mp356 wrote:
Great set of images Michel. I really like your framing and b&w processing.
Scott
Glad you liked them Scott, thank you!
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jimmuller wrote:
Like Scott said, very nice.
You shot those with the Nikon 35mm f/2.8 on a Sony body? Anyway, I'm not sure why you'd be looking for a different 35mm, unless the landscape pics you want are different. Those pics are awesome.
Yes this is shot on a Sony body with a dumb adapter.
The landscape views shot with the 35 2,8 were shot at f6,7 and the lens is sharp at this setting.
I am also the happy user of Canon FD and Minolta MD lenses and you could obtain similar landscape results at wider apertures, around f4,5 using their latest 35 2,8 manual lenses. So I am still chasing for a Nikon lens that would provide me with nice results at aperture settings that are not those of ordinary zooms. The pleasure of using primes is associated with the possibility to open a little bit the diaphragm. However the lavander pic was shot with a 35 2,0 wide open where you benefit of a sharp small central area.
I acknowledge I am writing on a manual focus thread but I can say that the 28-80 AF D or G kit zoom lenses are better landscapes lenses at 28 or 35 mm since you achieve similar or better results at f4,5 / f5,6.
Let me add that the 28 2,0 Auto and the last computation of the AI 28 3,5 are not up to the task unless closed at f6,7/8,0 which is disappointing. I do not plan to buy a 28 2,8 AIS at ridiculous prices with opposing reviews about best imaging qualities for landscape compared to the 28 2,0 . So I am at lost.
So when I look for best (low price) quality I tend to take the zoom for the wide angles and shift to fixed focal lengths at 50mm and above to benefit from interesting bokeh at wide apertures.
But I have not renounced the quest of a cheap manual wide angle Nikkor that would beat the kit zooms. Especially that I am very happy with my primes above 50mm.
lumenspixel wrote:
But I have not renounced the quest of a cheap manual wide angle Nikkor that would beat the kit zooms. Especially that I am very happy with my primes above 50mm.
FWIW, I posted some shots with my 35mm on earlier pages (2522, 2523, 2525, 2526), taken before I knew what I was doing with both the camera and digital processing. I guess the indoor shots on 2525 would have had the lens wide open but focused closer than landscape. I'll try to take some useful landscape shots this weekend.
For now... More new scans of old pics, Ektachrome slides from 1976 all with MFNG on the Nikkormat.
Winter of '75 - '76.
Cold Boston morning:
Cold Boston day:
Double Dome University (an obscure reference):
More domes:
My future bride's first backpacking adventure, Shenandoah Nat Park, March '76:
Um, a very much younger version of me (when I had hair) relaxing by the Charles, taken by Sharon:
SiMuMe wrote:
Zf has the feature, Samy. One of the few that on announcement had me thinking long and hard about it as a long-term purchase option. Then Nikon rolled it out to other cameras and I thought, "never mind"
Oh I minded! So much so that I bought another one to keep the first one company! I love my Z8, but I LOVE the Zf's!
When the Silver version was announced and a firmware update was rumored, I was sorely tempted. When B&H stocked the Black/Silver version I was REALLY tempted. At the actual release and arrival of the Silver Zf's, B&H had a price virtually the same as the original Zf via a $200 discount on the new pricing for the Black/Silver version, which was now in stock. I could resist no more! Less than 2 weeks after my second Zf arrived, Nikon released the 3.0 firmware update! Color me, the Voigtlander kids, and my old MF lenses very happy campers! Final bonus was all those grips I tested and have available for both cameras. Yes, you can indeed specifically name each non-CPU lens using ALL 20 slots per the latest update which corrected for that numbering issue!
Poor mans retro, more shots with the Zfc and 3.5cm f/2.5. I finally got the transitions to bother me, but it’s an enjoyable camera to use. These are also straight Nikon PC jpegs, Ektachrome to start, about as close to film as I get these days.
