Beauty

Model of the day: Carley: Shot with the Sony A6300 & 58mm f2

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My Sony A6300 became a lot more useful since I added the Meike battery grip, handles much better, especially for manual focusing, the only drawback, I do prefer to remove the card if I don’t shoot tethered rather then downloading the files via USB cable from the camera (too slow). That means I have to remove the grip every time, other then that I love it. I rediscovered the Helios 44-2, which I had laying around and completely forgot about it, this little lens produces lovely low contrast files wide open, tack sharp and if stopped down by only 1/2 a stop, the contrast increases dramatically. Quite like the low contrast look for portraits.
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Model of the day: Sunny (Sony A7rII af focus dilemma at f8 or smaller)

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Shot with the Sony A7rII and the Sigma MC11 & Canon 50mm 1.4 at f11
When shooting at f8 or higher, Canon lenses via the Sigma MC 11 exclusively, I hope Sony will release a firmware update to allow af aquisition wide open again-rather then at the working aperture with terrible results from f8 onward. The Canon/Sigma combo on the other hand, acquires focus wide open and stops down for the actual exposure.
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