rafaelcasd wrote:
Ken, speaking of surf and socal, finally took the 800mm for a test at he beach, just an Oceanside rented cottage on a beach break. Pardon the iphone photo showing location and the umbrella shade to keep the lens from overheating. I tried it by itself, with the TC14 and the TC301, This lens is hard to use but one can get used to it, nothing wrong with my copy. It takes a lot to focus it correctly on a moving target, but on a gimbal with its smooth focus ring it is doable. Learned that the focus indicator on the D810 needs calibration with this lens, particularly with converters, also need to increase shutter speed.
Here are a couple of samples, one at 800mm, the second with the TC14, the crop with the TC14. With the TC301 the image quality was good but I could not focus it on the viewfinder. The Z6 may help this lens become usable, maybe.
Nicely done with action being really hard to capture but you show it can be done. Clearly the 1.4 is manageable. I guess the 3x like the one I own is hard to control and my experience was with a 300 mm lens. This is a study unto itself where weather, heat, humidity can change good camera settings on one day to bad the next. Nice job !!
Scene on top of Mount Whitney as it was getting chilly just before sunset. This guy (no idea who he is) was seeking cover from the wind behind this eroded summit boulder that was just asking for a 16mm f/3.5 AI shot
A few from recent visit to San Francisco but did not have much time for photos in the city. Also spent a couple of days in the beautiful Carmel area and will post images if can mange to spot some decent ones.
These were taken with the Fuji X-E1 and Nikkor 50/2 K. Also used the 28/2.8 AIs and 105/2.5 AIs on the backside of the trip. First time to use almost exclusively MF Nikkors on a trip and the experience was a lot of fun.
Thanks all for the likes.
San Francisco trademark:
Pier 39 residents:
Hyde Street Pier historical ships:
Threading the needle: Aim was pretty good on this one,
That 800mm is so tasty, Rafael. Excellent surfer shots as well, I like the positioning of the surfer in the frame and the moment in the second pic.
Phillipe, sometimes I think you just need your own feed for the street shots. (edit - oh wait, it's called your flick'r link).
Chuong, either I've missed your posts or you haven't been on in awhile. Nice to see you exercising the monster lenses.
Ken, the surfer suitcase is great, brought a smile to my face (even if it is a little out of sorts for central Florida). We can't all live in San Diego.
Mihai, are the dark horizontal elements an aesthetic decision or just an example of timid street photography :-)
A color image this time D750 - 105/2.5 @ f8 taken two weeks ago, in a fine day when I enjoyed "The Blue Danube" - "An der schönen blauen Donau", which unfortunately in our part of the world is rarely blue. Since the level is very, very low, see the island who grew in the middle of the river this year... To have a scale... see that fishermen's boat...
Canon T6, Nikon 50/1.8 AI, f/16 (?,) 5 sec. Sooc jpeg resized in my phone, but looks very sharp at full size. Didn't do proper sharpen & resize so might not show up.
