What did I just watch?! Where'd you get the link from, Curtis? Spent ten minutes mesmerised by a man, whose features are often occluded, making a bed, piece by piece by piece by piece while his slightly shaggy dog wanders around the sawdust sprinkled floor.
Hey Chuong, when you're done with the bookshelves, Raylan needs a big boy bed, say, by the end of the year?
mp356 wrote:
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
I generally use the 25-50/4 stopped down to f/8 too. The one problem I have is nailing the focus, especially in poor light. A faster maximum aperture would sure help then. Otherwise, I love this lens.
CGrindahl wrote:
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... ...Show more →
Curtis,
May I also point out the 50 f/1.8S Ai-s! The earliest Ai-s (1980) and made only for the domestic Japanese market. It is often, but mistakenly, referred to as a "pancake" in many sales listing. There is a later Ai-s which is the "pancake" but not the quality of this earlier version...
Here is a portion of Bjorn's comment on the lens from his review of the 50 f/1.8 Ai/Ai-s:
"The earliest AIS version of the 50/1.8 delivers a truly stellar performance on the D2X. The field is admirably flat, too. There is nothing more to be said here. As perfect a lens as anyone could imagine. What a shining little star this lens proved itself to be."
Following is from our favorite "Photosynthesis" website in NZ!
I purchased my copy on eBay from Japan some time ago and it is a favorite on the Df and also adapted on my Fuji.
Also of possible interest to our Fuji body users: This lens will work beautifully with the Metabones Speedbooster adapter where as the 50mm f/1.8 long nose version does not! There is an additional protrusion on the mount of the long nose (as well as on the 45mm f/2.8P) which prohibits these two lenses from mounting. There is no problem mounting either of these two lenses on the standard (no interior lens) Novoflex/Kipon/Metabones/ect. adapters.
Thanks, Curtis. I've had the 16/3.5 for a few years, but don't bring it out as much as I should. Looking at Ronny's recent seascapes made with the lens motivated me to go back and work on a few files. The clarity and color rendition of this lens is pretty special.
Chuong, thanks for the comment. On this one, I started out with the horizon in the center of the frame to reduce the fisheye effect, applied a profile to further straighten the horizon, and did some cropping around the edges.
Thanks, Scott. Beautiful series from Watkins Glen.
Thanks, Kristian. Terrific shots from the woods and serene coast. I envy your "keeper" rate. I don't even want to calculate mine, it would be too depressing.
Buddy, thanks for the comment. Some great colors in your sunset.
Holy cow... we just slipped another thousand posts on this thread. I wasn't even paying attention. I guess there's still a bit of life in this conversation.
The micro shots are beautiful Colin. I'm especially intrigued by the third one. I don't know that plant.
I know you spell your last name differently, but seeing it on your images, Charles MacIntosh comes to mind. When I visited Scotland many years ago, it was after having spent of year of graduate study in architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle. Needless to say, when I had over a month to ramble around England and Scotland, I stopped in Glasgow to visit an exhibit of his work. I was much taken with art nouveau and much appreciated those artists who worked in a variety of mediums. I honestly don't recall where I saw his work, but in addition to his buildings I definitely enjoyed his furniture and art objects. I LOVE Scotland and the Scottish people.
CGrindahl wrote:
Holy cow... we just slipped another thousand posts on this thread. I wasn't even paying attention. I guess there's still a bit of life in this conversation.
The micro shots are beautiful Colin. I'm especially intrigued by the third one. I don't know that plant.
I know you spell your last name differently, but seeing it on your images, Charles MacIntosh comes to mind. When I visited Scotland many years ago, it was after having spent of year of graduate study in architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle. Needless to say, when I had over a month to ramble around England and Scotland, I stopped in Glasgow to visit an exhibit of his work. I was much taken with art nouveau and much appreciated those artists who worked in a variety of mediums. I honestly don't recall where I saw his work, but in addition to his buildings I definitely enjoyed his furniture and art objects. I LOVE Scotland and the Scottish people. ...Show more →
Curtis I just told Leighton about this Flicker site and recommend it to you also for Sonny's recent pictures of Scotland. They are taken with a Fuji but think you can overlook that for the spectacular scenery in his shots.