In 1976 I shot a lot of bad pictures, mostly with the 50mm f/1.4. Some came out okay.
Boston, Trinity Church reflected in the glass walls of the Hancock Tower. That's the building which swayed so much in the wind that windows would occasionally fall out from high above and come crashing to the ground. Fortunately they found a fix, and also a way to protect the foundation of Trinity Church, a National Historic Building completed in 1877.)
Red Sox game in Fenway Park against the California Angels (which became the Anaheim Angels and then the Los Angeles Angels).
Harvard Square, Cambridge, viewed from the doors of the Co-op. It's all different now.
More domes. (Aw, domes again?)
My twin brother and our spouses did a backpacking trip in the White Mountains, NH. The summit of Mt. Isolation. (Can you guess who is who?)
serge07 wrote:
It would be fun to go back in time with modern cameras. I imagine folks were very nicely dressed in those days.
Great series of photographs from 1976. Let me guess, you are the chap with the rocker look.
Serge
Right! Yes and yes; it would be fun and I am the fuzzy one.
Technical question:
I'm seeing something I never noticed before. In the Harvard Square and Mt. Isolation pictures the left side of the image is quite a bit fuzzier than the right side. Why would that be?...
Edit: I figured this out. The slides are fine. The camera wasn't shooting perfectly square to the slides though it seemed to be. The slide holder seemed to be centered in its mount but the mount itself was offset to one side. The way the mount is attached to the rest of the system doesn't constrain its lateral position. The camera is fixed exactly at the center but its lateral angle is not. So when the camera seemed to point straight at the center of the slide it wasn't actually perpendicular to it.
In 1976 I shot a lot of bad pictures, mostly with the 50mm f/1.4. Some came out okay.
Boston, Trinity Church reflected in the glass walls of the Hancock Tower. That's the building which swayed so much in the wind that windows would occasionally fall out from high above and come crashing to the ground. Fortunately they found a fix, and also a way to protect the foundation of Trinity Church, a National Historic Building completed in 1877.)
no cows or cop cars up on that big dome though. How's that for obscure references? And I just happen to be wearing a hoodie from that particular institution today, while I visit my granddaughter at UVA. sitting in the hotel room in Harrisonburg waiting for my son to wake up...
jimmuller wrote:
FWIW, I posted some shots with my 35mm on earlier pages (2522, 2523, 2525, 2526), taken before I knew what I was doing with both the camera and digital processing. I guess the indoor shots on 2525 would have had the lens wide open but focused closer than landscape. I'll try to take some useful landscape shots this weekend.
For now... More new scans of old pics, Ektachrome slides from 1976 all with MFNG on the Nikkormat.
Plywood Towers, not to be confused with Fawlty Towers, Dwight Evans, and Out of Town News stand, dang that takes me back..
jimmuller wrote:
In 1976 I shot a lot of bad pictures, mostly with the 50mm f/1.4. Some came out okay.
Boston, Trinity Church reflected in the glass walls of the Hancock Tower. That's the building which swayed so much in the wind that windows would occasionally fall out from high above and come crashing to the ground. Fortunately they found a fix, and also a way to protect the foundation of Trinity Church, a National Historic Building completed in 1877.)
Just a heads up for the MF Nikkor group - I am putting up for sale three of my best lenses on Fred's Buy & Sell forum. After a couple weeks I will also list them for more on ebay mainly due to their fees. These are exemplar copies.
James Markus wrote:
Just a heads up for the MF Nikkor group - I am putting up for sale three of my best lenses on Fred's Buy & Sell forum. After a couple weeks I will also list them for more on ebay mainly due to their fees. These are exemplar copies.
James Markus wrote:
Just a heads up for the MF Nikkor group - I am putting up for sale three of my best lenses on Fred's Buy & Sell forum. After a couple weeks I will also list them for more on ebay mainly due to their fees. These are exemplar copies.
Someone here needs these lenses, and you can't do better than buying from Jim!
