Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 - what a great lens

Radiohead · 17-07-2005, 5:10 PM

I picked up this lens second-hand last week for £150 and finally got out today with it. What a cracking lens. Fats, sharp, brilliant AF and just lovely to use. Some sample shots of a summers day in Winchester are below:

My daughter - standing on the grave of King Arthur, natch

100% crop of the cyclist in the background showing the excellent bokeh of the lens

I'm chuffed to bits with it.

JayCee · 17-07-2005, 5:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Radiohead

showing the excellent bokeh of the lens

Is this a new photographic term?

witters · 17-07-2005, 6:01 PM

Have a look here

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/bokeh.htm

Some great shots there mate - looks a great buy.

seany · 17-07-2005, 6:15 PM

Looks good to me Guy.

I'm looking at the new sigma 30mm 1.4 right now.

JayCee · 17-07-2005, 6:29 PM

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Originally Posted by witters

Have a look here

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/bokeh.htm

Some great shots there mate - looks a great buy.

Thanks for the link........I wasn't trying to be funny, I honestly thought "Radiohead" had mis-spelt a term and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what.

Geez, you leave a hobby for 10yrs and while your're gone they coin a new term

dejongj · 17-07-2005, 6:30 PM

That looks a great lense, and a great day to get to the park...

Radiohead · 17-07-2005, 8:05 PM

Cheers gents - really pleased with it. They go for less on eBay, but I'm very wary about buying glass there.

RobertP · 17-07-2005, 8:31 PM

Radiohead ... hmm no that don't seem right.... Guy - Do you deliberately strip the exif from the pictures or is it just the software you use? Be interesting to see what apertures these were at.

Nice shots with very good depth of field on some of them.

Radiohead · 18-07-2005, 6:11 AM

It's the software Robert. I use Nikon Capture and then take the image into Photoshop CS2. Annoying actually, as I like to see the exif info.

I'll dig out the details this evening when I have a bit more time.

mr jones · 18-07-2005, 11:11 AM

if you use "save for web" throught photoshop i strips the exif file off the image during the saving process

ive never really used "save for web" unless im doing website graphics

Radiohead · 18-07-2005, 11:14 AM

Thanks for that - I'll bear that in mind as I am doing that when I save for this kind of site.