I owned 28/58/105 during my Z era!
I sold off the 28/58 bc I want to give the S lineup a true chance.
The F lenses will always be there for me, if I long for them.
The 105 will take a backseat to the 85S in just a week or two! At least temporarily.
Smaller/Lighter for the most part. No adaptor. Designed for high resolution. Designed for mirrorless. Of course I’m playing the role of a salesman here.
Do the S lenses lack character? I originally thought so. I am going to learn a lot more about them as my busiest two months are just around the corner. The 85S comes right before a few massive weeks for me. Can’t wait to rock 35/85S.
As an aside. I’m very much excited for the next firmware update for Z bodies. Canon just showed off their next update and it’s quite Sony-like! Expecting big things from Nikon, next! Improved eye af and tracking please!
g nite all
Mathieu18 wrote:
I could see the case for the 28E, 58 and 105 as a 3 lens kit, though gapping is longer than I’d like. Still, I wholeheartedly agree, 35/50/85 is a fantastic trio for me. Add the 24-70 mostly for 24mm landscapes or just a convenient zoom.
Still, really liked the compression shooting my girls the other day with the 300/4 AF-S. Thinking of adding a 70-200/2.8, not as fast but adds 200 as well. The new $2000 aren’t worth the cost of admission for me but the VRII or even the old AF-S 80-200 might be a good option...
Open to thoughts from anyone who’s been around the Nikon FX ecosystem longer.
Mathieu18 wrote:
Open to thoughts from anyone who’s been around the Nikon FX ecosystem longer.
Given the surging quality of zooms, I'm not concerned with gapping—and I was once a prime snob. My Z6 has all bases covered with the "kit" zoom and 70-200/4 which are both awesome. Primes can cover the opposing extremes of speed and low weight. By extreme, I mean stuff like the 28E, 35 Art, Rokinon 135/2, and 300/2.8 AF-I. For low weight, I have adapters for my classic C/Y and Leitz primes.
Very impressed by the focusing performance with firmware 2.01.
Cheers,
Bernard
What settings do you use? I focus my 200/2 (on a Z7) using back-button AF-C, normally using one single point only, when the subject is stationary enough to aim properly. Do you use one of the automatic (eye / face AF?) modes?
Same combo @ 420mm, hand held; ISO 500, f/8 (f/5.6x1.4) at 1/500s; 40% cropped (18/45MP).
Camera IBIS activated on both shots - it is not the same as the superb VR of the 200-500mm, but it is better than nothing. Focus peaking helps a lot for MF.
rico wrote:
Given the surging quality of zooms, I'm not concerned with gapping—and I was once a prime snob. My Z6 has all bases covered with the "kit" zoom and 70-200/4 which are both awesome. Primes can cover the opposing extremes of speed and low weight. By extreme, I mean stuff like the 28E, 35 Art, Rokinon 135/2, and 300/2.8 AF-I. For low weight, I have adapters for my classic C/Y and Leitz primes.
I was thinking of a 70-200/2.8 but that's a real good point about the f/4 version... that'd probably keep me happy...
Sure, really wasn't anything dramatic. You can see from the EXIF I under exposed a good bit to preserve the light in the sky, knew I wasn't going to lift the foreground too much. Put it on a tripod, and used the Multi Exposure shot in camera to get 10 shots in sequence. After blending, I didn't really like how the clouds looked blended, so I picked an exposure for clouds, and masked it into the blended shot of the water. Otherwise it was just levels adjustments in ACR and a bit of sharpening.
A. Winslow wrote:
Great photo! Very 3d looking. Would you mind sharing your post processing path? Thanks
Great technique. I am going to study and try this. The depth of field detail is amazing.
Thanks for sharing.
Mathieu18 wrote:
Sure, really wasn't anything dramatic. You can see from the EXIF I under exposed a good bit to preserve the light in the sky, knew I wasn't going to lift the foreground too much. Put it on a tripod, and used the Multi Exposure shot in camera to get 10 shots in sequence. After blending, I didn't really like how the clouds looked blended, so I picked an exposure for clouds, and masked it into the blended shot of the water. Otherwise it was just levels adjustments in ACR and a bit of sharpening.
Actually the first 3 pics look really horribly noisy - did you do a lot of pushing in PP or how did you get these results.
Usually the Z7 should do still quite decent using ISO 6400 regarding noise, not as good as the Z6 obviously but still not bad I suppose.
Very impressed by the focusing performance with firmware 2.01.
Cheers,
Bernard
Great series of portraits. Which kind of festival is it you‘ve been attending here?
I am quite often to Japan and whenever there is time I like to visit these kind of festivals!
nikonos6 wrote:
Actually the first 3 pics look really horribly noisy - did you do a lot of pushing in PP or how did you get these results.
Usually the Z7 should do still quite decent using ISO 6400 regarding noise, not as good as the Z6 obviously but still not bad I suppose.
I was running out of memory card capacity and switched to Tiff instead of RAW, hence the noise level up.
The lighting was almost dim which did not help.
