***March 2025 Image and Video Thread***

[RuleOfThirds]

Storks are back, so I had to take a look with my 70-300..

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
• ƒ/5.6
• 300mm
• 1/1000s
• ISO 1600

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
• ƒ/5.5
• 228mm
• 1/800s
• ISO 400

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 70-300/F4.5-5.6
• ƒ/8
• 300mm
• 1/640s
• ISO 1600

 

[RuleOfThirds]

Such nice light, I did a quick tour around my village this morning.

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• 28 - 70mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• ƒ/5.6
• 38mm
• 1/100s
• ISO 100

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• 28 - 70mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• ƒ/7.1
• 70mm
• 1/80s
• ISO 125

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• 28 - 70mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• ƒ/8
• 32mm
• 1/60s
• ISO 125

 

[RuleOfThirds]

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• 28 - 70mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• ƒ/8
• 29mm
• 1/160s
• ISO 100

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• 28 - 70mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• ƒ/8
• 28mm
• 1/125s
• ISO 100

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• 28 - 70mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 021
• ƒ/8
• 29mm
• 1/125s
• ISO 100

 

[Nevyn72]

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Love this pictures Peter, they have something 'magical'.

I see the 24-105 F4 becoming already obsolete

 

[RuleOfThirds]

Love this pictures Peter, they have something 'magical'.

I see the 24-105 F4 becoming already obsolete

I actually wished that I had the 24-105 this morning on the camera . Just quickly grabbed the camera and this one was on it. No slouch either But at one location the 70 was too short, 105 would have been perfect. And the 24 would have been welcome as well. But that is what it is and the beauty of going by with just what you have with you.

This was causing the magic. 10 minutes later I got a call that my daughter had to stay home, and my wife had to go to work as well, so decided that I work from home today. On my way back the sky cleared up rapidly with the rising sun, so grabbed the camera and took off for a small tour around town for a few minutes.

 

[RuleOfThirds]

For the non Dutchies, this is how my world looked like from November till half February, but then also with cold and rain. Really ugly winter.

 

[sergun80]

S9 - 24/3.5

floodplain-37 by Сергей Пашнин, on Flickr

 

[The Rigger]

It's currently 1:21am, and instead of being curled up in a nice warm bed I'm out in the 30-degree (Frankenstein) chill with the S5, shooting the total lunar eclipse. It's aledgedly the last one visible from these parts until at least 2029. Gonna give the Sigma 100-400 telezoom a workout.

 

[PJD]

It's currently 1:21am, and instead of being curled up in a nice warm bed I'm out in the 30-degree (Frankenstein) chill with the S5, shooting the total lunar eclipse. It's aledgedly the last one visible from these parts until at least 2029. Gonna give the Sigma 100-400 telezoom a workout.

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I hope you get some great images! I went outside a few minutes ago to see if there were any breaks in the clouds. No luck. Maybe next time.

 

[The Rigger]

I went outside a few minutes ago to see if there were any breaks in the clouds. No luck.

Surprisingly, we had fairly clear (by Great Lakes standards) skies tonight. Some wispy high cirrus and cirrostratus clouds I had to shoot through, but nothing like our usual gray skies - you can easily tell a Michigander visiting Seattle or Portland; he'll be the one walking around commenting on how sunny it is.

It's now 3:23-or-so in the morning, and I'm about half-frozen. Got several dozen shots from First Contact through Max Totality before I packed it in. I think they came out alright, once I managed to dial in focus, which was a chore - I tried to tether to my laptop and use LUMIX-Tether app to let me use the MacBook Pro screen to remote focus, but of course the battery in the MacBook gave out in the cold conditions, so I had to use the LCD screen on the S5, which was an order of magnitude better than the eyepiece but still far from optimal, with my bad eyes (all four of 'em). Did a lot of experimenting with combinations of ISO/Aperature/Shutter Speed, about half of which were immediately deleted because not even I should've seen the results. But before I start churning through the Post-Processing mill I need a bit of shut-eye.

To quote Samuel Pepys, "And so to bed."

 

[Travis Butler]

It's currently 1:21am, and instead of being curled up in a nice warm bed I'm out in the 30-degree (Frankenstein) chill with the S5, shooting the total lunar eclipse. It's aledgedly the last one visible from these parts until at least 2029. Gonna give the Sigma 100-400 telezoom a workout.

Look forward to seeing what you get!

This is the best I could manage with the S5 and my Tamron SP 500mm mirror lens, at least on a first pass through:

20250314-P1022651 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

20250314-P1022651v1v1.rw2 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

And now I go collapse into bed. ^^;;

 

[Pete_W]

I am spending a few days away from home in the city of Canberra with family. This handheld shot was taken from the balcony of our apartment at 7:50pm.

