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<p>Happy Wednesday,<br /> At home today with a tough cold, I'm happy to be one of the first persons to contribute today. <br /> <br />Erik, where are your new apartment placed in the country?</p>

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<p>Happy Wednesday, everyone!</p>

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<p>Happy Wednesday, everyone!<br>

My picture this week is a "street photo", taken at an outdoor concert in Valby, Copenhagen last weekend.</p>

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<p>I think I need to give it a try and fine tune some of my lenses. I've only tried it on a second hand AF-D 50mm, which had a functional problem and got returned to the seller (there must have been a loose lens element, since the focus performance changed from time to time).</p>

<p>Andrew, I'm really impressed by the huge amount of effort that you have put into this matter. I appreciate it, Thanks!<br>

I had hoped that your findings on the 135 f/2 DC would have been better, but I agree that it's too much glass to use at say f/5.6-8. Now that Nikon does not offer an modern AF portrait prime above 85mm, I'm also just thinking of saving for the 70-200 f/2.8 VR II. But maybe I would be happy with the Sigma Macro 150mm - I have read and seen a lot of nice work with this lens.<br>

Unfortunately I'm too eager and trigger happy to be able to use manual focus lenses for my kind of normal work.</p>

<p>In regards to the AF-S 50mm f/1.8 - would you rather buy the AF-S f/1.4?<br>

And, how much did the AF fine tune actually improve the performance - any noticeable difference in general?</p>

 

<p>Wow, Emir - very nice!</p>

<p>Hi Lil, I think I understand. But I assume that you down-scaled the picture afterwards? When I look at full res NEF files from the D800 in Capture NX2 the 25% is big that I only can see approx. half the picture on my full HD screen (1920 x 1080p).<br>

Best Regards<br>

Torben</p>

<p>Here is my contribution this week - I'm getting a bit rusty ;-)</p><div></div>

<p>Wow - another impressive Wednesday.</p>

<p>Lorne - Beautyful butterfly - stop starring at me<br />Louis - Good portrait with the 85mm f/1.8 - what apperture where used?<br />Tony - Nice details and softness<br />Lil - I like. Was is a 1/4 crop on the lenght?<br />John - sharp result and good colors with the Sigma 150mm<br />Elliot - I miss Florida when I see your picture<br />Kent - Nice, did you use dodge and burn?<br />Wade - Good action photo<br />Panayotis - Outstanding, and a bit spooky<br />Simon - Good feeling to this picture<br />Janne - Dead good :-)</p>

<p>Best Regards<br />Torben</p>

 

<p>Thanks, Robert. From f/4 it looks good to me, and f/5.6 even better. I might consider buying this second hand.</p>

<p>Hi Robert,<br /> Can you post an example of the 135 f/2 lens in the D800?</p>

<p>Here is another example, but also one that shows the pronounced vignetting wide open. But I like the effects of the vignetting and out of focus rendering. </p><div></div>

<p>Just took my 20+ year old AF Nikkor 70-210 f/4-5.6 for a morning walk. Nice to see that this lens still can give useful results, even at 200mm and handhold.</p><div></div>

<p>Andrew, I'm sorry to have mislead you. The software was named Dicomed Imagenator, and not Imagine, and I worked with it back in 96-97 (needed to find an old backup drive to find the details). Back then it was some of the most advanced software, which could handle resolution up to approx. 10K x 7K pixels coming from a pro-drum-scanner. It loaded small potions of the image into RAM, so it could to edited. Back then, this was state-of-art, but again - thats a long time ago.<br>

The 28-300 was a typo - I meant 28-200.</p>

 

<p>Andrew, I'm looking forward to hearing your results. Especially for the 135 f/2 DC - but also the 28-300. Is the 200 f/2 know to be soft wide open?<br>

Ilkka, I remember that I used to drum-scan at very high resolutions years ago, and picture editing on 128bit computer using a software called Imagine (if I remember correctly), but is has been so many years that a can't really recall the quality. </p>

<p>Coming from crop-sensor Nikon D300, where I could utilize the “sweet spot” on most lenses to get sharp results, I was keen to find out how my lenses performed on a 36MP D800 FX sensor. After taken pictures with lenses like Nikkor AF-S 24-70 F2.8G, Macro Nikkor AF-S 60 F2.8G and the old Nikkor AF-D 85 F1.8 I'm impressed. I knew that Nikkor optics generally where made in a very high grade, but it seems like the lenses where designed for these high resolutions. I can't help be specially impressed by the old Nikkor AF-D 85 1.8 – a small gem that really shines. Unfortunately I sold my approx. 23 year old AF 50mm 1.8 lens with the D300 - but I would have been fun the check the performance on a lens that old. <br /><br />What are your observations on other old lenses?</p><div></div>

<p>Hi,<br /> Really nice pictures everybody - your pictures are very inspiring :-)<br /> My picture this week is from my first walk with my new D800, where I stumbled on a local event where these Danish reality stars where attending. Perfect chance to test the FX performance - handheld.</p><div></div>

<p>Happy Wednesday - just got my new D800 yesterday.</p><div></div>

<p>I bought mine April 9th at a webshop in and my wife put my name on the waiting list the week before at a leading store in Copenhagen - but nothing has happened yet. Unfortunately I sold my D300 back in April, because I thought I was early out. Wrong decision ;-)</p>

<p>Great Pictures, Guys!</p>

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<p>Hi Kevin,<br>

With that kind of budget maybe traditionally strobe lightning would be ok for you. I use Nikon SB-800's combined, which have been bought 2nd hand, and use these with Lastolite umbrellas kits.<br>

/Torben</p>

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<p>So many great pictures - as always! I love to follow this thread, even though I rarely post pictures.</p>

<p>Benjamin Schaefer, Clive Woolls og Tiffany Brook - thanks for your kind words - it made my day.<br /><br />Matt - like the DoF<br />Jennifer - texture and look n feel is great (I would like it in poster size)<br />Craig - getting hungry :-)<br />Wayne - the chairs looks a bit like candy...<br />Doug - nice (did you use an IR converted camera?)<br />Gerald - great weather picture<br />Tiffany - heaven seems to be on earth<br />Larry - so calm<br />Edric - love the light glow on the spider (did you use flash?)<br>

Best regards<br />Torben</p>

<p>Happy Wednesday, Everyone!<br /> I must admit that I was looking forward the presentation of new Nikon D-SLR products today - only to find a new CoolPix lineup...<br /> D300 with AFS 24-70 at f4 and 1/200, with 2 x softboxes, and one remote SB-800.</p><div></div>

<p>A happy couple. D300 with AFS 24-70 f2.8 with SB-800 wireless mounted on an umbrella for shoot through.</p><div></div>