Rainbow Bridge

Rainbow Bridge, a photo by ggyy@mitbbs on Flickr.

Taken with Nikon D700 and 25-50mm F/4 AI at (~30mm?) and F/8.

Processed in Capture NX, exposure +0.5, contrast +20, shadow protection +30.

There seems to be some interest in this old lens. I will try to post some photos to show what it is capable of. If you click the image and follow the link to flickr, you can view the original sized version of this photo. (If you use ie, make sure to set the zoom to 100%, other the image may appear blurry.)

I have noticed that Nikon D700 is not picky on lenses. It takes very sharp images with almost any lens I put on it---at least at F/8. In this sense, D700 is not particularly good at exposing flaws of lenses.

Olympus E-PL1 + Nikon 70-300mm VR @ 300mm

Olympus E-PL1 + Nikon 70-300mm @ 300mm, a photo by ggyy@mitbbs on Flickr.

One reason I bought the Olympus E-PL1 is that it has shake reduction. To see how effective the shake reduction is, I mounted an Nikon 70-300mm VR lens on it and shoot at 300mm (that is the only 300mm I have)--handheld. I guess the shake reduction is working, otherwise the result would have been more blurred.

BUT it is extremely difficult to focus, since unlike Nikon's lens VR, the body shake reduction does not seem tostablize the image when focusing.

Nikon 700 and 70-200mm VR II

DSC_3141, a photo by ggyy@mitbbs on Flickr.

Taken with Nikon 700 and 70-200mm VR II. F/8, ISO 400, 1/1000s.

Taken with Nikon D700 and AF-S 28-300mm VR lens

DSC_2166, a photo by ggyy@mitbbs on Flickr.

Testing blogging flickr photos.