z6 got all the same AFupdates i got a z6 cheap, had a z6ii yrs ago look same to me. will never get a z6iii i hate articulating screens... do not careabout videos
A lot of it was shot with the 50mm Z 1.8, just about 3 shots were with the 28mm adaptall 2.8 F mount lens, and the long distance was with the 70-210 F mount 4.0
The later Nikon-P.C has improved coatings and uses a different lens formula. The original with a silver nose has a Sonnar formula, while the later with a black nose uses a Double-Gauss formula. I have the P.C version and it's extremely sharp and renders just as beautiful bokeh.
@@reindeerdashie this is correct, the common consensus seems to be that the P is slightly sharper and the PC (and later AI/AIS) has slightly better bokeh, but they are all beautiful. I've loved my PC since I bought it in 1987, it works better than ever on mirrorless with peaking and magnification. My favourite lens of all time, and they are still fairly cheap considering how good they are - thanks to their popularity and not being rare.
@@reindeerdashie if you want sharper - I watched a review where he showed the AFS 105mm f/1.4 wide open at 400% and it was a LOT sharper than the older f/2.5!! (I think it was PC but not sure)
Any 100/1.8-3.5 lens will make great portraits. Doesn't even matter how many aperture blades because it uses "focal length bokeh" not "aperture bokeh" like 85s and 50s. Yeah, I know. "Afghan Girl" blah, blah. It wasn't the lens that made that shot great. Any 100 would have done just as well. It was the subject herself, Kodak color science, and the photographer. Vintage lenses are old, heavy, don't autofocus, horrible flare resistance (old-tech single coatings and not on all surfaces -- often mostly worn off), and worn out. Stiff focus, oily or stuck blades, scratches on the elements, fungus, dust, haze... Are obsolete. Awkward and slow to focus on modern cameras and require klunky adapters... Hard pass. If you must I'd look at condition over "brand" and BS. Get a smaller, lighter, cheaper, always multi-coated, and not as old Vivitar, Soligar, Imado, Sears, JC Penny (often these were made by Tokina) from the 80's or 90's. The newer the better. If you must -- buy on condition, age(!), size, and weight not "brand". These are simple lenses sometimes containing as few as four elements (Ernostar variants...). They're also $20 usually in better condition than some beat to death old Nikkor that will set you back $100-200 or more. If it was 1973 I'd say stretch for the NEW (or slightly used) Nikkor. It's not 1973. They're 50 years on now. Lenses became smaller, lighter, cheaper with better coatings as the decades worn on..
@@ManyWaysFilms I understand that quite well. Started doing that on the Sony FX30 when learning how to grade SLog3 and now doing similar with the Z8. The Z8 at least is close when it comes to correct WB while you have to do more tweaking on the FX30.
Looks great! Next time do some medium and wide shots too. It felt a little claustrophobic with everything being a close up. Unless of course, if that was your plan. Cheers!
The short seems to be focusing on the man's pain from loss of love, the facial expressions brings to life the thoughts he must be having, keeps you more in his head and focused on him. It works from my perspective.
Nice video, first time I went photographing to Disneyland I took my canon 50 1.8f, this time I moved to Sony, so I’m thinking about bringing the Tamron 28-75 2.8f and a Sigma 16mm 1.4f for night time, I’m also tempted to bring my 70-180 2.8 along, but I want to travel light
Have you ever tried the TTArtisan 50mm f/2 lens? If so how does it compare to this lens? Personally I prefer how the Meike look (the lens body) than the TTArtisan but nobody ever compares them from what I know.
Yeah I actually did just recently and used a whole kit from the 14mm to the 85mm including the 50 and they’re awesome! Different look for sure, I’d say more cinematic
Hi. awesome pictures & videos. Very inspiring. You could never go wrong with the Nikon eco system. Been using Nikon system, since 1980. Started with Nikon F2as film camera. Very solid camera company. What gravitated me to Niko system were there great lenses. Please keep up the good work.. Kudos! God bless.
Sadly, this sort of excuse making shows depth to which the digital has affected the young modern photographers. If any excuses have to be made, they should be for the digital sensors that constantly show excessive and more often than not unnatural contrast. Modern lenses including those from Leica are just devoid of personality since they have all been designed with computers probably using the same optical formula and ground using CNC machines. Micro Nikkor lenses were designed for close up work during the film era, and contrary to popular belief many of them do not suit the digital sensors they are used on. One of the worst camera brands to use ' vintage ' lenses on is Sony due ot the way the sensor has been constructed. Your photography is actually very nice and the rendering of the lens goes quite a long way to correct the ills of the modern digital sensor. The results are very good, so please stop saying sorry for this and sorry for that. If you want to use a micro Nikkor for normal photography, then find one that has the CRC system, lke the 55mm F2.8 AI-S.
What a load of nonsense. The vintage lenses that have issues on modern sensors are some rangefinder lenses, Nikon AI-S have no issues at all on mirrorless cameras or DSLRs.
@@DriveCancelDC As I said, the lack of knowledge is astounding. Mirrorless cameras have a much shorter flange to sensor distance than DSLRs and also they all have much bigger mounts. The short flange focal distance alleviates the need, to a great degree, to deisgn lenses with retrofocus as is the case with the majority of DSLR or sLR lenses. The larger mounts allows the use of much larger rear elements in the design of the lens allowing the light rays to hit the sensor almost perpendicularly, rather than at an angle in the case of DSLR and SLR. All that result in much improved image quality, sharpness across the frame, relative lack of CA etc etc. Modern lenses are also computed to have very complex geometery that only the modern CNC grinding machines are capable of producing with much higher surface smoothness compared to the 50 year old Nikon AI-s or Canon FD or even EF lenses and they also have incredibly complex coatings that was never available 40 or 50 yars ago. There you go. Enjoy your vintage lenses.
look at Biotar 58, Pancolar 50, some fast pre Ai nikkors (28 f2, 55 f1,2 or 5,8cms f1,4) , Minolta 58 (any version), fast Canon SSC or FDs (35 f2, 55 Asph, 85Asph). And of course, some nice Takumars
Beautiful framing and color! 🎉 I recently got my Z9 and I am playing with it. I'm currently shooting nraw with SDR mode, and I always expose for the highlight. But I constantly get tons of noise in the shadow even when I shoot landscape outside. Yes sometimes I under expose 1 or 2 stops to make sure I get some details from the clouds, but I was not expecting this much amount of noise within the shadow. I'm curious how you shoot it. Do you shoot NRaw with NLog? And what are the general workflow, you have been using. Thanks!
Hi! Thanks for the video! It confirms that it was a good investment to buy a second hand D7500 camera! I'm curious, what lenses do you recommend for video shooting with this camera? Thanks in advance!
I have been using cards from Angelbird (1TB), Exascend (1TB), Lexar (128GB), and OWC (256GB) Gen 4. Depending on your market, I would recommend you look for ones with VPG 400 rating, those are the newer 4.0 models with a guaranteed minimum write speed of 400MB/s.
@@ManyWaysFilms let me also add that having a 4.0 card reader will speed up offload times to your machine. Keep in mind that you will need to have USB 4 ports on your machine to see the speeds the 4.0 card and reader can provide.
