PhotoEscapist

I purchased two new lenses this week. A Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D Prime, which will be great for portrait and low light work.   It’s also going to turn photography in to an aerobic workout for me.  With a prime lens you really have to move around the subject to get the picture you want.  The lens does look a little stubby on the camera tho…

For the ridiculous, I picked up a Rokinon 800mm f/8 mirror lens eith a Nikon T-Mound and a doubler. It weights around two pounds, and, when uncapped it’s 108mm front element sucks up any available dust, even on a cold humid day. Ultimately the Rokinon is a 800mm mirror telescope that makes your camera look like a mirrored weapon of doom

Being it’s wet, cold and not very pretty out I didn’t do much with the new toys today.  I did, however, take a few shots just to check the difference in magnification:

The first is with the 50mm, as a ‘base’ to start

The sharpness and clarity from this lens is amazing. It’s something I should have added to my arsenal in when I first got my Nikon D70.

The next shot is with the 800mm Shooting from the same location. The lens is heavy and with the f/8 aperture and with the lack of ambient light I had to set the shutter to be pretty slow. I really should have grabbed the tripod for the next two shots, but, I didn’t

Still a pretty decent image. It’s dark but, that’s my fault for not using the tripod and setting the shutter speed properly. You can see the sign now, before it was a green sliver, and you can see there is a garage sale going on:)

This last shot I have the kit provided doubler on. This doubler is 2″ long and fits between the Rokinon and the t-mount, moving the center out a little which causes some camera control fun. I have a doubler that mounts to the camera body and would connect the t-mount, kit doubler and lens. With this kind of magnification, and a 3° field of view, I’ll really need to use a tripod, which is a later project.

The darkness of the shot and blurring are 99% me (I gotta leave a small percentage in there for the lens ). Here we can see the street and garage sale sign clearly, we can also see the the owner of the house needs to mow the lawn and has Dish network

I think the 800mm has potential, with the camera on a tripod, for some great Moon and planet shots, as well as happy critter in the woods, and perhaps paparazzi pics if anyone famous gets stuck coming to the ‘cuse

With it’s fixed focal length, depth of field and pin sharp clarity, The Nikon 50mm f/1.4 is going make me work more on my composition and really improve my skills. I’m really looking forward to playing with lens!