Under the bridge.

I should have known to keep it shut.

“Would you look at that, Winnie? 15 minutes to get into the city, zero traffic. Can’t wait for lunch.”

Our destination was no more than 300 yards distant.

Suffice it to say that 20 minutes later we still had 100 yards to go. The City of San Francisco, in its infinite wisdom, had decided to dig up the road during the height of the day.

No stress. The sun roof was open, it was a perfect California day, so I did the only thing possible and pointed the camera at the Bay Bridge as we took 10 minutes to pass underneath.

All snapped at ISO 400 with the 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor-S MF on the Nikon D2X body, one whose sensor appeals to me more every time I use it. For a pictorialist or street snapper this is a fine tool, indeed. My tailored lens correction profile, automatically applied on import to LR4, helps things along further. The Highlight and Shadow sliders in Lightroom 4 are a wonderful tool for selective touches in this sort of thing.

I noted one oddity in the EXIF data. Using the MF 50mm lens, to which I had added a CPU, the D2X records apertures with fractions as a whole number – f/2.8 become f/3, f/5.6 becomes f/6, and so on; by contrast the later D700 body reports the aperture correctly to one decimal place. No biggie, but it looks like the D2X lacks space for the decimal point and decimal digit in its software. However, the D2X does report the aperture properly in the finder and on the LCD panel atop the camera during use.