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Aperture Series: Pine Creek Peaks
Shot with pre-production Milvus 35mm f/1.4 on the 50-megapixel Canon 5Ds R.
The far-distance comparison from f/1.4 through f/8 evaluates performance across the field and into the corners. This is one of the hardest types of scenes to do well. For example, the famed Leica 35/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH cannot make a fully sharp image on 24 megapixels until f/8 (!), due to field curvature.
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Pine Creek Peaks
A polarizer was used to cut haze, and a dash of dehaze as well during raw conversion along with contrast control, resulting in well saturated colors. The way the clouds race across the landscape is enchanting, one might sit under an umbrella from a nice spot and just watch them all day. Later, it got thick and the charm disappeared that day. Yes, that’s my double century and racing bicycle at right, which I left there intentionally as a POI and for sense of scale.
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