awfulsteelmelon
Vintage zoom bokeh
Late March, the time when the pandemic began to actually lose momentum, on one of many solitary walks; also the time I had a valid excuse for the extended hikes I was doing anyway. 😜
Unlike primes, vintage zooms get a bad rap in general and I can sort of understand where this is coming from, and frankly ..it's not unfounded. Yet, over time, I came to the discovery that there are exceptions (at least in the Nikon pantheon, usually the ones with constant aperture), very well worth putting in some effort, cause they deliver.
In retrospect I'm not, but at the time I was kind of surprised how quickly the 28-50mm AI-S became my goto landscape walk-around lens. Incredible useful focal range, both on FX and DX, it obviously is a compromise in terms of maximum aperture and things related to that compare to primes, but not in regard to image quality in general. It's a weirdly constructed little native AI-S lens, that has all the vintage qualities I cherish.
Is it my first choice for creamy bokeh? Probably not, yet it is able to do some nice things with the pseudo-macro function at f/3.5. Good enough for me it seems. 😊
Nikon D7200 (APS-C crop sensor / DX)
Zoom-NIKKOR 28-50mm f/3.5 AI-S
ISO100, 50mm, f/3.5, 1/1000sec (-0.7EV)
(therefore 75mm full frame equivalent)
single photo, handheld, pseudo-macro
mode focusing to (minimum) 0.35m
Vintage zoom bokeh
Late March, the time when the pandemic began to actually lose momentum, on one of many solitary walks; also the time I had a valid excuse for the extended hikes I was doing anyway. 😜
Unlike primes, vintage zooms get a bad rap in general and I can sort of understand where this is coming from, and frankly ..it's not unfounded. Yet, over time, I came to the discovery that there are exceptions (at least in the Nikon pantheon, usually the ones with constant aperture), very well worth putting in some effort, cause they deliver.
In retrospect I'm not, but at the time I was kind of surprised how quickly the 28-50mm AI-S became my goto landscape walk-around lens. Incredible useful focal range, both on FX and DX, it obviously is a compromise in terms of maximum aperture and things related to that compare to primes, but not in regard to image quality in general. It's a weirdly constructed little native AI-S lens, that has all the vintage qualities I cherish.
Is it my first choice for creamy bokeh? Probably not, yet it is able to do some nice things with the pseudo-macro function at f/3.5. Good enough for me it seems. 😊
Nikon D7200 (APS-C crop sensor / DX)
Zoom-NIKKOR 28-50mm f/3.5 AI-S
ISO100, 50mm, f/3.5, 1/1000sec (-0.7EV)
(therefore 75mm full frame equivalent)
single photo, handheld, pseudo-macro
mode focusing to (minimum) 0.35m