Each month Every once in a while I will pick a SLR lens of my interest and a do a simple overview on its specifications. It can be new, old or odd whichever that I think is worth pointing out. This won’t be a full on review as I don’t have most of the them, but hopefully I can point out important little details that some might overlook. Continue reading
Each month I will pick a SLR lens of my interest and a do a simple overview on its specifications. It can be new, old or odd whichever that I think is worth pointing out. This won’t be a full on review as I don’t have most of the them, but hopefully I can point out important little details that some might overlook.
Cheapest lens and easily consider the must-have lens, The Nikkor 50mm f1.8D is the alternate standard lens you should have on your SLR as if it is your lens cap. While a G version of the same lens (AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G) is now available, you will not get as much value out of any other lens.
Today Apple take us to its fifth generation iPhone 4S, an incredible smart mobile device that come with more than a mobile phone. A major improvement (at least been marketed as) in iPhone 4S is upgrade to its camera component, proundly announced a 8 megapixels, “all-new optics” and f2.4 aperture.
Does it contain that much of amazing’ness, you can preview its photo quality from iPhone 4S Photo Gallery. With EXIF viewer, we can easily find out the numbers behind this brand new phone camera. Here’s a comparison with iPhone 4′s 5 megapixels phone camera.
Every month I will pick a SLR lens of my interest and a do a simple overview on its specifications. It can be new, old or odd whichever that I think is worth pointing out. This won’t be a full on review as I don’t have most of the them, but hopefully I can point out important little details that some might overlook.
Something I would consider as luxury kit lens. This is a very reliable entry level wide angle lens and is definitely not built to be cheap (in terms of quality). When side with AF-S DX 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G you can feel the different in weight and built quality and lack of distance meter on 18-55mm may feel a bit awkward when shooting landscapes.
3 dispersion element, 7 rounded aperture blade, SWM, internal focusing.. lot of feature stuffed in, however most people will felt seamless about them. One physics that will standard out in time is the filter thread size. At 67mm, many will have their grunge toward Nikon as the filters they buy for this lens and can hardly share with other lenses.
Introduction
This is a suprise for many, but on July 2011 Nikon has annoced the addition of cheapest macro-photogrpahy lens (where Nikon calls them ‘Micro’) into its lineup.
It is a DX lens with an usual focal length of 40mm (which is approximate equivalent to a 60mm lens used on a 35mm format camera).
When comparing with its closest sibling Nikon AF-S 35mm f1.8G, there are obvious advantages and disadvantages between both lenses making them both unique and desirable for variety of scenarios. For example, 40mm f2.8 is designed with close range focusing for creating super sharp image quality with short focal distance, meanwhile 35mm f1.8 has an aspherical glass for reducing distortion and chromatic aberrations when shooting at standard and long distance.
The lens is not yet avaialble to date and is current scheduled to be available in late August 2011, ESP US$279.95
In summary, there are couple of advantages you may appreciate:
And on the other side of the coin, you may want to known the following possible downsides: