I still have no time for a photographic journey, but the summer looks promising. However, I can't just sit at home and dream of a photo journey, so I decided to go again on a long walk with my NEX-5 and the 24mm lens.
The longer I use this lens, the more reasons I find to love it. First, the big, smooth focus ring is much better than the ones from the cheaper E-Mount lenses, which is very important for video use. Second, the size and build quality are ideal and feel just perfect when using the camera. And third, it's image quality is simply amazing. Sharp from corner to corner (although not clinically sharp as some expensive, slowish wide angle lenses - but not much falloff from center to borders), nice color and especially micro contrast rendering.
The motto of this tour was "Every landscape has thousand faces". I think I got some of them from this place.
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Oh, and one I shot while waiting till the sun had the right position, shot with an iPhone 4, to show how my setup looked like.
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The longer I use this lens, the more reasons I find to love it. First, the big, smooth focus ring is much better than the ones from the cheaper E-Mount lenses, which is very important for video use. Second, the size and build quality are ideal and feel just perfect when using the camera. And third, it's image quality is simply amazing. Sharp from corner to corner (although not clinically sharp as some expensive, slowish wide angle lenses - but not much falloff from center to borders), nice color and especially micro contrast rendering.
The motto of this tour was "Every landscape has thousand faces". I think I got some of them from this place.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48126456@N05/6925825800/" title="Fighting for the Sun by Poki5, on Flickr"> View attachment 25104 "640" height="426" alt="Fighting for the Sun"></a>
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Oh, and one I shot while waiting till the sun had the right position, shot with an iPhone 4, to show how my setup looked like.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48126456@N05/7071896611/" title="Springtales - Number 4 by Poki5, on Flickr"> View attachment 25106 "640" height="478" alt="Springtales - Number 4"></a>