World of XPILAR - B&W PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART CONTEST WEEK #071 ~ My Entry
Here is a small set of photos I took two days ago in Victoria's Chinatown. I go there almost every day to practice my street photography, mostly because I'm drawn to the vibrant colours... which makes it kind of ironic that I'm entering one of the photos in a black & white contest!
Fuji X-T4, 27mm, f/16, 1/50, ISO 320
The first photo is my entry for The World of XPILAR - B&W PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART CONTEST WEEK #071 by @axeman and @xpilar.
(I'll show the full-colour version of this photo at the end of the post.)
I used a manual focus prime lens for these shots. It's a 27mm f/1.8 lens made by 7artisans and it's fully manual, meaning it does not communicate electronically with the camera in any way. (That means the EXIF data is not recorded correctly.)
I find the manual focus to be a little tricky and this cheap lens (under $100 US) is not very sharp in any case. For this reason, I set the aperture ring to f/16 to achieve maximum depth of field and I didn't have to mess around with the focus much as long as the subject was several metres away.
Finally, here's the colour version of the first shot. I hope you enjoyed these photos. Thanks a lot for visiting!
Lately I've been shooting with manual lenses almost all the time. But these are mainly Soviet old optics such as Helios or OKS. Now I want to find a wide angle lens of the same type, but I just can't find the right one.
Can you show this photo in RAW format?
What camera system do you use? I shoot in jpg and RAW but I only use the RAW if I need to do major edits like recovering a blown-out sky... otherwise, I find the jpegs are fine. I can't show you a RAW version, I don't think that's even possible since you always have to convert to jpg to publish. If I'm happy with my results, the RAW files get deleted in order to save space. I think you'll find many Fuji shooters like to stick with the jpg files and use Fuji film simulation modes. I haven't really explored those much myself but I'll get around to it soon.
SONY A7M2 is my main camera. I always shoot RAW and make adjustments to Lightroom.
I don't like automatic jpeg settings. For Instagram, they may be good, but I love the softer handling.
I didn't mean RAW format, of course, but just a photo without processing.
Your Sony is a great camera. I'm shooting mostly with my Fuji X-T4 and occasionally with my wife's Olympus e-m10 mark iii. I will at some point post some straight-out-of-camera photos.
You have a good modern camera with excellent stabilization. By the way, the OKS 1-22-1 lens does not completely cover my matrix, but it will perfectly fit your camera. If you can find such a lens, I recommend giving it a try. It's very cheap. It is from old cinema technology and has excellent characteristics. (you can also look for OKS 1-50-6, which is also very good, or Helios 77m-4, very interesting boke
It's interesting to look at your pictures directly from the camera, I'm waiting :)
That's very cool, thanks for the info!
You are welcome :)
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Thanks very much, @mister-omortson, I greatly appreciate your support!