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p.2048 #1 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Today I was for the first time experimenting the Canon 500D close up filter on my older 400mm, the K (ai'd) ED non IF. The subject was a caterpillar of no more than 1 inch (< 2.6 cm) taht was attacking the decorative fern of my balcony.

Lens set at infinity focus (with filter the real focus distance was 0.82cm):

Catterpillar with Nikkor 400mm f/5.6 K (ai'd) + Canon close up filter by labecoaves, on Flickr

D3 + 400mm f/5.6 K (ai'd) ED + Canon 500D filter + Nissin macroflash + tripod.
ISO 200, f/11 at 1/60s, ~15% crop, 0.82 m of distance.

Lens set to MFD (5m), but with filter was in fact at ~ 0,81m):

Catterpillar with Nikkor 400mm f/5.6 K (ai'd) + Canon close up filter - closer by labecoaves, on Flickr

D3 + 400mm f/5.6 K (ai'd) ED + Canon 500D filter + Nissin macroflash + tripod.
ISO 400, f/11 at 1/60s, ~40% crop, 0.81 m of distance.

Even at f/11 the DOF is truly very thin.
I hope Curtis do not forbid these shots

, since the Canon filter just allowed closer focusing and the image was from a Nikkor lens.

Oct 12, 2012 at 10:13 PM

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p.2048 #2 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Wow Jose what terrific shots. No problem with the photo as a nikon lens and camera were used

Oct 12, 2012 at 10:20 PM

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p.2048 #3 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

MDoc9523 wrote:
Wow Jose what terrific shots. No problem with the photo as a nikon lens and camera were used

+1 !

Oct 12, 2012 at 10:25 PM

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p.2048 #4 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

georgms wrote:
Here's a staged portrait of a young violin player - taken for a local paper. This time I've set up two speedlights - one SB800 at about 1/16 or 1/32 power in a small softbox high and left of my camera and another SB800 (bounced to the ceiling, at about 1/4 or 1/8 power) on a small lightstand behind the girl. I'd choose some colorful lockers as background because I've tried to avoid a concert-hall-look. The cut-off forearm bugs me a bit.

Ai-Nikkor 35/1.4 wide open on a D3s

I like it Georg, the lighting is perfect. I agree with you about the forearm.

Oct 12, 2012 at 10:27 PM

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p.2048 #5 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Ron,

Very nice shots, and great to see your wife also enjoying the tele lens. The 400 3.5 would hardly be a knife. If anything you may want to attach a TC to it to get longer reach.

Where on the Susquehanna is that? There is a dam north of Baltimore I have heard of (maybe at Gunpowder Falls?) that I hear has loads of bald eagles.

Samy

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A day with one of North America's most magnificent bird the bald eagle. This is probably one of the best sites on the east coast on the Susquehanna river. I counted at least 20 juvenile eagles and twice that many adults. We felt very much out of place here as you can glean from the one picture. I counted no less than a half dozen Canon 800mm's and a ton of Nikon 600's. As I told my wife I think we brought our knife to the gun fight. First 2 shots of the crowd and my wife(50 1.2 AI) and then a couple birds. She took the almost perfect in flight shot with the 400 3.5 and like I told her I am sure I could not have done any better. The last shot was as we were leaving. We saw about 20 Lenses pointed up in a tree so I took the 50 1.2 off my camera and stuck the 300mm 4.5 on it and grabbed a shot.

Oct 12, 2012 at 10:29 PM

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p.2048 #6 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Philippe, that first car shot is outstanding!!

Lieutenant Z wrote:
Thanks Georg and Leighton!

Two more with same lens :

Oct 12, 2012 at 10:30 PM

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p.2048 #7 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Ben,

Thanks, I wish I had some presets, no that's just playing around first in After Shot Pro (white balance, and any noise reduction) where I convert the raw file, and then I fix any exposure or contrast issues and do one round of auto-sharpen usually in Elements. That's the extent of my post-processing skills. The D800 files have made my entire workflow a bit longer, I do a bit of waiting each time I make an adjustment

Samy

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saph wrote:
More autumn colors, and the elusive green heron.

With the 105 2.5 AI.

Samy

Samy - love the autumn colours - do I see some presets at work here ? the shots have very evocative contrast and grain?

Ben

Oct 12, 2012 at 10:37 PM

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p.2048 #8 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Jose, you can get the 400 5.6 to do some magic each time!

Samy

asiostygius wrote:
Today I was for the first time experimenting the Canon 500D close up filter on my older 400mm, the K (ai'd) ED non IF. The subject was a caterpillar of no more than 1 inch (< 2.6 cm) taht was attacking the decorative fern of my balcony.

Lens set at infinity focus (with filter the real focus distance was 0.82cm):

D3 + 400mm f/5.6 K (ai'd) ED + Canon 500D filter + Nissin macroflash + tripod.
ISO 200, f/11 at 1/60s, ~15% crop, 0.82 m of distance.

Lens set to MFD (5m), but with filter was in fact at ~ 0,81m):

, since the Canon filter just allowed closer focusing and the image was from a Nikkor lens.

Oct 12, 2012 at 10:39 PM

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p.2048 #9 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

I was about to ask who messed up that expensive car

Lieutenant Z wrote:
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Ron, nice story and a great capture, especially the last one!

Philippe - I love the second one, why does it look like the Jag's front end is on the ground?

