Archives for 2015

Yesterday, we looked at the performance of the following lenses: Nikon 60mm f/2.8 AF Micro-Nikkor Nikon 58mm f/1.4 AFS-Nikkor G Coastal Optical 60mm f/4 UV-Vis-IR Apo Macro Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG Art (Copy 1) Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG Art (Copy 2) Zeiss 55mm f/1.4 Otus when aimed at a distant landscape at f/4, the widest… [Read More]

I had some fun with the medium telephoto shootout last week, and I hope you did, too. I thought I’d do the same with some longish normal lenses. The, ahem, normal, definition of a normal lens is a lens whose focal length is equal to the diagonal of the film format. By that definition, the… [Read More]

Here are a few images from yesterday. The top one is my favorite. I like the rectilinear mapping. It’s not often I can use it because my usual total stitched image field is too wide. Maybe I’ll experiment with a longer lens — these were all with a 60 — to narrow the field of… [Read More]

i struggled with the oak trees on Wednesday. I’m not sure why; the weather was perfect for what I’m doing. A weak storm ended, and I was out to catch the clearing sky. I hit it perfectly. That was it. Two keepers. I think this could be a good image if I could master the… [Read More]