Nikon D80 and 50mm f1.4 AF-D lens.
The 15mm f3.5 AI is one of Nikon's truly great lenses. They currently make wider lenses than this but all of these have much more distortion. This lens is almost entirely distortion-free.
Also, as a classic manual focus Nikon Nikkor lens it is exquisitely built. Just mounting and unmounting it is a pleasure. It is also quite a bit smaller than the modern 14mm AF lens and 14-24mm zoom.
Best of all it just looks very "right".
The Nikon FE is one of Nikon's greatest ever cameras. Right up there with the F4 in my eyes. Especially if you replace the built-in screen with a matte "B" type screen. I have the brighter screen from the FE2 in my FE. This fits fine and only requires a +1/2 stop exposure compensation.
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Nikon D80 and 50mm f1.4 AF-D lens.
This is one of Nikon's truly great lenses. They currently make wider lenses than this but all of these have much more distortion. This lens is almost entirely distortion-free.
Also, as a classic manual focus Nikon Nikkor lens it is exquisitely built. Just mounting and unmounting it is a pleasure. It is also quite a bit smaller than the modern 14mm AF lens and 14-24mm zoom.
Best of all it just looks very "right".
Tags: 15mm AI Camera D80 Doha Equipment Flash Home Indoors Lens MF Manual Focus Nikkor Nikon Qatar Strobist Studio Ultra Ultra Wide Angle Ultra Wide Angle White Wide Wide Angle f3.5
For the Boot Camp II competition IV.
Strobist info: 24mm manual focus Nikkor lens on Nikon D80. SB600 on low tripod at back camera right at low power zoomed to 70mm and strafing slightly up. SB26 in slave mode on tall ladder directly in front of car. SB26 also zoomed to 70mm and about twice the power of the SB600. D80 set for a long exposure (13 seconds) at f11 at ISO 400.
Car info: Pontiac Trans Am 1971 with original 455HO engine. It's my daily driver here in Doha. Parking lights were on for colour and interest.
Weather info: Weather here at shooting time was about 100F and probably close to 80% humidity. Believe it or not the sky colour is pretty much correct. Lots of humidity dust and haze here and lots of city lights.
Trivia: I also took a version of this with my Mamiya M645 film camera. Sadly, that photo will not make the deadline as the film is still in the camera.
NOTE: Uploaded a slightly tighter crop. Looking at the photo for a day has made me intensely aware of some glaring dead space.
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Nikon D80. My own custom profiles and RAW processing
I realise it looks like the Earth is about to fold up beneath my feet but the sagging horizon is simply an artifact of me not being as legendary a Hugin operator as I am some of my other tools. It's a stitching artefact, in other words.
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Nikon D80. Nikkor 200mm f4 AI-S
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