Calzone
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I used the user interface on the SL2 to set it up to shoot the square. The SL2 interface is so user friendly that someone who is numb and dumb like me can love it.
What you see in the VF’er is the square and the unused is masked off by being blackened out. Then I set up 4 different assists that is blank, meaning none, 3x3 grid, a level, and shooting parameters for exposure.
The APO 35 Cron, a remarkable lens, for the square becomes a normal lens. This lens being APO has remarkable sharpness and contrast, but it also was purposely designed to have mucho pretty bokeh. The transition from sharp to OOF is crazy-good.
The way I shoot I utilize a single point focus, and that is movable with the joystick.
The 48.7 MP sensor gets cropped down to about 32 MP, still plenty and enough. Also know the full frame is recorded, so pretty much in Lightroom I can do a vertical or horizontal shift so in effect the SL2 functions like my Plaubel 69W Proshift. How cool is that?
I’m in a funk. Lost my mojo, and I think, creating a new camera, shooting the square digitally, and seeing 450 Diane Arbus prints at the Armory should be a big refresh.
Diane Arbus carried 3 Rollies in a knapsack to be able to not miss shots because of reloading. 12 shots are easy to blow through, and we all know the experience of a missed shot due to the end of a roll.
I have my SL2 rigged with a “monster” SD-card so there is no reason to miss a shot. The buffer is also mighty big and the processor fast to overcome the limitations of the first generation SL that I owned. I was an early adopter…
The SL2 has two card slots, and the way I have it configured is I also use a small capacity card that gets JPEG’ed, and the Monster-Card gets the raw file which is huge.
I weighed the SL2 with the APO 35 Cron with a luggage scale: around 4 pounds. The SL2 is weather sealed, so I really don’t need to use the expensive padded bag, unless I want to tote the Monster 50 Lux, which kinda becomes a short Tele, perhaps like a 75 mm in 35 mm full frame to have a long-short kit.
Know at one time I carried a 3.5 Whiteface and a Tele-Rolliflex.
Rigged camera with the APO 35 Cron, 50 Lux and the bag is around 11 pounds. Enough to slow and weigh me down. I know I’m a lazy slacker, and I’m getting old, so pretty much I think I’ll just carry the SL2 rigged with the APO 35 Cron. Four pounds is not a lot.
I still get a free gym membership in my book because the camera is kinda heavy.
Also know that the APO Cron and the 50 Lux do well shot wide open, and the SL2 has 5 axis image stabilization.
I know I can do lots of photography with this kit, and I’m using what I have on hand in a mucho clever manner.
I know from a post our friend John is shooting the square, but with a medium format camera. Kinda funny that he called my cameras “Monsters.”
Cal
What you see in the VF’er is the square and the unused is masked off by being blackened out. Then I set up 4 different assists that is blank, meaning none, 3x3 grid, a level, and shooting parameters for exposure.
The APO 35 Cron, a remarkable lens, for the square becomes a normal lens. This lens being APO has remarkable sharpness and contrast, but it also was purposely designed to have mucho pretty bokeh. The transition from sharp to OOF is crazy-good.
The way I shoot I utilize a single point focus, and that is movable with the joystick.
The 48.7 MP sensor gets cropped down to about 32 MP, still plenty and enough. Also know the full frame is recorded, so pretty much in Lightroom I can do a vertical or horizontal shift so in effect the SL2 functions like my Plaubel 69W Proshift. How cool is that?
I’m in a funk. Lost my mojo, and I think, creating a new camera, shooting the square digitally, and seeing 450 Diane Arbus prints at the Armory should be a big refresh.
Diane Arbus carried 3 Rollies in a knapsack to be able to not miss shots because of reloading. 12 shots are easy to blow through, and we all know the experience of a missed shot due to the end of a roll.
I have my SL2 rigged with a “monster” SD-card so there is no reason to miss a shot. The buffer is also mighty big and the processor fast to overcome the limitations of the first generation SL that I owned. I was an early adopter…
The SL2 has two card slots, and the way I have it configured is I also use a small capacity card that gets JPEG’ed, and the Monster-Card gets the raw file which is huge.
I weighed the SL2 with the APO 35 Cron with a luggage scale: around 4 pounds. The SL2 is weather sealed, so I really don’t need to use the expensive padded bag, unless I want to tote the Monster 50 Lux, which kinda becomes a short Tele, perhaps like a 75 mm in 35 mm full frame to have a long-short kit.
Know at one time I carried a 3.5 Whiteface and a Tele-Rolliflex.
Rigged camera with the APO 35 Cron, 50 Lux and the bag is around 11 pounds. Enough to slow and weigh me down. I know I’m a lazy slacker, and I’m getting old, so pretty much I think I’ll just carry the SL2 rigged with the APO 35 Cron. Four pounds is not a lot.
I still get a free gym membership in my book because the camera is kinda heavy.
Also know that the APO Cron and the 50 Lux do well shot wide open, and the SL2 has 5 axis image stabilization.
I know I can do lots of photography with this kit, and I’m using what I have on hand in a mucho clever manner.
I know from a post our friend John is shooting the square, but with a medium format camera. Kinda funny that he called my cameras “Monsters.”
Cal
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