Then I guess I'm glad mine is a D700 instead of a D800 then
I was expecting the lens to be soft, but after some testing, the lens seems to be the sharpest of the three in the center. Might not be the same case in the corners, but there's still pleny of detail to keep me happy, more importantly the size & weight of these retro lenses compared to their modern counterparts.

This post has been edited by gunzerdude: Jan 8 2014, 10:51 AM

20mm is nice for FX body. Tried before with D700 during events last year, not the best choice i'd say. Too much hassle to change lens between wide and zoom so i pretty much stuck 80200 on the D700 through the night

Small motor to move big glass, can't compare against those telephoto with big motor to move big glass (well relative to the size la ).

Nat Geo time! hehe
Macro shots for today

Spiders found in Matang Mangrove Forest

Mangrove Dendrolycosa ♀ with egg by PF T.J., on Flickr


Gasteracantha doriae ♀ by PF T.J., on Flickr


Web building by PF T.J., on Flickr

Please click photos for descriptions~

Hey guys, check out this thread in Kopitiam. Very interesting photos of airplanes taking off on runways.



https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3090195

Didn't have the 20mm f/2.8 before. I still have the AF-D 20-35mm f/2.8 zoom though. Obsolete and Nikon replaced it with AF-S 17-35mm f/2.8 and now the AF-S 16-35mm f/4 VR.

Anyway, nice lens and spend most of it's time on my D700 as my walkabout lens. Now on the D800, I use the 14-24mm f/2.8 and interchange it with the 24-70mm f/2.8.

Don't know if it's correct or not but I guess there are different grades / sizes of AF-S motors. I guess the 24mm f/1.4, 35mm f/1.4 and 85mm f/1.4 are using same motor?

I do know however that the AF-S motor in the 17-35mm f/2.8 and the AF-S 80-200mm f/2.8 are the same. I know the AF-S 80-200mm f/2.8 has blinding speed on AF but I guess the same also for the 17-35mm f/2.8? No chance to test that.

Wow, great share!
I'm loving it

This one need to ask shinchan since he has the 17-35 f/2.8, me only using the tiny 16-35 f/4 LOL and its pretty slow compared to 70-200 VR2.

As far for the AF, 24-70 and 70200 have blazing speed minus the telephoto primes. The rest i've used are big aperture lens... and pretty slow.

I read about the softness too, but then I checked DXOmark, and strangely enough, 20mm scored higher on D610 than on D700, somehow the higher resolution makes the lens sharper or something =.=''

Not sure how DXOmark calculates stuff, makes this old lens pretty promising though

Nice 1 bro, hope will have chance to enter forest one day, the insects inside sure more rare and more big than these cities 1

Been lazing off from macro lately, super phobia of the mosquitoes =.='' will try again next week, haha

The 200mm f/2.0 VR is a different league of sharpness and speed altogether. Perhaps the same too with the other tele primes.

Yeah, somehow the sensor makes for a better DXOMark score. That is why even though Canon has better lenses generally but when a Nikon lens is coupled with a Nikon sensor, the results tend to swing in Nikon's favour.

although it is cropped, but i can say it is absolutely flawless man. awesome!

Thanks man!
Inside forest even more mosquitoes x100 oh! Definitely need long sleeves, shirt and cap; and if possible, gloves too
But do be careful of snakes if you are not walking along paths. Better avoid mangroves unless if there's platforms like in Matang, since most of Malaysia's most venomous snakes are there

Well, its understandable la haha, even I am slacking after taking so damn much macro shots over the pass few weeks haha XD Looking forward to shooting portraits again even though I'm not very good

Keep it up! Looking forward to more photos from you~

that bokeh on the last picture, watched spider making it's webs too last week but too bad it's evening that time and I am under shade of leaves.


IMG_7872 by tuna97, on Flickr

Did some more testing today after I came back from work, turns out the lens has quite severe field curvature.

What this means is if the center is focused at 0.7m, the edges require pulling back the focus to 0.4m to get the sharpest result, which is actually quite comparable to the center sharpness. (Testing is done with a wall btw)

This amount varies for different distances, guess I'll just have to work around this quirk to fully utilize it.

This post has been edited by gunzerdude: Jan 8 2014, 10:27 PM

post my allergy food, should be can imagine how mosquito bite you lol

How's your leg bro?
Actually my left hand is also "infested" with a lot of these bubbles.. I think I got them during my trip to the mangrove forest

D7000 + 35MM

Great photos man~
Dayum, I want the 2nd car haha
Old yet appealing

still recovering, leg don't have swollen today, but the wound from the big bubbles still there.