GeorgeBo wrote:
Nice moon shot Curtis with the late blue hour sky
Awesome black and white with the 24/2.8 Matt
Ken I agree with Leighton on your shot. Well seen!
Lovely flowers Siphiwe, first day of Fall here and our flowers are seeing their final days
Andy - great shots! Love the in camera black and white. Your biceps feeling it today
Ray - really like the night shots and looks like fun for the bikers at night too
I had plans of shooting today, but Tropical Storm Ophelia has other plans. Raining buckets. But we really needed the rain.
Have a good weekend everyone
We're getting some rain here, but I'm sure you're getting hammered.
Not too bad, it was breezy last night but the folks NE around Jacksonville & Emerald Isle got it worse, ended up stronger than expected but still not a bad one.
SiMuMe wrote:
I think it is safe to assume that Nikon has moved on from full support of 20+ year old lenses. Their future is in Z and that's where most if not all design and development effort will be. The Z 26/28 and 40mm are the Zf's mates. The FTZ adapters are awful tools for adapting small F mount lenses(AF or MF). The whole setup just looks and feels crappy with any lens whose length is closer to that of the FTZ.
Maybe a Chinese outfit will step in and make an adapter with the aperture follower tab or support for AF-D lenses that Rockwell and others are calling for but it will still look and feel crappy mounting a lens like the 45mm f/2.8P on it. I lust after the Voigtlander Z mount lenses that need no adapter. I like the Zf but even if I owned it, my Df(another polarising Nikon) will remain the primary mate of my MF lenses.
I am glad Nikon did not compromise the design of the Z mount in favor of easier adaptation to F mount lenses. The short distance between the sensor and Z mount face means many more old lenses of various manufacturers can be adapted, compared to, say, the Canon mirrorless mount. I wish the FTZ adapter was more capable, or perhaps came in different versions to handle AIS aperture control, or AFD screwdriver autofocus. I like using manual focus lenses with Z cameras, but the extra features that go along with using more modern lenses (like Voigtlander Z) mean sometimes it isn’t a Nikkor MF I reach for.
Ken Hill wrote:
Regarding the Zf, I see Ken Rockwell does not have a high opinion of it, particularly brutal in regards to use of the older AF AF-D lenses and MF lenses. He is tough on the FTZ & FTZ II AND cites and compares the distance between the flange and the sensor as greater than any other brand offering. He claims even Canon lenses adapt better than Nikon. He sums it up saying the “FTZ IS CRAPPY.”
As to range finder glass he suggests anything offered from China as Nikons solution. He’s right about that.
I for one was hoping for a camera and an adaptor that allowed communication and aperture control for MF glass. I guess it’s up to a third party to make that happen.
In short I thought the shortcomings of the Z6 and MF lenses would be at least mitigated or outright fixed by th Zf. I was wrong. ...Show more →
mjgphotoz wrote:
I do kinda regret selling my Df. I really thought that I would be excited about the Zf, but the more I think about it, the more I am not sold.
Mary
What's your thoughts on it that makes you not sold?
SiMuMe wrote:
I think it is safe to assume that Nikon has moved on from full support of 20+ year old lenses. Their future is in Z and that's where most if not all design and development effort will be. The Z 26/28 and 40mm are the Zf's mates. The FTZ adapters are awful tools for adapting small F mount lenses(AF or MF). The whole setup just looks and feels crappy with any lens whose length is closer to that of the FTZ.
Maybe a Chinese outfit will step in and make an adapter with the aperture follower tab or support for AF-D lenses that Rockwell and others are calling for but it will still look and feel crappy mounting a lens like the 45mm f/2.8P on it. I lust after the Voigtlander Z mount lenses that need no adapter. I like the Zf but even if I owned it, my Df(another polarising Nikon) will remain the primary mate of my MF lenses.
I use all kinds of adapters on the Z cameras, from Kipon to Amadeo, with a dash of RAF in between. True that FTZ adapters could and should do aperture control. I would be happy if the camera would just save the lens info entered into the image data.
I love this bronze ball, it's called "Moon and Stars" I think and is by an indigenous artist. It's about 4 feet in diameter and is located outside the Cairns Cruise ship Terminal which is a series of old wharf buildings renovated a few years ago.
We do get some Superyachts in the marina here, I've seen Paul Allen's who was co-creator of Microsoft with Bill Gates before but this one was a new one. Very interesting design especially the bow. This was the only shot I could get as the finger of the marina where it is berthed is not accessible to the public but the finger opposite is where all the boats depart for the GBR so I was at least able to get a shot of the bow from there.
I even got hassled by security in a golf buggy whilst taking shots near the locked gate. To be fair, he just asked me to respect the owners privacy. Not sure if he was talking about the Venus or more likely the nearest yacht which although not a Superyacht was still pretty nice. A traditional luxury sailing yacht not a Motor Yacht like Venus.
It's called Venus and was designed by Phillip Starck with help from a certain Steve Jobs. Cost $120M and will also run you a cool $10M a year to run ! Jobs commissioned it knowing he possibly wouldn't get to see it completed before his death. His widow Laurene owns it. There are NO pictures of the interior available.
DeltaSigma wrote:
I cannot disagree about the FTZ. KR’s website has some useful info on old lenses. I used it a lot when I first got into MF Nikkors but I stopped reading any new articles from him 5 years ago. I prefer to use other sources.
Ken is entertaining and has had a successful commercial enterprise.
I have been inside the house the whole morning baking (and eating, of course). Vegan carrot cake (no eggs), 28mm f2 (I forgot to change the settings; it shows 24). Picture is not good, but the cake is.
