Spiegelreflex warten, lange, lange tat sich nichts und die Gerüchteküche brodelte. Dann zum Anfang des Jahres 2005 endlich war es soweit: Die gute alte Dynax 7 erschien, optisch geringfügig angepasst als Dynax 7 D und das "D" stand für Digital! Die bemerkenswerteste Innovation in dieser Spiegelreflex war der AntiShake; sieben Jahre Entwicklung hatten die KoMi Ingeneure alleine in den erstmalig im Body einer Spiegelreflex Kamera integrierten Verwackelungsschutz gesteckt! Dadurch können so gut wie alle Konica, Minolta und wenig später auch Sony Objektive damit genutzt werden. Weltklasse!
Die Kamera ist auch in anderer Hinsicht Weltklasse: das massive, unverwüstliche Gehäuse in einer bemerkenswerten Qualität, weitgehend aus einer Magnesiumlegierung gefertigt und fast alle Einstellungen (und die DSLR hat jede Menge davon) sind direkt am Body einzustellen, zu verstellen oder abzustellen. In die Tiefe von digitalen Menüs muss man dazu nicht extra. Allenfalls für ein paar grundlegende und später kaum zu ändernde Voreinstellungen. Alles für den Fotografenalltag geht ratzfaz über Knöpfe, Dreher und Rädchen.
Die Kamera kostete ca 1500 Euro und verschwand schon knapp zwei Jahre später vom Markt, als Sony die Fa KonicaMinolta übernahm. Vorher hatte viele Nutzer noch mit einem "Fehler 58" genannten technischen Mangel zu kämpfen. Nach (längerem) Nichtgebrauch der Kamera konnte das erste Bild stark unterbelichtet bis Schwarz sein. Das konnte man in der Regel durch wiederholtes Ein- und Ausschalten der Kamera beheben, es war aber nervig. Und im schlimmsten Fall konnte es zu einem Totalausfall des Gerätes führen. Konica Minolta behob den Mangel auch über die Garantiezeit hinaus, nach fünf Jahren allerdings endete die Kulanz. Ich hatte damit keine Probleme - bis weit nach der Zeit: da schlug er bei mir vor ein paar Jahren noch zu und zwar quasi final für die Kamera, nichts ging mehr. Die Dynax war mir allerdings eine Reparatur wert und das bedeutete gut 200 Euro weniger im Portemonnaie. Aber auch wieder eine intakte Lieblingskamera.
For a long time, the Konica Minolta fans had to wait for a digital SLR, for a long time nothing happened and the rumor mill was bubbling. Then at the beginning of 2005 it was finally time: the good old Dynax 7 appeared, optically slightly adapted as a Dynax 7 D and the "D" meant digital! The most remarkable innovation in this SLR was the antishake: Seven years of development period was necessary for the antishake built directly in the camera! As the result, almost all older or newer Konica, Minolta and a little later Sony lenses can be used with AntiShake. World class!
The camera is also world class in other aspects: the massive, indestructible housing in a remarkable quality and almost all settings, and the DSLR has a lot of it, can be adjusted directly on the body. You don't have to go into the depth of digital menus. At most for a few basic and later hardly to be changed, default settings.
The camera costs about € 1500 in 2005 and disappeared from the market almost two years later when Sony Konicaminolta took over. Before that, many users had to struggle with an "error 58" technical deficiency. After (longer) non -use of the camera, the first picture was significantly underexposed or even completely black. This could usually be remedied by repeating the camera on and off, but it was annoying. And in the worst case, it could lead to a total failure of the device. Konica Minolta also put the deficiency beyond the guarantee period, but after five years the goodwill ended. I had no problems with it - until well after the time: Error 58 struck me a few years ago, almost final for the camera, nothing worked anymore. However, the Dynax was worth a repair and that meant a good 200 euros less in my wallet. But also an intact favorite camera.
