wademonahan

This level of magnification is something you couldn't easily do on film, and even if you did, all you'd see would be grain/dye clouds and a fuzzy-edged image of even the sharpest-focussed detail.

 

Welcome to the unforgiving world of digital photography. No slack given here I'm afraid.

 

yes, i am learning this the hard way. i posted this in a bit of a panic because i was getting close to the date where i could return the camera, but i am not realizing that i need to readjust to these new standards. it's exciting.

joseph_smith|3 thanks for bringing this up. i took a bunch of landscape photos at f/22 when i first got the camera and they all looked like crap. i then looked it up and found out that diffraction was the culprit. i've been shooting at f11-13 ever since and been quite happy with the results.

thanks for the replies everyone! mike_halliwell brings up a good point, which is that i have 20 years of experience shooting film and i have taken very similar shots and gotten a much deeper depth of field, hence the confusion. it seems like this will be a matter of adjusting to a new way of doing things, which is totally fine by me. i just wanted to check in with people and see what their experience has been.

Hi everyone, I'm a photographer with 20 years of experience shooting film with nothing but Nikon cameras. I recently decided to invest in a digital camera and settled on the Nikon D800E due to its high resolution, the sharpness of the images it produces and, most importantly, because that's all I can afford right now.

 

I have taken it out for a few rounds of shoots and have been experiencing a very odd and frustrating problem with the depth of field being too shallow, even at f/22 and it's driving me crazy. I'm attaching a few examples (all crops at 100%) with relevant information to illustrate the issue. The lenses I am using are a Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 AI-s and a Voigtländer 40mm f/2.0 Ultron SL II-S.

 

Am I missing something? Has anyone encountered such an issue? Or have any clue as to why this is happening? Did I just get a dud and should I return it to the seller? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

Voigtländer 40mm, f/16, 1/60, ISO 6400

 

Nikkor 28mm, f/22, 1/60 shutter speed, ISO 100

 

Voigtländer 40mm, f/22, 1/60 shutter speed, ISO 100

 

Voigtländer 40mm, f/13, 1/100 shutter speed, ISO 100

hi everyone,

 

i am really loving the results i get with perceptol in general and would like to develop my rolls of rollei superpan 200 in it, but i can't find any dev times online. does anyone have experience using perceptol with this film? and if so, could you share dev times for rolls shot at box speed? any help would be appreciated.

 

thanks!

wade