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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Thanks Dave! Yes, I guess I'm a Nikon diehard.  Good point about MF, AF is certainly useful for less eyestrain and I use it all the time. My Nikon D70S only focuses through the lens, where I use the setting with 5 selectable focus zones. I pick that over MF when I want to ensure a specific part of the coin is sharp, particularly when I shoot varieties. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm still trying to figure out which coin you were trying to take a picture of in that last photo..  Great pictures, Kurt.. but I, too, have a Canon (you could be outnumbered!). I just got my Macro for Christmas. What a difference! No matter what system you have, getting a Macro makes all the difference in the world. I'm still trying to figure out if I want to do top-down or prop the coin up and take pictures front-on.. but either way, picture-taking life is much sweeter with a macro lens  |
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 United States
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Chris Breeze already has something in the works for you, Kurt. It's called D300 Remote. Currently, it apparently only supports the D3, D90, D300 and D700. I don't know where your D70 would slot in to that; you might want to contact Chris regarding compatibility. $95 would buy you a lot of capability.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Good idea to consider when I'm back in spending mode--thanks! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5318 Posts |
Hi...since the conversation here isn't too related to my original Nikon macro lens review, very soon I will split out these posts into a new thread titled "DSLR Pro". Please keep the discussion going there. |
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New Member
Argentina
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I wish to use this lens with a Nikon D70s, but I still donīt get how much magnification has it. I mean, if you shoot a cell phone at the closest range with a D70s and this lens, you get all the dial key? just one key fills all the frame or what? Or if you shoot a pill, and aspirin this fills all the frame? half? I mean at closes range.
Please upload something like that, or the photos of the coins but straight from the camera.
Best Regards!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hi Shutter and welcome to our forums, The way that Nikon describes their macro lenses, they use terms like "1:1" magnification. What this means is the image projected by the lens on the CCD collector will be the actual size of the object. This is a number one can compare to other Nikon lenses. Basically 1:1 gives you a high level of detail. I provided some detail photos on the first page just to show general detail rendition. As a frame of reference, a US cent will fill a little more than the frame of the camera at full magnification (1:1) With that magnification on the D70S, you get quite a bit of useful detail. Here's detail of a Lincoln Cent at full magnification:  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Kurt, that is a nice '70-S SD.
You know that my new camera is a Canon. Do you know if it is a "thru the lens", focus, or thru the view finder? I don't think the wording is right, but I believe you know what I mean. I studied Photography, when 35mm was the thing, but that was day before yesterday! I keep trying to get a focus on the LCD, but it might be my eyes. I didn't have on my glasses. The pictures came out fine.
I have never seen a "Rainbow" in the winter, but this one was below the hight of the mountains, and on up to the higher levels. There was a very white storm closee by.
Before I forget it, While taking some other shots, I used the optical zoom to get a close up of the subject, and it was blurred, on the LCD, however the photos came out clear enough to show the detail I was after. So what? Thru the lens, or view-finder? I looked at the LCD to make the shots. Thanks,
Dick
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hi Dick,
Thanks...shot using my Nikkor 60mm macro lens of course!
I don't recall your camera model, but if the lens is built-in, it's probably a "viewfinder" camera.
Sounds like you got some nice shots--autofocus helps too.
Btw, you posted two comments...which do I keep? They are differences between the two.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Keep the 2nd. One more sentence |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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psssst Kurt, did you break this into 2 topics because you don't like our Canon's?   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ah ha...the Nikon vs. Canon thing? Not a biggie to me; I just use Nikon, that's all. I want to keep this thread on topic for those who own Nikon dSLRS and any questions they have about this lens. |
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New Member
Canada
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Nice lens
the pic in the 8th reply really shows the very detail of the surface
and the most important that it doesn't have a lens distortion caused by macro effect. very nice
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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mAnD,
Good observation on distortion! All the high-end macro lenses designed by Canon, Nikon, etc. are so built to reduce distortion that becomes very evident on close focusing. This is called "flatness of field", and it really shows up in the clean, evenly focused detail of the Australia polymer note above.
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New Member
Argentina
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Thanks Kurts for your quick answer, was very useful. You was right about how much an american cent coin fills a D70s frame!  http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/613/...79009aa8.jpgThis is a full frame shoot at the closest range (procesed and rescaled) made with a D70s and of course a micro nikor 60 2.8 D Regards! |
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