D700 with 50mm G, not happy with the sharpness in the corners, but I still like this picture.

Taken with a Nikon F3 and 50mm 1.8.

agentbird wrote:
D700 with 50mm G, not happy with the sharpness in the corners, but I still like this picture.


no issue with corner sharpness with pics like this. i'd rather be worried about the halo's i see around the tree for instance. i think you overcooked the shadow/higlight recovery a tad there. probably a lightroom or acr conversion am i right?
the picture is interesting. i had to look twice to see what your subject is. cool idea, i think it would also work in B/W

how can you complain about corner sharpness at f/2?

As far as I can remeber I haven't done to much with the highlights, I have darkened the blues a bit, mut not to much.. Have also added a bit of clarity, which may help explain the halo-effect.
All adjustements were done i ACR, just a bit of sharpening and resizing in CS4.

I know I can't complain about corner sharpness at f/2, but it does not look like lack of sharpness, more like motion blur, a little strange...


EDIT: I just looked at the settings in ACR, and I did actually do a little highlight recovery, but when I turned all the "modifications" off, the halo-effect was still clearly visible..

try a conversion in captue nx, for some situations that program is just king..

A few from my Memorial Day wanderings in a local park:

here's one from today...

D300 &70-300VR @ 300mm F5.6 1/250 iso200

MajinHurricane wrote:
how can you complain about corner sharpness at f/2?

When none of the corners are even in the DoF.

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Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 K, iso 125, PTgui, 6 images




good to see people using old school nikkors, really really love this shot.


Sooo, what all the fuss about these newer (and hipper) 50mm lenses


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TWoK wrote:
MajinHurricane wrote:
how can you complain about corner sharpness at f/2?

When none of the corners are even in the DoF.


lol yah


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R. Francois wrote:
here's one from today...

D300 &70-300VR @ 300mm F5.6 1/250 iso200

Gregory.Rotter wrote:
R. Francois wrote:
here's one from today...

D300 &70-300VR @ 300mm F5.6 1/250 iso200



How about some shots similar to this with the D700 and 70-300 VR? I'll be using the 35 F2D, 24-70 and 70-300VR when I get my D700 next month.

impossible, this is already a crop, you need a 500mm F4 on your D700
There's a lot of geese in the neighborhood i will have a shot at it soon. I don't expect a big difference since this was shot @ iso200. Both camera's look pretty the same (color/contrast wise) at that setting...

This was shot with a D700 and a sigma 70-200 @ 150mm F4.5 1/500 iso1100 (it was very windy hence the faster shutterspeed)

Here are a few from a roasting hot day in Kew Gardens last week. I eventually had to escape the green houses and go for a lay down in the shade to recuperate.

D300, 18-70mm @ 18mm, 1/400s, f/8, ISO200

What a great idea..here's my contribution.
Carolyn

D300 105mm VR and 85mm f1.4

D300 & sigma 10-20

d300, 55 3.5 macro.