Easter Saturday Brunch

[rpcrowe]

For my chickens. They love corn on the cob, watermelon and the seeds from cantaloupe...



Their absolute favorites are red grapes but, those will have to wait until tomorrow...

[Shadowman]

Nicely composed.

[rpcrowe]

Thanks John...
This was actually a test shot with the really tiny Sony 16mm f/2.8 lens on my A6500. I did a little perspective control in Adobe Camera Raw (I don't use Lightroom)...
This lens is not the sharpest knife in the drawer but, it is very small and lightweight (2.4 ounces or 64 grams) and I can toss it into my bag or photo vest and always have a lightweight wide angle lens with me. It seems to have relatively decent IQ, especially when shot at f/5.6, like these images, or at f/8. I got the lens used at well under a hundred U.S. dollars so I have not got a tremendous amount of money tied up in it...
The jury is still out whether I will keep this lens..

What do you think?

[Shadowman]

Richard,

Is that one of those pancake lenses, I used to have one (20mm) for a m4/3rds camera and it didn't create an UWA effect unless I was really on top of the subject, does Sony have their own RAW converter; if so you can for most shots develop with its native software then process using other program?

[rpcrowe]

I use Adobe Camera RAW for my Sony images...

This is an image, also done at f/5.6 but, with the Rokinon 12mm f/2 lens.



Although this is a manual focus lens, I do like it a bit better than the Sony 16mm f/2.8. At 8.6 ounces (245 Grams) it is a bit bigger than the Sony.. I think that I might just give up and sell the Sony and use the Rokinon when I need a really wide angle lens.

I also have a Sigma 19mm f/2.8 DN lens. I am trying to decide which of the wide lenses that I will keep. However, I might just keep both the Rokinon and the Sigma 19mm f/2.8 DN also.

I could have a five prime lens travel kit with 12mm, 19mm, 30mm, 50mm, and 85mm focal lengths at just 43.14 ounces or 1,223 grams. All these lenses would give me very good to excellent image quality at reasonably fast to very fast apertures (IMO better than the super wide focal range lenses like the 18-135mm or 18-200mm which have slow apertures and IQ not quite as good as my primes)... If I absolutely needed a longer lens, I could throw in a 55-210mm lens at an additional 12.2 ounces or 345 grams but, the image quality of that lens is not quite up to the quality of the other lenses in my kit.

Two APSC cameras (A6500 and A6400) would weigh an additional 856 grams - so my kit (minus batteries etc) would weigh right about two kilograms (give or take). I would throw in a lightweight TT685 flash or two along with a pair of extension tubes for close ups and a few ND and CPL filters... and have a pretty decent all around kit at a relatively light weight.

[Shadowman]

And the possibility of a prime for that kit is probably not yet available or too expensive to consider or not fast enough to bother with.