sjoerd_leeuwenberg

<p>If you have an older 80-200 non-D, but ED version, you might have a small push-turn switch in stead of the slide switch in pictures from tatyana. Same effect</p>

<p>You can lock the setting to f22 by pressing and turning the small orange button</p>

<p>I think it is a much better idea to do the combination in photoshop or dedicated program.<br>

But, I did have an idea I wanted to share. You could use multiple exposure (record menu) in combination with exposure bracketing, except that I just found out that nikon blocked that. No bracketing in combination with multiple exposures. Another way that might work (it works, but will the results be nice) is to use the retouch menu and there you combine two pictures into one (raw works best) and then use some exposure bracketing to take the pictures. i think you have to dial the exposure down a bit, because the exposures add up. Don't know if the result will actually contain more dynamic range. good luck.</p>

<p>Sjoerd</p>

<p>I have filed part of the ring off on my 105mm myself. Works great.<br>

But you have to be a bit handy and careful.<br>

And it also needs to be precise (look at other lenses that already have AI) because the hole in the ring needs to push a switch on the camera to let it know it's at minimum aperture I think</p>

<p>Do you have any pictures of the lens so we can have a look?<br>

I took apart my 105mm F2.5 twice for regreasing and AI conversion, but that had screws.<br>

Sometimes (not the all metal versions of course) they have the screws under the focus ring rubber I think.<br>

Good luck</p>

<p>Hi,<br>

There are some predictions going on about<br>

Two new FX lenses: AF-S 24mm f/1.4 prime and AF-S 16-35mm f/4G ED VR zoom lenses |<br>

Not everybody likes 'predictions', but maybe worth it to wait a few days.</p>

<p>Happy new year everybody, great pictures already<br />It's been a while since I posted but I thought it was a good moment to start again.<br />Thanks to Jose and matt for their hard work.<br>

I will send my snow landscape picture next week since there are already so many winter pictures.<br />The picture I send started out as a demo of the lens to someone, but I liked the picture a lot even though the focus is not perfect. It reminds me of a certain movie. The picture was taken during the family xmas dinner and it is of my sister in law. Hope you enjoy.<br />Taken with the D90 and 80-200mm @ 200mm F2.8 1/60s iso 800</p><div></div>

<p>Thank you for the wonderful wednesdays</p>

<p>This week we have been busy working on the house, so I am a bit late and I see there are already some excellent pictures here. Richard Armstrong, nice, interesting reflections. I have the feeling it's an upside-down picture.<br /> I don't want to heat the discussing, but I have seen some pictures these weeks that have been compressed a little too much for me. <br /> This week I have a picture from a trip to Belgium some days ago. We walked a lot and we saw a lot of mushrooms.<br /> Here is one of the more interesting ones, no mushrooms were hurt in the making of this picture, haha.<br /> I like the lines nature created here. Taken with the D90 + 18-200mm @ 200mm F8 1/125s<br /> Keep up the good work everybody.</p><div></div>

<p>Wauw, great pictures again.<br>

I was planning to submit a marathon or mushroom picture and then there were two already, haha.<br>

Well, maybe next week.<br>

Just some nikon-fun this week<br>

D90 and micro 55mm F2.8 (F1.00 it says, haha, if I should be so lucky) @ F-can't remember with an extra macro converter from an unknown but high quality brand, SB600 for some extra light</p><div></div>

<p>Hi everybody, great pictures again this week.<br>

Here is another picture from the marathon a few weeks ago.<br>

Taken with the D90 and 80-200 @ 200mm F4 1/2000s iso 400</p>

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<p>I think most of KR comments are correct if you read them thoroughly and sometimes you have to take them with some consideration to your own use. <br>

I have the old 80-200 push pull and love the quality. I use it for sports occasionally like the last two weeks for two marathons. And although almost all of the pictures I took were taken with the 80-200 (mostly at 200mm 2.8 anyway, so why I need a zoom, I don't know?), but I do remember swearing a lot at the lens for getting to focus too late. BUT it all depends on the kind of sport and how you can reach focus. If you can really follow the subject then maybe will be ok if they approach you fast (like in the marathon), but otherwise you will miss a lot of them (@ 2.8). It all depends on the distance of course, this only becomes a problem when closer than let's say 10 meters. When you shoot someone passing by from some distance it shouldn't be a problem. Maybe also depends on the camera, I have a D90, maybe a d300+ will do better.</p>

<p>I am pretty sure the newer versions of the 80-200 are BETTER for sports and other photography in general, but that doesn't mean it's can't be done or that it will give problems, just try for yourself.<br>

