Away for a while but back in touch with kindred spirits. I see we are still talking Z and Ronny is sill posting from another planet . And Andy that's one beautiful 85 1.4!!!
We spent so much time on the trains because the house was pretty far out.
But they're often nice and comfy... outside of peak hours of course.
When everyone's rushing to get home, we usually spring for seats in the 'Green car'
Really smart move from some corporate bean counter surely
Double the price of your ticket for a seat in the special car
I simply needed to check up on the usual suspects who hang out on this thread Chin... to make certain no one was sneaking in a Zeiss lens...
Much less need for a "policeman" on the thread now that EVERY camera manufacturer is welcome on the thread. No one bats an eye when a Fuji, Sony or Canon camera show up. We've become true egalitarians on this thread... so long as a Nikon manual focus lens is attached.
Door for Leighton, 8000 miles away. Inside the Jemali Kemali monument in the archaeological village of Mehrauli in the southern part of Delhi. The monument, built just about 500 years ago, honors a well regarded poet Jemali. The structure is supposed to be haunted, although in the day time the only beings haunting it were youngsters doing photoshoots in the monument, or playing cricket.
Didn't know you were in India Samy, are you still there? We arrive in Chennai on Jan 3rd for about 14 weeks, travelling round and leaving from Kolkata for HK
Re the 85/1.4, it is beautiful but very stiff focus even though it has had a recent CLA. Guy reckons the helicoids are rough
Quick mostly business trip Andy, and already back. Someone was showing me photos of some very picturesque temples in Chennai. Never been there, but would love to some day. What other locations are you stopping at?
A temple at a serene retreat near Pune in central India. Df and 28mm f3.5 PC-Nikkor. The Df sensor needs some active cleaning after the trip. There were quite a few dust bunnies in the sky in this pic, somewhat cloned out now.
gbohannon wrote:
Robert - for the manual lenses it is stop down metering, but the advantage is, that you truly see what you get in the electronic viewfinder. You see what the sensor sees. No guessing on what your exposure results are.
For "dumb" lenses - Ai, Ai-s (those without CPU) you can still shoot Aperture Priority mode or Manual mode and have full metering modes Matrix, Center, Spot and Highlight Weighted. You control the aperture from the aperture ring on the lens.
For Manual Focus CPU lenses like the AI-P 45mm and 500mm and those which may have been modified with CPU chips like the Dandelion chips you have all shooting modes available Auto, P, S, A and M as well as full metering modes. With those lenses you have to control the aperture from the front sub command dial when shooting Aperture Priority or Manual modes, you do not have the ability to transfer aperture control to the lens ring like you can on DSLRs. Aperture has to be sent to minimum aperture for automatic control. Else you get the F-- error. For Auto, P and S modes camera controls the aperture just like in DSLRs
Autofocus Lens type G and D everything as above for CPU lenses but you loose Auto Focus ability since those lenses do not have an AF motor in the lens and requires the screw drive motor function in camera. The FTZ adapter does not have that motor.
For AF-S lenses you have full capability just like you do on a DSLR.
Thanks George. I knew all the AF stuff, although I thought the G lenses AF with the FTZ. Since I am an A priority shooter 99% of the time, sounds like this stop down metering thing is no big deal at all with my dumb MF lenses. Thanks!
Max Power wrote:
Thanks George. I knew all the AF stuff, although I thought the G lenses AF with the FTZ. Since I am an A priority shooter 99% of the time, sounds like this stop down metering thing is no big deal at all with my dumb MF lenses. Thanks!
Should have clarified that AF-S type G will autofocus. AF Type G will not (I have not tried them or even have one ) . Below is the excerpt from the FTZ manual.
I don't even know what an AF type G lens is. I thought that was only the new 'gelded' ones. Regardless, I don't own any. Of course, they had E Series lenses 40 years ago and now they have type E.
Even Nikon's site only acknowledges the gelded Gs.
Sony A7 RII + adapter + Reflex-Nikkor 500mm f/8N + tripod; ISO 100.
Left: 1/80s; 15:33h.
Right: 8s; 21:36h.
The tower is ~1,2 km away from my apartment window.
I thought I recognized that bridge, then I saw the city in your profile. Fall River MA. When I was in the Navy stationed in Connecticut and trained in Newport RI (1980's) my wife and I liked driving a loop from where we lived in Mystic CT to Newport, Fall River, to Providence then back I-95.
. And Andy that's one beautiful 85 1.4!!!
