Fake Infrared

[Wiener]

I have been trying out a fake infrared function in Photoshop Elements 8. Sometimes it produces quite a convincing affect! If not infrared, certainly striking...
Image distortion courtesy of my old Minolta glass...torn betwee keeping it or selling it and going for the Voigtlander equivalent. :?
With no lottery win (again) this week, I think it will stay off e-bay a while longer!
Andy

 

[Blow-in]

Stay with the Minolta - it's a great lens. This picture certainly plays mind games....'snow' with leaves on the trees...it's an arresting image I think of something otherwise very familiar to me.

Richard

 

[Cristian78]

I like it. Wish the buildings were a tad brighter so that I can see their texture.

 

[thelps]

I've heard some Minolta owners rave about their lenses. What is the optic again Andy.
the 50mm f1.7 was a winner I recall.

 

[AlbertTRAL]

I like it. Wish the buildings were a tad brighter so that I can see their texture.

+1.
I have not seen a direct comparison with the CV 15 4.5, but I have heard that the MD is a really fine lens!

 

[Orol]

No more brightness, please. The scene perfectly works as a midnight full moon moonlit early winter scene. The snow fell that unexpectedly that (this?) season that even trees did not manage to release their leaves yet.

Peter

 

[Wiener]

Thanks guys for your opinions!
Tim, I have an old MC 50mm 1.7 but also a 1.4 which is truely magic! So easy to manually focus and so sharp it cuts!
I do have a 100-200mm zoom but as this converts to 150-300mm it is really to slow to hand hold. I may have to put this one out to grass!
That just leaves the 28mm 2.8 and the 17mm 4.0 both of which I like a lot. However the 17mm is hard to focus but getting the hang of it now! It was the 17mm (25.5m equvalent) which I used here. It SHOULD be far to big to use on the GXR but somehow it feels just right in the hand...
Andy