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A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN
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A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN

For years I lamented at how the anti-aliasing filter in both my D300 models made all my old manual focus nikkors look inferior to their auto-focus counterparts. It's not that, being so old, they were optically inferior to their modern cousins. But since moire patterns afflict digital cameras, not ones that shoot film, the engineers that made my old lenses never accounted for dealing with this image quality robbing filter when designing their lenses.

Now pairing my old full frame manual focus lenses like this 300mm ED-IF lens I've been shooting with since the late 80's, with my new D810 is a match made in heaven. Full framed just like my old F3 and FA, instead of a cropped sensor, and no anti-aliasing filter. I feel like I did 30 years ago shooting with Fuji 50 or Kodachrome 64 slide film.

Better yet, I can get near that quality with this camera at ISO 3200. Even at ISO 6400 like I did here, the quality is still very good, meaning I could ditch the tripod when necessary. So my shots are actually better now with this lens than back then. So not everything was better back in the good old days...

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  • DSC_2008 hunting for food
  • DSC_2022 hunting for food
  • Today's Nor'easter threatened to dump 20 inches on NYC, but here on the Island we fortunately got around 6. After shoveling my home I came here to Clove lake for a quick once around the lake tour. For the first time since all the babes left the nest I spotted one of the parents in it, no doubt checking it out for winter damage to prepare it for next months new brood.
  • The wind and storm was so bad I wanted to pack as light as possible and left my tripod home. So if I was going to take pictures with my 300mm, it was going to have to be hand held to do it. Never tried it with my either of my D300's, and certainly never would have imagined trying it with film series Nikon's back in the day. But with this D500, I'm trying new stuff all the time. I'll definitely try hand holding this lens again in the future.
  • DSC_0405 snow monkey
  • DSC_0424 white napped crane
  • DSC_0428 white napped crane
  • DSC_0436 white napped crane_DxO
  • My 25 plus year old 300mm Nikkor, may be a manual focus relic from an ancient time, but it is also one of the finest performing 300mm lenses Nikon ever made. I've been shooting it with my D300's for the last 4 or 5 years or so, with excellent results (when I focused it properly). But now on my D810, with a full frame sensor and no anti-aliasing filter it's the perfect marriage. Like shooting with my F3 on Fuji 50 all over again. Just like I did back when I was a young whipper snapper. Now if I can just manage to not cut off any of the beaks...
  • Isn't he just so cute you could squeeze him like plushy toy.
  • My first time coming to the Red Panda's habitat here at the Central Park zoo. With the snow still on the ground from last weeks storm, it seemed like a good time to check it out.
  • DSC_0498 red panda
  • DSC_0551 Snow monkeys
  • DSC_0553 snow monkey
  • A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN
  • DSC_0585 sunbittern
  • DSC_0606 scenes from the Central Park zoo
  • I've got my eye on you...
  • "What is that kooky man doing pointing that weird looking thing up at me?"
  • DSC_0686 scenes from the Central Park zoo-TF_DxO
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