I took 26 handheld shots of these courting woodpigeons. Surprisingly the antishake did a good job. Although the cock's predatory eyes are open on several the hens posture made this the best shot. Pocket camera in good light.
Test shot with my new Z6 and 24-70 S lens. Cropped approx 25%. What is impressive is the shutter speed on this. 1/20s and hand held!
My first video on Flickr is associated with the still photo next to it. The date and time stamp is totally wrong as I did not know how to set it on the thumb sized gadget. Maybe there is some way of stopping the date & time being recorded too. Don't think much of the antishake either, but what do I expect for £20?
A rare guest! Northern Crested Tit (Toppmeis / Lophophanes cristatus cristatus) visiting my garden the other day. It is the first ever adult Crested Tit I've seen here!
It's a quick and restless little creature, so with little light I struggled to get any reasonably sharp photos at all and even had to apply the Photoshop antishake filter.
I do hope it will come back soon, and hopefully not only in the far end of the garden :-)
Canon EOS 70D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L USM IS.
The photo is part of a Northern Crested Tit set.
My Minolta A1 is gone. After 3 years and almost 20000 shots, this is what happened.
I will miss her. She had many fine features with that fixed zoom lens and antiShake.
See below for the colours with another camera.
Also below my effort to colour correct this shot -- any better suggestions?
And also below, the shot earlier, with only a little red removed.
Salute to Sony, who have taken over Minolta/KonicaMinolta. They have refunded the purchase price. So in effect I've had three years free shooting. Unexpectedly fair? (It was a Sony component, the CCD image sensor, that failed.)
The best yatch money can buy - antique in appearance, yet boasting the pinnacle of maritime technology and luxury!
Spotted off Baga Beach, Goa, India, with a party in full swing, shortly after sunset.
If it were not for the anti-shake capability of the Minolta A200, the pitching of the boat I was in would have turned this photo into an 'artistic' blur!
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Introduced in 2006 following the acquisition of Konica Minolta's camera assets, the DSLR had been in development at Minolta. It brought to Sony Minolta's legacy in camera and lens design and engineering.
Recent acquisition for not a lot of money. You can tell it's mostly Minolta, the anti-shake is Minolta's, the control and menus. The scene logos are Minolta's going back to early DiMage cameras. The shutter, control wheel, eye-start and of course the AF mount. Sony's contribution was the sensor and the image processor.
Taken with Sigma 60mm f2.8 Art DN lens E mount.
A rare guest! Northern Crested Tit (Toppmeis / Lophophanes cristatus cristatus) visiting my garden the other day. It is the first ever adult Crested Tit I've seen here!
It's a quick and restless little creature, so with little light I struggled to get any reasonably sharp photos at all and even had to apply the Photoshop antishake filter.
I do hope it will come back soon, and hopefully not only in the far end of the garden :-)
Canon EOS 70D, Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L USM IS.
The photo is part of a Northern Crested Tit set.
The final crop was 60mp. It was stitched from 9 shots, manually. He gave me about 20 seconds to shoot this. I had to merge the photos manually because he was squirming around. I loaned him my sunglasses, everything else is just how he was wearing it. This was shot with my 58mm f/1.2 at f/2
A good and sharp super wide angle. But without autofocus and antishake. It works well with my Sony A6000. Instead of the autofocus you can use the focus magifier. With aperture 2.0, it is also extremely bright. For size comparison you see a cigarette box :-)
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Yesterday, the kindly folks at B&H let me test-drive the new Sony A100 dSLR. Since Nikon has released its most direct competitor today in the form of the d80, I thought it would be useful to give a few of my impressions. A few caveats: This isn't a true review; I didn't get to do any rigorous testing. For an incredibly thorough review, see DPReview. Second, I'm not going to attempt to distance myself from my perspective of being a big fan of the Nikon d200 -- in fact, that's going to be much of the point, since many people assumed (mistakenly, I think) that the A100 and D200 would be direct competitors. While I have a stated preference, though, I always seek to avoid bias -- I'm no fanboy, and have no need to carry water for any corporation.
