raboof wrote:
Whoa.. really? I guess it's OK. I would start a new thread if he switched to Cannon manual focus. hahaha
Laura - that's a shocking rumour. How do you know? He hasn't posted for a few months on Flickr but his last pics were with the Nikon Df and a manual focus lens.
Samy, 1000 mm f/11 ? 1000 mm ? Is it a joke ? I never even knew that such a monster was available on the market. It is worse than the Big Bertha... and is it still allowed by the United Nations CCW ?
The 1000mm f11 Nikkor is a reflex lens (a catadioptric lens) and is quite small for it's focal length due to the light ricocheting around the inside of the barrel a few times off of mirrors. Look at Ben's bright-ish dark lord photo above - that is what I saw through the viewfinder when I last used a 1000mm flex nikkor trying to get a sparrow in focus - It is identical to Ben's. Samy either has better eyes than I do, or one of those electronic viewfinder thing-a-ma-bobs.
I love the expression you got in your street photo.
Lieutenant Z wrote:
Samy, 1000 mm f/11 ? 1000 mm ? Is it a joke ? I never even knew that such a monster was available on the market. It is worse than the Big Bertha... and is it still allowed by the United Nations CCW ?
James Markus wrote:
The 1000mm f11 Nikkor is a reflex lens (a catadioptric lens) and is quite small for it's focal length due to the light ricocheting around the inside of the barrel a few times off of mirrors. Look at Ben's bright-ish dark lord photo above - that is what I saw through the viewfinder when I last used a 1000mm flex nikkor trying to get a sparrow in focus - It is identical to Ben's. Samy either has better eyes than I do, or one of those electronic viewfinder thing-a-ma-bobs.
I love the expression you got in your street photo.
er......what did I do? how did I get dragged into this? The last time you looked through a 1000mm you were looking at a sparrow but saw a sad little boy dragging a suitcase across Piazza Farnese? Jim, I think there may be more than an optical problem here.
Actually, I don't know what anyone's talking about, the 1000mm doesn't look that big to me. Take off the hood and it's quite a compact lens for a super tele.
Ben,
I was being sarcastic. You are the "lord of darkness", and I can not see as good as Samy - who obviously can do BIF photos - Sorry
Jim
bruni wrote:
er......what did I do? how did I get dragged into this? The last time you looked through a 1000mm you were looking at a sparrow but saw a sad little boy dragging a suitcase across Piazza Farnese? Jim, I think there may be more than an optical problem here.
Actually, I don't know what anyone's talking about, the 1000mm doesn't look that big to me. Take off the hood and it's quite a compact lens for a super tele.
No joke Philippe, as Jim said, the 1000mm is really a little reflex telescope with mirrors inside that collect light. The constant f11 is a constraint, but Jim is right, it really helps to see the image as it is with the Z6 EVF. Now there's quite a few pics that I am not showing where the birds are well out of focus. The lens is better suited to astrophotography but in the light polluted skies here there's little to chase.
And Ben, nothing wrong with you getting dragged in, you indeed can see into the absolute darkest corners of Rome and find people savouring gelato.
And the Ben and Philippe show goes. Boy dragging a suitcase (no gelato this time), and that couple with very interesting expressions (Philippe, I think there's a story there).
James Markus wrote:
The 1000mm f11 Nikkor is a reflex lens (a catadioptric lens) and is quite small for it's focal length due to the light ricocheting around the inside of the barrel a few times off of mirrors. Look at Ben's bright-ish dark lord photo above - that is what I saw through the viewfinder when I last used a 1000mm flex nikkor trying to get a sparrow in focus - It is identical to Ben's. Samy either has better eyes than I do, or one of those electronic viewfinder thing-a-ma-bobs.
I love the expression you got in your street photo.
That is one of the advantages of the mirrorless cameras. The EVF gives you what you see is what you get. So no more dark viewfinders with slow lenses. I still prefer OVF
GeorgeBo wrote:
That is one of the advantages of the mirrorless cameras. The EVF gives you what you see is what you get. So no more dark viewfinders with slow lenses. I still prefer OVF
Silence speaks volumes, my very late understanding of the limitations I was placing upon myself with processing software is likely a ho-hum topic, and that is OK.
LR makes challenging light/exposure a pleasure to work with because it is fast! Other than noise it does not do much in the development arena that Capture NXD would not do, but getting instant feedback enables a lot of freedom.
No more to say, here are my last theatrical shots before the pandemic, processed for the kind of theater it was.
Another blasphemy: I do not like to use the 80-200mm 2.8 ED ais in theater because it has a lot of out of focus/bright edge artifacts, some remain at 4.0. The 50-300mm at 4.5 is the better lens for this use optically and also adds that extra reach.
Now I know how to get professional looking results at ISO 3200, as a better photographer said, great photos are not taken, they are made, so much more truthful in digital.
Now I know how to get professional looking results at ISO 3200, as a better photographer said, great photos are not taken, they are made, so much more truthful in digital.
No way! 
