Milky Way (new D850 & old Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5)

[MFloyd]

A picture of yesterday night of the Milky Way. Some light pollution from the city (Geneva) despite I'm 13 kms further. My new D850 coupled on my old Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5 I bought new in 1971 ..


Nikon D850
Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5
f3.5 13s ISO 2500

HR Prodibi image: https://mfloyd.prodibi.com/a/2x9y7yxg9w89r8/i/wryzggdvmq4dv4

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[Akira]

Looks amazing.  The potential of this first 20mm Nikkor seems to be unleashed by the latest D850!

[armando_m]

Nice image !

Where I live summer is cloudy and rainy every day, my time to shoot the milky way is before or after December/January

And I try to find locations further away than 100km from large cities, it is an extra effort but worth the results

[jgould2]

Good looking image. That 20mm lens seems to play nice with the D850. Especially at only 13 seconds.

JIM

[MFloyd]

Thank you Akira, Armando and Jim  . Yes, the UD 20mm is definitely in for a second career. I did some noice suppression with Dfine2. These are my first "star" pictures; still a lot to learn.

[Jakov Minić]

I like the light pollution, adds a touch. Well done.

[MFloyd]

Thanks Jacov 

[bobfriedman]

i am impressed.. i have three of these lenses and i don't think they are as sharp in the corners as that image. was it cropped in any way?

[MFloyd]

... was it cropped in any way?

Very slightly, to remove an unwanted object (tree) to the left; the right corners are unaffected: 5233 x 7850 px (5502 x 8256). But the uncropped image has no sharpness issues neither.