Continuing to go through my files from 2012 and processing forgotten images taken with manual focus Nikkors. Hoping to leave in late January for a Southwest trip with 28/55/105/180 tagging along and competing for time with my Sony GM glass. This Utah fall image was with the 180mm f/2.8 ED. I just bought another one and received this week and have been reminded how good it is optically with beautiful color, contrast, and sharpness that seems competitive with today’s lenses.
Ross Martin wrote:
Continuing to go through my files from 2012 and processing forgotten images taken with manual focus Nikkors. Hoping to leave in late January for a Southwest trip with 28/55/105/180 tagging along and competing for time with my Sony GM glass. This Utah fall image was with the 180mm f/2.8 ED. I just bought another one and received this week and have been reminded how good it is optically with beautiful color, contrast, and sharpness that seems competitive with today’s lenses.
Ross,
Beautiful colors.
That's a nice 4 lens MF set.
I have always loved the output from my 180/2.8 and am looking forward to seeing how it performs on my recently acquired Z8.
Beautiful colors.
That's a nice 4 lens MF set.
I have always loved the output from my 180/2.8 and am looking forward to seeing how it performs on my recently acquired Z8.
Cheers,
Colin
Thanks Colin, I look forward to seeing your Z8 images from the 180mm. In testing on my A7RV this week I was shocked at the perfect sharpness right into all four corners at f/5.6 focused at about 50 feet. Bold. contrasty colors, a small amount of CA if zoomed in looking closely on edges but hardly any. And what inspiring build quality and feel in hand like all these Nikkors!
Ross Martin wrote:
Continuing to go through my files from 2012 and processing forgotten images taken with manual focus Nikkors. Hoping to leave in late January for a Southwest trip with 28/55/105/180 tagging along and competing for time with my Sony GM glass. This Utah fall image was with the 180mm f/2.8 ED. I just bought another one and received this week and have been reminded how good it is optically with beautiful color, contrast, and sharpness that seems competitive with today’s lenses.
Remembering the 135mm f2.0 ai, and how even paired with the modified TC-16A (for my eyes sake) it still makes beautiful images on the D800. My eyes continue to improve while other bits decay. Ah age - what a vicious two edge sword. Somethings better and others not so much. This is another grand son
NIKON D800135mm f2.0 Nikkor ai lens135mmf/11.01/250s500 ISO-0.7 EV
NIKON D800135mm f2.0 Nikkor ai lens135mmf/8.01/250s500 ISO-0.7 EV
NIKON D800135mm f2.0 Nikkor ai lens135mmf/8.01/250s500 ISO-0.7 EV
James Markus wrote:
Remembering the 135mm f2.0 ai, and how even paired with the modified TC-16A (for my eyes sake) it still makes beautiful images on the D800. My eyes continue to improve while other bits decay. Ah age - what a vicious two edge sword. Somethings better and others not so much. This is another grand son
Beautiful images of your grandson, Jim, and that lens/teleconverter combo looks fantastic!
Beautiful images of your grandson, Jim, and that lens/teleconverter combo looks fantastic!
Ross, Thanks. You'all going on about the 180 had me looking up the 135 - which I think renders the same. I now have three 180's - geesh. The crinkle finish AF (which I thought was the best Nikkor 180 - until I compared it to the much older factory ai'd Nikkor-P - nope. (Identical image quality) Recently added the 70-180mm micro Nikkor which has more elements (18) than any Nikkor I have ever owned. And it's really sharp - a one of a kind macro lens that Nikon only made less than 20,000 of them for seven years.When they came out in 1997 they were really pricey, but have come way way down (less than $300 for a mint copy)
Edit - turns out the 70-200mm f2.8 afs vr has 21 elements. Sold that a long time ago.
James Markus wrote:
Ross, Thanks. You'all going on about the 180 had me looking up the 135 - which I think renders the same. I now have three 180's - geesh. The crinkle finish AF (which I thought was the best Nikkor 180 - until I compared it to the much older factory ai'd Nikkor-P - nope. Identical image quality) Recently added the 70-180mm micro Nikkor which has more elements (18) than any Nikkor I have ever owned. And it's really sharp - a one of a kind macro lens that Nikon only made less than 20,000 of them for seven years.When they came out in 1997 they were really pricey, but have come way way down (less than $300 for a mint copy)
The one-eighty two-eight is looking good! Keeping the theme going with a 2-image stitch on the D800 with the AI-S 180mm ED, northern Utah aspen country sunset.
saph wrote:
Sticking with the North Carolina/28 3.5 PC theme. Camera was Zf. Normaly I use Nik filters only for the Silver Efex Pro, this time I played with the HDR thing.
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