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  1. <p>Spring Mushing. Heading home on sunday after a night out in peaceful surroundings.</p><div></div>
  2. <p>@Rodeo Joe. Thanks for the kind words. Great bird photos!</p>
  3. <p>Spring is here...</p> <center><img src="http://graysfoto.com/content/Friluftsliv/spring%20camping.jpg" alt="spring camping" /></center><center><strong>D3s & 35mm 1.8 DX @f2.5</strong></center>
  4. <p>Patrick S. Thanks for your comment! I hope your dog makes a speedy recovery. <br> Shun, I´ll try to be a more regular poster, but can´t make any promises ;-)</p>
  5. <p>Thursday evening my son and I took turns training the dogs. Here are a couple of snaps of him riding the sled.</p> <p align="center"><img src="http://www.graysfoto.com/content/Friluftsliv/hundekjoering.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="469" /></p> <p align="center"> D3s with 200-400 VRII. ISO 12800, 1/250, f4.</p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><img src="http://www.graysfoto.com/content/Friluftsliv/hundekjoering3.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="469" align="middle" /></p> <p align="center"> D3s with 70-200 VRII. ISO 12800, 1/100, f2,8.</p>
  6. <p>Looks like the grey version of the D5300 to me. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1024155-REG/nikon_1524_d_5300_slr_with_18_55mm.html</p>
  7. <p>Thanks Edwin. Had not heard of Rin Tin Tin, but I just googled it. Found a picture that certainly bears a resemblance :-)</p>
  8. <p>This is Solan, one of my Siberian Huskys. Picture was taken in early July during our summer vacation. </p><div></div>
  9. <p>Seems you are both right. At first glance the aperture diaphragm seems to open and close perfectly when I move the lever up and down, although there is a tiny delay, or stickyness, in the closing of the blades when I let go from fully open. It´s only just noticable, but would indeed be enough of a lag to effect the exposure. I saw it more clearly when I compared it to a newer lens. <br /><br />Thanks for your help. </p>
  10. <p>I just got back from an easter camping trip in the mountains. Before leaving I decided to take a lens and camera combo I didn´t need to be too worried about getting thrown around in the tent or getting wet in the snow etc... I was only going to be shooting holiday snap-shots so I wasn´t too concerned about the quality of the pictures. So I put an old cheap 35-70mm 3.3-4.5 AF on my D3s and went about taking pictures. Before long I noticed that the lens was overexposing as I increased the f-number.<br /> The aperture ring was locked on f22 and in the display everything appeared normal. The aperture number increased as I rotated the sub command dial and the shutter speed subsequently decreased. I was shooting in A mode with matrix metering. There was no exposure compensation applied. The combination of shutter speed and aperture displayed should have given a correct exposure, but it didn´t. <br /> This led me to believe that the aperture was in fact not changing as the shot was taken, although it was changing if I pressed the preview button. Pictures taken at the max aperture of 3.3-4.5 were always correctly exposed, but by the time I reached f11 the overexposure was just horrible. At f22 the picture was almost completely white. <br /><br />Puzzled by the fact that the aperture wasn´t physically changing I began exploring solutions to the problem. I found that I was able to get the correct aperture if I did any of the following...</p> <ol> <li>shot in Mup mode</li> <li>activated exposure delay</li> <li>locked focus, pressed the preview button and fired a shot</li> </ol> <p>This in turn got me thinking that maybe the aperture lever in the camera wasn´t closing the aperture blades fast enough, so I took a picture of a dark scene, where the shutter speed fell to around 1/3 of a second for an aperture of f16. Guess what? I got a correctly exposed picture! <br /> Anyone else ever experience something like this? I know most people don´t bother putting cheap old lenses on their newer cameras, but maybe someone has tried?<br /> I tested the lens on a D300 and a D800 when I got home and the results were the same, so I was able to rule out the D3s as the problem. I should add that the aperture lever on the lens appears to be working normally and is not abnormally stiff. So what am I doing wrong? Surely the camera should stop down the lens before the shot is taken, regardless of the shutter speed?</p>
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