That seems to be the way the Jag's engine hood is opened

Oct 12, 2012 at 10:41 PM

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p.2048 #10 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Very nice photo Georg! Great lighting setup.

leighton w wrote:
georgms wrote:
Here's a staged portrait of a young violin player - taken for a local paper. This time I've set up two speedlights - one SB800 at about 1/16 or 1/32 power in a small softbox high and left of my camera and another SB800 (bounced to the ceiling, at about 1/4 or 1/8 power) on a small lightstand behind the girl. I'd choose some colorful lockers as background because I've tried to avoid a concert-hall-look. The cut-off forearm bugs me a bit.

Ai-Nikkor 35/1.4 wide open on a D3s

I like it Georg, the lighting is perfect. I agree with you about the forearm.

Oct 12, 2012 at 10:42 PM

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p.2048 #11 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

A lens comparison, without the guessing game

With the 105 2.5 AI and the 180 2.8 AIS.

Samy

2013 © saph

NIKON D800 105 mm f/4.0 1/1250 sec 250 ISO 0.0 EV

2013 © saph

NIKON D800 180 mm f/5.6 1/640 sec 200 ISO 0.0 EV

Oct 12, 2012 at 11:09 PM

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p.2048 #12 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

I'm doing the final measurements for my PhD thesis over the next few days. Here's a scene from the dark laser lab I'm spending my time in right now. 28mm f/2.8 AI-s.

Ultrafast optical pulses by philipjohnson, on Flickr

Oct 12, 2012 at 11:19 PM

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p.2048 #13 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

leighton w wrote:
georgms wrote:
Here's a staged portrait of a young violin player - taken for a local paper. This time I've set up two speedlights - one SB800 at about 1/16 or 1/32 power in a small softbox high and left of my camera and another SB800 (bounced to the ceiling, at about 1/4 or 1/8 power) on a small lightstand behind the girl. I'd choose some colorful lockers as background because I've tried to avoid a concert-hall-look. The cut-off forearm bugs me a bit.
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I like it Georg, the lighting is perfect. I agree with you about the forearm.

very nice Georg.....for me, the problem with the forearm is not just that it's cut off, it's that it's so prominent in the foreground. That makes it proportionately bigger than the rest of her. It almost looks like it's someone else's hand holding the violin (Like a Hollywood shot to disguise the fact that the star can't play). Plus it's cut off.

She has a lovely face and a sweet expression. The composition is nice otherwise with the intersecting diagonals of the violin and the bow across the frame - but yeah, there's that big hand and wrist floating in front.

ben

Oct 12, 2012 at 11:25 PM

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p.2048 #14 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Two more from the walk with the 105 2.5 AI.

2013 © saph

NIKON D800 105 mm f/11.0 1/160 sec 500 ISO 0.0 EV

2013 © saph

NIKON D800 105 mm f/2.5 1/500 sec 400 ISO 0.0 EV

Oct 12, 2012 at 11:56 PM

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p.2048 #15 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

leighton w wrote:
I went to talk to the owner of the local bike shop while I was at the market Wednesday so I grabbed a shot for Monty. AND to my surprise saw what was coming across the street, oh boy!

Nice!!!!!!

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Oct 12, 2012 at 11:56 PM

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p.2048 #16 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

UGH....
I went for a walk this afternoon. When I returned this was in our front yard....

Monty

My wife is on drugs....
NIKON D600 16 mm f/4.0 1/40 sec 140 ISO 0.0 EV

Oct 13, 2012 at 12:00 AM

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p.2048 #17 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

My daughter took this picture. She is temporarily living in Chicago. Last weekend there was a marathon. THe route went past Margarets apartment.

This is a photograph of a youngster trying to see the runners

Taken with a D200. She is "borrowing" my 50mm f/1.8

Monty

"chicago marathon cheers jump"
NIKON D200 1/2500 sec 250 ISO 0.0 EV

Oct 13, 2012 at 02:08 AM

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p.2048 #18 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

saph wrote:
Ron,

Very nice shots, and great to see your wife also enjoying the tele lens. The 400 3.5 would hardly be a knife. If anything you may want to attach a TC to it to get longer reach.

Where on the Susquehanna is that? There is a dam north of Baltimore I have heard of (maybe at Gunpowder Falls?) that I hear has loads of bald eagles.

Samy

rankamateur wrote:
A day with one of North America's most magnificent bird the bald eagle. This is probably one of the best sites on the east coast on the Susquehanna river. I counted at least 20 juvenile eagles and twice that many adults. We felt very much out of place here as you can glean from the one picture. I counted no less than a half dozen Canon 800mm's and a ton of Nikon 600's. As I told my wife I think we brought our knife to the gun fight. First 2 shots of the crowd and my wife(50 1.2 AI) and then a couple birds. She took the almost perfect in flight shot with the 400 3.5 and like I told her I am sure I could not have done any better. The last shot was as we were leaving. We saw about 20 Lenses pointed up in a tree so I took the 50 1.2 off my camera and stuck the 300mm 4.5 on it and grabbed a shot.

Thanks Samy it is on Rte 1 at Conowingo. May try the TC-301 next time we go down there-I always seem to have better luck just cropping but I shall see how it does. Mostly just luck with MF and flying birds.

Oct 13, 2012 at 02:15 AM

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On the outside of my lab, from a few days ago, College Street, a major East/West street in Toronto.

College Street by philipjohnson, on Flickr

105mm f/1.8 AI-s.

Oct 13, 2012 at 03:20 AM

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p.2048 #20 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

asiostygius wrote:
MDoc9523 wrote:
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Monty you get the WOW factor with this one

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+1
Monty, great B&W shot! I loved the bokeh and composition too.

Monty, wouldn't this shot with all those painted bottles look good in colour?
I know this shot was a "long time ago", I'm finding it hard to catch up. You guys are going faster than a freight plane.

Oct 13, 2012 at 04:23 AM

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