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  1. <p>Thanks, Steve! The kit lenses have definitely gotten a lot better for landscapes since they've started building them wider at the wide end (and since software like Lightroom started packing in presets for correcting distortion and vignetting.)<br> Since moving to Iceland, I've definitely come to feel that lens choice is a secondary consideration to getting in front of an amazing scene with a camera at all. Some of my iPhone images rival the Nikon's for impact, even though its images lack the latter's fine technical detail.</p>
  2. markwilkins

    Vista House

    Exposure Date: 2015:12:19 21:45:53; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 1/200 s; FNumber: f/8; ISOSpeedRatings: 200; ExposureProgram: Aperture priority; ExposureBiasValue: 0/1; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 35 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 35 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.3 (Macintosh);
  3. Exposure Date: 2015:12:19 21:49:07; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 1/160 s; FNumber: f/8; ISOSpeedRatings: 200; ExposureProgram: Aperture priority; ExposureBiasValue: 0/1; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 35 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 35 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.3 (Macintosh);
  4. Exposure Date: 2015:12:19 21:45:28; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 1/640 s; FNumber: f/5; ISOSpeedRatings: 200; ExposureProgram: Aperture priority; ExposureBiasValue: 0/1; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 35 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 35 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.3 (Macintosh);
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    Multnomah Falls

    Exposure Date: 2015:12:19 23:35:07; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 1/200 s; FNumber: f/2; ISOSpeedRatings: 1600; ExposureProgram: Aperture priority; ExposureBiasValue: 0/1; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 25 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 25 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.3 (Macintosh);
  6. <p>I've had a total of three lenses in my life that have really stood out. The first was the 50mm f/2 on the Pentax K1000 I bought for myself in college. The second was my Summilux 35mm f/1.4 which I bought as part of a Leica M7 kit I bought as my sole personal indulgence after a sudden financial windfall. The third, and the one relevant to this discussion, is my Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8 AF-S bought in 2005.<br /> This lens has survived a few camera body swaps, from a D1x to a D200 to my current D800, and it just works so well for me in so many circumstances, from indoor personal photography to landscapes that I rarely reach for anything else.<br /> I'm not a huge equipment partisan, and since moving to Iceland I have occasionally carried, instead, the much-maligned 24-120 f/3.5-5.6 VR (which everyone's favorite lens reviewer Ken Rockwell has on his 10 worst Nikkor lenses of all time list!) However, since a slip on ice while visiting Þingvellir in late March that resulted in a broken ankle and a damaged lens, I've retired it and replaced it with the current AF-S 24-85 f/3.5-4.5 VR, from which I'm looking for greater things.<br /> Still, when it came time to decide what lenses to risk dropping in the drink on a Zodiac tour of Jökulsárlón in September, out came the 17-35/2.8 AF-S.<br /> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18095235-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" /><br /> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18095236-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" /><br /> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18095234-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" /><br> A couple nights earlier, watching for the aurora from a cabin near Vík, the same lens came in handy under very different conditions:<br> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18095232-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" /></p>
  7. markwilkins

    Snæfellsness

    Exposure Date: 2015:09:19 07:21:13; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 1/1000 s; FNumber: f/6; ISOSpeedRatings: 400; ExposureProgram: Aperture priority; ExposureBiasValue: 0/6; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 22 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 22 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows);
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    Urriðafoss

    Exposure Date: 2015:09:23 04:24:53; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 1/320 s; FNumber: f/8; ISOSpeedRatings: 125; ExposureProgram: Aperture priority; ExposureBiasValue: 0/6; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 17 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 17 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows);
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    Jökulsárlón

    Exposure Date: 2015:09:22 05:56:48; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 1/640 s; FNumber: f/8; ISOSpeedRatings: 400; ExposureProgram: Aperture priority; ExposureBiasValue: 6/6; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 17 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 17 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows);
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    Jökulsárlón

    Exposure Date: 2015:09:22 05:36:03; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 1/500 s; FNumber: f/8; ISOSpeedRatings: 400; ExposureProgram: Aperture priority; ExposureBiasValue: 6/6; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 35 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 35 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows);
  11. Exposure Date: 2015:09:22 05:25:58; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 1/500 s; FNumber: f/8; ISOSpeedRatings: 400; ExposureProgram: Aperture priority; ExposureBiasValue: 6/6; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 35 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 35 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows);
  12. markwilkins

    Jökulsárlón

    Exposure Date: 2015:09:22 05:23:23; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 1/125 s; FNumber: f/8; ISOSpeedRatings: 200; ExposureProgram: Aperture priority; ExposureBiasValue: 0/6; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 20 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 20 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows);
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    Aurora near Vík

    Exposure Date: 2015:09:21 18:03:29; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 13/1 s; FNumber: f/3; ISOSpeedRatings: 6400; ExposureProgram: Manual; ExposureBiasValue: 0/6; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 17 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 17 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows);
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    Stykkishólmur

    Exposure Date: 2015:09:20 04:18:41; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 1/100 s; FNumber: f/8; ISOSpeedRatings: 100; ExposureProgram: Aperture priority; ExposureBiasValue: 0/6; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 24 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 24 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows);
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    Stykkishólmur

    Exposure Date: 2015:09:20 05:40:41; Make: NIKON CORPORATION; Model: NIKON D800; ExposureTime: 1/125 s; FNumber: f/8; ISOSpeedRatings: 100; ExposureProgram: Aperture priority; ExposureBiasValue: 0/6; MeteringMode: Pattern; Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode; FocalLength: 25 mm; FocalLengthIn35mmFilm: 25 mm; Software: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows);
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