Went out yesterday for a walk in a park I found last year armed with a couple cameras. For IR I choose a rectilinear Tokina 17mm f3.5 ai that I have had for quite a while. I have always thought it rendered almost identical to the Nikkor 20mm f2.8 ais, but I do notice some differences. These are just my impressions between two mint copies, and I am not going to pixel peep. It is a brass lens with 11 elements in 8 groups. It vignettes more wide open than the Nikkor, and it has less contrast. Both lenses reach peak sharpness across the frame at f8 (f5.6 at the center), and the Tokina is a touch sharper. Interestingly the park had been taken over by poisonous Hemlock with 3'-9' plants on all the mowed verges of the trails - in flower. Thought it was Queen Anne's Lace at first, but they were just too tall. I plan to call the park service about it, because even touching it can make you sick, and it is hard to eradicate. Dead stalk remain toxic for three years. Nuff about weeds - here is the lens used shot by the 200mm f4.0 ais micro with the TC.
Here are the remaining images from my visit to Victoria a couple of Sundays ago. These are from Elk/Beaver Lake Regional Park. Two of these were taken with the 16 f/3.5 Ai fisheye, one with the 28-50 f/3.5 Ai-s, and one with the 105 f/2.5 P on my Fji X-T4 (see the captions for which lens was used for each photo).
Regina, I left there in 1979. Apartment building I lived in is now "condos". Checked it out on Googlemaps one day, and found they put a pool and patio in too, what was parking spots in the middle of the buildings.
Sounds like a trip around the reservoir might be in your future too
milt wrote:
Hi Laura, I live in Newton, close to the Brighton border. I have been living here for 26 years already..........
The pic below was one of my first pics with a manual lens (actually, my memory was failing me because my first manual lens was bought in 2016. The pic below was taken with the D5100 in 2016 (one of my first attempt using manual lenses). However, I cannot remember which lens I used (and there is no information on the EXIF of the D5100).
Not sure I remember that one, but I do remember Pino's Pizza! That was some awesome pizza and subs.
HCE HCE wrote:
Regina - You fooled me with your Charles River photograph, I thought surely with all this global warming spring must be more advanced, and then I saw it was dated April 8th!
Some of your other Flicker tree shots are nice, you should post them too.
I'm from the 'Hills' just W.
Laura - Remember Jack and Marion's? What a great deli.
I had one of those, but never used it much, wound up selling it on CL.
James Markus wrote:
Went out yesterday for a walk in a park I found last year armed with a couple cameras. For IR I choose a rectilinear Tokina 17mm f3.5 ai that I have had for quite a while. I have always thought it rendered almost identical to the Nikkor 20mm f2.8 ais, but I do notice some differences. These are just my impressions between two mint copies, and I am not going to pixel peep. It is a brass lens with 11 elements in 8 groups. It vignettes more wide open than the Nikkor, and it has less contrast. Both lenses reach peak sharpness across the frame at f8 (f5.6 at the center), and the Tokina is a touch sharper. Interestingly the park had been taken over by poisonous Hemlock with 3'-9' plants on all the mowed verges of the trails - in flower. Thought it was Queen Anne's Lace at first, but they were just too tall. I plan to call the park service about it, because even touching it can make you sick, and it is hard to eradicate. Dead stalk remain toxic for three years. Nuff about weeds - here is the lens used shot by the 200mm f4.0 ais micro with the TC.
Laura, I cycled by the reservoir but never went there to take pictures. I often go to the Arnold Arboretum and have taken tons of pictures; however, none with manual lenses (next trip, I will bring my 200 micro). I explored Boston a lot on my bike, so I never dared to take my big camera.
Here one of the Boston Common with 24mm 2.8 (I am learning how to use the 24mm, I still prefer the 45mm and 50mm)
milt wrote:
Laura, I cycled by the reservoir but never went there to take pictures. I often go to the Arnold Arboretum and have taken tons of pictures; however, none with manual lenses (next trip, I will bring my 200 micro). I explored Boston a lot on my bike, so I never dared to take my big camera.
Here one of the Boston Common with 24mm 2.8 (I am learning how to use the 24mm, I still prefer the 45mm and 50mm)
James Markus wrote:
Went out yesterday for a walk in a park I found last year armed with a couple cameras. For IR I choose a rectilinear Tokina 17mm f3.5 ai that I have had for quite a while. I have always thought it rendered almost identical to the Nikkor 20mm f2.8 ais, but I do notice some differences. These are just my impressions between two mint copies, and I am not going to pixel peep. It is a brass lens with 11 elements in 8 groups. It vignettes more wide open than the Nikkor, and it has less contrast. Both lenses reach peak sharpness across the frame at f8 (f5.6 at the center), and the Tokina is a touch sharper. Interestingly the park had been taken over by poisonous Hemlock with 3'-9' plants on all the mowed verges of the trails - in flower. Thought it was Queen Anne's Lace at first, but they were just too tall. I plan to call the park service about it, because even touching it can make you sick, and it is hard to eradicate. Dead stalk remain toxic for three years. Nuff about weeds - here is the lens used shot by the 200mm f4.0 ais micro with the TC.
Jim, the Hemlock seems to be wide spread. We now have it here in the Dallas areas also, per the local news last week. Not sure why the sudden appearance. I have never actually seen the plant before now. As if poison ivy and B-52 size mosquitos were't enough when out and about with our gear.
I have a Nikon yellow filter on the way. The idea was to deal with the northern hemisphere summer sun. Well in the meanwhile this haze has seeped in from the fires in Halifax, and some closer locations, so I don't think the filter will be needed for the next few days.
Mary,
I called the park service this am, and he contacted the person in charge of that park. Then he called me back about 2-3 hours later. They are aware of the plant's invasion of the park, and the park custodian doesn't think they can eradicate the hemlock. He has been mowing it down and then spraying it with a herbicide. The growth pattern around the edges of mowed areas suggest this is just rapidly spreading it throughout the park. I once ran over a bind weed with the mower - next thing I knew I had hundreds of them in the lawn. Literally had to pull them out one at a time. Did more reading on poisonous hemlock. It is related to Queen Ann's Lace, Parsnips, and they all are in the Carrot family. You can eat the other three, but every part of hemlock is toxic even inhaling the plant can make you sick. Since it was in flower Barb and I both noticed a sickly sweet smell while we were near it. I suggested they put a sign up to let people know to not touch it.
Jim
mjgphotoz wrote:
Jim, the Hemlock seems to be wide spread. We now have it here in the Dallas areas also, per the local news last week. Not sure why the sudden appearance. I have never actually seen the plant before now. As if poison ivy and B-52 size mosquitos were't enough when out and about with our gear.
