Home, Sick (05110020)
I’m at home sick for the second day in a row . . . blech. Anyone want to make me feel better by buying me the new Noctilux? I’d also take one of the new Sony A900s with a 35 1.4, 50 1.4 and that Zeiss 135 1.8.
I wonder if they can shoe horn the A900’s 24MP sensor into a Digital Zeiss Ikon? Probably not, but it would be interesting . . .
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Heck, I’d take a 6mp full-frame sensor in a digital Ikon.
Surely you don’t need a fettish object like a noctilux to feel better. Are you still souping your films through your illness? Nice blurry trees BTW.
Oh, fetish objects can do wonders for your health. I could put that Noctilux to good use too.
Matt,
Have you seen the high ISO output from the Nikon D700? I downloaded a 6,400 ISO pic from the samples at DP Review, converted it to black and white and was blown away. It’s not noise free but the look is great for B+W. I love low light stuff and I’m trying to figure out how I can afford a D700 with the 50mm f1.4. I could shoot all night with that combination. Amazing.
I’ve seen some of the samples, and they are impressive. I do wish the D700 had a slightly higher eye relief. 18mm is a little short for glasses wearers, and I suspect I wouldn’t be able to see everything without doing the eyeball dance. Also wish it was smaller.
Matt, the D700 has diopter correction. You should be able to view without glasses. That’s what I do and I’m far sighted. I have to put on the glasses to read the external camera controls, but can view just fine with the diopter adjustment.
On the subject of the D700 as a low light camera, I’ve been trying to figure out whether a 50mm f1.4 or a 35mm f2 would be the better lens. You lose two-thirds of a stop with the 35 but you can also use it, all things being equal, at a slower shutter speed (1/30TH as opposed to 1/50th or 1/60th) so that evens things out. Then it boils down to whether you need the faster speed to stop movement and the more out of focus background of the 50 or the wider view of the 35. Bokeh on both Nikkor lenses seems to about the same - nothing to write home about but no great cause for complaint either.
I think I’m inclining towards the 35 as being slightly more versatile.
Bob, I can’t see diopters working for me. Glasses on, glasses off, no thank you. I’ll wait for someone to make a decent view finder.
Bruce, back when I owned nikon slrs, I had an old version of the 35 F2 in manual focus that was lovely lens, smooth bokeh, built like a tank, a bit of distortion, but nothing terrible. It was marked Nippon Kogaku. It was cheap too.