rafaelcasd wrote: gbohannon wrote:
Had a great day with the family at the North Carolina Zoo. I feel lucky to live so close to such a facility. It is the worlds largest natural habitat zoo with 2600 acres (500 acres developed and expanding this year). Nat Geo Wild is actually filming there for an upcoming television show.
Was nice to get away from the craziness for a while.
I went with a one lens kit today using the Zoom-Nikkor 35-200mm f/3.5-f/4.5. This lens also has a macro focus feature that allows focus down to 1ft. This allows for a wide range of shooting opportunities, although I do have a difficult time nailing focus with the lens on a DSLR. It was easier on the Z6, but still challenging for me especially at longer distances focus and wider angles. The focus throw is so small from 30' to infinity a little movement mades a big change..
Nikon Imaging has a write up of this lens in their One Thousand and One Nights series.
Posting a short series of shots that show the variety of shots from close focus, to wide, to telephoto.
George
Never thought the 35-200 could do such nice photos Georg.
Thanks Rafael. For me I have a love hate relationship with that lens . Hard to focus on the DSLR at time and unless you shoot wide-open on the Z6 the focus peaking is not very accurate with the large depth of field shooting at f8 (I consider that the sweet spot).
Just takes practice. You get very good results when you do nail it.
. Hard to focus on the DSLR at time and unless you shoot wide-open on the Z6 the focus peaking is not very accurate with the large depth of field shooting at f8 (I consider that the sweet spot).