STREET SLC

Added on by John Sturr.

Last night of the street shooting downtown.  And this is more of a test of how everything works and the limitations of the NEX.  The lens bag consisted of Nikon 50mm f1.4 AIS, Nikon 85mm f1.4 D, Vivitar 200mm f3.5, and the kit 18-55mm.  I used them all - but I always favor the sharpest and I have to be careful as that's too easy.  And maybe the only way push thru constraints is to be limited by only one lens.  But I'm not there yet.

9pm outdoor light - kills base ASA - kills it -- and staying below 1600 requires f2.8 or better.  The 50mm gets mushy at 1.4 - the 200mm stops at f3.5 and the 85mm is too long most of the time.

I've been shooting the JPG and RAW combo with the Standard setting and the max sharpening.  The JPG's look great but detail is a bit crushed and mushy where RAW keeps the grain structure which looks like real film and I like that.  These are all from RAW - but could be from JPG as I would only use RAW for a Print.