Got mine this evening from JR. The packing was even less inspirational than that of amazon\'s. Without even a test, I took it out to a photo shoot along with my Singh-ray VariND filter in the hope that I could still shoot at wide open even in the presence of studio strobes.
Long story short, I was initially shoot AF-S, then later changed to shoot AF-C with Focus Priority, using AF-On to lock focus. However, even for stationary subject, no single image\'s got sharp focus at wide open in the presence of VariND filter. After some shots, I simply took off the VariND filer and start to shoot wide open in ambient light at ISO 1600 shutter speed 1/100. Nothing came out sharp again. Really pissed, of course. So I started to dial in different values for AF Fine Tune +/- sides from 5 , 10 , 15 to 20. That didn\'t help neither.
I put the PW on the hotshoe start to shoot f/8 to f/11, 1/250s for the shutter speed. And this time focus was nailed every shot. I am planning to have it either exchanged or returned. To shoot at f/8 or f/11, I don\'t really need this $1800 prime because my 24-70 can do the job just fine. Thank you, Nikon, very much.
Anyway, here is one that works but not shot at wide open though.
Feb 02, 2011 at 03:07 AM
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Re: Nikon 35mm 1.4
Got mine this evening from JR. The packing was even less inspirational than that of amazon\'s. Without even a test, I took it out to a photo shoot along with my Singh-ray VariND filter in the hope that I could still shoot at wide open even in the presence of studio strobes.
Long story short, I was initially shoot AF-S, then later changed to shoot AF-C with Focus Priority, using AF-On to lock focus. However, even for stationary subject, no single image\'s got sharp focus at wide open in the presence of VariND filter. After some shots, I simply took off the VariND filer and start to shoot wide open in ambient light at ISO 1600 shutter speed 1/100. Nothing came out sharp again. Really pissed, of course. So I started to dial in different values for AF Fine Tune +/- sides from 5 , 10 , 15 to 20. That didn\'t help neither.
I put the PW on the hotshoe start to shoot f/8 to f/11, 1/250s for the shutter speed. And this time focus was nailed every shot. I am planning to have it either exchanged or returned. To shoot at f/8 or f/11, I don\'t really need this $1800 prime because my 24-70 can do the job just fine. Thank you, Nikon, very much.
