We are at mid-october. Rain and leaves are falling down, my Nikon D80’s focusing system just failed me, and the depressing times take me. My last midterm would mark the beginning of my week off from school without a camera in hand. So I make a phone call to a good friend that previously lent me his Nikon D700 with lenses and he accepts to my great joy.
Learning from past experiences
My previous encounter with the body ended up in a weight complaint and led a crusade against buying Full Frame cameras because it didn’t do much difference to the render of my D90. But I believe I was shooting the wrong subjects with the wrong lens. This time, in my moment of prime craze at using the 35 and the 105 on my cropped DX bodies, I decided to go fully prime’d on the machine with:
- Nikkor AI-s 24mm f/2.8
- Nikkor AF-S 35mm f/1.8 DX (yes it works!!!)
- Nikkor AF-D 50mm f/1.4 (from my friend)
- Nikkor AF-S 105mm f/2.8 VR N
- Nikkor AF-S 24-70 f/2.8 ED (from my friend) (ok not a prime I’ll get to that later)
First day: walking around (the street shooting test).
My friend was kind enough to give me the body, fully charged with an empty 4gb memory card that I used right away. Walking around downtown towards my midterm exam. After the exam, I went to shoot with a friend of my school photo club. Nothing groundbreaking came out of the walk besides the discovery of the awesome neighborhood surrounding my campus with my friend Danick Denis from my school little photo-club ReflETS.
While the camera was reacting four times faster than my beloved D90 and doing a great job at capturing anything I aim it at, I was quite shy to shoot because I felt I couldn’t blend in the street environment due to the huge size of the camera (I was using the 24-70 2.8… how the f*ck can you blend in with that?!).
Met up with my friend Christian for his last days in Montreal before he moves to Toronto for fame and fortune. Ate some great Chinese Stew pot then walked, talked and shot our way back home. Good times. Great friend. Back in Lightroom, I noticed how far the RAW files of the cameras could be stretched for dynamic range. That is very cool.
To be continued...
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