Being related to a long line of McIntyre's from my mother I too love Scotland. In 2000 my brother took me to Scotland as a guest at an International Appraiser's convention (he was president). After a black tie dinner in Edinburgh Castle I stepped out onto one of the decks overlooking Edinburgh. The piper who piped in the Haggis for dinner was standing out there too in the fog and rain and I told him I felt like I had been there before in another time. He just smiled at me, but I was serious and can still feel the moment as I write this.
DeltaSigma wrote:
D610 & 55mm micro with PK-12 tube
Busy with gardening chores today but I did find some time to wander around the garden looking for subject matter.
MontanaKid wrote:
Curtis I just told Leighton about this Flicker site and recommend it to you also for Sonny's recent pictures of Scotland. They are taken with a Fuji but think you can overlook that for the spectacular scenery in his shots.
Being related to a long line of McIntyre's from my mother I too love Scotland. In 2000 my brother took me to Scotland as a guest at an International Appraiser's convention (he was president). After a black tie dinner in Edinburgh Castle I stepped out onto one of the decks overlooking Edinburgh. The piper who piped in the Haggis for dinner was standing out there too in the fog and rain and I told him I felt like I had been there before in another time. He just smiled at me, but I was serious and can still feel the moment as I write this.
My first experience of fog was the day I arrived in Edinburgh in 1972. I've mentioned before that I was accepted into graduate school at Edinburgh College of Art and Heriot Watt University in a course focused on neighborhood conservation. My then wife and I arrived after spending two weeks in Paris and a few days in Amsterdam. We were running out of money and hoped the money we'd transferred to the Bank of Scotland would be available when we arrived.
That first day we left the bed and breakfast we'd found and began walking down toward the center of town. I saw in the distance what looked like wisps of cloud flying past the street we were walking on. It was only when we got close that I surmised it was fog coming from the Firth. I felt shivers when I first saw what I thought was some form of apparition.
Our money had arrived. We had over a month before my wife's teaching job began at Linlithgow, the home of Mary Queen of Scots. We bought a Citroen and took a month long tour down the east side of England, across the bottom and then up the west side to the top of Scotland, before rambling down through the Highlands until we returned to Edinburgh.
Beautiful country, and very fine people. In retrospect, I was saddened that I had not yet deveioped a taste for single malt Scotch, so I drove right past all those distilleries... And that was back in the day when it was likely the wee dram would have come without cost. What a pity!
Ballard wrote:
I generally use the 25-50/4 stopped down to f/8 too. The one problem I have is nailing the focus, especially in poor light. A faster maximum aperture would sure help then. Otherwise, I love this lens.
Ken, I agree on the focus difficulty. The green dot is difficult to get steady, it wants to display both arrows simultaneously. Takes a little extra time to get it.
Zichar wrote:
What did I just watch?! Where'd you get the link from, Curtis? Spent ten minutes mesmerised by a man, whose features are often occluded, making a bed, piece by piece by piece by piece while his slightly shaggy dog wanders around the sawdust sprinkled floor.
Hey Chuong, when you're done with the bookshelves, Raylan needs a big boy bed, say, by the end of the year?
I NEVER tire of watching a craftsperson pursue their work. This really is amazing stuff. I just stumbled on it while watching videos on YouTube. That was during our wet winter when I needed to find something to occupy myself. With over NINETY FIVE INCHES of rain, I was happy to simply being afloat! Our normal is 51 inches. The rainy northwest where John lives had HALF as much rain. Rafael, to speak of the absurd had heavy rain last year... TEN INCHES.
So I watched videos of people living in vans and videos of woodworkers creating delicate masterpieces. I enjoyed it all...
