The NIKON Thread (Talk About Nikon Stuff here) - Page 9

I'm quoting this from someone from a camera forum. Basically:

"When in doubt, buy both".

You're so not gonna go wrong that way.

Went to botanic garden today, took some nice portraits of my partner.

I didn't bring my macro lens today, but I also got some dead flowers pictures. Dead flowers can be fun
Looks like I was a few days late, or else I could have some nice fresh flower pictures.

Don't think too much about the shots below, they're just quick snapshots I took while taking a break from shooting portraits (or more like my partner needed a break).







This one is not really flowers, but I like the background. It's a handle of wooden bench, with thin grass on the background. The DOF sort of "dissolved" the grass.



This is the edge of a wooden bench, with some plants in the background.



Met quite a few hobbyists too. First was this guy with his Canon and a large lens with red ring attached to it (I know nothing about Canon gears, but as far as I know, red ring = premium lens in general?), and he used it to shoot whatever he could point his camera at. Infinity, then medium range, and then did some flower macros, back and forth.

Then met a bunch of students, I asked one of them, it was shooting day for their photography tuition. It's quite a sight to see a group of people with their DSLRs out.

Then I bumped into the previous Canon guy, and this time he changed his lens to this 30cm-ish white lens, and still used it to shoot flower macros. Looks like he brought all his arsenals with him.

Walked past him and he kept staring at my camera. I think he was trying to figure out what lens I got. From a quick glance when I passed him, it looked like he got this "my lens is bigger than yours and what the hell are you doing with that old looking lens" on his face. Can't stand smug with big lens thinking that just because he got a big lens then he's suddenly a pro or something.

Or maybe he's really a super duper pro, looks like he pretty much "point and shoot" the hell out of everything he saw, came accross one flower, pointed, shot it. The resumed walking around (and holding his camera uphold like a soldier holding his AK-47), looked around, another flower, pointed, shot again. Either that he's a tard who don't have a concept of composition or he's so good at composition, didn't even need to think and just shoot everything right away and all come up perfect.

Not jealous or anything, but it's a bit annoying when you see a guy who thinks he's better than you because his gears are better than yours.

Huh? Bought 5, returned 4, isn't that abusing the system? I wonder why the store actually let him do that...

But yeah, he really looked like a poser. I wish I could record a video of him doing his stuff.

About the garden, there were lots of roses just now, but I couldn't find any good bunch or something worth shooting (although for some reason that smug 'managed' to find/see sooo many good things to shoot around there )

But I wasn't there to do macro anyway.

Dimitris:

Hey, you also got a 85mm 1.4 AIS right?
Just wondering, if we attach the metal screw in lens hood to it, can we still use the original Nikon lens cap without removing the hood first?

I am thinking to remove the filter and leave the hood permanently attached, but my lens cap is not the newer, pinch-in-the-middle style one.

The original Nikon one is expensive, I just don't wanna order one only to find out that I can't use it.

I tried some other third party ones, they are either not pinch style one or they have this extra loop to attach a line so that you won't lose the cap, and they both won't fit the lens with the hood on.

For macro I have Tamron.