Secret life of birds? Not with a 200 mm lens on a D800!
Things are not always as they seem. Find it out by clicking on each picture.
Of sex and birds: a 70-200 mm f/2.8 VR II photo-poem made in Zürisee
I was waiting for you my master …
Under a curtain of white drops
I will give myself to you, my love.
And what you gifted me with your beak (on my neck)
And what you made me with your feet (on my back)
Will be lost in time, like droplets in the lake.
Click here for the full love R-rated story reportage or on each picture for bigger size. About some more feelings, I love this lens. Pictures shot against the sun at 200 mm, f/5, 1/1250, ISO 100.
How sharp is the Nikkor 16-35 mm f/4G ED VR on the D800? The Papa Francisco case
Papa Francisco (in the picture below, adapted from the Vatican newspaper l’Osservatore Romano) was around 380 meters far away from my D800.
In the panel below it is depicted how could I see him with a 50 mm and a 16 mm mounted on my D800. First, second and third column are respectively left, middle, right crops of the full size pictures (f/6.3 and ISO 100 – click here and here for downloading 15 MB full size pictures) Click on the picture panel to see it full size.
Except for the slight chromatic aberration on the left side of the 16 mm picture (that is automatically removed by lens correction, compare middle and bottom rows), I am happy I had this lens just in time before visiting Rome.
Barrel distortion of the Nikon 16-35mm f/4G ED VR on D800: picture comparison
When I bought the Nikon 16-35mm f/4 VR I read about the huge barrel distortion coming with it at 16 mm but I was not aware it was so … unnoticeable. Click on the animated gif above (1.1 MB, give it time to load) if the slide show is not running. You will see the original NEF files and the result from the automatic software correction for this lens (click here for more corrected pictures from Rome). Of course it is better after correction, but the distortion is not as disturbing as I thought. Maybe it goes worse with modern glass-and-steel buildings … not my usual subject anyway.
Rome D800 time-machine: 8 minutes of pictures through 2000 years of history!
If you did not manage to go through the several pictures we shot in Rome, enjoy artborghi animated point of view instead: technical specifications and hi-res pictures you can find here. Click on the youtube movie for a hi-res 2000 year-long trip in pictures.
Artborghi for pictures and mix, Maestro Karen Kornienko for music and arrangements.
