Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The grass looks slightly yellowish to me, is that the New York afternoon Sun? Sell the kid :-) On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at gmail.com>wrote: > Dr. Ted I know you're out there -- a savage hound on the dark moor -- but I > want to ask all you others, do you remember a discussion thread about a > month or so back on the Nikon 200 f/4 prime? As I recollect Jim Laird (?) > was constructing a shoulder brace for use with this lens. Doug advised him. > Several others kibbutzed, including me, to the effect that the lens is > quite > light. Well today it was so lovely I was testing my 200mm lenses out the > front window. We live up the hill from a park with a big pond in it and the > living room overlooks it. Tested Nikkor AF 70-210 1:4-5.6 D; Nikkor 80-200 > 1:4.5 AI-S ; and the Nikkor 200 1:4 AI-S as previously mentioned. All at > F8. RAW. ISO 400 because I was too dumb to remember to change it and since > I used to shoot Tri-X almost exclusively I tend to leave it at 400 most of > the time and not think about it. Roughly 1/500th of a second though this > varied a little because the metering on the D40x is a little too bright so > with the AF-D lens -- the only one with which the D40 can provide metering > and aperture priority -- one keeps the EV adjusted to -.7. > > I swear to God Dr. Ted I was thinking about Leicas the whole time. I was > thinking about selling the new kid -- he was right there with me and damn > cute -- so I could put a down payment on an M9. > > Anyway the 200/4 knocked my socks off. Here are three images from one > shot: > The first just a JPEG straight up from the RAW file. The second cropped and > enlarged almost to 100 percent and slightly adjusted in PS Camera Raw. The > third cropped the same but with more work fixing the highlights, working > out > a bit of fringing, color adjustment, sharpening, etc. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/toast+eatin_+bog+man/nikon+200mm+f4/ > > Opinions, criticisms and advice most welcome. Particularly welcome is > advice > on the processing. Everything I know how to do is in camera raw. I have > hardly tried PS itself yet. > > Vince > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]