Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Home · Register · Search · Software · Hosting · Software · Join Upload & Sell

FM Forum Rules
Nikon SLRs, primes, and zooms lenses reviews

FM Forums \| Nikon-mount SLRs \| Join Upload & Sell
1 2 3 … 2615 2616 2617 … 2876 2877 end

jhinkey
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.2616 #1 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

clouseau wrote:
Okay so much for friendliness

Why did you write this?

Feb 28, 2013 at 06:25 PM

MDoc9523
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.2616 #2 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

clouseau wrote:
Okay i have a stupid Question ! I have a dropbox account and sometimes i would like to download a pic to you guys for some cc . how do i do that ?

Mvh Clouseau
I'm not sure how you would do that from dropbox. Most of us here use on line photo sharing sites such as Flickr, Zenfolio, Piasca or Photobucket. I would suggest going to one of these sites and set up an account. Most are free of charge. Once you do that I would be more than happy to help you figure out how to post those photos here.

Ray

Feb 28, 2013 at 06:29 PM

MDoc9523
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.2616 #3 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

jhinkey wrote:
clouseau wrote:
Okay so much for friendliness

Why did you write this?
I think we didn't answer his question fast enough

Feb 28, 2013 at 06:31 PM

jhinkey
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.2616 #4 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

MDoc9523 wrote:
jhinkey wrote:
clouseau wrote:
Okay so much for friendliness

Why did you write this?
I think we didn't answer his question fast enough

Hmmm . . . original post at 8:02 am PST and his impatience shown at 9:30am PST. I guess and hour and a half was too long for him to wait . . .

Feb 28, 2013 at 06:35 PM

asiostygius
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.2616 #5 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Thanks Kevin, Jeff, Scott, Rafael and Georg.

Georg, the D600 is "cheap" compared with the D3 construction, but its light weight and sensor are positive points.

As Leighton and other talked about the "ISO 50" vs. ISO 100 of D600, I made a quick test and have noted no differences:

General scene, D600 + 135mm f/3.5 @f8 + tripod + remote trigger, live view focused; greener retangle is DX crop just for reference for other tests I will post further.

General-test-scene-D600-135-f35 by labecoaves, on Flickr

Even at 200% viewing I see no difference between ISO 50 (L1) vs. ISO 100 of my D600. Can you detect any difference?

D600-ISO-50-vs-100-200pc-view by labecoaves, on Flickr

D600-crop-DX-iso-50-vs-100-200-pc by labecoaves, on Flickr

The only differences are (red markings) a slight displacement to the right of histogram, and a tiny increase in file size for the L1 (ISO 50) images at left.

Edited on Feb 28, 2013 at 07:13 PM · View previous versions

Feb 28, 2013 at 06:44 PM

asiostygius
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.2616 #6 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

What about D600 vs D3 sensors ?

Of course I used the same lens (135/3.5) + tripod + remote cable and same setups for each camera, and live view was used for best focusing.

No surprise a upsized (to D600) D3 image does not match resolution of the native D600.

D600-vs-D3-upsized by labecoaves, on Flickr
100% viewing

On the other hand, downsizing D600 image and both cameras are similar, no surprise too.

D600-downsized-vs-D3 by labecoaves, on Flickr
100% viewing

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:00 PM

MDoc9523
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.2616 #7 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Thanks for the comparison Jose. I can't wait to see further tests between the D600 and D7000

Ray

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:02 PM

asiostygius
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.2616 #8 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

I promise, this is the last (Ray is the guilt for this

)

What about D600 dx crop vs D7000?

Of course I used the same lens (135/3.5) + tripod + remote cable and same setups for each camera, and live view was used for best focusing. Both at ISO 100.

Well here there is a surprise for me because D600 upsized image stands very well against the native D7000 image, if not contrastier (!?):

D600-dx-crop-upsized-vs-D7000 iso 100 by labecoaves, on Flickr
100% viewing

No surprise a downsized (to the D600 dx crop) D7000 image looks like similar to the D600 dx crop:

D600-vs-D7000-downsized ISO 100 by labecoaves, on Flickr
100% viewing

Some day I will replicate to confirm or not the results.

Both cameras at SD picture control and images were straight from the camera, no edit other than resizing through CS5.

