{"id":41791,"date":"2025-05-24T10:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T14:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=41791"},"modified":"2025-05-24T10:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T14:19:54","slug":"89-rods-down-with-my-zeiss-touit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/89-rods-down-with-my-zeiss-touit\/","title":{"rendered":"89 Rods Down with my Zeiss Touit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I only use this lens in select circumstances, especially where I want to make the most of a train in a landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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