Ken (the other one), here’s a car that’s not been quite as lovingly maintained as those in your recent shots. Plus a couple more shots, all three on a very rainy day from the largely abandoned town of Flora, Oregon.
gbohannon wrote:
Somebody must be getting ready to fund a D850
Yeah, that and some other things
D800 needs to be cleaned up and put on the B&S forum (or local CL) too very soon.
I'm in the midst of the "if I haven't used it in a year, it needs to go" mode. I have a few more lenses (M and E-mount) that will be listed soon too.
135/2 AIS already sold and in the mail - it went fast!
PS - I'm also going through one of my life phases of change - i.e., been stagnant for a while in many aspects of life and there needs to be some change(s). I've gone through a couple of these in the past 30 years and another one is coming on . . .
Ballard wrote:
Ken (the other one), here’s a car that’s not been quite as lovingly maintained as those in your recent shots. Plus a couple more shots, all three on a very rainy day from the largely abandoned town of Flora, Oregon.
All shots with 25-50/4 AI-s on Df.
Ken that looks like a long abandoned 1955 Dodge. Thought it was a Studebaker at first glimpse. Nicely captured
gbohannon wrote:
I have been using one for a while now. It does a very good job of getting close to the standard FF FOV for these great Nikon lenses. I say that because 0.71x is close but not full equivalent. My Nikkor 8mm circular fish eye still crops slightly. But that is why I still have the Df
I am usually not a pixel peeper so I have not done 100% comparisons between using that adapter vs native Fuji glass and I typically use it for my fast glass wide open so not concerned too much with corner sharpness. But I do like using it with my 18/4 and 20/3.5 Nikkors and stopped down a couple stops is sharp across the frame.
Since I already had so many Nikon lenses when I purchased the Fuji, for me it only made sense to try the Speedbooster Ultra. Glad I did.
It does handle better on the X-T2 (especially with the battery grip) than it does on the X-Pro2.
I’m really not good at people pictures, but occasionally I try my hand at it. It’s the only way to learn how. Here are three available light portraits ranging from the conventional to the quirky (or maybe utterly inane). All with Df.
105/2.5 P.C at f/2.8
18/3.5 AI-s at f/8 tightly cropped
25-50/4 AI-s at f/8
Ballard wrote:
I’m really not good at people pictures, but occasionally I try my hand at it. It’s the only way to learn how. Here are three available light portraits ranging from the conventional to the quirky (or maybe utterly inane). All with Df.
105/2.5 P.C at f/2.8
18/3.5 AI-s at f/8 tightly cropped
25-50/4 AI-s at f/8
Nice scenery Peter (Knysna). I like the Leighton door even though you don't like that 50.
Ben, lady in red is great. I want to see more angles too
Ken (the Portland one), 105 2.5 P is superb for portraits, but you pulled it off with the 18 3.5 too! And cool non-shiny car to contrast with those posted by the Florida Ken.
Sar, congrats! About time we start seeing the D850 here to counter all the Fujis. And the Leica M10s
Colin, very cool landmark in Berlin.
Philippe cool environmental framing for the worker.
From Audubon Park in New Orleans again. Black bellied whistling ducks testing out the strength of that branch. Df and 400 5.6 ED AIS. It wss quite noisy there, true to the name of the species.
I don't seem to get time to shoot at the moment, but I did go out and play with the Nikkor HC 28mm f/3.5.
Now this thing has some crazy field curvature, which will be fun to exploit. But just to visualise it, and out of curiosity, here is a scene I shot at f/3.5, followed by a version with a photoshop edit to visualise the field of focus.
(Filter/Other/Custom...)
Right click and open in a new tab and one should be able to see it full size...
I don't seem to get time to shoot at the moment, but I did go out and play with the Nikkor HC 28mm f/3.5.
Now this thing has some crazy field curvature, which will be fun to exploit. But just to visualise it, and out of curiosity, here is a scene I shot at f/3.5, followed by a version with a photoshop edit to visualise the field of focus.
(Filter/Other/Custom...)
Right click and open in a new tab and one should be able to see it full size...
Peter, that's weird about your 50/2 not being sharp. Either it's a bad copy or maybe damaged, I would suspect. The 50/2 was my first Nikkor lens (1971) and still ranks among the sharpest I own. I would put it head to head with both the legendary 50mm DR-Summicron or the first 6-element Summicron from Leitz, both of which I owned when I was shooting Leica rangefinder.
