Happy to report that DDG 1000, USS Michael Monsoor, arrived to her homeport of San Diego for the first time today. Not quite as pretty as the USS Zumwalt yet, but we will fix that.
Also happy to say that the 800mm 5.6 on the Z6 with sun (heat) avoidance performed flawlessly.
Just to do my bit to keep things moving, here are a couple more shots of the intimate autumn landscape next to the Cowichan River, courtesy of the 85 f/1.8 HC on the Zhongyi focal reducer and my Fuji X-T2.
Day out with my BiL over from the UK from Manchester for 10 days, my wife, and mum over from NW UK also, for 6 months (looking after the house while we're in India and getting away from UK winter).
rafaelcasd wrote:
Happy to report that DDG 1000, USS Michael Monsoor, arrived to her homeport of San Diego for the first time today. Not quite as pretty as the USS Zumwalt yet, but we will fix that.
Also happy to say that the 800mm 5.6 on the Z6 with sun (heat) avoidance performed flawlessly.
What are those sailors doing in winter blues uniforms in San Diego?
GroWeb wrote:
Just to do my bit to keep things moving, here are a couple more shots of the intimate autumn landscape next to the Cowichan River, courtesy of the 85 f/1.8 HC on the Zhongyi focal reducer and my Fuji X-T2.
As much as I want a Z6, I don’t think I will be able to swing it. So, I’m looking at a Df and a D750 and an XT3. Looking to elicit some opinions or pros and cons from you folks.
kwoodard wrote:
As much as I want a Z6, I don’t think I will be able to swing it. So, I’m looking at a Df and a D750 and an XT3. Looking to elicit some opinions or pros and cons from you folks.
Which lenses are you targeting for use? Native AF or manual focus (adapted for the XT3)?
kwoodard wrote:
As much as I want a Z6, I don’t think I will be able to swing it. So, I’m looking at a Df and a D750 and an XT3. Looking to elicit some opinions or pros and cons from you folks.
Those 3 are much more expensive than a Z6.
Laura, here's one that belongs in the museum. A 1936 Packard that i saw on a trailer at a Shell garage 1/2 way between Johannesburg and Cape Town in July 2017.
gbohannon wrote:
Which lenses are you targeting for use? Native AF or manual focus (adapted for the XT3)?
George
I don’t currently have any AF lenses, but will probably pick up a zoom in the 28-70ish range for days where my eyes are bad. For manual glass, I start at 20mm and go all the way out to 300.
kwoodard wrote:
I don’t currently have any AF lenses, but will probably pick up a zoom in the 28-70ish range for days where my eyes are bad. For manual glass, I start at 20mm and go all the way out to 300.
I owned the Df from the day it was released until this past August and owned the X-T2 until this past summer as well (close enough to the X-T3 from a user interface point of view). Have shot a friend's D750 but nothing more than an afternoon.
My quick $.02...
Advantage Df:
Begs for manual focus lenses and of the three the only one that will accept non-Ai Nikkor lenses without modification. I know you can adapt the non-Ai to the Fuji, but it is not the same shooting experience and control of aperture.
Focusing manual lenses is decent on the Df, but was much better after I put in the Focusingscreens.com Nikon K2 split prism. If you are somewhat mechanically inclined, it is simple to do.
Classic controls for ISO, Shutter, EV comp etc.
Advantage D750 - just my limited experience and what I have seen while shooting with my friend.
Better Autofocus vs. the Df
Video capability vs the Df - if that is a feature you would use
24MP sensor
Ability to add a vertical battery grip
Tilt LCD screen
Advantage X-T3 from an X-T2 users point of view
It is one of the "Swiss Army Knives" of cameras, meaning you can just about adapt any lens to them. There are a ton of adapters including Tilt/Shift adapters that allow you use your FF Nikkor lenses as tilt shift lenses and project full sensor coverage.
Focus Peaking
Video
Three Way Tilt screen - more movement than the D750. Df is fixed
Up to 11 frames per sec shooting speed
Like the D750, ability to add vertical grip. No option on the Df
I am sure there are other key features that may appeal to you that I did not list. None of the three have IBIS. If that is one of the things that was drawing you to the Z6, the Fuji X-H1 has 5 axis IBIS. But it is getting close to the Z6 in price.
Not sure if 35mm equivalent sensor is important to you or not, but as you know with your experience with Fuji, the X-T3 is crop sensor. You can get close to native focal length with one of the focal reducer adapters with good results. In the end wanting something with a full frame sensor is what moved me away from Fuji once the Z6 came out.
My personal opinion of the three (you asked )
The X-T3 wins the features category.
The D750 wins the Auto Focus and Full Frame image quality category.
The Df wins the "use with manual focus glass as they were meant to be used" category
Wanted to share an image with you. Nothing spectacular about it, just a ho-hum shot of a deer in the woods off my deck at the house.
But... Some details about it. It was well into dusk. Deer usually cross through the yard this time of day and I was waiting to see them. You could barely detect movement in the woods and definitely could not see details. I had the 200mm/f2 Ai on the Z6. So just for fun I tried shooting with it. MAN was I surprised. When looking through the viewfinder it was like looking in the woods during daylight! There is no way I would have gotten this shot through an optical viewfinder and to be honest not sure if an autofocus lens would have been able to focus in such low light especially shooting through many trees and branches.
Oh yeah. Look at the EXIF data... Handheld at 1/40 sec and pretty clean at ISO4000 . Game changer for using old fast lenses. Is for me anyway
