they say "all you need is a fast 50mm prime"

[joshua0]

I went to Carnival! And I took some pictures, too.

This time, I tried to get better at taking pictures of people, but I took some pictures of things, too.

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[joshua0]

Yeah, I was super pleased with how a bunch of those came out after the fact. That camera doesn't really get along well with f/1.8 glass (focus times can be upwards of a second and a half, maybe even two seconds, and it often picks the wrong thing), which meant that a bunch of those images had beautifully in-focus noses, and not-so-well-focused eyes. But, it seems like enough of them came out, in the end...

By the way, if you had doubts about this system, the lenses are really starting to mature. One of the more surprising results for me was this image (warning: huge version linked). The resolution into the corners is pretty good (take a look at the bricks on Hamerschlag, for instance), but the thing that surprised me is that that result was achieved even with the thing wide open.

Oh, and you'll be happy to know that the shiny black buggy is a PiKA buggy. Sadly, they didn't seem terribly angry, even with the long lens set to maximally long.