Pumpkin Patch Morning

On the way to Sunday breakfast this morning I made a stop at the local pumpkin market.  Less than a week to All Hallows Eve after all.  I thought the low light might work well with the color, so an impromptu photo shoot seemed a good idea.  I just had my 'walk around' setup with me... the Nex-6 with Leica mount 35mm f/2 on a metabones adapter. 

I wanted to do a little testing with this setup because last week I noticed the adapter was a little loose.  Sure enough, the adjustment screws had backed out a bit.  This raises a few questions.  First, does just re-tightening the screws do the job?  Adapters are not an ideal setup at the best of times.  There are more opportunities for tolerances to stack in a way that will cause sharpness variation in one direction or another.  The other question is about routine maintenance.  Is this going to be an ongoing issue?  I've had this setup for about 8 months now and this is the first problem.  And since just tightening everything up seems to cure the problem, it might not be a problem at all.  I haven't done an in depth, pixel peeping test to insure everything is 100% yet, and have not done the Loc-Tite thing yet.  Just something to be aware of. 

On other issue is that the new A7R camera is looking better and better to me.  Already there are some images showing up with other Leica mount lenses, including some ultra-wides, and color shift and loss of sharpness in the corners does not seem to be a huge problem.  So if I wind up buying the A7R, the Zeiss 35 / metabones combo may very well migrate there.  Just something to think about. 

But for now the Zeiss 35/2 and Nex-6 makes a great combo that seems to handle anything you throw at it.  Both these shots were hand held and not even cropped.  Minimal processing from the raw files.  The top image at f/2.8 and the lower one at f/5.6.  Daylight white balance on both.  Both look quite warm in tone, but that's the way the scene looked standing there.  No filters were used, either on the lens or during post processing.  Maybe that's why it's called golden hour.