Deacon Pete

Trevi Fountain, Rome Italy

Trevi Fountain, Rome Italy

Fuji XE-2 10-24mm
 

Finger post and sunbeams,
 

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Braundickkopf by Enzio Harpaintner, auf Flickr

Looks nice.
 
I must have done something wrong because I switched to shooting just JPEGs shortly after I got my X-T1 because of so many comments on how good their JPEG processing was and hated it. I started regretting the camera purchase because it seemed that the images lacked any real detail. Nice color but everything was "smudged". Then I remembered I had switched to JPEG's, switched back and have not noticed any problems since. It might have been that I was shooting a lot of high ISO stuff during the JPEG dissatisfaction period.
 
Have you changed any settings regarding how the JPEGs are rendered?
 
Mike

Hi all,


I'm new to this forum and want to introduce myself with a few pictures. I am primarily a landscape photographer. Last year I was hiking for two weeks in a remote area in the north of Sweden: Sarek national park. My X-T1 accompanied me with three lenses (14-23-56) and tripod. In the following a few impressions. The image of the northern lights was not easy to frame without an optical viewfinder as the EVF was almost totally black.


View of the Laitaure river delta, 700 m below (14mm, f7.1,  1/45, ISO 200)

Morning view of the Rapadalen valley (56mm, f/8, 1/17, ISO 200)
 

Northern lights above Rapadalen (14mm, f/2.8, 10s, ISO 3200)
 
Feel free to comment or ask questions.
 
Stefan

Taken with Xt1 and 60 mm. Some minor tweaks in Snapseed on my iPad.

Trevi Fountain, Rome Italy

Taken with Xt1 and 60 mm. Some minor tweaks in Snapseed on my iPad.

Taken with Xt1 and 60 mm. Some minor tweaks in Snapseed on my iPad.

in German ... "Jungfer im Grünen"  (Nigella damascena) ...
 

Jungfer im Grünen ... eigentlich im Gelben by Enzio Harpaintner, auf Flickr
 

Jungfer im Grünen by Enzio Harpaintner, auf Flickr

i hope you like it ...
 

XE111323 by Enzio Harpaintner, auf Flickr

So far I'm using a lot of old Pentax K-Mount lenses and a few M42 (screw mount).
 
I'm definitely in love with the russian Helios lenses, the Helios 44 has this wonderful swirly-antique effect (it's based on an old pre-war Zeiss design) and comes in many variations, some older ones with more (13 or 8) aperture blades, newer ones with 6 blades (but those are sharper). Most sought after are the Helios 44 M-2 (13 blades), M (8 blades), M-4 (sharp), M-6 (sharper). They can be found for 20-30 Euros on ebay, it's also worth searching for an old Zenit camera which came usually bundled with a Helios. The 44 M-2 is a bit more sought after, also the lenses with a lot of zeros as first digits in the serial number are rumored to be better and more expensive. But I'm quite happy with my regular ones. 
Anyway, they are mostly made with the M42 screw mount, a simple dumb adapter for Fuji-X will cost you about 15 Euros on ebay. Adapted, the 58mm F2 turns into an almost-perfect 87mm portrait lens. There are also Metabones Speedbooster and cheaper chinese "Lens Turbo" adapters which turn it back into it's original 58mm focal lenght and add an extra stop of light. 
 
Other than that, I recommend experimenting. Pentax K lenses around 50mm are good and usually not as expensive as vintage Canon/Nikon lenses. Third-party P-K lenses can be found very cheap, I got a lot of "Auto Revuenon" lenses for almost nothing, apertures down to 1.7 are usually very affordable (based on your luck 10-30 Euros)- only the 1.4/1.2 lenses are quite expensive in comparison. A good alround lens I liked very much is an Auto Revuenon 50mm f1.9, got it for my girlfriend for 17 Euros and it's sharper than my own f1.7 version.
 
I'll have to look if I find some photos I can share, so far text only. 
 
Edit: Here's a pic taken with the Helios 44 (M-6 I believe). The swirly effect is quite visible, even with the crop sensor. I plan to get a Lens Turbo soon for the full effect.

Amazing!

Reykjavik , X-E1 + 35/1.4@f11 :
 
 

Lake Tekapo, New Zealand ( X-E1 + XF23/1.4R )
 
 
 

Sunset by sgt.floydpepper.hh, auf Flickr

Beautiful place and nice shot! 
At sunrise or sunset it must be absolutely stunning! Why do no try a different time of day?

Just got back from Perth, Australia.
 

 
This is a boat house at Maltilda Bay.

So far from Istanbul!
 

 
Next stop.....mmmh? We'll see

As I love to call myself a travel photographer I love to share some of them here and I would love to see yours too.
So lets get this one started with my first post here
 
Gyeongbokgung Palast by Mehrdad, auf Flickr

Fabulous! Thanks for sharing