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This is a crop sensor lens, not full frame. Since it was made for a crop sensor, you don’t apply the crop factor multiplier to the focal length. It is a true 18 300.
Next to my 16-35 mm, the 85mm F1.8 is my favourite in my bag. The results from it are outstanding. I am sure the F1.4 is just as good. The 1.4 is £1000 more than the 1.8. To me it is a no brainer. I would not, (could not) spend that amount of money on a slightly faster lens. If anyone is thinking which one, buy the 1.8, you will not regret it. At the risk of repeating myself. The 85mm F1.8 is a brilliant lens.
Got one in 2017. Absolutely proved beyond doubt (to me) we live on a relatively flat, linear plane. This camera sees beyond what your eye sees, pictures and video of stars prove (to me) what we have been told that they are balls of flaming gases is a lie. They are so much more than that. What we have been told are planets ain't. Probably the best 700 bucks I've ever spent...
Can you help me out please. I've been looking to figure out why my new used 80-200 AF/S ED Nikkor 2.8 says incompatible lens.. do I need an adapter? I also notice that my D3400 has 8 contacts to connect to, where-as the lens has 10. Do I need an adapter? I thought they were both F mounts. Thanks for any help you can provide...
If you're a amateur, like me, budget is a huge factor, since I'll not have any monetary return with a new lens. In this case, seems that 1.4 is not worth twice the price (value in Brazil) of the 1.8 just for 1/3 of a stop and a little more bokeh. Sharpness will be imperceptible on my D610, and the lower chromatic aberration and distortion are more valuable. Thanks for showing that!
I agree with you entirely. In the UK. the F1.4 is £1000 more expensive than the F1.8. My 85 F1.8 is possibly my favourite lens. Image Quality is stunning.
The only secret hack for 4K, use Topaz Video AI, and rescale the image to 4K using Proteus, it will work fine. Stop wasting your time watching this video.
Many years later, I plan to buy a camera for home use. Go to nature with friends, take panoramic pictures and shoot videos there. I think that a sony camera is more suitable for private purposes, because I also sometimes want to take beautiful video landscapes, and not just take pictures. Overheating, which everyone writes about, is not terrible for me, because my shooting is shots for several minutes.
The Nikon 85mm f/1.8 was the second lens I purchased for my Nikon SLRs. After many years of use, I eventually upgraded it to the f/1.4 version because I needed the extra light gathering when shooting under low-light conditions with no flash and for exposure consistency, I preferred the maximum aperture being a full stop instead of a fraction of a stop. For example, f/1.4 instead of f/1.2 or f/1.8. For example, f/2 or f/2.8 instead of f/2.5.
I have a 17-70 f2.8-4, 16-50 f2.8, 50-150 f2.8 and a 70-200 f2.8. To be honest, I normally pair my 16-50 and 50-150 for APSC, if I need that reach. If only taking one lens, then usually the 17-70. If using FF, then a 28-75 f2.8 or 24-105 f4 together with the 70-200 2.8.
I end up sticking with mobile 1 full synthetic only because a good friend of mine, his dad, an actual mechanic whose been doing it for over 40 years at dealerships and garages and has fixed my cars several times, swears by it, he's used other motor oils that were required to be used by the dealerships he worked at but he always comes back to mobile 1 full synthetic so I'm not going to question the guy who literally does it for a living and has had great success, the only thing I would upgrade to is maybe Royal purple but I don't think it's worth the amount of money you have to spend per quart to get ever so slightly better performance and longevity
Drove 1.2 million miles in 21 years. Used mobil1 synthetic oil and mobil1 oil filter, no mechanical issues. I now use Kirkland sysnthetic due to price AND IT TESTED IDENTICAL TO MOBIL1 plus I can get it on sale for $30 for 10 quarts. I see that purolator Boss tests better than mobil1 filter. NOW I use purolator BOSS. Just sayin.
I have no use for either because both are G lenses with no aperture ring. I use a pre-ai 85mm f/1.8 Nikkor manual focus lens and an f/1,4 Nikkor 85mm D auto focus lens.
16 MP, fastest shutter speed 1/4000, 83x (2000mm equivalent) optical zoom, 300 shots per battery charge , 7 fps burst rate at full resolution, 18 scene modes including timelapse, bird-watching, easy panorama and moon shot, GPS, etc. Cons: 1) Most glaring flaw with this lens is how much flare it suffers from because there is no lens hood and the front element is not recessed. 2) Macro for photos from 1.5 cm, the image edges are blurry. 3) JPEG format(no RAW available) 4) Long shutter lag and lazy zoom speed is a real drag. This doesn’t do well for quick-moving subjects, hence for moving sports or moving wildlife.
Excellent! Long shutter lag and lazy zoom speed is a real drag. This doesn’t do well for quick-moving subjects, hence for moving sports or moving wildlife. The P950 does include RAW format, but still problematic for fast moving targets. Good for slower wildlife shots.
