Category: Photography
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There Is a Grasshoper On My Fridge
This morning my daughter woke me up all excited: “Daddy, Daddy, there is a grasshopper on the fridge!”. After I managed to drag myself out of bed I went downstairs to check it out. And indeed, there was a little grasshopper on our fridge. Yesterday was a warm day and we opened the doors to…
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Nikon AF 35-70mm f2.8 D
I’ve been thinking a while about buying a faster auto focus lens for my D300. I’ve been shooting with fast manual focus lenses (mainly primes) and although the results are very good, a fast auto focus lens would be very convenient. When I say “fast” I mean: f2.8 or faster. The fast Nikon auto focus…
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On The Road…
I had a little family get-away to the coast last weekend. As we were driving there I snapped a few pictures, intentionally photographing towards the sun. The camera was a Nikon D300s with an AF-S 18-135mm lens @ 26mm. Aperture was at f3.6. The pictures were taken at 7.30 pm. Below you see the three…
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Nikon Ai-s 85mm f1.4
I have a Nikon Ai-s 85mm f1.4 manual focus lens for quite some time now. I use this lens for video (with the Letus Extreme 35mm adapter) and with my Nikon D300s DSLR. It’s a beautiful lens, very robust, very sharp and I like the bokeh very much. For more information about this lens read…
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Nikon AIS 50-135mm f3.5
I found this great constant aperture manual zoom lens on eBay for a very good price. It has some specks of dust in the lens so that prevented a lot of people from bidding on it I guess. It was a bit of a gamble but I really like the lens. And, the few specks…