In a word: no. And not just “they’re unsupported”, or that they have optical issues – they physically will not connect. They are deliberately keyed to be incompatible. Nikon teleconverters have a protrusion on their lens mount, which prevents any ‘standard’ Nikon-mount lens from attaching, unless that lens is missing a particular obstruction on the rear … Read more
Soft wide open. Likes to make everything glow like you’re on the set of The Bold and the Beautiful. Never particularly sharp even when stopped down. Over-exposes by exactly one stop when stopped down by one stop (i.e. to f/5.6) or more. Note that the AF-S 200-400 VR also does exactly the same thing. I’m currently … Read more
The contenders SanDisk Extreme Pro 95 MB/s 32 GiB SanDisk Extreme Plus 80 MB/s 32 GiB SanDisk Extreme 45 MB/s 16 GiB Lexar Professional 600x 128 GiB I chose not to test as many cards as last time, when I tested the D7100. Partly because I hope that anyone spending the money on a Nikon Df … Read more
The contenders SanDisk Extreme Pro 95 MB/s 32 GiB SanDisk Extreme Plus 80 MB/s 32 GiB SanDisk Extreme 45 MB/s 16 GiB SanDisk Ultra 30 MB/s 16 GiB Lexar Professional 600x 128 GiB Maxell MaxData 16 GiB SanDisk Ultra MicroSD 64 GiB Samsung MicroSD 32 GiB Note that the last two are MicroSD cards, not regular SD … Read more
Just thought I’d share what my AF calibration settings are, at least initially, for the Sigma 18-35/1.8 on a Nikon D5200. And some comments on the process. As you can see, on my particular D5200 it has an overall tendency to back-focus (negative adjustment values mean “the subject was closer than AF thought”). It took a … Read more
I’ve been looking forward to trying Mac OS X 10.9’s “advanced” (i.e. not-transmitting-my-life-story-to-Apple) dictation, as a potential competitor to Dragon Dictate. Unfortunately, it’s – against all odds – even more embarrassing than Siri. For example: This test, of the coolest names built-in dictation.) Nope, not important. If you’re..Reasonably built night, That was true Samaritan and … Read more
I like circular polarising filters. I hate glare, and I like strong – but natural – contrast. So until recently I used them a lot. The only downside, I figured, was the loss of light. Sometimes my photos using the filter seemed a bit soft, but I assumed that was because of the slower shutter … Read more