Thank you Colin, unfortunately starting tonight we are getting a northeaster storm in the New England area so it looks like I may have to wait for a clear sky a few days. In your experience with your copy of the Nikon 16mm 3.5 Ai, do you get reasonably (good enough) corners at F3.5? do you have to stop down a bit to clean them up?
It looks like your image of the milky way was shot wide open... do you see any significant comma on the edges? I am excited to take night skies that include a bit of the landscape and that is one of the reasons I got this lens.
raul jarquin wrote:
Thank you Colin, unfortunately starting tonight we are getting a northeaster storm in the New England area so it looks like I may have to wait for a clear sky a few days. In your experience with your copy of the Nikon 16mm 3.5 Ai, do you get reasonably (good enough) corners at F3.5? do you have to stop down a bit to clean them up?
It looks like your image of the milky way was shot wide open... do you see any significant comma on the edges? I am excited to take night skies that include a bit of the landscape and that is one of the reasons I got this lens.
That image doesn't reveal the extreme corners due to my house and surrounding trees getting into the frame.
I just put up another 2 images on Flickr where one corner shows more sky.
At 3.5 I can see some coma. It doesn't bother me. Download the full size images and and draw your own conclusion.
I don't pixel peep that deeply. Besides at 30secs star trails are also evident. If the UK weather was better I'd buy a tracker.
Colin wrote:
That image doesn't reveal the extreme corners due to my house and surrounding trees getting into the frame. I just put up another 2 images on Flickr where one corner shows more sky. At 3.5 I can see some coma. It doesn't bother me. Download the full size images and and draw your own conclusion. I don't pixel peep that deeply. Besides at 30secs star trails are also evident. If the UK weather was better I'd buy a tracker.
Thank you for sharing these images, they give me a good base line for what I can expect with the aperture wide open
Sony A7 + Nikkor 16mm f3.5 AI fisheye by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
Sony A7 + Nikkor 16mm f3.5 AI fisheye by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
Sony A7 + Nikkor 16mm f3.5 AI fisheye by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
Sony A7 + Nikkor 16mm f3.5 AI fisheye by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr
edit :The extreme corners on Sony body are not great
but I think it's good enough for my work .. if you're a pixel piper you will not be really impressed
Mabye it's better on a Nikon body
A different subject - I just visited the Nikon site and found this image at their home page. with the below text.
Interesting. The Nikon F looks stunning in the hands of this stunning model.
Profile ->
In 1962, Marilyn Monroe and Nikon shared an epic moment in photography.
During the now-celebrated photo session with Marilyn,
ground-breaking commercial photographer Bert Stern — an avid Nikon user —
captured the Hollywood legend’s radiance like never before.
In what was to become her last portrait photo session,
Marilyn grabbed Bert’s favorite Nikon camera and adoringly posed for a sequence of images.
Perhaps her affection for Nikon shines through in those images, too.
Such cherished experiences, such iconic images,
remain forever as part of Nikon’s proud 100-year heritage.
For generations of photographers, celebrities and newsmakers around the world,
Nikon is grateful to have shared our true passion for advancing camera innovation.
CGrindahl wrote:
This is a story often told and surely one of the reasons this thread has had such a long life. I dreamt last night that I'd been given a D850 with some fine AF lens. Perhaps it was viewing a thread on FM where a fellow was asking what AF lens he needed to take photos of dogs running toward him. Being a bit of a pot stirrer I posted Ronny's recent photo of his dog jumping over a fallen tree limb with his 180 f/2.8 AI-s. In my dream I was shooting AF at everything that moved. It was quite thrilling though I was frustrated because I didn't know how to make adjustments on the lens as we all do with our manual focus friends.
Thankfully, you kept your kit of lenses, though you could always do what Chris did after selling his ENTIRE kit of MF lenses... build a new one... But that is a path only a few very diligent shoppers would wish to pursue. Keep the lenses for the simple reason they will ALWAYS give you a satisfying shooting experience. We have a good thing going here and yes, the Df is a wonderful camera with which to play. Mine will never be sold... much like my D700 which I pressed into service last week when I realized I'd forgotten to bring an SD card for my Df. So I shot the D700 with an early 50 f/1.8 AF lens, I definitely missed the 55 f/1.2 S.C. AI but I survived...
Thanks Curtis! Well, my 'old' Df had close to 70K shots if I recall correctly. So I guess it was time for a refresh anyway. My new (used) Df only has 1500 clicks and I got it for the same price I sold my old one for
These are the kinds of shots I missed when I had the D810. It was however, a great landscape camera at base ISO. This one was taken while having dinner in Hilo, Hawaii.
D600 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 K ai'd & CPU'd + 4T close up lens + tripod, ISO 640, f/2 at 1/30s. ~10% cropped. The close up lens allowed a ~0.4m or less of minimum focusing distance.
D600 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 K ai'd & CPU'd + 4T close up lens + tripod, ISO 640, f/2 at 1/30s. ~10% cropped. The close up lens allowed a ~0.4m or less of minimum focusing distance.
Still have that music on my iPhone (and play it ).
This one is not as interesting, lacking drama, but I just wanted to try. I should have kneeled down to get more water in the composition. 3.5/55 micro, D700
But that is a path only a few very diligent shoppers would wish to pursue. Keep the lenses for the simple reason they will ALWAYS give you a satisfying shooting experience. We have a good thing going here and yes, the Df is a wonderful camera with which to play. Mine will never be sold... much like my D700 which I pressed into service last week when I realized I'd forgotten to bring an SD card for my Df. So I shot the D700 with an early 50 f/1.8 AF lens, I definitely missed the 55 f/1.2 S.C. AI but I survived... 
