nathan_wong2

<p>I know it's not the same, but at my brother's wedding we had 37 people outdoors with the blue light of twilight. I had the photographer use my D700/24mm f/1.4G/SB900 to take our photo. The photographer stood pretty far back but got everyone in the picture. It came out great. Everyone was sharp as a tack and it came out fantastic. I wish someone had taken a photo like that at my wedding instead of the Canon that my photographer used. Man, I had to really use the distortion adjustment in Photoshop for the corners of the picture to make everyone look undistorted.</p>

<p>Actually concerning Canon abandoning the FD mount in favor of their current mount, it appears they did a good thing nowadays but I remember when it first happened Canon people were P***ED, to put is lightly. I think a lot of people may have jumped ship to Nikon when they did that since Nikon kept their mount. However, nowadays they've slowly changed it. Yes, you can mount old lenses on new camera bodies, but you lose a lot of the features. <br> To the original poster, the AI-S lens aren't like G or E, so you get the aperture ring. </p>

<p>I've been using the 28-300 since it came out in 2012 and love the lens. I see people write how terrible it is and how it's this or that and I just think it's their opinion. I use it on the D700 and it has been a great companion, though very heavy. The 24mm and 85mm f/1.4G that I use are almost just as heavy though. I found that the 28-300 is really a f/8 lens because using it at f/5.6 isn't the best thing on the planet, but at f/8 and higher (f/22) it's great. At f/11 it beats out my Hasselblad Carl Zeiss 180mm f/4 CF lens and that was one of the sharper lenses that they made for the V series. It also is sharper than the Nikkor 400mm f/5.6 AIs. Now granted both of those lenses were made for film so that could be the reasoning, but I still use those two lenses extensively with my D700.<br> Here's my flickr page for some examples of what I took. Overall I think it's a fine lens and the limiting factor was that my camera only had 12MP. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nathantw/sets/72157627518315711/</p>

<p>I seriously would look at the F6 instead if you don't think the FM3a isn't the right choice. </p>

<p>Hasselblad 553ELX, 60mm f/3.5, Kodak Plus-X 125<br /> <a title="Tree branches by nathantw, on Flickr" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nathantw/14275897873"><img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2923/14275897873_bf6232c985_z.jpg" alt="Tree branches" width="621" height="640" /></a></p>