
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rich October Sun
at the Shoren'in Temple (青蓮院), Kyoto Japan
I paid a visit today to the Shouren'in Temple (青蓮院) in Eastern Kyoto for a repeat of the Ikebana (生花; flower-arranging) event that last year produced all these posts:
· Busy Hallway at Kyoto’s Shoren’in Temple
· Serene Photos to Calm the Nerves
· Cute and Colorful Scene at the Shoren’in Temple
· More Pleasantness From The Shoren’in Temple Ikebana Event
· Revisiting Flower Arrangements at the Shoren’in Temple
· Serene Photos to Calm the Nerves
· Cute and Colorful Scene at the Shoren’in Temple
· More Pleasantness From The Shoren’in Temple Ikebana Event
· Revisiting Flower Arrangements at the Shoren’in Temple
Today's visit won't produce so much, but this post is a first run at some of the shots I took...

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/2000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Sundrenched Moss-Covered Roots
of a huge 800-year-old “Natural Treasure of Kyoto” camphor tree

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 52mm — 1/100 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1600 — map & image data — nearby photos
Display Maintenance

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 15mm — 1/400 sec, f/2.8, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Stone Bridge

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 14mm — 1/100 sec, f/9, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Main Garden
The light was really harsh today; somehow, it was better last year.

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 450 — map & image data — nearby photos
Flowers Suffering
from severe axial chromatic aberration
(just a camera-geek joke)

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 160 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rich Light
nice smiles

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 320 — map & image data — nearby photos
Water Basin
festooned for the occasion

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 14mm — 1/30 sec, f/5.6, ISO 140 — map & image data — nearby photos
Viewing Flower Arrangements
in the garden-viewing room

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 28mm — 1/60 sec, f/2.8, ISO 125 — map & image data — nearby photos
Two Arrangements

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 58mm — 1/125 sec, f/2.8, ISO 180 — map & image data — nearby photos
That Water Basin Again
with less sky reflections on the surface of the water

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — 1/50 sec, f/2.8, ISO 2000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Passages

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 360 — map & image data — nearby photos
Weathered Handrail

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 14mm — 1/125 sec, f/2.8, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Side Passage

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/500 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Garden-Viewing Room
from above the garden

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/400 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Cliché Bamboo

Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Bell
with a suspended log for a striker
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Cliché Bamboo
Legendary CV125 show some violet fringing ??
It’s a joke. —Jeffrey
Got mine today in Canon EF mount to be used with 5D2.
It shows the same fringing habit at wide open like yours photo with the extreme high contrast condition.
Any suggestion?
IT WAS A JOKE… the picture shows a white flower with purple fringe. That’s the real flower, not chromatic aberration. —Jeffrey
Haha…
I mean the photo named ‘Cliché Bamboo’. I can see purple fringe at the edge of bamboo (near the sun, upper left) and on the small branch the right of the photo. May be I am too much pixel peeping…ha ha.
BTW, it is an excellence lens indeed in many other aspects other than the CA proof. I tested the lens by comparing with Sigma 180mm F3.5 Macro and Sigma 50mm F2.8 Macro. They are all have purple fringing (including CV125) at wide open and high contrast situation e.g. white text on black surface on the lens barrel but I can say that CV125 is the best among them. By stopping down the aperture, the purple fringing is reduced significantly.
Ah, I see. Purple fringing is so common that I’m used to it… I guess I tune it out. I revisited the bamboo photo in Lightroom and bumped the “Defringe” amount from 0 to a little something, and the purple disappeared, so that’s one way to handle it. —Jeffrey