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Nice composition from a "boring" subject. I probably would have walked by it 100 times without noticing the potential.

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Thanks for posting. That Pano shot is a definite WOW!!!

and Daffodil at f/2.8 and large crop.




Very large crop.

Just received my hardly used but new to me Panasonic Lumix S 100/2.8 Macro Lens to use with my Leica CL. It's a little large on my CL and almost twice as long as my Leica TL 18-55mm kit lens. As you can see in the photos below the lens comes with an AF/MF switch and a 3-position focus limiter switch. This is the 6th lens in this set of S-series lenses that also include an 18mm, 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm; all f1.8. All of the lenses in the series are the same size, almost the same weight, use the same 67mm filters, and have an AF/MF selector switch. The 100mm is the only Macro lens in the set.

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The beginning of this month started hot and heavy... 5 shows in four days. Here's some of my favorites with the S5 II (although the OM-1 Mark II is my primary camera).



































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My first time viewing the Aurora Borealis, getting to do it in my yard 45 minutes north of the Okefenokee Swamp is bonkers.

Not the best camera for this task, but it's what I had. I enjoyed the moment more than photographing in this case.

We've had the Aurora last night as well and what a show it was! I even got the TTArtisan 11mm fisheye out and am happy I did.

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We've had the Aurora last night as well and what a show it was! I even got the TTArtisan 11mm fisheye out and am happy I did.

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That is a great field of view and awesome scene.

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Just testing the sharpness and bokeh of a manual focus Nikon 80-200 f/4 AI-S. Shot this at 200mm either at f/5.6 or f/8


S1 + Nikon 80-200 f/4 AI-S at around f/5.6

I think the nine-bladed aperture does give this lens a certain smoothness to the bokeh. There is minimal post processing done (I just changed the Adobe color profile to Camera standard profile).

Here's a 100% crop in case anyone wants to pixel peep. Focus is on the eye on camera left.







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I do have a question pertaining to starlight focus and the best way to use live composite...but better to see the image and explanation first.




Ominous sky over south London.




We didn't get out hiking til mid-day on Saturday and it was super hazy and bright-basically nasty shooting conditions. The 70-300 macro capability is super dope though.




Again horribly hazy day and I restricted myself to isolation shots most of which were...quite frankly...trash.



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For the sharp-eyed you will recognize the Chiltern area as the Ivanhoe Beacon. The night shot is from the south looking north towards the beacon trying to catch the Northern Lights-sadly non of that but I did indulge in my first attempt at light painting! Thanks Panasonic....now I have to go get a colored LED stick to further explore this :-D .

Anyway I was not prepared. I didn't have my tripod and had to improvise with a yoga mat and shoes to prop things up. I had an absolute devil of a time getting the stars in focus (pin pricks is what I was after). How can I best achieve focus in this use case?

Is it down to lack of tripod? Focus off the back panel was a nightmare with readers and I tried both auto (it locked once) and manual (saw blue on lights and things but was never sure. Lack of tripod had the camera grounded supported by aforementioned yoga mat).

I tried various shots from 1-3 minutes (ok earth moves bit of star smear expected?) and varied the ISO from 800-1600 and went from 3.5-5" seconds or thereabouts for each interval.

Also why is the light painting so sharp? And how do I completely blur myself out leaving just the light?



Finally I am a little annoyed to see that I picked up a couple of horrid dust balls that showed up in my blue sky quite badly requiring cloning out. I don't even change lenses in the field and looking back there were there from day 1. I may hit up warranty for a clean in this case as I am a little nervous hitting it with a rocket blower.

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Lovely and I am so jealous

Ted_G said:

Lovely and I am so jealous

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Thank you and there's a good chance for more in the upcoming days!

Here's another one I liked from that night.

Ted, there are a few threads on hear about low-light focus; might be worth a search.

TLDR: For using manual focus of stars, turn off focus highlighting (it gets in the way) and slowly turn the focus ring until your stars are as small as possible. I usually set Constant Preview to ON, then set my ISO to very high, with a short shutter speed (less than one second) so that I don't go crazy. Oh and if you use readers, get a more powerful magnification for when you are doing this kind of work.

Low-light AF tends to work pretty well on a star field - just set it to AFS with a medium-sized area. During focusing, you will see a "Low Light" message in the lower-left of the screen, and then get a green dot once it has locked. Usually takes about 1 second.

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Capture One LUMIX FF feature request thread: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4658107#forum-post-66298057

Here are some of my shots from the huge geomagnetic storm over the weekend. These were from Friday night/Saturday morning, shot in Wyoming (to escape the clouds of Colorado). It was an amazing experience - especially when it completely blew up at midnight. There were about 10 photographers present at this location, and we were all running around & shouting, re-taking all of our shots. I could even hear people who were 1/2 mile away shouting. It was incredible - an experience I will always remember.

I had two cameras running (an S5 and S1) and luckily the S5 was doing a time-lapse when the storm went nuts. I'll post a link to that as well, but the 3rd and 4th shots below are "before and after" images from that time lapse, with no changes in exposure/processing. You can see just how much more color and light there was in the sky.

The first two shots are well before midnight, a bit after sunset. I kind of like the more subtle hues of those shots as well.






Before blow-up


After


This was with the camera more-or-less pointing straight up. We called it "The Portal."







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Capture One LUMIX FF feature request thread: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4658107#forum-post-66298057

Took my S5 with 20-60 out last night (Saturday), and the cloud cover was quite heavy where we are in Nova Scotia. Nevertheless I was able to get a few aurora shots, nothing spectacular. I also tried the Live Composite feature with a bright moon and moving clouds in the sky: generally two elements one should not have when using Live Comp for star trails It was more of a "get used to using my new gear in the dark" kind of night, though serendipitously the best image of the night came on the drive home, and I wasn't even able to set the camera up properly.

Looking forward to being used to the camera for September to December, my favourite time to shoot. Images are ooc jpegs with some cropping and other minor edits in post.










The lesson here is do not use Live Comp when a bright moon and moving clouds are in frame

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Here is a link to the time-lapse. I'm not completely happy with it - I'd like it to be smoother - but it does show the transition into the peak activity of the storm.