urbanwild wrote:
Yeah, my eye is more drawn towards the portraits with some environmental context with or without some softness in the scene with a few blown out shots mixed in when artistically done. The 24-120 lens does provide "clean" images which I would not connect with the 28mm or 40mm SE lenses for example.
Last night I was 95% selling this lens. I compared the IQ again with some other lenses in my albums and now I'm at 85%. Thanks Scott .
Did you end up getting rid of the 24-120? I saw this post on Nikon's IG today, and guessed it was the 85/1.2 or 50/1.2 and was very shocked to see the truth
Hey Scott, no I opted to give it a year and see how things go. I haven't touched my cameras since Christmas (weather, energy, work, fitness goals, blah) so it's a bit out of sight, out of mind right now which doesn't help. I also appreciated your comment about my portrait shared in the sunflower field (I think you were pointing out the nice fall-off in the oof areas) and that gave me pause. Tough call.....first world problem but too many lenses and too little time. I need to retire and then there will be no debate.....keep them all and add a couple more
Big waves on the California Coast... I got hit at the hip by a wave while I was looking through the camera... almost dragged in, but the camera and I made it out... very wet, but still ready to make more picture
OwlsEyes wrote:
Thank you Robert...
It is very easy to get distracted when one's eye is behind the lens
cheers,
bruce
Reminds me of a time long ago when I stopped on a dirt road in AZ to shoot a javelina that had just come out of the brush. It was getting bigger in the viewfinder of my DSLR and thought I might have inadvertently moved the zoom ring. Fortunately I realized soon after that it wasn't the zoom ring, instead it was charging me!
Fred Amico wrote:
Reminds me of a time long ago when I stopped on a dirt road in AZ to shoot a javelina that had just come out of the brush. It was getting bigger in the viewfinder of my DSLR and thought I might have inadvertently moved the zoom ring. Fortunately I realized soon after that it wasn't the zoom ring, instead it was charging me!
I just picked up this lens recently, and I am consistently shocked by how good the quality of images produced are. This thread is full of examples. Just wanted to confirm my own experiences with it as well
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