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:11 PM

Dustin Gent
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.2616 #9 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Here is one from a 200mm f/4 that I am selling here on the B&S forums

. Bought this for my trip to Yosemite to try to shoot the FireFalls, but conditions were not that great for me to sit around for

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:18 PM

MDoc9523
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.2616 #10 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Nice sharp image Dustin

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:25 PM

Oosty
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.2616 #11 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

jhinkey wrote:
Oh geez - 500/4 AI-P available on the local CL for $2K and appears to be in excellent shape! How am I going to pull this one off . . . .

Write a check?

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:30 PM

asiostygius
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.2616 #12 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

kings_freak wrote:
rafaelcasd wrote:
georgms wrote:
Rafael - what a beautiful set! My favs are the "Driveway" and the last shot. That 25-50 is tempting ;-)

Georg, the 25-50mm is very useful for daytime and flash work, it is wickedly sharp from 5.6 up and so well built, a bit heavy and large. I allows one to frame the shot while beign as good as any prime on its aperture range.

most of the pics I posted were of the 16mm, here is a couple more of the 25-50mm, this house belongs to a family friend, my dad's was sold long ago. I had an "Out of Africa" longing for the place and this picture reminds me of it.

nikon nikkor 25-50mm d800 coatepeque by Rafael CA, on Flickr

Wow, that is a beautiful tree! Great capture.

–Tony

+1
Rafael, your images are so crisp and clean as those of Philippe. Did you drink cognac too to make these spetacular PP?

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:32 PM

Oosty
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.2616 #13 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

leighton w wrote:
clouseau wrote:
Okay so much for friendliness

Easy does it. As far as I know, there's not very many on here that use dropbox to post photos. It's not that we're ignoring you, it's just that the right person hasn't seen your question. Please have a little bit of patience.

An hour and a half - no reply! You want patience

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:32 PM

asiostygius
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.2616 #14 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

MDoc9523 wrote:
Nice sharp image Dustin

Agreed, great capture and B&W conversion.

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:33 PM

Oosty
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.2616 #15 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Nancy - very nice b&w

Curtis (AKA Curtis "Steadyhands") - you get great results handheld. i either drink too much or too little.. how to tell?

Georg - the basket is a beaut.

Ron - we may complain about pollution, coal burners etc but which one of us will give up the benefits? No power, no digital, no internet to indulge our hobbies, let alone read a book. In their own way all our engineering feats are just magnificent.

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:38 PM

Oosty
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.2616 #16 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Jose - those are very useful camera comparisons and frankly there seems nothing to choose between the D600 and the D7000. Contrast is easily tweaked in pp and saturation/hue seems to vary from camers to camera.

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:41 PM

MDoc9523
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.2616 #17 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Oosty wrote:
Jose - those are very useful camera comparisons and frankly there seems nothing to choose between the D600 and the D7000. Contrast is easily tweaked in pp and saturation/hue seems to vary from camers to camera.

+1

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:42 PM

leighton w
Offline
• • • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.2616 #18 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Jose, thanks for the comparisons.

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:42 PM

Oosty
Offline
• • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.2616 #19 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

I popped in to our local camera store which has about a 3 camera inventory (there's a serious recession in Knysna) and wanted to have closer look at the D7000. No luck but they did have a D800 - what a monster camera!! I couldn't believe the size and weight of the body only and then the salesman attached the 70-200 VR. Just jaw dropping clarity throughout the range.

I have to confess I don't blame Monty for his defection.

My last real WOW moment was in 2009 at a photo show where I looked through a D3 paired with a 600mm f4 AF lens which just blew me away and nearly, but not quite, got me to think about working again. I got over it! Whew.

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:50 PM

CGrindahl
Offline
• • • • • •
Upload & Sell: On

p.2616 #20 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Oosty wrote:

...Curtis (AKA Curtis "Steadyhands") - you get great results handheld. i either drink too much or too little.. how to tell?

One of life's great questions Peter. I thought I'd take a break from drinking just to prove to myself that I could... five weeks but that seemed enough. I had a decent single malt Scotch calling to me and had a wee dram...

And my hand is still steady today...

As Ray has been saying, with fast lenses we need the extra shutter speed. This was shot with the 105 f/1.8 AI-s but I had to stop down to f/4 to reach 1/8000th with spot metering. That is the only way to stay out of trouble in bright light, which means I'm limited to the center focusing point. I'd love to have 24 megapixels with which to crop, but 12 still works.

Feb 28, 2013 at 07:50 PM

1 2 3 … 2615 2616 2617 … 2876 2877 end
FM Forums \| Nikon-mount SLRs \| Join Upload & Sell 1 2 3 … 2615 2616 2617 … 2876 2877 end