Long time no contribute macro photos to this thread already





Along with a non macro one

It's two 110cm umbrellas in shoot through mode facing the subject at 11 and 1 clock position.

That's it, F**K nikon's 35mm, I'm getting this and their 35 as well

Yup, radio triggered. The background is just a piece of black muslin cloth, nothing fancy.

D610 straight la

Just got myself a 20mm 2.8D today and then you mentioned it. Come, drink up this poison~

Let's meet up some day, tempted to try your 18mm 2.8D

You posted a photo of it last time what

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

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

Consider tamron's new 70-200 VC instead. AF and sharpness is on par with Nikon's own.

edit: All that for about the same price of the 70-200 F4 VR as well

This post has been edited by gunzerdude: Jan 9 2014, 08:28 PM

Fuiiiiiiyoh 10k,

The D800's AF is plenty capable lah, just the frame rate problem only at 4fps.
Even my D700 also can sapu it in terms of fps (syok sendiri)

Normally people who shoot sports for magazines or newspapers leh, won't bother with raw files 1, they'll just shoot in jpeg or tiff to maximize buffer and also can straight pass the shots to the editor d.

This post has been edited by gunzerdude: Jan 11 2014, 09:31 PM

Lol, nowhere did I mention people are using D800s for those kinds of work, normally they just get those flagship bodies with high FPS can d.

The raw size selection really only applies to the D800/e because the rest of their lineup only tops out at 24mp whos filesizes are still manageable in maximum quality raw.

For body, there will be a substantial difference, but for lenses, it depends on what you wanna get. There are plenty of cheap (relatively speaking) FX lenses around.

As for the outcomes, with proper shooting skill, both will produce incredibly good results.
That's unless you want the DOF or other perks related to a full frame system la

wtfffffffff you post my photo here

Now everyone know me mug

This post has been edited by gunzerdude: Feb 14 2014, 09:53 AM

Hahaha, I'm just joking la

Noooooooooooo tyvm

My avatar photo got problem ke??

Long time no post here oredi~

Feels abit too HDR-ish