April 2025

[Fons Baerken]

April 9

Wijenberg castle, Echteld

D850  24-70mm f/2.8g

[Ian Watson]

I am reprocessing photographs of my black-and-white negatives. Having fallen under the influence of Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe, I attempted to reduce the appearance of the grain using the Surface Blur filter in Photoshop, applied through a surface mask. Then I sharpened with an edge mask. The grain is still there, of course, but much less obtrusive.

This photograph is from Cozumel, México, in 2013. The film is Ilford FP4+ and the lens was Nikon's 85mm f/1.4D

[John Geerts]

Tulip time
D5 AF-D 180/2.8

[Akira]

Focusing on the rising sun.

[Birna Rørslett]

An example of the bad results you'll get with the old Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI lens on the Zf.

Road Warrior

[Fons Baerken]

I like the composition Birna!

[ARTUROARTISTA]

An example of the bad results you'll get with the old Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI lens on the Zf.

Road Warrior

Birna, The truth is that I have a lot of Nikon lenses, but I don't have either the NIKKOR 200mm F/4 AI or the NIKKOR 105mm F2.5.

[Birna Rørslett]

The various incarnations of the Nikkor 105mm f/2.5 are legendary and today, one can pick up a nice sample quite cheap. Recommended if you don't have the lens already. I used to say the 105 and the Df were a synergetic combination, not entirely sure this still holds for the Zf, but that is mostly because of the handling with an FTZ attached and not due to bad optics.

[golunvolo]

An example of the bad results you'll get with the old Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI lens on the Zf.

Road Warrior

  Maybe "bad" has more than one meaning...? 

 

[golunvolo]

Hello, it's a screen print.

  Thank you for sharing it Arturo.

[Frank Fremerey]

it is a very fine transition from the dead sharp column to the slightly unsharp hair and heads of the couple doing their selfie shot

[Frank Fremerey]

An example of the bad results you'll get with the old Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI lens on the Zf.

Road Warrior

superb foto

[Frank Fremerey]

I do own several 200mm lenses the 4/200 Micro Nikkor is one of my favourites

[Lars Hansen]

Focusing on the rising sun.

Good you did, Akira - beautiful sunrise and the light being reflected over the buildings!

[Akira]

Good you did, Akira - beautiful sunrise and the light being reflected over the buildings!

Thank you, Lars.  I shot another image from the top of the emergency stairs of my place.  But while I found this scene while I went down to go back to my room.