HCE HCE wrote:
I am no bird expert but am at the stage where I can tell the difference between a Robin and a Chicken.
I believe this is a Cooper's Hawk.
D3 135mm f/2.8 Q
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
There is a great app that my son told me about called Seek by iNaturalist. It identifies species by using your phone camera. It even identified your hawk by pointing it at the monitor. Screen capture below.
Jay is that the boneyard aboard Davis-Monthan? Quite the place. Love the nose art, so politically incorrect today and so flamboyant yesterday. Where have we gone!
Since the thread is so slow I thought a bit of history is what is needed to fully induce a coma to us all!
Lakeland's Tiger Stadium was an active runway and flying school in WWII.
Thanks! One of the quirks about Border Collies, it seems, is that they will just lay down when they're not actively being worked. He'll catch a ball or "stalk" the big one, but as soon as he has it he plops down and waits for the next thing. Makes him easy to photograph, but difficult to wear out lol.
edit - just another from the test roll. Same lens, different F5:
Hmmm who else do I know who has two F5s?? Great example, let's see more!
OffTrail wrote:
Thanks! One of the quirks about Border Collies, it seems, is that they will just lay down when they're not actively being worked. He'll catch a ball or "stalk" the big one, but as soon as he has it he plops down and waits for the next thing. Makes him easy to photograph, but difficult to wear out lol.
saph wrote:
Hmmm who else do I know who has two F5s?? Great example, let's see more!
Heh, thanks! The first F5 turned into my go-to camera through 2019, so I figured it was time to pick up another one just as a backup. And I do frequently think about posting here whenever I am using MF lenses, but I can never remember what I used once everything is scanned in. I really oughta keep notes.
At the risk of boring you, I am astounded by the sharpess and contrast of the 600mm 5.6 on the Z6.
It is as good as the 400mm 3.5 or the 800mm 5.6 under the conditions of that shady day. Full sunlight may change this equation and show more aberrations on the old lens. A Z7 may change the equation as well.
And two photos, first fully open, the second two stops down. These are nothing less than superb resolution. If you are a fellow pixel peeper go to flickr, you will be astounded as well. Oviously the 400mm and 800mm have IF and are much faster and accurate to focus.
The inscribed face of the Rosetta Stone (Google translator in its day ) always has a crowd of people in front of it, less so at the back.
The lighting is very subdued so I was lucky to grab an acceptable image or two. A Z camera would have helped a lot.
I was reading that a 61 year old man from San Paulo, who had recently visited northern Italy, has contracted Covid-19. I really hope that doesn't describe you Jose.
Nikon 28mm F2.8 Ais to photograph forest mushrooms.
Hello everyone, I recently joined a Mycology society and I will be contributing to the group with mushroom photos
The challenge is to take images very low to the ground and show the full body, gills and some of the forest context. I figured that I would need a wide angle lens that allows me to get very close to the subject and shoot at F16 or so. I immediately remembered the Nikon F2.8 28mm AIs I used to have. It offered a very short minimum object focusing distance and beautiful OOF rendition. Is this the best classic MF wide angle lens for this project?
Ken The aircraft were photographed at the Pima Air and Space Museum located _adjacent_ to Davis Monthan AF base, in Tucson Arizona. There is a section on base called 'The Bone Yard' that I have not visited.
Raul The best of the 28mm f/2.8 is the close focusing model (0.2 Meter) with the better optical formula. I use a close focusing 24mm f/3.5 TS because it is the one I usually have on the camera for woodland excursions. I think you would get good results with a 55mm f/3.5 macro and stack frames for sufficient depth of focus, and use a wider aperture than f/16 where diffraction will cause degradation.
Ken, thanks for the feedback. Is the 24mm f/3.5 TS lens you use the same as Nikon 24mm f/3.5D PC-E?
I do have a 55mm Micro 2.8 AIs but I hate taking the time to stack frames. It gives the ticks more time to jump on the photographer
The close range 28mm f/2.8 AIs may be the ticket and it is inexpensive. I am hoping it has enough DOF at 1 foot distance to avoid using apertures smaller than F11/
OffTrail wrote:
Heh, thanks! The first F5 turned into my go-to camera through 2019, so I figured it was time to pick up another one just as a backup. And I do frequently think about posting here whenever I am using MF lenses, but I can never remember what I used once everything is scanned in. I really oughta keep notes.
Never knew the MF-28 could caption between frames. That, along with a metadata reader that can pull the exposure info the F5 saves anyway, might make for a pretty slick way to catalog things. Very tempting.
