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Milky Way (new D850 & old Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5)
« on: August 17, 2018, 20:20:20 »
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

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Re: Milky Way (new D850 & old Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5)
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2018, 21:00:17 »
Looks amazing.  The potential of this first 20mm Nikkor seems to be unleashed by the latest D850!
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Re: Milky Way (new D850 & old Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5)
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2018, 21:11:28 »
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
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Re: Milky Way (new D850 & old Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5)
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2018, 21:23:05 »
Good looking image. That 20mm lens seems to play nice with the D850. Especially at only 13 seconds.

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Re: Milky Way (new D850 & old Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5)
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2018, 21:35:07 »
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.
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Re: Milky Way (new D850 & old Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5)
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2018, 23:36:04 »
I like the light pollution, adds a touch. Well done.
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Re: Milky Way (new D850 & old Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5)
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2018, 01:20:05 »
Thanks Jacov  ;)
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Re: Milky Way (new D850 & old Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5)
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2018, 01:22:37 »
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?
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Re: Milky Way (new D850 & old Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5)
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2018, 04:45:04 »
Quote from: bobfriedman on August 18, 2018, 01:22:37
... 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.
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