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*** June 2025 Image and Video Thread ***

We need more pics, so I oblige… Another one to see the rendering. Quite close up, so little DoF

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  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-60/F2.8
  • 36.0 mm
  • ƒ/2.8
  • 1/30 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 1600
 
We had an electrical storm roll through recently (it's that time of the year for Colorado) and I decided to set the S1RII up & use Live View Composite to see what I could capture. As I was letting it roll, I was disappointed in that it seemed that all the lightning was obscured by clouds. However once I pulled the images down I spied this one corner where there was this little window in the clouds and one bolt was nicely framed. So, after a super-tight crop (24mm shot cropped down to about a 70mm field of view) I got this:

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  • Panasonic - DC-S1RM2
  • Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 DG DN | A (L-Mount)
  • 24.0 mm
  • ƒ/4
  • 10 sec
  • Pattern
  • Manual exposure
  • ISO 400


So, I really think this showcases how incredibly effective the combination of LVC & the hi-resolution sensor is. Had I zoomed into 70mm I almost certainly would have picked a different area of the sky and never recorded this delightful little scene.

It also makes me wish for a 60 MP sensor, but, in this scenario anyway, the LVC was more important. It got me the shot. Just love that little bit of firmware!
 
One of the first pictures with the S1Rii with the Lumix 50mm f/1.4 cropped and retouched in C1 (ISO 400, F/2.8, 1/60):

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Yes, I know that at f/4 or f/5.6 the dog's nose would have been in focus, but I didn't have much time to change parameters...
 
xaviergut said:
One of the first pictures with the S1Rii with the Lumix 50mm f/1.4 cropped and retouched in C1 (ISO 400, F/2.8, 1/60):

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Yes, I know that at f/4 or f/5.6 the dog's nose would have been in focus, but I didn't have much time to change parameters...
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Great capture.
The S-Pro 50 is super appealing to me. Although, with the Sigma 50/1.2 out now, I'm not sure I would make the leap. It would be interesting to see a comparison. If the S-Pro is like the Sony GM - which delivers nearly peak sharpness wide-open - then it would be worth it for me, even just for astro. The Sigma apparently needs to be stopped down to F2 (or even F2.8) to get "insane" levels of sharpness.
 
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20250531-SDIM6743 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

In World War II, Naval Air Station Glenview had a training carrier - the USS Wolverine - on Lake Michigan for training student aviators on carrier take-offs and landings - the hardest bits of naval flying. Being students, sometimes they didn't make it successfully, and they were fished out while the airplane went to the bottom of the lake. Since training generally used old, worn out planes rotated back from the front lines, it wasn't worth it for the Navy to recover them, and they just sat there.

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20250531-SDIM6749 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

60-70 years later, warbird enthusiasts running out of planes to restore got the idea to start looking in the lakebed graveyard. Most of them were brought back to look like they did in their glory days, but the Michigan Flight Museum (a.k.a. Yankee Air Museum) decided to do something different. Their display re-creates how this plane must have looked sitting on that lakebed, and it's beautiful.

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20250531-SDIM6753 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

It's a pity the display isn't easier to find; it's tucked back in a corner after a short maze of informational displays on naval aviation, and I would have missed it if the docent hadn't led me there.
 
GeorgeHudetz said:
Great capture.
The S-Pro 50 is super appealing to me. Although, with the Sigma 50/1.2 out now, I'm not sure I would make the leap. It would be interesting to see a comparison. If the S-Pro is like the Sony GM - which delivers nearly peak sharpness wide-open - then it would be worth it for me, even just for astro. The Sigma apparently needs to be stopped down to F2 (or even F2.8) to get "insane" levels of sharpness.
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Thanks, George. I am sure the the Sigma 50mm f/1.2 is an outstanding lens. The Lumix (Leica) is as good as big and heavy hahahaha

but I think that now has the new feature of the 24-60mm f2.8, where it is possible to change settings like aperture, for example, with the focusing ring. I just have to do the firmware update.
 
Another one from yesterday with the S1Rii and the Lumix 14-28mm at 14mm, f/5.6, 1/250, ISO 80 and -2 exposure because I wanted to save the exposure of the sun. I raised the shadows with Capture One, I am trying the 3 moths free subscription and it is liking me, but I have to learn a lot yet. I have to try next time the "Highlight-weighted" metering mode in this situations.

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xaviergut said:
Another one from yesterday with the S1Rii and the Lumix 14-28mm at 14mm, f/5.6, 1/250, ISO 80 and -2 exposure because I wanted to save the exposure of the sun. I raised the shadows with Capture One, I am trying the 3 moths free subscription and it is liking me, but I have to learn a lot yet. I have to try next time the "Highlight-weighted" metering mode in this situations.
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Great photo Xavier!
 

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20250531-SDIM6659 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Willow Run Airport was built by Ford during World War II to build B-24s; it was the largest factory under one roof at the time, designed by Albert Kahn with 330,000 square meters of space and employing 42,000 people. Many of them were women, and one of the first things I was told about when I entered the Michigan Flight Museum at Willow Run was their 'Rosie the Riveter' exhibit. I've seen a number over the last couple of years, typically a few standing partitions with a set of pics and some descriptive text. So I wasn't expecting a whole lot from this one.

I was wrong.

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20250531-SDIM6660 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

It did have the walls and the pics and the text - though somewhat better than average there.

But it also had dioramas...

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20250531-SDIM6677 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

A try-it-yourself riveting station:

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20250531-SDIM6681 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

And most impressive, an actual B-24 fuselage that had been built at Willow Run. (Willow Run produced around half of all B-24s ever built, 6,972, plus 1,893 kits to be assembled elsewhere. At its peak, the factory produced a B-24 every 63 minutes.)

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20250531-SDIM6684 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20250531-SDIM6680 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20250531-SDIM6673 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

Full set of pics are here:

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Willow Run Museum, 6/2025

Michigan Flight Museum (a.k.a. Yankee Air Museum) at Willow Run Airport
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