Nikon

Current Nikon Gear.

Inspiration, Nikon, Q&A

What do you do on a cold winter’s day when the light is bad and you have nothing to photograph?  Well, if you’re a geek like me you take photographs of your cameras of course!

In the image below, you will notice that all Nikon logos (and identifying gold rings on the lenses) have been taped over.  That’s because I don’t want to be a walking billboard for Nikon.  The gear is still recognizable to most enthusiasts but not necessarily at first glance (LOL, with the possible exception of the cartoonishly large 200/2).

They say DSLRs are a dying breed but the inevitability of their demise has increased their appeal to me after all of these years of shunning them in favour of rangefinders.  It also helps that Nikon produced something special in the form of the D850 and D500.

I’ve often photographed my Leica gear as it came and went, but never cared enough about my Nikons to do the same… until now.

—Peter.

Winter Blues.

2018, Favourite, Inspiration, Nikon, Nikon 28mm f/1.4E, Nikon D850, Portrait, Q&A, Teaching point, Within 200 feet of My House™

This was photographed with the D850 resting on the floor and in live view, with the back LCD angled up for easy viewing.  In this mode, touching the screen will initiate autofocus and then the shutter will automatically release… silently.

It’s a well-known feature in the D850 but this is the first time I’ve tried it.

Many find Nikon‘s implementation of all this to be slow (relative to mirrorless cameras), but it’s quite usable for this sort of image.  It’s certainly useful in quiet venues where silent operation is desired.

However, I wouldn’t think of using it to photograph sports, flying monkeys, or the aerosolized droplets of a sneeze.

—Peter.

↑ Nikon D850 + Nikon 28mm f/1.4 E.