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89 Rods Down with my Zeiss Touit

My FujiFilm XT1 fitted with a 12mm Zeiss Touit is an additive camera-lens combination. This exceptionally sharp lens offers a 99 degree field of view using the X-series APC sensor.

While I only use this lens in select circumstances, especially where I want to make the most of a train in a landscape.

Last Tuesday, I waited for Strasburg Rail Road 89 as it approached Carpenters at Black Horse Road. Working with the adjustible rear display, I held the camera about 2 1/2 feet above the ground (about knee-level) and exposed a burst of images of the locomotive.

My aim was to freeze the engine in its classic pose with ‘rods down,’ while taking in the surrounding landscape. For this image, I converted the FujiFilm RAF Raw file to a DNG file using DxO PureRaw before making nominal changes to contrast, and shadow and highlight detail.

FujiFilm XT1 with Carl Zeiss 12mm Touit Distagon. f4.5 1/1000 second, ISO 200. Exposed using Fuji’s RAF RAW format.

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