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<p>Has any done any hands on testing the current Milvus 50mm F1.4 vs Zeiss Planar T* 50mm F/1.4 ZF.2 ? I know DXOmark has their sharpness numbers, but those don't interest me. <br>

There something about certain lenses which can't be quantified in sharpness numbers. I've rented the Milvus 50mm and the pictures are beautiful, but a lot of places are selling the Planar 50mm for half the price of the Milvus. <br>

Same question on the on the Milvus 35mm F2 vs the Zeiss 35mm F2 Distagon T* ZF.2, with the later used about 1/2 the price of the Milvus. <br>

Anyone have any opinions after shooting both? </p>

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<p>The comments are interesting. If you don't provide them the images or prints, you won't have a problem. So what I recommend, is to have a session at a fee where you use a projector to project the images after the wedding. Don't provide any images in digital or print.</p>

<p>The two pictures most likely used a ring flash, which creates the shadow around the subject, but as Matt says you should be more specific.</p>

<p>I don't want it to create galleries for me. I just want it to shrink 2 images, put a border on them and water mark on the border and out put it to directories. How can i do this with LR?</p>

<p>Years ago, Philip Greenspun wrote a script for photoshop which quickly made web images. The original article is here http://www.photo.net/learn/photoshop/. </p>

<p>Does anyone know if someone has recreated this script into a LightRoom Pluggin?</p>

<p>Thanks,<br>

G-</p>

<p>Costa rica is wonderful. I used ISO 400 and F2.8 in the rain forest for pictures. So i think you will be fine. The moister will fog your lenses when going to A/C to the outside, so bring a good lense cloth or two. </p>

<p>Have fun.</p>

<p>NPPA publishes a monthly magazine (<a href="http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/magazine">here some information ) </a> at the end of the year they send a magazine totally devoted to winning photojournalist images. Those images are all decisive moments as they're taken from news all over the world/country throughout the year.</p>

 

<p>I don't think it emulates either film. It appears to me that the original pictures where overexposed and you used ACR to correct them. However the results you created are very nice. </p>

<p>Henry Posner, thank you for coming here and clarifying. Customer focus has always made B&H a good place to shop. </p>

<p>60mm F2.8 D. Nikon has replaced it with a new G version. So places like KEH have multiple choices in the $250-$350 price range. It's $500 new if I remember correctly. </p>

<p>The 70-200mm is heavy, has 2 extra stops. Given the noise reduction on digital cameras will you need those 2 extra stops? <br>

I own a 70-200mm it's been all over the world. It's heavy, durable and well made. I've don't own the 70-300mm. I'd buy another 70-200mm.</p>

<p>The last step if you wanted to remove noise would be to run Noise Ninja over the image.</p>

<p>you can do a layer mask, and lighten the image, and then soft light the lighten image over the layer mask. Here was a 10 minute attempt.<br>

<a href="http://www.gregfina.com/photo.net/00SZMJ-111551684.psd">Update Image in PSD (162MB)</a><br>

<a href="http://www.gregfina.com/photo.net/00SZMJ-111551684.jpg">Update Image in JPG (10MB)</a></p>

<p>unfortunately it maybe time to switch to Velvia.......</p>

<p>I have the older 28-70MM F2.8. It's worth every penny, probaby my most used lens.</p>

<p>I'd recommend reading this http://www.bythom.com/filters.htm</p>

 

<p>quantity vs. quality argument is valid. If I take a few extra images my chances for quality does not increase as my denominator increases as well. <br>

Y + some percentage of X.<br>

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500 + X<br>

X is the additional photos, Y is the quality photos within 500.<br>

Interesting the wedding photographers who still shoot film and provide 500 proofs from 500 photos. Digital photographers take 2000 images to provide 500 proofs.</p>

<p>Nice article Josh. I just started shooting film again, nice to see I have company. </p>

<p>excellent review....perhaps they'll publish with some samples on this site. I think a review should be independent of price as, the consumer needs to decide if the price works for them.</p>

 

<p>they raised prices because they don't expect the currency to change in the next 12 months. A lot of talk in the Japanese newspapers.</p>

<p>Freya, sometimes people need to fail to become great. Our weakness as people is becoming involved to save someone from the failure we perceive, rather then letting them struggle through it and allowing it to be a growth experience for them.</p>

<p>Dave, why do you have to shoot digital? Perhaps you should go back to what you know and learn digital later. <br>

A lot of very good wedding photographers in the area still shoot film and there work is amazing.</p>

<p>You can't work for yourself and promote your yet to be built business by taking clients away from your employer, with a personal business card. Her employer should have provided her business cards if they expected her to recruit business. Also, Anne should have talk to her bosses and got rates for if she does photographer solo and negotiated a commission on any work she brought-in where it was solo or multiple photographers. This would allow Anne to build a client base within the company structure and keep her employer happy. <br>

Clearly there is a communication gap between Anne and her bosses. Now because of that communication gap, there is an awkward situation, which usually enforces more bad communication. Anne only way out of this mess is to apologize for creating an awkward situation and negotiating for how situations will be handled in the future.</p>

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<p>I used 400 T-max. I found some FujiFilm B&W slide film, I plan to give a whirl in the next couple of weeks.</p>

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<p>Has anyone compare the 105mm F2.8 Macro to the 105 F2.5 PC lens? I know there a lot of comparions between the Ai and AIS and the 105mm F2.8 macros. Or the Ai / AIS and the PC.</p>

<p>Forgetting autofocus. Which would you buy today and why?</p>