April 2019

[Jacques Pochoy]

Took the faithful Df out of the mothball bag as this is the camera I plan to rely on for the upcoming NG Scotland meet-up. Apparently my love for the camera, albeit unabated, wasn't sufficient to give good photos. I need to put in some training exercises in the days ahead .... Rusty love.

This is a try at Gagea lutea (Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem). Df, 105mm f/4 Micro-Nikkor. I do need to improve my technique.

I know the feeling ! I have a mixed bunch of AF and MF lenses. When I'm lazy I use the AF ones, but when getting back to MF, there is a short but albeit real time to re-adapt !!! It's not so much about "slowing down", it's more about the constraints that I believe gets me more interesting pictures 

[Birna Rørslett]

Oh well - I'm soldiering on with the Df -- need to engage that rust remover from my technique.

Trying again, this time with a Tussilago farfara. The flower head has entered the final, male stage of its development thus in a very short time now flowering is a memory of the past.

Df + 125/2.5 APO CV.

[Fons Baerken]

April 20

Summer is here, temperatures of 25 centigrade.



Df  50mm f/1.4

Df still in use here, smaller size and weight, accepts all mf lenses, smaller filesize, excellent iq.

[golunvolo]

Trying out a 300mm 2.8  @2.8

[Fons Baerken]

Trying out a 300mm 2.8  @2.8

Which version Paco, a very fine lens but big and heavy. :

[golunvolo]

Vrii version. As of now, I'm the proud owner! Oeoeoeoeooe Always wanted one like this for shows.

[Fons Baerken]

Felicidades señor.

[golunvolo]

Gracias Señor Baerken 

[Akira]

Oh well - I'm soldiering on with the Df -- need to engage that rust remover from my technique.

Trying again, this time with a Tussilago farfara. The flower head has entered the final, male stage of its development thus in a very short time now flowering is a memory of the past.

Df + 125/2.5 APO CV.

Great color effect which is an essential aspects of your style which I always adore!

April 20

Summer is here, temperatures of 25 centigrade.

The appropriate subject is nicely chosen and captured!

Vrii version. As of now, I'm the proud owner! Oeoeoeoeooe Always wanted one like this for shows.

Your arsenal seems to be increasingly heavily equipped!  Wonderful portraiture!

[Akira]

April 20.  A nightscape.

[Bent Hjarbo]

From yesterdays walk 

[John Geerts]

I love this shot, like a movie still from a Monty Python

Thanks Frank.  Yes I had the same thought.

[John Geerts]

In the Park

D850   300/4.5 ED

[John Geerts]

Vrii version. As of now, I'm the proud owner! Oeoeoeoeooe Always wanted one like this for shows.

Welcome to the club of Nikkor Powerlifters 

[Birna Rørslett]

You should try the 300/2 Nikkor - a boat anchor of a lens.