[Leica] 200mm test

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

That's just bad color management in part, because I pulled the blues down a
bit while I was working on a barely visible fringe on the rightmost,
rearmost tree.  But I will add that the color rendition on the D40x by the
two AI-S manual focus lenses was definitely yellower than the color looked
more lovely on the AF lens.

Plus it's New York.  The grass has to get in shape for it's big summertime
turn-yellow-and-brown-and-ugly act.

Vince

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
wrote:

> The grass looks slightly yellowish to me, is that the New York afternoon
> Sun?
>
> Sell the kid :-)
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Dr. Ted I know you're out there -- a savage hound on the dark moor -- but
> I
> > want to ask all you others, do you remember a discussion thread about a
> > month or so back on the Nikon 200 f/4 prime? As I recollect Jim Laird (?)
> > was constructing a shoulder brace for use with this lens. Doug advised
> him.
> > Several others kibbutzed, including me, to the effect that the lens is
> > quite
> > light.  Well today it was so lovely I was testing my 200mm lenses out the
> > front window. We live up the hill from a park with a big pond in it and
> the
> > living room overlooks it. Tested Nikkor AF 70-210 1:4-5.6 D;  Nikkor
> 80-200
> > 1:4.5 AI-S ; and the Nikkor 200 1:4 AI-S as previously mentioned.  All at
> > F8.  RAW. ISO 400 because I was too dumb to remember to change it and
> since
> > I used to shoot Tri-X almost exclusively I tend to leave it at 400 most
> of
> > the time and not think about it. Roughly 1/500th of a second though this
> > varied a little because the metering on the D40x is a little too bright
> so
> > with the AF-D lens -- the only one with which the D40 can provide
> metering
> > and aperture priority -- one keeps the EV adjusted to -.7.
> >
> > I swear to God Dr. Ted I was thinking about Leicas the whole time. I was
> > thinking about selling the new kid -- he was right there with me and damn
> > cute -- so I could put a down payment on an M9.
> >
> > Anyway the 200/4 knocked my socks off.  Here are three images from one
> > shot:
> > The first just a JPEG straight up from the RAW file. The second cropped
> and
> > enlarged almost to 100 percent and slightly adjusted in PS Camera Raw.
> The
> > third cropped the same but with more work fixing the highlights, working
> > out
> > a bit of fringing, color adjustment, sharpening, etc.
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/toast+eatin_+bog+man/nikon+200mm+f4/
> >
> > Opinions, criticisms and advice most welcome. Particularly welcome is
> > advice
> > on the processing. Everything I know how to do is in camera raw. I have
> > hardly tried PS itself yet.
> >
> > Vince
> >
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