I just got my Nikkor 300mm with a stamped serial #53800(1977-1981), so it is a Ai model per
http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/lenses.html#SuperZoomIt supposedly has a aperture stop of f4.5 - 22, but somehow when I put it on my D610, I can dial it as 2.8-16.
I notice that Nikon has a f2.8 IF-ED model for the same year, but I don't think mine belongs to this model.
Can anyone tell me what is going on, and how can I tell if mine is a real f2.8 or actually a f4.5
In many cases, I blow my hot breath or lick onto the filter, does it terrify anybody? Of course, I don't owe any B&W filter, only Hoya or cheaper ones.
I always find Vivitar filter package very price reasonable, 3 pieces including cir polarized for about $15 any size, which claims multi-coated glass. So whenever, I acquire a lens with different ring size, I bought a new Vivitar package.
Can I use tap water or alcohol besides lens cleaning fluid, which I always find the bottle dried up because I seldom use it.
thanks, can anyone tell me the difference with that 55-300mm and the other 70-300mm which is much cheaper?
Thanks folks, 200-500mm range seems a good choice, but it is too expensive to my liking of birds. I think NG photographers probably use that to shoot eagle snapping up a fish.
The 55-300mm DX looks right, but it seems a little wasteful since it overlaps a partial range portion of my fx 70-200mm.
Would a 300mm DX is equivalent to a FF 400mm with an effective pixel count of 18000 down from 24000?
What would it be like looking through a DX lens on my D610? Does it still occupy the whole view finder or only partially?
I have my D610 and my longest lens is a FX 70-200mm. If I want to shoot birds, what lens should I buy on a budget, DX/FX, auto/manual, zoom/prime, Nikkor/non ?
Great big moon, looks like a good moon shot can be taken anywhere and anytime. I shoot with my D610, so the moon shall look further.
it is very artistic, I have never been able to shoot a moon that big respective to a building. Next time when I travel, I should bring my long lens which only a 70-200, should that be enough?
Did you use long exposure and long lens?
What are the better gears and settings for shooting the moon?
Moon with distant landscape?
Moon with people's face?
It would be nice with a demo picture.
how come it is so yellow, may I ask what is your gears, at what setting?
I think you need to research also full frame or cropped? and which brand has better lens available (used, new, full frame, cropped, prime, zoom, manual/ auto Focus) per cost wise too.
It is the same idea of buying which brand of printer, color or BW? inkjet or laser ?; you also need to find out, where you can buy ink/toner cartridges, genuine or generic?
In my humble opinion, since Nikon exists longer, it has plenty of FX used lens from the film era and sellers from Japan on ebay.
I paid $1100 for my NiKon(D610) new in 4/2015 and my full time lens is AF 24-85MM used for $175 from ebay.
I shoot RAW+jpg. I use the output-jpg of the LR to compare with the camera-jpg. Sometimes I have trouble to surpass the camera-jpg. My LP-jpg could be off the color as the tinting could make the picture too red or green and I wouldn't perceive that without a reference.
I am a Faststone user and I found its tool:bath-convert-size feature is very useful for resizing a group of jpgs for email.
make sure when you open the LR, the label "Photoshop Lightroom Classic" is there. You may have opened an older version LR 6
/.?thank you folks, now the usage of LR Collections is much clearer to me. I am only a hobbyist. I have been using Faststone to download my photos, which creates a folder according to the date of the pictures taken. Unforturnately, FS does not have the tagging capability, so I just change the name of the folder to [date-event] and most of the times I will delete the raw files so there is no need to tag names to them. In the future, if I need to keep the raw files and categorize them, then I probably use LR collections. I think Bridge of PS allows tags to the pictures, which I didnot learn to use it yet.