*** December 2025 Images & Videos Thread ***

[pdk42]

Spectacular sunrise in the southern UK this morning:

Morning Glory by Paul Kaye, on Flickr

 

[Jonathan-Mac]

Sun by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr

 

[sergun80]

The gloomy Urban S9 7Artsans m35/2 ii

 

[pdk42]

The gloomy Urban S9 7Artsans m35/2 ii
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Very gritty. I like it!

 

[PJD]

Something different. Playing around with using Affinity Photo 2 to remove Chromatic Aberration from a test photo (a S5iiX Hi-Res 96MP RAW). I don't have a lot of experience using the app. Its CA removal tool is a one-click operation. I don't know if a high contrast image like this one is easier for apps to remove CA, or if a real-world random photo is more difficult. In any event, in this test it worked really well.

The 1st image is a crop of the original photo's full width (12,000 pixels), scaled-down to 50% (6,000 pixels) so the JPEG wouldn't be too gigantic.

• Panasonic DC-S5M2X
• LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
• ƒ/8
• 300mm
• 1/40s
• ISO 1250

The 2nd image is the same Hi-Res photo, but with CA removed by Affinity Photo 2. It's also scaled-down to 50% (6,000 pixels).

• Panasonic DC-S5M2X
• LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
• ƒ/8
• 300mm
• 1/40s
• ISO 1250

 

[Vale46]

S1RM2 with LUMIX 100-500 (ISO 51200 because of bad light)

• Panasonic DC-S1RM2
• ƒ/7.1
• 500mm
• 1/640s
• ISO 51200

 

[Pete_W]

That's amazing for ISO 51200 !!

 

[Travis Butler]

Finally finished going through the Cosmosphere pics... been feeling sluggish and not wanting to dig through the pics to cull/post-process.

20251130-SDIM8981 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
Sigma fp, Hexanon 28/3.5

Good old Odyssey... still the same basic presentation, though they added a fancy frame:

20251130-SDIM9002 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
TTArtisan 11mm fisheye

20251130-SDIM8994 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
One of the few areas that didn't change at all with the renovation, but I welcomed the chance to capture it with the fisheye.

And the fisheye definitely gave a better view with these pics of the LM engineering model from the last post. (I had a lot of trouble trying to capture a worthwhile interior shot using rectilinear lenses, no matter how wide.)

20251130-SDIM8996 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

20251130-SDIM8998 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

20251130-SDIM9016 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Another place it helped was the Apollo-Soyuz display, which doesn't have enough room to back off and get a full-width shot with a rectilinear lens.

20251130-SDIM9026 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

This is about the best you can do rectilinear:

20251130-SDIM9040 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
Hexanon 28/3.5

20251130-SDIM9031 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

20251130-SDIM9029 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

And we'll finish with my old friend the Blackbird:

20251130-SDIM9085 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Full set of pics up at https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCDutG for anyone interested.