I scored a great deal on a minty Nikon 45mm f/2.8 Ai-P Pancake in black! At first I didn't like it, but the more I shot with it, the more I've started to appreciate it's subtle rendering! Also I'm not one to get into "imaginary" things like micro-contrast and having a 3D-look, but the Nikon 45mm actually does have many of those qualities! It's a pretty bad-a$$ lens!
Here are a couple samples shot with the Sony A7III + Techart Pro adapter + Nikon 45mm 2.8 Ai-P Pancake:
These are of Basilica di Santa Croce. I normally resort to the stabilized Fuji zoom for interior photos but on this visit, decided to try the little manual focus Nikkor.
I had to take the angle photo as there was a large Christmas market occupying the majority of the open space in front of the basilica. The rather well known statute of Dante to the left:
Behind me are the elaborate tombs of Michelangelo and Galileo.
The main altar is surrounded by colorful Renaissance frescoes which have been very well preserved.
saph wrote:
Jonathan welcome! Reagan's got a 45 2.8 P he's used recently. Or who knows if he's already gotten rid of the lens
I think part of the allure of the lens is just how nicely built and compact it is. I read somewhere that Nikon was planning to make a set with the 28mm 2.8 AIS and 105mm 2.5 AIS also as 'AI-P' lenses with CPU chips, but decided not to. Most of my Nikon manual lenses are meant to be used on mirrorless with compact size and fast focus throw as a priority when it comes to handling! So far this is how my kit looks!
75-150/3.5 E / 85/2.0 AIS / 50/1.2 AIS / 50/1.8 AIS (Japan model) / 45/2.8 AIP / 20/3.5 AIS: Camera Gear Porn by Jonathan Friolo, on Flickr
Hey gang! I've been posting here for quite a few years and don't ever recall any pics taken at America's pastime, Baseball!!
So Robin and I headed off today to see the opening day of pre-season between the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Phillies in Lakeland. Took the Z6 and the under-rated 35-200 which seems to have been the right choice. Camera set to Manual mode with the shutter at 1/1000 and set to F8 it caught most of the action from far away and many baseballs in flight.
Sad thing was 3 hotdogs and one soda $29.00. Thinking back to taking three kids it would have been a $100.00 day in food alone. Tickets and parking another $62.
Thanks for the b/w like. Did you see the baseball dead center in the pic? It was shot all the way from right field seats.
Hot Dogs! Supposedly locally made famous Detroit and Flint Michigan “Coney Dogs” were there for those that craved them. So Robin and I sampled them. She really liked them but I’ve had better elsewhere for $2 each. Point was families with a couple or more kids can’t even do a pre-season game w/o spending hundreds.
Reagan wrote:
^^^
Did you really need to eat 3 hot dogs
You could at least given Robin one
Love the old look of the B/W
keeping on my lens theme, here is another lens that was useless and is now tranformed by the use of the Z6, now that i know to turn IBIS/VR off on the tripod.
This lens is like new, bought it 28 years ago did not use much. Nippon Kogaku Nikkor 600mm 5.6 P from the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games.
Did not get an egret to volunteer, so these are dumb test shots, if interested do click the link to Flickr, then click the image twice to see at 100%. Lens is super sharp fully open, does create magenta halos around highlights but are easily corrected by Nikon SW, it has beautiful Bokeh.
Ken Hill wrote:
Thanks for the b/w like. Did you see the baseball dead center in the pic? It was shot all the way from right field seats.
Hot Dogs! Supposedly locally made famous Detroit and Flint Michigan “Coney Dogs” were there for those that craved them. So Robin and I sampled them. She really liked them but I’ve had better elsewhere for $2 each. Point was families with a couple or more kids can’t even do a pre-season game w/o spending hundreds.
I don't follow baseball but recently read an article about a player called Mike Trout on the BBC website.
Somebody has to pay for those top player's $35,000,000 per year salaries. That's a lot of of hotdogs....
Serge the little manual Nikkor held its own for the interiors of the basilica. The Maryland Capitol building has some ornate interiors that I have to use one or the other manual Nikkor for some day.
The 45 summer is lovely Reagan. The winter here has been milder every year, maybe in a decade or two we will have those scenes in February too
Rafael your examples with the manual Nikkors are as exquisite as your lenses themselves.
Nice collection to start with Jonathan! There's a lot more you can add to it - just stay long enough on this thread
Good job with the baseball in flight pics, and the 3 hot dogs Ken!
The only time I went to the Bahamas was before the manual Nikkor bug bit me. I need to do another trip there. Wonder if the Grand Bahama island has recovered from last year's hurricane. Went there about 8-9 years ago. Have some autofocus snaps from the trip somewhere around.
