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Fun Pictures with Nikon

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Vivek

Guest
Jorgen, Thanks! :) With the 10.5mm one has no choice but to get close (why I should be using that lens more often)!

Steen, I am pretty sure some of the concepts used in the G1 will take off. I wish all others would keep the M4/3rds registry or at least the mount intact.
(as is there are way too many adapters!).

Panasonic have been developing special sensors. I hope to see cameras for UV alone, IR alone and so on. This coupled with the modular possibilities to build as you need/want aspect make these very very interesting.:)
 

clay stewart

New member
Interesting observation, Vivek. So what we need is the D300 sensor and processor in a small EVIL Micro APS-C package, right ?
Nikon, wake up and get on the train, please :)
That would be interesting. No one else seems to have nailed the CD AF as well as Panasonic. I wonder if they have a secret that no one else knows about. I guess with most people using MF lenses, that probably wouldn't matter to a lot of people.
 
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jonoslack

Active member
I don't belong here any more:)

Still, I was going through some pics from last year and found this:



D3 and some lens or other
 

Steen

Senior Subscriber Member
Jono, you belong all over the forum :)
Voigtländer Nokton, manual focus nailed wide open, f/1.4 :lecture:
Excellent dramatic portrait of a predator.
 

etrigan63

Active member
My Harblei Super-Rotator finally arrived and I am starting to learn to use this fascinating lens. Here is a test pano created using only the lens' shifting capabilities (and a dollop of PSCS4 to glue them all together):


Full sized image is here.

Here is the requisite camera porn:
 
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Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
Jono, you absolutely belong here as well, and that's a great cat shot, with your signature written all over it :thumbup:

You are hereby granted permission to visit the Nikon forum at least once a week, to say nice things about photos created with F-mount cameras :salute:
 

jonoslack

Active member
Jono, you belong all over the forum :)
Voigtländer Nokton, manual focus nailed wide open, f/1.4 :lecture:
Excellent dramatic portrait of a predator.
Thank you Steen
It was time to go out for dinner, and I was being hassled to get in the car!
isn't exif a wonderful thing.

What Steen said. Yes, nice shot of whatever that cat is. :)
Vivek! Wonderful to see you around here again. The cat is called Echo, she lives in our house, walks over the surfaces, shreds rolls of kitchen paper in the night-time, attacks the other cats and panders most shamelessly to my wife.

Jono, you absolutely belong here as well, and that's a great cat shot, with your signature written all over it :thumbup:

You are hereby granted permission to visit the Nikon forum at least once a week, to say nice things about photos created with F-mount cameras :salute:
And thank you too Jorgen - dreadful cat, still, I'm working through last year's stuff in the cold winter evenings, deleting about 86% of it (and that was only about 40% of the original) and trying to make some sense of what's there, so there may be more!
 
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etrigan63

Active member
The Hartblei is a medium format lens bolted on to a 35mm mount. Produces a tremendous image circle. I am trying to get used to it as a non-CPU lens (my first). Any suggestions? I have already defined it to the camera and it's the default selection when a non-CPU lens is mounted.
 
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Vivek

Guest
Carlos,

Any CPU on a T/S lens is worthless. Even Nikon would accept that. So, don't worry. You aren't missing much.

Among the more reliable metering options with a T/S lens (when you have the lens recognized in your D300 as something which btw is also irrelevant) is spot metering (center weighted less so and avoid matrix metering). You would still need to set your own shutter speeds for a given ISO, scene, light.

Yes, AFAIK (from using 3 plus T/S lenses on Nikon bodies), metering manually is best. You need develop a "sense" of what the lens sees. If it sounds mystical, that is OK, If it isn't helpful, please ignore it.:)

Hi there Jono!
 

Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
Thanks, both of you :)

Jono, I was bored, waiting for someone. She was late :sleep006: Coke is boring too, but it was before they opened, so no beer :(

Yes, I take bad photos all the time, but I'm patient. Patient enough to wait for the subject to be where and how I want it, patient enough not to leave until I have what I think is right. I usually don't chimp, but pretend that I use film. It's easy to feel when everything falls into place. You can almost hear a different shutter sound when it happens, like if the camera is happy :)

There are no golden rules, no rule of thirds or others that I can't remember anyway. The only rule is: become a part of the scene, see the scene as it sees itself. Become a participant, not a bystander. It takes time sometimes, learning to think like a glass of coke, but other than that, it's mostly a question of relaxing and letting go.

That's the way I do it anyway. It works for me. No idea if it works for others :confused:


Oh, and no, I never throw a photo away. Something that looks bad today, may suddenly look good tomorrow. You never know...
 
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etrigan63

Active member
Thanks for the tips Vivek. Question, can aperture priority be used by stopping the lens down? The D300 has a little exposure meter on the top display that helps a lot.
 

Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
Another snap from yesterday, over the lunch table. Having lunch with the chef always bodes for a culinary experience :)

S5 with Tamron @ 50mm and f/2.8

 

Leica 77

New member
Hello Jorgen et al.
Great Images! One of my favorite vintage Nikkor lenses is a pre-AI Micro Nikkor 55mm f3.5. The accompanying digital image of our little pet was taken @ f3.5. The Micro Nikkor lens was attached to the new Lumix G1 body through the use of a couple of lens adapters. Best regards. Leica 77
 
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