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70-200/2.8 E vs S at 200mm, quantitative

October 12, 2020 JimK Leave a Comment

This is the eleventh in a series of posts about the Nikon 70-200 mm f/2.8 S lens for Nikon Z cameras. The series starts here. In a previous post in this series, I found that my copy of the Nikon 70-200 mm f/2.8 S wasn’t quite up to the high standard set by the F-mount… [Read More]

Nikon Z6/7

Sony 135 mm STF on GFX 50R

October 10, 2020 JimK 6 Comments

Yesterday I received a Fotodiox Sony A to GFX adapter, and today I mounted a Sony 135 SLT (apodized) lens on it. I mounted the lens on a GFX 50R.   To my surprise and great pleasure, it covers the 33×44 format with no vignetting. The equivalent FF focal length for the same image height… [Read More]

GFX 50S

Nikon 70-200/2.8 S corner transition point spread functions

October 10, 2020 JimK Leave a Comment

This is the tenth in a series of posts about the Nikon 70-200 mm f/2.8 S lens for Nikon Z cameras. The series starts here. In the previous post, I looked at transitional point spread functions on axis. In this post, I’m going to do the same in the corner. As before, I used a… [Read More]

Nikon Z6/7

Nikon 70-200/2.8 S transition point spread functions

October 9, 2020 JimK Leave a Comment

This is the ninth  in a series of posts about the Nikon 70-200 mm f/2.8 S lens for Nikon Z cameras. The series starts here. In the previous post, looked at point spread functions across the image field when the lens was well out of focus. This is one piece of  bokeh. The other is… [Read More]

Nikon Z6/7

Nikon 70-200/2.8 S OOF PSFs

October 9, 2020 JimK Leave a Comment

This is the eighth in a series of posts about the Nikon 70-200 mm f/2.8 S lens for Nikon Z cameras. The series starts here. There are two pieces to bokeh. The first is what things look like when they are well out of focus (OOF), and the second is how the transition from OOF… [Read More]

Nikon Z6/7

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