Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Howard, You have a great toy on your good hands, very nice pictures, my favorites are the first one and the black Yellow Cheers Lluis El 12/12/2009, a las 15:05, H&ECummer escribi?: > Hi Luggers, > I went out yesterday with Ray Tai and we combed the camera shops in > Tsim Sha Tsui until I located a smooth light focusing, mint Nikkor > 300mm f4.5 AIS IF complete with case and tripod socket. I saw half a > dozen samples of the R 250mm Telyt but none of them were version two > and their prices were almost double the prices of the 300 Nikkors. > Today I went out and took a few hundred test shots (hurrah for > digital) to see how I could handle the lens - the start of my 10,000 > hours to get to be competent with it. > Here are a few samples taken at the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens zoo > and at the Aviary. The zoo was a bit of a bust because of the cages > getting in the way but the aviary was easier because you are inside > the big tent with all the birds that can fly around freely. I set > the D700 to auto ISO, max of 6,400, minimum shutter speed 1/500 and > left the lens wide open at f4.5 to wash out the backgrounds. Focus > on stationary subjects was relatively easy to achieve with about 75% > consistency (focus confirmation being a big help) but for moving > subjects - forget it! - I am not fast enough at all. > > Please have a look at these few samples: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Nikkor300/Lemur300Nw.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/yc48nku > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Nikkor300/WhiteCrane300Nw.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/yb57x82 > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Nikkor300/PidgeonNik300w.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/y9jwgd8 > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Nikkor300/BlackYelloww.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/yeqsx4p > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Nikkor300/BlueyeWhitew.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/yedhvqs > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Nikkor300/CrestedBoobi.jpg.html > http://tinyurl.com/yad85uv > > > C & C welcome as always. > > Cheers > Howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information