All of the pictures here were taken with the A100 and a Minolta 28-75mm f/2.8, the best lens B&H had available for the KM mount.
With that, let's start with what is really special about this camera, as evidenced in the picture above -- anti-shake. This picture was taken at 75mm (112mm equivalent) at 1/10th of a second. I'm good at hand-holding, but not that good. This puts me in the rather extraordinary situation of being able to use ISO 100 with a zoom under B&H's dismal fluorescent lighting. Two of the A100's direct competitors -- the Nikon d80 and Canon Rebel XT -- could not take this shot without extreme luck. A third, the Pentax K100D, could, but many people will look at the megapixel difference when making purchasing decisions -- they probably shouldn't make it a priority, but they will.
Using it, though, made it clear that it is not a direct competitor to the D200 -- this isn't a fault with it; it's just the segment of the market it operates in. Sony has made clear that they will be presenting a professional model camera later, but the A100 isn't it. Now remember, "professional" in this sense is just a word to delineate a market segment. Of course a professional could use the A100 with great results -- David Burnett used a Holga to win a national photojournalism award, but a Holga is still a toy, by definition.
And these words do have meaning, which usually comes down to two things -- speed and build quality. The D200 (and Canon 30D) are almost twice as fast as the A100 in normal use -- much better for sports, photojournalism, or other work where you may need to fire off a bunch of shots in a row. And in terms of build quality, it's a whole different world. Interestingly, the Minolta 28-75 seemed to fit the analogy well -- while being in the same optical category as the Nikon 28-70 or the Canon 24-70, it is much, much lighter and flimsier. This has good and bad repercussions -- on the good side, most users really don't push their camera's builds to the limit, and the A100/28-75 combination is light enough for virtually anyone to shoot with all day without fatigue. The D200 and 28-70, though ... well, the sort of people who anthropomorphize camera equipment call the 28-70 "The Beast" for a reason. There are objective advantages to build quality, though. I have had my S2 Pro (which has a slightly better build than the A100) utterly fail in harsh weather conditions. Snowing? No pictures today ... dry it out and hope it works in the morning. That's not a good thing. I'm also very hard on my equipment. The finish is peeling from my Sigma, my tank-like 17-55 shows wear on the lens mount, and my billy club 70-200 has *gouge marks* in it. A plastic-mounted lens, like the A100 kit lens, would not last very long under my use. But I am not a normal user.
Other big differences that apply to the comparison with the d80 are the viewfinder and autofocus. The d80 has the same viewfinder as the d200, and it's quite noticeably better than the A100's. I'm really glad that Nikon seems to want to establish themselves as a "good viewfinder" company for APS camera, much like Pentax. Secondly, the autofocus has good and bad. The "eye-start" autofocus really works, and could be helpful. The ability of the A100 to grab focus using focus points other than the center one, though, is *awful* -- hunting all over the place even when using a fast lens aimed at fairly contrasty scenes. The d80's autofocus system should be notably better.
Again, you have to look beyond the numbers, and I'm glad we're at a point that people can have the resolution they want and then just focus on the other features. In the film world, *all* 35mm cameras had the same "sensor," so you chose your camera based on what other features you needed, and paid accordingly. This is a good way to think about it. The A100 isn't in the same market segment as the D200, no more than it's in the same segment as the 10-megapixel Samsung camera phone.
Now … the pictures.
Ok, imho this is the snapshot of the day!
Bless the Minolta engineers for AS (antishake) and AF! ;-)
Being a "mid-day" person usually starting the day late and ending it early I've NEVER expected to ever meet a wild owl. On Thursday 03/11-2016 at 14:30 i did!