• Panasonic DC-S5M2
• LUMIX S 24-105/F4
• ƒ/4
• 24mm
• 1/5s
• ISO 800

 

[sergun80]

S9 sigma 24/3.5

 

[The Rigger]

Look forward to seeing what you get!
This is the best I could manage with the S5 and my Tamron SP 500mm mirror lens, at least on a first pass through:

Looking good, sir!

I was shooting through a whisp of fine cloud cover in a Bortle 8 sky so mine aren't quite as sharp, but I'm pretty pleased...
(Note: times listed are for Eastern Daylight Time in my longitude)

First Penumbral Contact: 11:57pm

• Panasonic DC-S5
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• ƒ/13
• 373mm
• 1/125s
• ISO 100

First Umbral Contact: 1:09am

• Panasonic DC-S5
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• ƒ/22
• 373mm
• 1/100s
• ISO 400

Totality begins: 2:26am

• Panasonic DC-S5
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• ƒ/6.3
• 373mm
• 1/5s
• ISO 6400

Maximum Totality: 2:58am

• Panasonic DC-S5
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• ƒ/6.3
• 373mm
• 1/8s
• ISO 6400

 

[Travis Butler]

Looking good, sir!

I was shooting through a whisp of fine cloud cover in a Bortle 8 sky so mine aren't quite as sharp,

Honestly thought mine weren’t that good and figured yours would be better. ^^;;

but I'm pretty pleased...

And you should be!

Trying to focus manually at that range is a pain, especially when you’re using the back screen instead of your phone or iPad screen.

 

[The Rigger]

This is the best I could manage with the S5 and my Tamron SP 500mm mirror lens, at least on a first pass through

How did you get an SP lens to work on an S5? Which adaptor scheme did you use?
It obviously works well.

 

[Travis Butler]

How did you get an SP lens to work on an S5? Which adaptor scheme did you use?
It obviously works well.

This is one of the Adaptall-2 Tamrons; a simple Adaptall to L Mount adapter should work for all of them. The cheaper brands are about $13 US on eBay, the K&F Concept ones I like better are about $30.

The biggest problem with that scheme is that finding rear lens caps for the Adaptall mount itself is a royal pain; doing a quick eBay search right now, everything in the first 120 results is really 'Minolta/Canon/OM/PentaxK/whatever' with the Tamron Adaptall logo on it. Even when you can find one for the actual Adaptall mount, they're as expensive as the cheaper Adaptall to L-Mount adapters. You might be better off just getting one of the adapters for each Adaptall lens you want to use, then standard L-Mount rear caps.

 

[Travis Butler]

Looking good, sir!

I was shooting through a whisp of fine cloud cover in a Bortle 8 sky so mine aren't quite as sharp, but I'm pretty pleased...
(Note: times listed are for Eastern Daylight Time in my longitude)

Maximum Totality: 2:58am
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Oh, one other thing - what post processing did you use? I ran mine through On1 Photo Raw's AI denoise filter and that made a significant improvement.

Here's what the last one looked like without the denoise:

• NO-LENS
• 1/1s
• ISO 800

 

[The Rigger]

Oh, one other thing - what post processing did you use?

Nothing special, really... I ran the raw image files through Adobe DNG Converter to reformat them and then did minor tweaks to the white balance, clarity, and saturation in Photoshop Elements.

Almost everything last night was shot at ISO 100 to keep the noise down, other than the totality shots, where I cranked the rig up to 6400, but I slowed down to 1/6 or 1/5 of a second shutter with the aperture cranked wide open. I tried to slightly under-expose everything, too, as for some reason my S5's sensor really likes that and I can usually make it up in Post without adding any noise.

 

[Travis Butler]

Nothing special, really... I ran the raw image files through Adobe DNG Converter to reformat them and then did minor tweaks to the white balance, clarity, and saturation in Photoshop Elements.

Almost everything last night was shot at ISO 100 to keep the noise down, other than the totality shots, where I cranked the rig up to 6400, but I slowed down to 1/6 or 1/5 of a second shutter with the aperture cranked wide open. I tried to slightly under-expose everything, too, as for some reason my S5's sensor really likes that and I can usually make it up in Post without adding any noise.

Yeah, I always prefer to under-expose a little; I hate blowing out highlights, and it's usually easier for me to boost shadows.

Do you have any de-noise tools? If you'd like, link me one of those totality raw's and I can try running it through the one I use.