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Murph, what can I say, those are lovely pictures, and… I just envy you so much (I have to spend one and a half hours in a train each day on my way to work…).
Alfonso

Kevin, Stephen and Gustav: I am very glad you like it! Birma and Kevin, FWIW: I have used CZ16-80mm and Tamron 17-50mm for some time. Both are wonderful lenses. I used the latter mainly indoors and the former outdoors. But at the end of the day I didn’t like the inconvenience of having two (somewhat...

Birma: Thanks for the detailed comments. The light at the top is filtered by a cloud. That’s probably why the shadowy slope (which otherwise would be sunlit) looks somewhat strange.
Alfonso

An autumn landscape from last week: Gorge cut by the Río Dulce [Sweet River] near Pelegrina (Spain). Any comments (especially on contrast, colour and sharpening) are welcome. A700, CZ 16-80mm (60mm) http://lh5.ggpht.com/alfake74/SPjTPJkYHZI/AAAAAAAAA7k/pWp_y8PLA1c/s800/HOZPELEGRINA-2008-001_web.jpg ...

Javelin: As Winston, I think the composition is fine. The sunlit foreground, though, is a bit empty (I guess you had no hunter horse with you right then to fill the foreground…).
Alfonso

pakodominguez wrote: harveyzone wrote: The only down side is that they will not AF SSM lenses, so if you want to use your CZ 24-70 f/2.8 on it you are out of luck. mmm I think that, If you own the CZ 24~70 2.8, you can afford a Maxxum 7 or 9! The Dynax/Maxxum 9 would also require some modifications...

Randy001: First of all, welcome to the forum. There are so many variables in the digital workflow that it’s difficult to determine from what you say why you are getting soft results with your Sony kits. Both the A100 and the A350 Sony bodies as well as the Carl Zeiss 16-80mm lens are generally consi...

Beautiful and deeply emotive adieu to your guitar, David! (Let’s hope things will improve in the not too distant future.)
Alfonso

Funny, Greg! (If English were my mother tongue, you could count on me to join your forces against all the ruffians here who might be secretly thinking of bashing our one and only Sonolta…)
Alfonso

This is not only a beautiful photo (the light draws impeccably the main elements of the composition), Dr. Harout, it is also a moving picture. (I would try some top and bottom crops, just to isolate a little more and thus emphasize the relation between the three protagonists of this ancient story: t...

Lovely beech huts, Mike! It seems you have a very good eye for photogenic spots! I tend to agree with Sonolta’s comments about composition and contrast, though. (Also, the WB looks slightly bluish-greenish on my monitor.) But your photos always catch my attention. Thanks for posting them.
Alfonso

Greg: Yes, it was Hubble who finally demonstrated that Andromeda was an external galaxy (different from ours). That was back in the 1920s.

Greg: Interesting information. Let me add (or rather, emphasize) that the Andromeda galaxy is visible to the naked eye, so it could be observed (and most probably was observed) even by our prehistoric ancestors. It was well known many centuries before the great Messier. From Wikipedia: “The earliest...

Javelin: I also like your two pictures. The beautiful directional light enhances both compositions. (Perhaps I would try a crop in the first one so that the pumpkins filled the frame, but, who knows, perhaps I would abandon the idea after trying it…)
Alfonso

Curious and beautiful building, Dr. Harout! If it was not for the metallic dome, I would have thought it was the old mausoleum of an ancient warrior…
Alfonso