new lens testing...

[ving]

heres a few shots from my trip to rockdale park on thursday to test my new (reads old new) lens.
its a 300mm f4.5 nikkor AiS. all shots taken at 300mm f4.5 :)

[Omaroo]

David - the first one is brilliant, and I'd love to see a full-resolution version. The rest are very good too. Great lens huh! I have one similar - is the one you have an ED?

are you having fun with your DSLR or what?

Cheers
Chris

[ving]

is or what an option? :P

its the non-ed. still takes good pics tho :)
the first one is a bit cropped unfortunately...

[Omaroo]

I was wondering what it would be like cropped even further.... :)

[iceman]

Very nice ving, great to see your terrestrial shots. You're developing another talent!

[ving]

how far do you want to crop? this is a 800x600 crop.


ps thnx mike. told you i wanted it for terrestrial stuff mainly :)

[Omaroo]

Excellent David. Really excellent. I might go out and try a few of these types of captures for myself. Must admit I've never really tried capturing moving targets of the natural kind. Thanks for the motivation!

Cheers
Chris

[iceman]

Well done Dave, the crop is a beauty.

[ving]

did you say you have the 300/4.5 ed chris? try it, its a great lens for the camera. you have to do aperture, shutter speed and focus manual but its worth it. I have to admit i was looking at the af-s 300mm f4 when i bought this one but thats 2 grand... no way i can afford that at the mo!

thinking of picking up some more Ai and AiS lenses tho. theres some cheap fast (f2.8) ones on ebay :)

[Omaroo]

Yeah David - it's the ED. Great lens for what I normally use it - long-distance portraiture. Out of the dozen lenses I've now collected, the only one that I don't have to treat completely manually is the kit 18-55 ED that came with the D40.

I'll give it a go for some birdie num nums using shutter priority... :)

[ving]

wont work on shutter priority, you will have to go completely manual chris :(
still fun tho :)
its not hard to do. just set the aperture to achieve the dof you wish to achieve (i have been doing max (4.5) so far) and start with a shot at say 1/1000 on a sunny day and look at the preview to see if anything got blown out. adjust accordingly... of course i am preaching to someone who has been taking pictures longer than me and knows more lol!
nevermind :)

but yeah, it will work in manual only

[Omaroo]

Whoops - LOL!! Sorry David - I meant to say that I'll give moving targets a go using shutter prio - on the 18-55 AF-s, not the 300. My mistake... :doh:

[ving]

oh, silly me! :ashamed:

you should go down to oran park on a race day if you want to give moving targets a try. the af-s is a snappy focuser and handles it well :)

[johnno]

I agree with that,

Wow,

In Fact, the whole lot of shots are brilliant.

Regards.John