Raptor Center

[tflak]

Think I'm finally getting the hang of this camera. Really couldn't be any happier with it. This is what I was hoping it could do. Shaky footage is my fault. Combo of hand-held camera and hand-held birds.

Shot at the Raptor Center at Shaver's Creek Environmental Center, a part of Penn State's nature center.

GH1, 720p60, 1/125 - Zeiss Ikon 100mm f/2.0 Makro Planar
Smooth mode - Contrast -2, Sharpness 0, Saturation 0, NR -2

Edited and graded with Premiere CS4

Music by Deep Forest

 

[ustein]

nice pictures.

 

[Soroush Shahrokni]

Great footage tflak. What a super lens. Beautiful birds.

I was thinking about selling my Nikon 50 and 80-200 and go for Zeiss 50 and 85 f/1.4 instead since I always shoot manual anyways...but a possible future Nikon camera is what holds me back. I really like Nikon lenses but Zeiss seriously kicks some Nikon/Canon gl...ass!

 

[tflak]

Thanks, Uwe and Soroush. Thought a lot before spending the money on that Zeiss. But have never regretted it even for a moment. BTW, it's a Nikon mount.

The Zeiss 85 and 100 both have the aperture ring very close to the camera body, but needing an adapter actually helps since it moves it out further. I use the Novoflex MFT/NIK. Would have gone for the ceico7, but I didn't like the aperture adjustment the way it stuck out and prefer the Novoflex's more traditional ring setup.