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I'm saving all these pics you people take and putting them into my 'pics I've taken on my world travels' folder to show to people. Thanks for the contributions. I may need to be PS'd into a couple of them to make it more believable.

I'm kinda fond of this one. The moon was reflecting on a small spot in the river. Small aperture f/16 and 170 secs exposure at 300mm.

eeeeeeenteresting.

Does your battery die quickly with long exposure saturn? old nikons (like really old) used to use a lot of power keeping the shutter open, but I don't know if the newer ones do. My xpan drains in a hurry on a long exposure, which is why I've never tried it.

I was shooting for 2 hours during the night....many very long exposures (>2 minutes).....I think the battery was half-empty, not really sure. It got colder and that might have influenced the charge.

My D50 is quite economically with the Li-Ion battery. I can do 1000-2000 shots without using flash. Less of course if flash is used.

It's not a battery thing.. I know my Canon's use a magnet to keep the shutter open, but some cams use electricity. I wasn't sure if Nikon changed their shutter mechanism. I think an article I read was talking about old film units.

I'm not sure either about the mirror lock-up technology. Only that I don't have true MLU prior to shooting

You Nikon queers (fx, sat, dmmh) need to get one of these so you can make pics like these without photoshopping them with the lens blur.





Ken will tell you to use a 4x5, but then you have to start shooting film and buy a whole bunch of shit that weighs a ton.

ooh....tilt-shift lenses......funky photos

Dave wrote:You Nikon queers (fx, sat, dmmh) need to get one of these so you can make pics like these without photoshopping them with the lens blur.





Ken will tell you to use a 4x5, but then you have to start shooting film and buy a whole bunch of shit that weighs a ton.

ive been looking into one of the PC lenses. You can get older ones for about $200 on ebay. Cool for architecture photography and stuff.

One major plus of the D40 over all other Nikon DSLR's is it will fit any F mount lenses, where the rest needs AI lenses. Fun shopping for second hand lenses

Took this one with a non-AI 50mm f/1.4 Nikkon-S Auto @ 1.4 couple of days ago...nothing special, like it though

so dave...are those Hasselblad to Nikon F mount adapters any good?

http://cgi.ebay.nl/Adapter-HASSELBLAD-a ... dZViewItem

any special, not insanely expensive lenses you can recommend?

oh god, don't do it

wont do much good I think though, using medium format lenses on 35mm aight?

Doombrain wrote:oh god, don't do it

lol, that's what I reckoned

that peripheral blur effect is poor quality, nothing you could,'t duplicate with photoshop, I am starting to appreciate the quality of lens related effects, because they seem to come off as very natural, but this one is an exception :icon13:

You can't duplicate real tilt blur with photoshop... I did those above in PS and they look like shit. You also get the added (or main) benefit of being able to correct converging lines.

dmmh wrote:wont do much good I think though, using medium format lenses on 35mm aight?

If I recall, MF lenses aren't designed as sharp as your average 35mm because the sheer size of the MF negative negates the need for an ultra sharp lens, so putting one on a 35 might not give you what you expect. That might all be bullshit, though

dmmh, you're probably better off looking for a cheap rangefinder if it's that kind of lens you're looking for.

Or an actual medium format cam with a 50 or 80mm lens

Doombrain wrote:dmmh, you're probably better off looking for a cheap rangefinder if it's that kind of lens you're looking for.

nah, I'm just struck by lens fever and looking into what will fit and what not

you need to be careful with that, it can fuck your camera up.

Dave wrote:You Nikon queers (fx, sat, dmmh) need to get one of these so you can make pics like these without photoshopping them with the lens blur.

Or you could get a lensbaby.

http://lensbabies.com/

Dave, you should check out the miniature fake tilt-shifts group in flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift-fakes/

Doombrain wrote:you need to be careful with that, it can fuck your camera up.

I know
all F mount Nikon fit mine though, so it's ok.

Scanned one on my way out today.

Posting this from Sweden - Stockholm, staying at a mate's place for a couple of days:

i like that, i'd just play with the tonal range a bit if it was me.