I was out shooting last night with my old battered beaten up Nikon D700 that i purchased for £130.
I was enjoying shooting shallow depth of field shots at F1.4 and using a tripod which was completely opposite to my two evenings with the little pentax hand holding. I like to change things up to try and break ground creatively and keep a thrill. I was very happy shooting but when I got home the photos were lacking something. i expected more from that shallow depth of field. Perhaps over time I will like them more but it is all down to me. I had not made the best use of the Nikon lens. I will try and do better if / when I do it again. The Pentax was actually in my bag at the same time but once I was concentrated on the Nikon 105mm I did not want to lose the rhythm so I only used the nikon.
There is a lot of debate and doubt about the merits and lack of merits to using a monochrome camera. Perhaps it is my imagination but I swear to you the images from the Pentax are superior visually the day before but perhaps it is the way I shot the nikon with too generous an exposure. The D700 meter often results in over exposure and that was the case last night. The images do not have the same visual quality as the images I shot hand held with the Pentax. These things can be your imagination but there is no doubt that the mono camera images look fantastic on my screen.
Here are some D700 images from last night.
Regards Dino26323
I was enjoying shooting shallow depth of field shots at F1.4 and using a tripod which was completely opposite to my two evenings with the little pentax hand holding. I like to change things up to try and break ground creatively and keep a thrill. I was very happy shooting but when I got home the photos were lacking something. i expected more from that shallow depth of field. Perhaps over time I will like them more but it is all down to me. I had not made the best use of the Nikon lens. I will try and do better if / when I do it again. The Pentax was actually in my bag at the same time but once I was concentrated on the Nikon 105mm I did not want to lose the rhythm so I only used the nikon.
There is a lot of debate and doubt about the merits and lack of merits to using a monochrome camera. Perhaps it is my imagination but I swear to you the images from the Pentax are superior visually the day before but perhaps it is the way I shot the nikon with too generous an exposure. The D700 meter often results in over exposure and that was the case last night. The images do not have the same visual quality as the images I shot hand held with the Pentax. These things can be your imagination but there is no doubt that the mono camera images look fantastic on my screen.
Here are some D700 images from last night.
- NIKON CORPORATION - NIKON D700
- 105.0 mm f/1.4
- 105.0 mm
- ƒ/1.4
- 1/20 sec
- Center-Weighted Average
- Manual exposure
- ISO 200
- NIKON CORPORATION - NIKON D700
- 105.0 mm f/1.4
- 105.0 mm
- ƒ/2.8
- 1/4 sec
- Center-Weighted Average
- Manual exposure
- ISO 200
- NIKON CORPORATION - NIKON D700
- 105.0 mm f/1.4
- 105.0 mm
- ƒ/1.4
- 1/45 sec
- Center-Weighted Average
- Manual exposure
- ISO 200
- NIKON CORPORATION - NIKON D700
- 105.0 mm f/1.4
- 105.0 mm
- ƒ/1.4
- 1/6 sec
- Center-Weighted Average
- Manual exposure
- ISO 200
- NIKON CORPORATION - NIKON D700
- 105.0 mm f/1.4
- 105.0 mm
- ƒ/1.4
- 1/10 sec
- Center-Weighted Average
- Manual exposure
- ISO 200
Regards Dino26323
