Kevin, I am not surprised, with the older glass the coatings are less than optimal. I have seen some fairly good size fringing with the 135 f2 AI lens too.
The National Academy of Sciences, across the street from the Vietnam Memorial, houses the Albert Einstein statue and memorial on its grounds. Great place to stop by. There was a line of folks wanting to get pictures with Einstein. One of them even had their dog pose with him.
bobbelbob wrote:
Thanks Ray. I havenīt really heard about any risks like that here in Sweden, we dont have the same fauna here and in some parts we have very little fauna at all, due to farm land..
What they have warned about have been about eating fresh blueberries and such in the forest because of a very dangerous parasite worm that comes from some kind of racoon. 97% who gets infested with this parasite dont make it. Even though the probability is extremely low that this worm is present is very small, I rather take the berries home and cook em before I eat.
Our plan this trip was to overnight hammocking with a tarp and everything but we had very few hours of light so we decideed to take the shed instead.
Nice shot with the lights on the fisherman. Googled walleye. Seems like a very popular fish. Donīt have em here
Wow, that's a risk alright, cooking sounds like a great idea. Walleye is tasty; unfortunately, the waters are polluted enough that there are strong warnings about limiting consumption of walleye from around here :-(
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saph wrote:
Ray, loved that bridge, the colors and the lines and angles all converge together for a very pleasing frame.
Thanks Samy. Sometimes you just have to take the easy shots.
Can't remember if I posted these or not - but fisheye bicycle racing! (EXIF is incorrect). Very similar angles, just captures at different locations relative to the camera. All D800 ~ 16mm f3.5K ~ ISO 800 for higher shutter speeds.
I brought along my 300mm, non-ED, f/4.5 AI-S lens to specifically take one shot of "The Needles" that I had envisaged before heading to the south coast on Sunday. I was hoping that the setting sun would light up the white chalk cliffs of the Isle of Wight but the sun didn't get far enough west before setting under the horizon. A month earlier and it would have been perfect.
First, a setting sun vertical pano of the south coast looking towards the Isle of Wight using the 105/2.5
pbraymond wrote:
Can't remember if I posted these or not - but fisheye bicycle racing! (EXIF is incorrect). Very similar angles, just captures at different locations relative to the camera. All D800 ~ 16mm f3.5K ~ ISO 800 for higher shutter speeds.
Ray,
You must have been so close to the action. How did you trigger the shot?
Not much action on the thread so I'll add some more from my trip to the coast.
Hundreds of beach huts line this part of the coast.
Some of the more remote and slightly larger ones command seriously ridiculous prices. Go figure..... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-40686211
This is a 3 frame, close-up pano, using the 24mm NC, that results in a fisheye effect.
Oosty wrote:
Great images Dan. i',m afraid I don't understand the following -
this one has one single non-parallax point for all focal lengths (80mm) . Does this relate to your 28-300 since 80mm is beyond the focal length of 50mm or is it a misprint. I take a lot of panos and to be honest have never even thought about parallax! We learn something new every day !
Hi oosty! Looking back at my post, I can totally see how confusing it is! It's funny I didn't see that when I posted...technically it's not a typo though. The 80mm refers to the amount of shift from zero I have to make with the lens/camera to compensate for parallax. The camera is mounted on a "nodal slide," and the slide is shifted 80mm backward along the arca-swiss mount. This places the entire camera and lens 80mm farther back than normal, compensating for parallax. Normally, the central point of rotation for a pano is somewhere around the middle of the camera, but for most lenses, the npp is forward of that, in this case by 80mm.
The truth is, none of this is usually worth worrying about. Parallax becomes a problem only for objects quite close to the camera, especially if you are using a wide angle lens, or a lens where the npp is quite large (the 20mm f1.8 AF-S is a good example of a lens that benefits from a long nodal slide since its npp is 97mm). But since I have two slides (a short one for older wide angles - to keep the end of the longer slide from getting into the frame), I tend to use them for most of my panos unless I don't have them with me.
Ford Consul in infrared. Parked next to lobster pots on Mudeford Quay.
The number plate carbon dates it before 1963 (when the 6 alphanumeric characters were replaced with 7)
For comparison a colour FX version of the Consul (taken by my wife using the 24-120 VR) can be seen on my Flickr or over here. If interested then guess the colour before clicking the link.
You must have been so close to the action. How did you trigger the shot?
Colin
Camera was just off the curb you see in the picture on a tabletop tripod. Connected and triggered via the Nikon MC-30 remote cord (I think it's 30" long). I was close to the curb but far enough out to not cause discomfort to the racers (and had a small buffer in case the racers crashed). There was another location where the racers banked and leaned towards the camera (really cool perspective) but I only shot with an AF lens there.
pbraymond wrote:
Camera was just off the curb you see in the picture on a tabletop tripod. Connected and triggered via the Nikon MC-30 remote cord (I think it's 30" long). I was close to the curb but far enough out to not cause discomfort to the racers (and had a small buffer in case the racers crashed). There was another location where the racers banked and leaned towards the camera (really cool perspective) but I only shot with an AF lens there.
Ray,
Any chance you could share those on the "MF Nikon Glass shooting AF lenses" forum?
I just linked to it in my post of the Ford consul above
Colin
Thanks Samy and Ray for the tips on fixing the D810.
Unfortunately, after cleaning the contacts, resetting the camera and even removing the battery for some minutes, the D810 continues to refuse to work with both AF-D and MF lenses! However, AF-S lenses work perfectly ?!
A capture when the camera was still working properly:
D810 + mod TC-16A + Nikkor 50-300mm f/4.5 AI-S (=80-480/7.2) @ 200 (320mm) + BushHawk stock mount; ISO 800, f/9 (5.6x1.6) at 1/2000s; 40% cropped (14.5/36Mp). I was inside my SUV - mobile blind.
asiostygius wrote:
Thanks Samy and Ray for the tips on fixing the D810.
Unfortunately, after cleaning the contacts, resetting the camera and even removing the battery for some minutes, the D810 continues to refuse to work with both AF-D and MF lenses! However, AF-S lenses work perfectly ?!
A capture when the camera was still working properly:
D810 + mod TC-16A + Nikkor 50-300mm f/4.5 AI-S (=80-480/7.2) @ 200 (320mm) + BushHawk stock mount; ISO 800, f/9 (5.6x1.6) at 1/2000s; 40% cropped (14.5/36Mp). I was inside my SUV - mobile blind.
Jose,
Is the camera's firmware up to date?
Even if the version shown is the latest one it might still be prudent to go through a re-install.
