NikonGear'23
Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: RBSinTo on January 27, 2017, 22:00:45
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This was taken about fifteen years ago on one of our Excellent Adventures in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
We were walking through a shallow swamp at sunrise trying to photograph Damsel Flies while they were still inactive from the cold.
I liked the way our friend Simone looked in the early morning light, and grabbed this shot.
motorized Nikon FA
zoom-Nikkor 80~200 2.8 ED AIS manual focus
Ektachrome 100 ISO colour slide
2.8 @ 1/250th
(http://www.photochimps.com/pp/data/500/medium/Simone_in_the_Dewy_Bug_swamp-Paradise_Michigan-1920.jpg)
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A good capture and nice light. I used a very long lens last time, what lens is this?
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Thanks Bjorn.
The lens was my zoom-Nikkor 80~200 2.8 ED AIS.
Very big and heavy, and uses 95mm filters (!!!!!).
But very sharp.
Robert
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Thanks. I'm familiar with that particular lens, as I have one of them myself :D
They are rarely seen these days, though.
If memory serves, I might have used the 600/4 for the damselflies (dancing in the last rays of sunlight)
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As I recall only about 1,500 of them were made before Nikon started producing the first auto-focus version of the lens.
I got mine on ebay about ten or eleven years ago. I was the only bidder and paid about $500.00 for it.
Robert