Travelling by bike at Hvambsida (Kongsberg, Norway), what first drew my attention was this weird call - something like this one: "http://www.xeno-canto.org/123018" (Sorry - Flickr no longer allows working links so you'll have to copy and paste).
I stopped and looked in the direction the sound was coming from and saw a large bird in the top of a very high Spruce tree.
First it looked a bit like a goshawk, but then the bird turned its head and looked straight at me as I was not in doubt. The bird in front of me was a Northern Hawk Owl (Haukugle / Surnia ulula)!
Canon 70D, Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 L USM IS.
I've found that the antishake sharpening filter in Photoshop CC 2017 works much better than the Lightroom sharpening - at least for handheld shots taken at 20-30m distance and a shutter down to 1/200, so I've completely turned off the sharpening in LR and used PS instead for all the photos in this set.
The photo is part of a Northern Hawk Owl set.
Didi's hair looks auburn in this, instead of the usual "dirty blonde". 1/20 second, f.3.5, hand-held.
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Highlight Priority is a variation on spot metering introduced by Firmware upgrade to the G9 metering. Basic PP plus Photoshop Antishake to sharpen.
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12 10x8, 1 12x9
This is ~6 hours of work; hopefully I can get the rest of the work (tombstones, fender mount stay, fork legs stays, crown stay, light mount) done in another 13 hours and keep my income above minimum wage (actually it needs to be under 11 hours, because the firegas tank is running low and will probably need to be refilled tomorrow.)
These racks are all basically rectangular and (at least the 10x8s) basically the same size. Thank goodness I've got a square and I made up a rail jig for brazing the rails into place, otherwise the "basically" would be laughably optimistic.
(Way out of focus because the electronic viewfinder on the camera DOES NOT deal well with low-light situations, and to add insult to injury the camera doesn't have antishake. So double the blur for half the price!)
For an article on stable shooting positions at: muddybootsphotography.blogspot.com/2009/04/avoiding-blur-...
Kneel in a stable position, then use your knee to rest your elbow on. Keep it comfortable and relaxed.
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4 Shots with the Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2 wide open.
Blended in Photoshop CS4 Photomerge.
Colors in Lightroom.
800ISO with Sony A100 handheld @ 1/30sec.
For an article on stable shooting positions at: muddybootsphotography.blogspot.com/2009/04/avoiding-blur-...
When people try this stance they tend to press their elbows together too hard. Remember to keep it loose, not tense. Your elbows should be just touching and resting on your chest/stomach, so it'll cause your hips to come forward and your shoulders back a little bit, but it should be comfortable. There should be no squeezing or tension in the position at all.
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Sony A100 & Minolta AF 50mm f/2.8 1:1 Macro @ f/2.8, ISO 80, 1/2000 sec.
6 shots blended for a Bokeh Panorama.
3 shots with the Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2 wide open for an 18Megapixel final crop..
400ISO with Sony A100 handheld @ 1/6sec.
Blended in Photoshop CS4 Photomerge.
Colors in Lightroom.
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This is a 9 shot panorama from inside the crowd during the Martin Luther King, Jr. Ceremonial March in Raleigh.
Made with the 24mm Canon FD lens and Sony A100 @f/2.8
Trees on the horizon near Stourbridge, on the border between the West Midlands and northern Worcestershire. A difficult long lens shot without a tripod. The camera's in-body antishake mechanism helped a bit.
Last picture for a week as I'm off back to Sussex University to do another stint as a summer school tutor.
The micro 4/3 system allows (re)use of most of your old quality lenses. The Panasonic Lumix G1 is very easy to work with using manual lenses. Here a Leica M bayonet adapter and a Minolta Rokkor 40 mm f: 2.0 full manual top quality lens, made for Minolta CLE and Leica M system. A very compact pair. I just wish that Panasonic had included antishake in the G1 body like Olympus Pen.
More interesting gear at the gear set.
Sony Alpha 200, Minolta AF Macro 50mm 3.5, wireless external flash
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