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manual focus since he was inside some bushes. he was doing a lot of preening, scratching and shaking.
D850 with manual focusing Nikon 50mm 1.8 Ai Pancake on Zeiss Standard 25 with a 25x PlanApo lens
Abbildungsmaßstab 250:1
Querschnitt durch den Stengel einer Brenn-Nessel, Schnittdicke 20 µm. Gefärbt mit Acridinrot, gefolgt von Acriflavin und dem Eisen-Tannin-Kernschwarz.
"Schwarz-Rot-Gold" sollte es werden...
Reproduction ratio 250: 1
Cross section through the stalk of a nettle, section thickness 20 µm. Stained with Acridine Red, followed by and Acriflavine and the iron tannin Kernschwarz.
Now that I've been using the telephoto lens (55-200) for quite some time, I seem to have forgotten how much I love my prime lens. Also, the joy of using manual focus. My nifty-fifty doesn't autofocus on my Nikon D3000 and frankly I don't mind that much. I prefer to use the manual anyway on the 50. Unless I'm shooting portraits - self-portraits to be precise.
It's a pain. A real pain to get the focus right manually. And then there are days like these when you are blessed and you get that sweet focus. I usually guess by the hyperfocal markings on the lens. Most of the times I get it right.
So taking into notice the following:
1. Manual Focus
2. f/1.8
3. Self Portrait
4. SOOC
I think its a neat job. I took a couple of more shots that I made a collage of. They are on the Facebook page.
Check out the coloured version here.
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Check out the black and white version here
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Read all about Nikon F manual focus lenses- Non-AI, AI, AI-S, and AI-d. What they are and how to tell them apart: www.kehblog.com/2011/10/nikon-lenses-non-ai-ai-ai-s-and-a...
Pictured: A Nikon Non-AI and an AI-S lens
For this project I wanted to use some of my old manual focus Nikkor lenses. It was something of a personal challenge to see if I could get everything I wanted in focus, even with automobiles in motion.
Day One - As cars arrived I had a very nice 35mm Nikon Nikkor f/2 pre-Ai mounted on a Sony A7. And I had a Sony NEX-7 with a LensTurbo II focal reducer and a 105mm f/2.5 Nikkor-P (later version).
Day Two - The contestant cars were displayed in the Grand Palais Ephemere at the base of the Champs de Mars. I used the Sony A7 and a Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5 and a Sony NEX-7 with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 and the 105mm f/2.5 Nikkor-P (later version).
With CV19 numbers spiking again here in Europe, I feared events would continue to be cancelled. But, just like last year, it looks like they were able to squeak in another Tour Auto. This is the old Tour de France Automobile reborn. And this is clearly an event for the well-heeled.
Okay, I accepted the challenge, and boy... wide open @F1.4, manual focus, 85 - these little bastards just keep on movin' and movin' and after few shots I thought I wouldn't get any decent photo. Persistance and practice - that's the key! :)
For the sake of my contacts I won't be uploading all of the successful ones I took today, these 2 are quite enough for this thread: www.flickr.com/groups/vivitar_85_14/discuss/7215762131014...
A sample shot of this Cold War Era manual focus USSR made M42 lens. Shot wide open at f2. I forgot to set the non-cpu lens data in my D800 and was set to my TOYO View 28mm f2.8 but nonetheless, the lens gave me a perfect exposure. And the bokeh.. is well, the main reason why I bother using this lens after all the modifications I did on my D800.