Ben's Photo Sketchbook: October 2009

Friday, 30 October 2009

Fire Wood - 薪

Nelson, New Zealand
Nikon D200
Ai Nikkor 28mm F3.5
F8, 1/250, ISO-400

Monday, 26 October 2009

Fire Engine - 消防車

Nelson, New Zealand

Nikon D200
Ai Nikkor 28mm F3.5
F8, 1/1250, ISO-400

Sunday, 25 October 2009

Cafe Lambletta - カフェ・ランブレッタ

Nelson, New Zealand

Nikon D200
Ai Nikkor 28mm F3.5
F8, 1/640, ISO-400

Friday, 23 October 2009

Nelson, New Zealand
Nikon D200
Ai Nikkor 28mm F3.5
F3.5, 1/1000, ISO-100

I'm in search of good and reasonably priced an "AI-s 28mm/F2.8" for a long time.
I just obtained this 1970's gem (old - well used lens), just popped up in my raider. It has scratch on front element, some fungus in side (tiny). I have cleaned mount as much as I can.

It still give me a good contrast - lens hood helps a quite bit. There is a no flair against sun.

It will be great for street shots with DX cams (28x1.5 = 42mm equip/35mm full frame) with set to around F8/F11 and taking some blind shots by using deep DOF. It's like good old days. I like physically restricting myself with help of a limitation of the prime lenses. I absolutely love love my 50mm, but 24mm is little bit difficult in some extreme case (flare issue).

This shall fulfil my purpose until I found a good copy of an Ai-s version.

Clouds - 遠景

Nelson, New Zealand

Nikon D200
AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-210mm F4-5.6 D @ 210mm
F5.6, 1/350, ISO-100

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Clouds - 雲のケープ

Nelson, New Zealand

Nikon D200
Ai-S Nikkor 300mm F4.5 ED-IF
F4.5, 1/2000, ISO-400

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Atomic - アトミック

A long-black at Morrison Street Cafe. I had a little sip to see the logo.
Nelson, New Zealand
Nikon D200
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm F2.8 XR Di II (A16N) @ 50mm
F4, 1/25, ISO-400