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| Posted: Mon Sep 5th, 2016 04:14 |
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Robert
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Interesting, DX though, I would have thought a more flexible strategy would be to obtain FX lenses which give better performance on DX (less edge drop off of sharpness, distortion and vignetting) I can't think of a disadvantage of using an FX capable lens on DX, except perhaps cost and a few grams. An additional advantage of adopting the strategy of using FX lenses is that the considerable investment in glass is more flexible if the user decides to get an FX body and I have a feeling the FX glass holds it's value better. I am finally reunited with a computer, I have offloaded Saturdays 1000+ image files into the MBP and I am slowly weeding the dross. There are some good to excellent images, plenty are acceptable; not sure if the ratio is better or worse than my experience using the Nikkor 300 f2.8 MF. The huge advantage with the zoom is my ability to vary the focal length to suit the scene, on the fly. In the past I have used the 300 f 2.8 on the main body and the 80-200 f2.8 on the secondary body, which is cumbersome. With car racing I feel there is a sweet spot with range, too long a focal length gives too short a DoF, or too small an aperture, key to me is to get closer to the action, and in that respect Cadwell is wonderful, you can almost reach out and touch the cars through the curves section and you can get pretty close with uninterrupted views in plenty of other places. There is also a trade off here, the comparison between a mid range zoom with VR and my normal racing lens, the trusty Nikkor 300mm, f2.8 MF isn't a simple and clear cut as many might imagine. Cadwell is so different from almost all the other circuits I visit, the range of viewpoints is so diverse a zoom makes sense but on most circuits the options are greatly reduced. At Rockingham for example the only viable option is one hairpin, even for those with media accreditation, they seem to concentrate on that same hairpin because the rest of the circuit is pretty well inaccessible. My technique with the 300mm f2.8 is to focus on a particular part of the bend and as the cars approach that point make a quick burst of exposures, with the cars travelling relatively slowly and exposing at 11fps, there are usually at least a couple of acceptably sharp images to be had from each burst. I have just come to the pigeon which was watching the racing intently, it was taken with the D3 fitted with the Nikkor 70-300 VR, 300mm, 1/200 sec @ f6.3, ISO 1600.  The day started well with brilliant sunshine but the second race was declared 'wet' despite starting in sunshine! By the end of race two the track was becoming very slippery with most cars still on slicks. There were several spins and 'off's' including our star driver who spun at the hairpin. Before lunch I had to put the 70-300 VR away because it was starting to put some serious rain down, not wishing to give Eric's nice lens a soaking. I pulled out the trombone 80-200 f2.8, which seems to have survived the very heavy rain OK. It did show signs of condensation inside the UV filter which I am unable to remove because it's so tight/seized on. It has been on the lens since I bought it about 2006. The condensation seems to have cleared now.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 5th, 2016 06:08 |
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Robert
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Nearly half way through the weeding process, this is one pic in the rain before it got really heavy. This time with the Nikkor 24-120 f4.0 VR, 120mm, 1/160 sec @ f6.3, ISO400.  The keeper rate with panning shots seems disappointingly poor, still trying to analyse it but most of the panning shots seem to suffer from motion blur in the subject, even though the subject is pretty static in the frame. I am beginning to think it's the VR fighting the camera motion. I left VR on but not in the 'active' mode. My understanding was that panning is allowed but this seems to cast doubt on that, I have had no such issues with the Nikkor 80-200, even at much higher speeds, the keeper rate is much higher.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 5th, 2016 10:32 |
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jk
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Switch of VR. VR = Very Ropey!! I dont use it unless I am shooting at low shutter speed 1/30 and I want to get a sharp static shot hand held.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 5th, 2016 14:01 |
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Robert
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jk wrote:Switch of VR. VR = Very Ropey!!  Will remember that, I think you are right!!! Very Ropey. Changing topic slightly, in the heavy rain there was a monumental pile up involving at least eight single seaters. I missed the action but caught the aftermath... As shot, D3, Nikkor 80-200 trombone @ 200mm, f2.8, @ f8, 1/200 sec, ISO 720.  As you can see conditions were poor, heavy rain and mist. A few adjustments in Lightroom work magic:  A great improvement.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 12th, 2016 11:54 |
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Eric
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Robert, I can't remember but doesn't the 60-300 have two types of VR. One is for all round movement, the other is only active up and down and is specific for panning shots. I may be getting confused with Jans camera ??? She switches it to the latter mode when doing movies as she has a habit of panning. With the all round stabilisation it cures judderimg pans. PS ...should have thought about rain in Lincolnshire. I have a raincover for D3 and tele lens somewhere.
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