{"id":17688,"date":"2012-05-08T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=17688"},"modified":"2012-05-13T20:13:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T03:13:25","slug":"some-135s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/05\/08\/some-135s\/","title":{"rendered":"Some 135s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Go by sight, not reviews.<\/i><\/p>\n

Read up on the 135mm f\/3.5 Nikkor-Q I mentioned yesterday<\/a> and you will find a fair measure of condescension directed at it. How can anything almost half a century old and under $70 be serious? Sure it’s not some f\/2 hyper speed monster which comes with a handcart and bragging rights, but I must relate that when I took it for a spin yesterday it really spoke to me. Before long, we were singing. Such is the balance on the camera that the hardware quickly becomes invisible. <\/p>\n

The first was one of those where you instantly know you have something special, hoping you press the button before the increase in your pulse rate blurs everything.<\/p>\n

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Lovers. At full aperture. D700.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

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Eat Crab. At full aperture. Same gear.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

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Pastels. At f\/11. Same gear.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

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Gull and flag. f\/5.6. Same gear.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

I used my tailored lens correction profile<\/a> for all of these, but it’s hard to tell the difference. A fine lens and not one you will weep over if it does not work for you, at the prices asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go by sight, not reviews. Read up on the 135mm f\/3.5 Nikkor-Q I mentioned yesterday and you will find a fair measure of condescension directed at it. How can anything almost half a century old and under $70 be serious? Sure it’s not some f\/2 hyper speed monster which comes with a handcart and bragging … Continue reading Some 135s<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nikon-lenses","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17688"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17869,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17688\/revisions\/17869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}