jonoslack
Active member
Hi There
Well, in a quest to discover whether it's the lens or the camera which frightens the victims I bought this as a small lens to go on the front of the D3.
I'm not sure that 'dinky' is exactly the word that springs to mind, but it seems to go nicely on the D3:
(apologies for the muddy camera - not up to Marc's standards I'm afraid!)
Build quality is splendid - all metal with a rubber focus sleeve - the focusing ring is smooth as butter and quite even throughout (quite a long throw). I think it's a rather lovely piece of design - the metal lens hood is also fine (not pictured here). At £206+vat from Robert White it seems to me to be a fine bargain
The fact that the lens is also chipped means that it reports the aperture correctly. If you set the aperture on the lens to f16 then the you can set the aperture as normal on the camera (setting at anything else produces an EE on the camera's top screen). It would be nice if there was a lock on the aperture ring.
In fact, there is nothing different from any Nikon lens except that it's manual focus - focus confirmation works well, and I find it very easy to focus, even in dim light with the standard D3 screen:
(1/60th f1.4 ISO 640)
(1/60th f1.4 ISO 450) (this is the only cropped shot of the group)
It's worth noticing that the lloyd loom chair can produce a very gritty bokeh - it's done well here.
(1/60th f1.4 ISO 720)
I also think that the bokeh is pleasant, even with fundamentally busy backgrounds:
(1/60th f1.4 ISO 200)
It's hardly a macro lens, but it does focus down to .45 of a metre giving a ratio of 1:5.8 - quite useable for flowers and small objects:
(1/1000th f1.4 ISO 200)
(1/400th f1.4 ISO 200)
Finally, a couple just because I like 'em!
(1/1250th f1.4 ISO 200)
(1/2500th f1.4 ISO 200)
I haven't found anyone to point it at yet, I'll report back on that later, initial response is very favorable - I'll post a few more stopped down a bit when I can persuade myself to get off that f1.4!
Well, in a quest to discover whether it's the lens or the camera which frightens the victims I bought this as a small lens to go on the front of the D3.
I'm not sure that 'dinky' is exactly the word that springs to mind, but it seems to go nicely on the D3:
(apologies for the muddy camera - not up to Marc's standards I'm afraid!)
Build quality is splendid - all metal with a rubber focus sleeve - the focusing ring is smooth as butter and quite even throughout (quite a long throw). I think it's a rather lovely piece of design - the metal lens hood is also fine (not pictured here). At £206+vat from Robert White it seems to me to be a fine bargain
The fact that the lens is also chipped means that it reports the aperture correctly. If you set the aperture on the lens to f16 then the you can set the aperture as normal on the camera (setting at anything else produces an EE on the camera's top screen). It would be nice if there was a lock on the aperture ring.
In fact, there is nothing different from any Nikon lens except that it's manual focus - focus confirmation works well, and I find it very easy to focus, even in dim light with the standard D3 screen:
(1/60th f1.4 ISO 640)
(1/60th f1.4 ISO 450) (this is the only cropped shot of the group)
It's worth noticing that the lloyd loom chair can produce a very gritty bokeh - it's done well here.
(1/60th f1.4 ISO 720)
I also think that the bokeh is pleasant, even with fundamentally busy backgrounds:
(1/60th f1.4 ISO 200)
It's hardly a macro lens, but it does focus down to .45 of a metre giving a ratio of 1:5.8 - quite useable for flowers and small objects:
(1/1000th f1.4 ISO 200)
(1/400th f1.4 ISO 200)
Finally, a couple just because I like 'em!
(1/1250th f1.4 ISO 200)
(1/2500th f1.4 ISO 200)
I haven't found anyone to point it at yet, I'll report back on that later, initial response is very favorable - I'll post a few more stopped down a bit when I can persuade myself to get off that f1.4!