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Ya know, there was a well known house in Sydney like that around 15 or so years ago. Everyone drove down from various parts of the city to see it every year. Then it suddenly stopped. Apparently the neighbours complained and the inhabitants could no longer afford the electricity billthis is going to be a longer post :-D
This year the Holiday decorations are a welcome attraction to us - since our walks have been constrained to our neighbourhood for a long time now...
I hope people leave those up into January/February... Really helps to "light up" the dull weather and darkness of the season
View attachment 243194the house down the road by tilman paulin, on Flickr
View attachment 243195the house down the road by tilman paulin, on Flickr
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View attachment 243199Santa's watching you by tilman paulin, on Flickr
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View attachment 243202Ho Ho Ho by tilman paulin, on Flickr
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That's one of the two things I wonder about with these extremely elaborate decorations - electricity (todays LED lights might help there) and where do they store it throughout the year?Ya know, there was a well known house in Sydney like that around 15 or so years ago. Everyone drove down from various parts of the city to see it every year. Then it suddenly stopped. Apparently the neighbours complained and the inhabitants could no longer afford the electricity bill
Nice shots - but boy, talk about coma ... That really the Summicron-M, Ray? Interesting ...
It is. Never do any PP correcting with that lens, I'm happy with way it churns them out, but that's just me. The images are cropped alot though too.Nice shots - but boy, talk about coma ... That really the Summicron-M, Ray? Interesting ...
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Thanks for confirming this - you know, I've been sort of disenchanted with the 50mm Summicron-M because it just doesn't quite reach the performance levels it's so famed for, at least in my experience - nevertheless, it's a pleasant little lens to shoot, and the images coming from it a still very nice. I just think that overhyping these lenses does them (and us shooters) a disservice ... It may very well be that the same is true for the Summicron-M 35mm f/2 ASPH. as well - I really like what I see from ist, but it's probably not going to win any head-to-head contest with today's superbly corrected glass (I'd bet that even the Nikon Z 35mm f/1.8, itself not the absolute best lens, would probably beat it in purely technical terms). But these small, exceptionally well made and proficient lenses are still worth it! That said, I'm still on the fence about the Summicron-M 50mm f/2 as to whether to keep it - because I do prefer the rendering of the lowly (well, at least less famous) Voigtländer Nokton 50mm f/1.5 (version 1), a lens which I also clearly prefer over its mighty younger sibling, the 50mm f/1.2 Nokton. In fact, I might sell both the more expensive lenses and just keep the Nokton f/1.5 ...It is. Never do any PP correcting with that lens, I'm happy with way it churns them out, but that's just me. The images are cropped alot though too.
Yep, for me when it comes to lenses, it’s rendering first, with corner to corner sharpness and correcting quite a bit further down the list. And even then, rendering is a subjective thing down to the eye of the beholder. For example, I don’t own them, but I absolutely love how those Olympus OM 50mm/55mm f1.4/f1.2 lenses render. Not much technical perfection there.Thanks for confirming this - you know, I've been sort of disenchanted with the 50mm Summicron-M because it just doesn't quite reach the performance levels it's so famed for, at least in my experience - nevertheless, it's a pleasant little lens to shoot, and the images coming from it a still very nice. I just think that overhyping these lenses does them (and us shooters) a disservice ... It may very well be that the same is true for the Summicron-M 35mm f/2 ASPH. as well - I really like what I see from ist, but it's probably not going to win any head-to-head contest with today's superbly corrected glass (I'd bet that even the Nikon Z 35mm f/1.8, itself not the absolute best lens, would probably beat it in purely technical terms). But these small, exceptionally well made and proficient lenses are still worth it! That said, I'm still on the fence about the Summicron-M 50mm f/2 as to whether to keep it - because I do prefer the rendering of the lowly (well, at least less famous) Voigtländer Nokton 50mm f/1.5 (version 1), a lens which I also clearly prefer over its mighty younger sibling, the 50mm f/1.2 Nokton. In fact, I might sell both the more expensive lenses and just keep the Nokton f/1.5 ...
Anyway , this shot comes - from the comparatively totally pedestrian G1X III (even though I carried the M10 with the 50mm f/1.2 as today's main camera ...):
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