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Aperture Series: Lundy Canyon (Z8)
Examples with the Voigtlander Z 50mm f/2 APO-Lanthar Aspherical in Lundy Canyon.
Includes images up to full camera resolution.
Dusk View, Upper Lundy Canyon
The Nikon Z8 applied long exposure noise reduction. The crappy Nikon Z8 RGB histogram repeatedly fools me into underexposure—here 2.5 stops too dark eg effective ISO 560. The issue: I cannot discern whether the blue channel is blown-out entirely or not; I see a single full-height blue spike at the end that looks like blowout, but it's not—bad visuals and I never have this issue on Sony. Super annoying. But as it turns out, a 1-second exposure at f/2 proved useful for the clouds.
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Nikon Z8 + Voigtlander Z APO-Lanthar 50mm f/2 Aspherical
ENV: Lundy Canyon, altitude 8200 ft / 2499 m, 55°F / 12°C
RAW: Enhance Details, vignetting corrected, WB 5300°K tint 14, push 2 stops, +100 Shadows, -94 Highlights, +50 Dehaze, +10 Clarity, AI Denoise 10
composite using f/2 exposure for sky, w10
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