pbraymond wrote: James Markus wroteThis morning with the Nikkor-S.C 55mm f1.2 factory ai'd - eyeballing the focus, because they never hold still long enough for the green dot. The rendering of this lens is very different from the 50mm f1.2 ais - it is more painterly.
@jimmuller@ in case you are wondering, this is the "official" lens of this thread. It's a pre-requisite for full membership!
Oh no, you aren't going to trip me that easily! I wasn't born yesterday, you know.
Besides, I have that 55mm f/3.5 and my original 50mm f/1.4. My Z can use only one at a time anyway.
Jim, darn nice window. Tomorrow should be a fun snow day. Hope NYC gets the forecast 12"-18" of the white powder.
A very popular resident at the Alcazar Gardens. A heavy crop, there was a fence lined with photo snappers that limited limited my approach. He seemed to enjoy the attention.
serge07 wrote:
Jim, darn nice window. Tomorrow should be a fun snow day. Hope NYC gets the forecast 12"-18" of the white powder.
Thanks. Of course, you can say that about the white powder in NYC (like your signature says) while you are sipping mimosas and communing with large colorful birds on the Spanish Mediterranean coast.
Boston could get the same, 12" to 18", as NYC, all fluffy white power that is easy to shovel. I do worry about folks further south, including all my siblings and their families. Let us hope they don't lose power for extended periods.
jimmuller wrote: pbraymond wroteJames Markus wroteThis morning with the Nikkor-S.C 55mm f1.2 factory ai'd - eyeballing the focus, because they never hold still long enough for the green dot. The rendering of this lens is very different from the 50mm f1.2 ais - it is more painterly.@jimmuller@@@ in case you are wondering, this is the "official" lens of this thread. It's a pre-requisite for full membership!
Oh no, you aren't going to trip me that easily! I wasn't born yesterday, you know.
Besides, I have that 55mm f/3.5 and my original 50mm f/1.4. My Z can use only one at a time anyway.
Some more from the city. I set out to photograph the Wisconsin but don’t love any of them. The old bank building I posted last page was more interesting (but I was getting hungry).
AdaptedLenses wrote:
Some more from the city. I set out to photograph the Wisconsin but don’t love any of them. The old bank building I posted last page was more interesting (but I was getting hungry).
AdaptedLenses wrote:
Some more from the city. I set out to photograph the Wisconsin but don’t love any of them. The old bank building I posted last page was more interesting (but I was getting hungry).
AdaptedLenses wrote:
Some more from the city. I set out to photograph the Wisconsin but don’t love any of them. The old bank building I posted last page was more interesting (but I was getting hungry).
These are very nice Matt. I especially like the first image. What lens were you using?
My 105mm arrived today! So I had to do a few quick pics. Three pairs of pics, with the aperture WO and then stopped down to either f/8 or f/11. The camera is set for ISO 2500, max ISO 8000, slowest shutter 1/50sec.
Two pics from my sofa to the clutter over the fireplace, maybe 8 ft. The stopped-down shot hit the shutter limit and raised the ISO to 4500. It's a bit darker than the WO shot, but not so much as to be a surprise. Step size for ISO and shutter are 1/3 of a stop. The content of the pictures is slightly different so that may have affected the exposure.
These two have reasonably similar exposures and color characteristics. The sky is different but the angle w.r.t. the sun was different.
These two are a surprise. The WO exposure hit the shutter max and knocked down the ISO. It obviously had plenty of light. The stopped-down version kept the preset ISO and slowed the shutter to make up the aperture difference (which was f/2.5 vs f/8, I think). It obviously wanted more light. But the color content of the sky is quite different. They were taken less than a minute apart at about 3:10 PM. I don't think the light changed much but I suppose it's possible at that hour. White balance was A0, IIRC. I can only guess at what caused the difference, probably not the aperture per se.
But despite these unexpected aperture effects, I like what it gave me! I welcome your comments.
I think I know what caused that exposure difference. When I push the zoom + button I think it locks down the exposure. I do that sometimes to improve focus. If it had been set to a smaller aperture and then I open it up for focusing and don't stop it down again, it will be overexposed. I've done the reverse once or twice too. Operator error.
JaKo wrote:
Wasn't the Nikkor-S.C 55mm f1.2 Nikon's 1st attempt at producing their 50-sh f/1.2 lens?
I really am enjoying your usage of the shallow dof, and lovely oof that these Nikkors can produce. According to the photosynthesis site the first 50-ish f1.2 was the "S" made between Dec 1965 - Oct 1967. If Rafael shows up he can likely correct me, and show you a pristine example.
I wasn't born yesterday, you know.