Here are some of the pictures I took some weeks ago at one of the marathons, all taken with the 80-200.<br>

http://picasaweb.google.nl/sjoerd3/MarathonEindhoven2009Top30#</p>

 

<p>Thanks to Larry, Joseph and Roberta for the kind comments last week.<br />Last two weekends I had the opportunity to photograph TWO marathons.<br />One crossed the street where I live in Eindhoven the Netherlands.<br />The other crossed the street where my parents live in Amsterdam.<br />This picture is from the first. It is of a guy running in the marathon and you can see from his face that he was having a hard time. I like his expression and all the items he was wearing. I was sitting on top of a bridge to get nice expressions on the faces, haha.<br />I used a monopod to support the lens with a homemade lensbracket. I wished I had a grip since most pictures were portrait and after a few hours my arms got really tired.<br />I also made a raincoat for lens and camera, but the rain stopped when I got out of the house. Well, better safe than sorry.<br />Taken with the D90 + 80-200mm @ F2.8 200mm 1/750s iso 200.</p><div></div>

<p>Picture taken in germany at the nurnberg ring.<br />They built this nice rollercoaster that runs through a few buildings.<br />Looks great, but I think the safety commissions DIDN'T approve the design, so it's just a piece of art now, haha. Taken with the D90 + 18-200mm @ 18mm F4.8 1/90s iso 200.<br />Great pictures last week everybody, will try to comment on this weeks pictures later.</p><div></div>

<p>What about cheating a little bit.<br>

I'm not super good with photoshop, but if you are using a tripod, I bet you could take that shot first without people, low iso, long exposure, even different apertures maybe. And then take the people picture with filtered flash and use photoshop to lighten the background a bit with the help of the other picture. Just a thought.</p>

<p>Hi,<br>

Don't wanna make this a contest of who can compress the worst picture, but I think Shun's picture is not the best example. The smaller version has extra shadow and text and still the difference is hard to see. I will include a picture with some high detail and high contrast side by side (left is 198kB originally right is 96kB originally). Saved as a HQ jpg afterwards I know.<br>

I think the difference is easy to see (when you know the original), but the impact is also lower. A test with compression twice at different resolutions Full res->intermediate->700 wide made things a lot worse. So how you prepare the jpg and which program you use also counts for a lot. I think most (99%) of the pictures (especially horizontal 700 wide) never need more than 200kB.<br>

just my second cent</p><div></div>

<p>And now with picture</p><div></div>

<p>This week I submit the picture I talked about last week.<br />It is a picture I wanted to take for some time and finally got the perfect moment for it.<br />It is one of the biggest and most photographed object ever. The moon.<br />And I know it isn't the best moon picture but it was just something I wanted to try.<br />I played with the colors a bit in lightroom to make it a more unusual picture and I like the results, I hope you do too. I took it two weekends ago at my parents house. I saw the nice half (well quarter actually) moon and ran to get the biggest lens we have, an ancient Novoflex 600mm F5.6 I think (One single lens element and a beautiful aperture). I went to the top floor and placed the long lens (+/-600mm) on a chair (I didn't have any tripod there) and lifted the front with a small pillow. I was hell trying to focus right because that is done with a gunlike grip. But the liveview helped. It was also fantastic to see the liveview, zoom in and see the moon moving across the screen in a minute or so. I made a video too ;-) <br />Taken with the D90 + 600mm Novoflex @ F8 or F11.<br />I hope this wonderful thread lives on.</p>

<p>Just a few comments about this interesting thread:<br>

I agree with joseph and some others that it IS working great for a lot of people.<br>

<br />I also think the main problem is with the size of some of the images. 200Kb should suffice. And I can imagine that in a database it doesn't matter whether it is a picture or text, but then it also shouldn't matter how much text it is. I do understand this puts an ever bigger burden on our great commenters. But I think that not many trolls will post 20+ lines of comments and maybe we can share the load by not replying to a troll-post or unappropriate post but to send a mail to one of the moderators. In that way we all contribute to the moderation a bit.<br>

If I had a slow connection I would wait a bit longer or get a faster account. It is worth it.</p>

<p>I do agree that the thanking the thanking gets a bit out of hand sometimes and I'm sure everybody knows how much comments are appreciated. Especially from the bulk commenters.<br />Although sometimes I get frustrated when I 'only' get comments from them. But that just means I need better pictures. I think nobody will dislike constructive comments at all. I would like to see more of that only when the picture really needs it.</p>

<p>Maybe a bit rough, but I think that people that don't want to see the comments in the way it was, they should a) post and look in NW threads or b) just scroll. But that is just my view. Many people have already (automatically) adapted the commenting to the friday or so and this means all the 'big' comments are at the bottom and there won't be many pictures there. So people not enjoying long comments can stay clear from that part of this fantastic forum.</p>

