{"id":19909,"date":"2012-10-30T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=19909"},"modified":"2012-10-30T10:45:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:45:25","slug":"out-and-about-with-the-180mm-nikkor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/10\/30\/out-and-about-with-the-180mm-nikkor\/","title":{"rendered":"Out and about with the 180mm Nikkor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Trivially easy to use.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I wrote about my bargain basement used 180mm f\/2.8D Nikkor <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/10\/27\/180mm-f2-8d-nikkor-af-ed-if-lens\/ target=_blank>here<\/a>, appending a few quick snaps at the time.  Having now had a better chance to wring the lens out I can say with great enthusiasm that this is a dream lens on an FF body like the D700.  The focus automation makes picture-taking exceptionally easy, despite the very shallow depth of field at f\/2.8, and the balance and handling on the big Nikon body would be hard to improve.  I use a first pressure on the shutter button to lock focus, recompose, then click.  Center rectangle focusing is bang on every time; I do not believe in cockamamie concepts like Nikon&#8217;s matrix focus technology when one critical, know focus point is called for.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some snaps from yesterday (hey, the markets were closed so I got out!), all at f\/2.8 or f\/4 and all (minimally) processed in LR4. Taken on and around San Francisco&#8217;s Embarcadero. On the D2X the lens has an effective length of 270mm, a little too long for this sort of street snapping.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Spare_the_rod.jpg\" width=\"546\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Spare the rod and spoil the child. Mahatma lays it on.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Umbrellas2.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"546\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Umbrellas.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Lunch_nap.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"546\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Lunch nap.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Red_spectator.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"546\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Pier 14.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Embarcadero_RCA.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"546\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Embarcadero tower &#8211; a poor imitation of the classic RCA building in NY&#8217;s Rockefeller Center.<br \/>\nThey leave the Christmas lights on all year around, with the back lighting making them look lit.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Joy.jpg\" width=\"546\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Joy.  This lasted all of one second and autofocus made it possible.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Lone.jpg\" width=\"546\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Lone.  At the Hills Bros&#8217; building.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Bay_Bridge_reflection.jpg\" width=\"546\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Oakland Bay Bridge.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Speed_Limit.jpg\" width=\"546\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Speed Limit.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I trust the azure sky is not lost on east coast dwellers!<\/p>\n<p>I so like the handling of the D2X with the built-in battery grip that I have bought a used Nikon MB-D10 battery grip for the D700, to confer like functionality. It adds the advantage that regular AA batteries work fine. I&#8217;ll report back later.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it bears repeating that even duffers will find their snaps improved with a lens of this calibre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trivially easy to use. I wrote about my bargain basement used 180mm f\/2.8D Nikkor here, appending a few quick snaps at the time. Having now had a better chance to wring the lens out I can say with great enthusiasm that this is a dream lens on an FF body like the D700. The focus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/10\/30\/out-and-about-with-the-180mm-nikkor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Out and about with the 180mm Nikkor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19909","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=19909"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19917,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19909\/revisions\/19917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}