Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZE

A new toy that I got today:

I like that it's called 'Epic Pro'. Sick tripod head (do you even call such a huge thing a tripod head?) though.

Holy cow.. I hope you have some serious processing juice to deal with all that panoramic data.

denoir wrote in post #10660989
A new toy that I got today:

That is awesome. I definitely want to get one of those at some point.

Rsyx wrote in post #10661090
I like that it's called 'Epic Pro'. Sick tripod head (do you even call such a huge thing a tripod head?) though.

What's really epic about it is its size. Not very portable. As you see I had to use my big tripod for it. The tripod head is a Manfrotto 503 HDV. It's a counter balanced video tripod head.

2867 x 1020

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that pan was pretty epic!

^Nice new toy Luka. That would be great for traveling to the Swiss Alps.

Luka I cant take it anymore!!

You live in a photographers wonderland!

That place is beautiful and where I live is so boringly ugly. Im moving!

Awesome photos with the pano! The ones below it, "simulating a large format camera", what does that mean?

Thanks guys!

Julian: Sure, if you have somebody to carry your stuff

Lofty: Stockholm is fairly nice during summer and fall but we have 1) a very long winter where everything is just gray and boring and 2) no mountains - everything is completely flat.

Matthew: Large format cameras have a much larger back than 35 mm cameras. A full frame camera has a back that is 1.6x larger than an ASP-C crop camera. A 4x5 large format camera has a back that is about 15x larger than an FF camera. So you get a much large field of view for a given focal length than you would with a regular FF camera. In practice it also means that you get a much more shallow apparent DOF.

If you look at the second shot you can see that without stitching it would require say a 16mm lens. The focus point was on the tree which was about 10 meters away. With a 16mm f/2 lens I would get a DOF of 6 meters between the camera and the tree and infinite DOF behind it. With a 100mm f/2 lens, I instead get a DOF of 0.4 m in front of the tree and 0.4 m behind the tree i.e a total DOF of less than one meter. That kind of thin DOF at a larger distance is what a large format camera can give you - and stitched panoramas as well.

denoir wrote in post #10660989
A new toy that I got today:

Bought.

I hate you Luka.

Booty thing

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Still learning but super impressed with this lens so far.

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denoir wrote in post #10676949

Looks like a Van Gogh painting.