chandrasekharan_p.v.

PARALLELY LINED/HERRINGBONE PATTERNS,DARK CONDITIONS,MORE OBJECTS IN THE SAME LINE OF FOCUS,MOVING SUBJECT ETC ARE A CHALLENGE TO ANY AUTOFOCUS LENS.MANUAL FOCUS IS IDEAL.AFTER ALL AN ATOFOCUS LENS CANNOT MATCH HUMAN BRAIN AND THE EYES.

16-70 mm VR IF ED DX, f3.5-5.6

What is so special about the above wideangle-tele zoom as long as its aperture is as small as 3.5/5.6? But the suggested range is okey.Mfrs. struggle hard to come near to Unity in lens aperture to increase the speed. I dont think a short lens like this need VR.Anyway it is for Nikon to study the proposal.

 

-foggyfogey

Taking photos while travelling by trains of people and places is really interesting,as long as we do not invade the privacy of others. A year and a half before I took my daughter and her kid son around when she came on a small vacation from NJ to India.I attach a candid shot for the forum which maybe topical.<div></div>

THO' MORE THAN 3 YEARS AFTER THE COMMENTS OF TAMRON TELE ZOOM LENSES,THE PIX PUBLISHED BY EDWARD AND DENES GALYO ARE NOTHING TO CROW ABOUT. THE LIZARD IS DEFINITELY OUT OF FOCUS ON MANY OF ITS BODY PARTS, WHILE THE BUILDING LOOKS HAZY IN THE NIGHT LIGHTS.ANY ZOOM LENS FOR THAT MATTER WILL NOT BE AS SHARP TO ITS LAST FOCAL DISTANCE OR AT WIDEST APERTURE.SOME TIMES DIGITAL PIX TAKEN AT HIGH MP IN WIDE MODE GIVES BETTER REULSTS ON MAGNIFICATION, THAN THE SO-CALLED LONG DISTANCE TELE-ZOOM LENSES. By FOGGYFOGEY

The days of film cameras seem to be over. I read that Konica is going to shut down production of film rolls soon. Even otherwise a digital photo canbe deleted,corrected in photoshop,e-mailed, and stored easily on hard disc/RW CD's.No question of preserving film negatives.Enlarging and trimming of shots to choose parts of a picture is not possible in film rolls.One can take pix with high resolution and resizing in terms of lesser pixels without afecting picture resolutuion is possible in digital photos. A scanner however best cannot produce the same quality of the original print and there is always loss of resolution. However like others I'm also sentimental about film rolls and its acrid smell. I still struggle to keep my film negatives in good storeage and trim. More than all, the expectancy of seeing your creation after printing is absent in digital photography where your skills are immediately verifiable.But one cant help.

 

foggyfogey

Vignetting,unless intended,looks definitely irksome,and spoils the fun.From your picture it looks that the reduction in intensity of the illumination near the edges of your lens's field of view is caused by obstruction of light rays at the edge of the aperture. Or your polarizer cuts down the light passing into the camera.(Definitely no undersized filters mounted on the lens with the help adapters).These days you have Low Dispersion lenses to overcome insufficient light passing into the camera.

 

Again, a polarizer is meant to cut down the harsh shadows of the bright sunshine.Using it indiscriminately robs the light of the picture. But your picture obviously has not suffered using a polarizer.May be chromatic aberration of the lens itself.

 

Sometimes the blur or out of focus or bokeh is also is the result of telephoto/zoom lenses which have shallow depth of field .Vignetting is also done for creativity.You may try some other prime lens or even zoom at various focal lengths to study the vignetting . if vignetting persisits, you will have to say good-bye to your lens.The problem is not body.

 

foggyfogey

 

 

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Will the answer given by Mr.Peter be valid if the external flash happens to be a Non-TTL one. Will the pop-up flash interfere physically with the external flash .I am on the look out for an N75 nikon.

 

by Foggyfogey

Apropos digital photography, I read recently that beyond 5 megapixels, all are just sales talk or hype and higher megapixels are only overkills in the market to dupe gullible photo fiends.For an optimum picture resolution 5 mp is sufficient. Beyond that it is said the performance is just marginal only.I had till recently Nikon AF501 with Tamaron 35-90,till it was nicked,bought in the early 90's.Again I am proposing to buy only a film camera SLR (N75 NIKON)and not DSLR. Any day I find my digital compact Sony 5mp camera gives me the best results. I have taken hundred of photos from impossible angles and from speeding trains. No problems which u cant do with even DSLR's,I suppose. So why bother with ever changing DSLR market. But am I right?

 

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