D7200 at 1.3x crop mode + Nikkor 800mm f5.6 ai-s EDIF + tripod;
ISO 1250, wide opent at 1/1250s. More cropping of an already cropped capture: 29% crop (7/24Mp).
Bad news: my virtually new (1600clicks!) D810 from nothing started to refuse recognizing both MF (including chipped ones!) and AF-D lenses
It gives a blinking FEE and, yes, I put the lens at minimal f/ aperture;
But it works without problem with the 200-500E AF-S or 24-120/4 G AF-S. Do not know what was the problem! Has any of you guys heard of a similar issue like this one?
Fortunately the body is still within the 1 year warranty from the shop I bought it.
saph wrote:
Not offtopic much Jeff. Mark and I have been exchanging notes over photography books, it would be good to have a virtual book/reading club around the thread. Will definitely check out that LOC link. I was looking at some archives of Ansel Adams large format photographs recently at a National Archives website: https://www.archives.gov/research/ansel-adams.
Thanks, Samy. That's a terrific resource that I hadn't seen before. Great stuff!
And since we have a series of links going, here is another I found. I came to google this due to a Nikon Historical Article I was reading that mentioned a topic discussed in Popular Photography. Sure enough, you can find this archive on Googlebooks. Grab a coffee and take a ride back in the way back machine to the late 50’s and see a lot of what we discuss here advertised and discussed as it was first released back in the day.
camped out last night on a really beautiful place. Unfortunately I was´nt able to shoot very much due to bad weather and very few hours with available light. Even though, here´s a few from today and yesterday.
No fishing allowed in this creek, unfortunately. There´s a special kind of trout in the lake up streams this river that only reproduce down stream. This kind of behaviour is very unusual for being a salmonide. Most of them swim upstream to reproduce. The trout is now highly protected since it was about to become extinct in the 70´s and 80´s due to overfishing and acidification.
50-135mm f/3.5 ais Old Bridge by Kristian Hagelin, on Flickr
This one is shot with the 28/2.8 ais. Soon all leafs are gone and winter is coming :-) Leaf by Kristian Hagelin, on Flickr
Leighton, for the 6X9cm format, 105mm is about the normal (~50mm) focal length in 35mm equivalent. For the Bronica 6X6 the normal equivalent is about 75mm and the Bronicas used to come with a standard 75mm Nikkor-PC lens. Talking about Bronica, my Bronica S2 quit working so its Nikkors are feeling quite unwanted and lonely in the past few months. I should at least hook them up to the Df with the Bronica to Nik adapter.
Jose, have you tried cleaning the contacts on your D810 mount, for a very low-tech try at resolving the problem? Or perhaps a reset. Good luck getting the camera going again.
Mark, thanks, will need to look more closely at the search results, I didn't get to any link with the old issues of the magazine yet.
Almost forgot to mention that I have been going through Leighton's backyard camera museum page. Lots of fun looking through his posts. Too bad it was closed by the time Leighton and I strolled to it a couple months ago
I went ahead and created a weblinks Page on the Companion Site and facility to add links. Makes it easy to find the cool links people share here. I added all of today’s links posted to get us rolling.
Every so often I solicit help for this site. Please feel free to do kens Reviews, write and share articles, or just use it to explore our passion in greater depth.
Mark, hats off to you for starting and persevering with the nikkorglass website! I have gone away from using it and will definitely plan to get back into it more. Great idea to gather those links there.
Kristian, enjoyed your pics from the camping trip. Very interesting looking bridge.
Df and 300mm f4.5 K, non-ED lens. The lens is very sharp wide open. I was thinking it may be less weighty than the 400 5.6 ED AIS that has been my standard walkaround tele. But it didn't feel like it, and sure enough its 1100g, only a 100g less than the 400. It is a bit shorter (a good 60cm in fact) though, so perhaps for trips it may still be more convenient to throw it into the suitcase.
saph wrote:
Mark, hats off to you for starting and persevering with the nikkorglass website! I have gone away from using it and will definitely plan to get back into it more. Great idea to gather those links there.
Kristian, enjoyed your pics from the camping trip. Very interesting looking bridge.
Thank you. It is a very interesting place, most of it is protected, so a bit hard to find spots where one is allowed to walk..
Df and 300mm f4.5 K, non-ED lens. The lens is very sharp wide open. I was thinking it may be less weighty than the 400 5.6 ED AIS that has been my standard walkaround tele. But is didn't feel like it, and sure enough its 1100g, only a 100g less than the 400. It is a bit shorter (a good 60cm in fact) though, so perhaps for trips it may still be more convenient to throw it into the suitcase.
Nice shot! I want that lens. Badly. Checkin ebay every now and then, but it seems as no one wants to sell one
Thanks Kristian. That's suprising that there's not too many around. According to the photosynthesis catalogue, 24,000 were produced. You may have to look for a bit before you come across one.
I had the 300 4.5 ED AIS, which is one of the very few Nikkors I got rid of, I was just never that excited about it.
saph wrote:
Thanks Kristian. That's suprising that there's not too many around. According to the photosynthesis catalogue, 24,000 were produced. You may have to look for a bit before you come across one.
I had the 300 4.5 ED AIS, which is one of the very few Nikkors I got rid of, I was just never that excited about it.
Aha! Now I see. I misunderstood. It is the non-if ED K (ai'd) I am looking for.
Thanks all for the likes and comments, I appreciate them.
Samy really liked Federal Hill rendering ... very nice, also I agree on the 300mm sharpness.
Jose wonderful capture!
Ray, love the fisherman.
Dan, I like the waterfall shots with Very nice!
Luka, cool cab shotin the shadows.
Sar, beautiful waterfalls!
Rafael, very cool "dios de la muerte" exhibit
Downtown Lakeland at the former "Lake Mirror" car show. This year was fairly lame as a new organizer changed a lot giving prime space to "new car dealerships." Lot of drop off from previous years, but some still showed. Oh and I sought out and took a snap of the ever popular Sunbeam Alpine for y'all!
Ronny, the last set from Vestrahorn is especially good!
Samy, you're making the 300 4.5 K non-ED version look good (everyone raves about the ED non-IF version I think). Thank you for the narratives behind the pictures as well. Your continued exploration in film is very enjoyable.
Jose, hope you work out the error issue on the D810. It is stressing to see that ona new camera. When it's happened to me before it was simply cleaning contacts as suggested (both on the lens and on the body), removing the batteries and letting the camera sit for a few minutes, performing a reset etc. I've managed to resolve it the few times it's happened to me.
Krisitan, good to see pictures from you again, enjoyed the series from Malmo.
Mark, thanks for the Nikkorglass site. I should go there more often, but really want to monitor my on-line time
Df and 300mm f4.5 K, non-ED lens. The lens is very sharp wide open. I was thinking it may be less weighty than the 400 5.6 ED AIS that has been my standard walkaround tele. But it didn't feel like it, and sure enough its 1100g, only a 100g less than the 400. It is a bit shorter (a good 60cm in fact) though, so perhaps for trips it may still be more convenient to throw it into the suitcase.
Great color and light in this one Samy. Nicely done!
bobbelbob wrote:
Ray, love the shot of that fisherman. What was he after?
//Kristian
Kristian, most likely walleye. The Maumee River here is pretty well known for it's walleye run, with fishermen coming from all over the US to try their luck during the run.
