The eye
For many people is hard to understand that is this “piece of glass” that do the photo.
Walking on the street, every day you can see the most expensive bodies humiliated by non-glass cheap lenses (really! few lenses have glass aspherical elements), without any focus tag and with “apertures” like glances in the dark.
A luminous lens isn’t important for its widest aperture, but for the best results in average apertures.
Both in sharpness and flare resistance, shadows rendition and absence of every aberration.
The about ten lenses I use currently are the result of years passed to choose, try, change and finally keep the right.
Some are “weird”, most old, some unusual, but all have one own personality (or soul), and are useful for something particular.
Because what it don’t exist on film (or original file)… Is impossible to have in the final print.
Nikon AF 16 mm f2.8 D
Diagonal Fisheye, for new perspectives.
It needs a particular care for the horizon, and no more.
Nikon AF 20 mm f2.8 D
“Light wide”, a gift for FF.
Fantastic lens for exagerate perspectives, one of the best wides ever.
Nikon AF 28 mm f2.8 D
Classic lens, with saturated and sharp colors.
Enough little to turn the D700 in a “comparc for streeto photos”.
Nikon AI 50 mm f1.8
Little, sharp manual lens.
Nikon AFS 50 mm f1.4 G
With no rivals, with an outstanding bokeh.
A mere update of the old AFD, the linearity and the rendition at AA are strongly enhanced.
Nikon AF 60 mm f2.8 Micro
The digital “right lenght”, often used in FF, too.
Extremly sharp images for every subject in a close range distance. But flexible, too.
Nikon AF 105 mm f2 Defocus Control
“The” portrait lens, exceptional at the widest apertures.
Never over f5.6, it’s my preferred lens ever.
Sigma HSM 150 mm f2.8 Macro
For mcro, portraits and landscapes, with an exceptional bokeh.
…And the right focal lenght, like the beloved former 105mm in DX.
Nikon AF-I 300 mm f2.8 D
Big, heavy, luminous… Maybe the best tele at all aperture.
Autofocus is the fastest of every other lens I have (and had).
Sigma HSM 500 mm f4.5 D
the right lens for hunt the birds
Nikon AFs TC-20E II
To add more length to 300mm… It’s never enough for birds.
Nikon AFs 17-35 mm f2.8 D
Indispensable in DX like a “general zoom”, now it’s came back wide!
Its performances are very close to the primes.
Nikon AFs 24-70 mm f2.8 G
A bit of flexibility, for street, landscapes and perhaps architecture.
And… all the lenses I used, tried, loved (and not)
Zuiko 50 f1.8
Zuiko 135 f3.5
Tamron 60-300 f3.5-5.4
Sigma AF 28-105 f2.8-4 (not)
Sigma AF 70-300 f4-5.6
Sigma AF 18-35 f3.5-4.5
Sigma AF 105 f2.8 macro (not)
Nikon AI 28 f2.8
Nikon AF 50 f1.8 (not)
Sigma AF 50 f2.8 macro (not)
Sigma AF 28-70 f2.8
Nikon AF 24-50 f3.3-4.5
Sigma AFs 70-200 f2.8
Sigma AFs 2X
Tokina AI 17 f3.5
Sigma AF 14 f3.5
Tokina AF 17 f3.5 (not)
Nikon AI 16 f2.8 fisheye
Voigtlander AI 75 f2.5
Nikon TC-14B
Canon AF 16-35 f2.8 (not)
Nikon AF 300 f4
Nikon AIs 24 f2.8
Nikon AI 35 f2
Tokina AF 12-24 f4 (DX)
Nikon AFD 50 f1.4
Nikon AF 105 f2.8 Micro
Nikon AFD 180 f2.8 (not)
Nikon AFS 70-200 f2.8 (not)
Recent Comments