<p>I think a separate thread for the comments could work. Provided a direct link is available. But I think it is not needed because of the smaller filesizes and a bit longer wait. For the moderator this shouldn't matter, since (I imagine) he checks the comments thread as well. Commenting on each photo individually won't work I think, because it is a lot more work and clicking, and the rest cannot learn from the comments on other pictures. I think this would largely kill the thread as it is. An extra page after the first fills up could work, but won't help lex's work and everybody will still be waiting the same time in the end. With a single page the pictures that you have seen before are already in the cache anyway.</p>

<p>Maybe everybody can add a text line to it's next post, showing how long last weeks thread (after clearing cache) took to load, picture size and a small line about how many/what kind of comments they would like. I'm sure Mark Cooper can make a list of the results. and I do believe he needs help!!!<br />I'm glad Jonathan Matter has volunteered to help him with the statistics.</p>

<p>About the 'freshness' of the pictures: I think the idea is good but many times it is hard to always have a fresh picture. As long as the spirit of sharing and learning/improving is there.</p>

<p>Did I say 'a few'? hmm, well, just my one cent. And to everybody reading the whole thread, we are already well over 16000 words.</p>

 

<p>Hi everybody,<br />Didn't have time last week to comment and when I had time, I was too late and the thread was closed. Many great pictures and comments last week as usual. Thanks to Erik (I have seen logan's run before, but it doesn't ring a bell, I will have a look when I find it), Per-Christian, Jeannean, Joseph, Lil (loved your Aplha Egret) and Roberta (I think the faces underneath looked a bit dummy ;-) ) for commenting on my picture.<br />This weekend I took a picture that I planned to take for a while and it's picture that has been made for a million times (and probably 999000 times with better results) but it was something I just wanted to try.<br />BUT, I wanted to make it a bit different with processing, but I haven't had time for it yet.<br />So, I submit an older picture of a house of a friend of mine (hopefully I didn't post it before). I liked the shapes of the stairs and ceiling. They were reconstructing the house and that is why there were some white boards placed on the second floor and I don't like the wire hanging there, but I didn't notice until I viewed the picture on the computer and didn't feel like cloning it out.<br />Taken with the D90 + 18-200mm @ 18mm F8 1/250s iso 200</p><div></div>

<p>Maybe also good to include some pictures to give us an idea of what good or bad is.<br>

I sometimes have trouble getting the lighting right, because there is a lot of contrast. Especially when the background is dark, the metering sees a lot of darkness and makes highlights (normally the faces or bodies with lights on them) too bright which also can look like unsharpness. Spot metering or manual settings might help.</p>

<p>Wauw, great birdshots Jose and Lil, and chris is making everybody jealous already, again.<br />My picture is from a few weeks ago since I didn't have any time to select anything from last week. It was from a trip to the nurnberg ring in germany. There were these 'shops' displaying special cars and trying to sell special shirts. This shop had a nice setup of guys with helmets. Didn't have a great lens on to really play with DOF, but the effect is there.<br />Taken with the D90 and the 18-200mm @ 80mm F5 1/60s iso 200<br />Watching the pictures already there I bet this will be another great wednesday.</p><div></div>

<p>Jose, too bad to hear about the fires<br />Chris, great macro, as usual<br />Mike, love the earmuffs<br />Ton, great portrait, as usual<br />Gary, What a sky and water, I love it<br />Wayne, the colors are nice indeed even without polariser<br />Paul, nice waterdrops<br />Christian, nice streetview<br />Zoltan, maybe would have been nice if you flipped the picture and see if people would notice<br />Aaron, nice B/W, <br />Paul, nice layers of mountains<br />Terry, great colors<br />Steve, nice picture, gotta have that tokina, just too bad you just missed the top of the building and I would get rid of the black spots top left<br />Tom, WHO STOPPED GRAVITY, that's gotta hurt, great 3D picture<br />to MS Keil, this was in a place close to kall, that is a bit south/west of Koln<br />Thanks to jeannean, Joseph, Lil for commenting on my and so many other pictures.</p>

<p>I think some people are jealous right now, INCLUDING ME!!!!</p>

<p>Hi everybody,<br />Every week it seems to get harder to find a picture for this thread to try and follow the high level of pictures from everybody.<br />This week I have a picture I took of two friends of mine. For the weekend we went to my brother in germany and we went to a luge tobogganing track if that is the right name for it. We had a lot of fun there, they went lugeing down and me taking pictures. My little niece did not always look super happy going down, maybe a bit too fast for her. One of my favourites was this picture.<br />Taken with the D90 and 80-200mm @ F3.3 1/500s 200mm iso 200.</p><div></div>