Foggy14 wrote:
Inspired by Ronny, here's another 16mm f3.5 fishy seascape.
Cheers,
Jeff
Jeff, I think you did very well there, adding the human component to that image. Endless reflections. That would be a location where I would want to take some pictures for sure
I´m absolutely at it again. The camera has been glued to me for a couple of days now, I´ve been taking a lot of shots. Keeper rate at about 5% I´ve mostly been using the Nikkor-H.C 85mm f/1.8 and the 50mm f/1.8 ais. Two of my favs.
First a couple with the 85:
Now I´m gonna bore you with a few 50mm shots from friday night fishing game. I´m still not allowed to do that kind of activities so I just shot my friend fishing
bobbelbob wrote:
I´m absolutely at it again. The camera has been glued to me for a couple of days now, I´ve been taking a lot of shots. Keeper rate at about 5% I´ve mostly been using the Nikkor-H.C 85mm f/1.8 and the 50mm f/1.8 ais. Two of my favs.
First a couple with the 85:
mp356 wrote:
Watkins Glen State Park. Taken with the 25-50 Ais. Thanks for looking.
Scott
I love these. I had never heard of this lens until I started following this thread and saw your posts. You get wonderful results from it and I can see why you favor it, but do you find the f/4 max aperture to be limiting?
spoupard wrote:
I love these. I had never heard of this lens until I started following this thread and saw your posts. You get wonderful results from it and I can see why you favor it, but do you find the f/4 max aperture to be limiting?
Hi Scott. I use it mainly for landscape and architectural work and it is most always stopped down to f8 or f11. At f4 it is not a fast lens, and it looses a bit of the wonderful contrast that it produces at f5.6, f8, etc. I really like its focal range and it is mechanically a very nice lens.
Scott
Raphael CONGRATS on your 5th 55mm 1.2. They are very special lenses.
Kevin regarding wood working, I've made all the furniture and still have tools. Time to sell!
Scott very nice shots of Watkins Glen
Well some more from the Road Trip as I keep processing.... Went to dinner, really a cheeseburger and something to drink near Anthem at a little place called the Roadrunner. The have a rodeo there and if it was in the south I'd call it a red neck joint. Good food and nice staff.
Rather nice seeing so many of the usual suspects appearing on the thread and sharing their work. Rafael, the kit builder extraordinaire returns with ANOTHER 55 f/1.2, the venerable S.C. I consider the 55 as the sumo wrestler of pre-AI lenses with its squat form. I would feel embarrassed about owning three of them except for Rafael's collection.
Awesome shot Jeff. I don't recall you owning the 16 f/3.5, which, of course, is John's first love when it comes to lenses. It was the fact that John bought multiple copies of that lens that convinced me that when you really love a lens, there is nothing shameful about owning more than one. As you and so many have found, this lens is a great performer.
Scott, our friend from Rochester, is back with a set of photos that are delicious. I recall the first time I saw photos taken with the 25-50 f/4 AI-s by an early friend, Andy from Austria. That was the first zoom lens I bought, if I recall correctly. I was very impressed, both with its build quality and its performance. It is a really useful focal range and performs wonderfully when doing landscape work. I always felt f/8 was where I wanted to shoot. Wonderful color and contrast. Your work certainly demonstrates its capabilities.
I'll restrain myself from jumping into the Reagan quagmire... will he, won't he with regard to a Nikon camera. I think we've all learned there is no rhyme nor reason to your camera purchases my friend. The best thing a sane person can to do is make come popcorn... and watch the show...
Am enjoying the bantering about furniture making. Great to see you Chuong. Interesting this pastime has been part of so many lives. I found myself watching videos on YouTube by a fellow in Japan who does amazing work. Check him out...
Ken B, I love how you describe what you were shooting in that one time lake bed. It is so easy to believe what we see in the world is as it has always been and always will be. I took a course in the geology of Marin some years ago when taking a class at the local community college permitted me to quality for a student discount when buying some rather expensive software. I grabbed what seemed like the most interesting course option. It turned out to be a wonderful eight weeks as we wandered around the county and learned what had been happening for the last million years. Of course, Marin is right at the edge of the continent with a major earthquake fault running the length of the coast, the famed San Andreas Fault that ripped San Francisco apart in 1906. We have one plate moving in one direction with the plate carrying the Pacific Ocean driving the seabed into the North American plate, pushing up hills and mountains along the coast.
There are, of course, many things happening in our landscape to be appreciated if we're willing to pay attention to what is and to what has happened in the past. And photography is a wonderful way to tell the story of what we encounter. Actually much of what is shared on this thread tells such stories, even if that is not the focus of the conversation. Thanks for these images and the explanation of what we are seeing.
Kristian, love the set with the humble 50 f/1.8 AI-s. I paid $46 for my copy of that lens. It was early in my kit building when I'd set a limit of $300 for what I'd buy. Of course, the real joy was in finding lenses for under a hundred dollars, something I was able to do many times. I imagine others have had similar experiences, when you shop for a lens and discover what you can purchase for so little money. I recall buying the 80-200 f/4.5 for $76, then researching the lenses history and discovering when it was released it cost $700. I had to make the calculation of present value of that purchase and figured today that lens would cast $2,200! And I bought it for $76. It is an amazing lens and for the price it seemed I was somehow stealing it.
The 50 f/1.8 AI-s, the long nose version, is a fine performer that was not much used primarily because I'd bought the 50 f/1.2 AI-s and found myself fixated on its speed. But I've recommended to folks a number of times over the years, that the minimal investment in the f/1.8 can make very good sense. You're simply demonstrating the truth of that assertion.
Glad you re-discovered your camera and kit of lenses...
I´ve mostly been using the Nikkor-H.C 85mm f/1.8 and the 50mm f/1.8 ais. Two of my favs. 
