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The jogger with a red cap passed under this morning, while I was photographing our lakefront following an overnight spring storm. It ended up being my favorite shot. D3400 and AF-S 55-200 G II ED VR
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Fishing boats at Two Rivers , Wisconsin represent a few of the last commercial fishing businesses on the western shore of lake Michigan. -
No stones, but an antique pick up truck box mellowing out in the pasture. Found yesterday on State Highway 57, south of Fredonia, WI D3400, AF-S 55-200 GII ED VR
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I'm basing my comments here on what I've been reading on other gear-oriented sites. A majority of Nikon DX system buyers tend to be low end consumers who will likely never take the basic kit lens off. So there's not much of a specialized DX lens market for them. More serious DX shooters tend to move up to FF. The remaining (DX) D7_ _ _ and D500 users might benefit just as much from FF compatible lenses so that they don't have to eventually undergo a complete system change when they move up to FF. The hole left in Nikon's DX line is mostly a lack of DX-specific wide angle and ultra wide angle zooms and primes. These would be expensive to design and produce. The numbers just wouldn't be there to make it profitable. Talk on other gear-oriented sites is that mirrorless FF is the coming tide. If Nikon and Canon want to get on board, that's where you can expect to see new lens designs go. Consumer DX is still very popular and profitable for Nikon, but maybe not in the long term when people will find more compact advanced mirrorless cameras with FF sensors from other manufacturers, with Sony already in the lead. A market for pros in Nikon FF DSLRs will remain, according to the gurus I've seen quoted.
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I've had the Yongnuo 50mm 1.8 N which is supposedly a better lens in quality than the 35mm. When I could get it to focus properly, it was my sharpest lens at the center. Edges not so much. But it has been so completely erratic and unpredictable on my D3400 (unless focusing manually off the sensor in live view) that after two months and a few thousand exposures I actually put it out in the garbage today. I wouldn't push this lens off on anybody for money. Sorry, to report this way. But true.
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From a walk in the Lake Michigan dunes, last Friday:
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This one is from a $79 refurb Nikon L620 last Friday:
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Photograph taken with your first digital camera
vrankin replied to Gerald Cafferty's topic in No Words
This is the first digital photo in my library. Though the EXIF has gotten goofed up after going through many different computers and photo libraries, I believe it was taken with a Kodak DC280 around 2001. It won a photo contest in the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Press Gazette.
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My AF-P 18-55 Nikkor just works for me. Even higher ISO shooting and processing raw in DXO OpticsPro is very good. I don't need to haul multiple primes anymore.
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Hanging out at our harbor, as the sun set.
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In landscape I chimp from the RGB Histogram, sometimes re-shooting with compensation. For candids and family events I use face detection AF/AE. Raw files at default EV have sufficient latitude for any minor tonal curve adjustments in post. With each newer sensor/processor combination I'm closer to everything being right in the original file at default AE settings.
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A second one, taken just before the Badger Car Ferry came around to dock in Manitowoc, WI this afternoon. I like this one in Photo Illustration Mode more than the original, though some may disagree. D3400, 55-200 VR II
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Coneflowers are blooming in our flower garden. D3400, 55-200 VR II
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