Recent content by eclectyx

The Singapore Institute of Biology is holding its inaugural Photo Essay Competition, open to students from local secondary schools to tertiary institutions. Entries may come from individual students or small teams and take the form of a one to three images with an accompanying text of up to 300...

Sharp at close range or sharp at landscape/infinity distance? Some lenses are good at one end but not at the other. :) Since you are willing to consider M42, why not try the AI-S 28mm f/2.8 (the 'newer' version that focuses to a minimum of 0.2m) manual focus lens. Might be harder to find...

The 60mm micro is one of the flatest field macro lenses as I understand it, and is often used in copying artwork, old books, etc. Sharp as heck too. For your purposes, shooting probably is the fastest way. But shoot with some exposure compensation (+1 at least?) and do it on manual to get...

Well, they are about the only place with it in stock now. Asked over the weekend and got the same quote. Maybe the latest shipment went up? AP at SLS quoted the BR-2A at almost double that! NSC's official list price is still $28 for the BR-2A though. Note about the equivalent 3rd party...

Anyone noticed that in the Nikon pamphlet, the D80 kit comes with an "AF 70-300mm G lens", but the picture shown is the AF-S 70-300mm VR lens"? ;)

Actually, the price given above is with tax and is the "list price", actual street price should be substantially lower. If you check the rest of the Tokina site, the price of the 50-135mm is given as 138,000 yen (w/o tax) which is about S$1,746, but the street price here is around S$1,150 (if I...

I think you have a fundamental misconception here. The original phrasing in some Nikon materials refer to something like "smaller and lighter than equivalent lens designed for full-frame". In some of their marketing, Nikon seems to have gotten sloppy and tend to leave out the comparison...

I think TS is refering to the D200 and SB800 weird flashing behaviour occasionally reported here. I am increasingly facing this problem lately. Whenever the shutter release is pressed halfway (ie. while the D200 meter is 'on'), the SB800 will randomly flash (at reduced power, sort of like 1/4...

In real world usage, a 30 or 35mm lens on a 1.5x crop DSLR would function similarly to how you would use a 50mm on a film SLR. You would stand in the same spot to take the picture and get a generally similar image (subject magnification, and angle of view). Relatively small differences would...

Yes, I think that is the crux of the matter, you were describing how an image looks relative to the human eye (magnification and sort of "angle of view"), while I was trying to describe the size/appearance of the background relative to the foreground. Gooseberry's explanation (distance to...

Ack, that's why I said this is a really confused issue. :) I guess Scaglietti is right that a lot of this will depend on the definition of perspective. But my understanding of it is pretty much that in the link above provided by kzone. On the other hand, gooseberry provides good evidence...

I know what you mean, and I think we are explaining the same thing, but in different ways. BUT in terms of perspective, think about it, a cropped sensor does just that, crop. It's the same as taking an image from a FF camera and cropping it in post-processing. The perspective does not...

This is one of those things which needs illustration with actual photos for side-by-side comparison, but no time to put together such a tutorial lah. :) For everyone else who is considering getting either a 35mm or 50mm prime, I suggest the best way to figure it out is to set a standard zoom...

Not many come on the market, although I understand there were many produced. Folks tend to keep them cos the image quality is really quite nice. Above price a bit on the ++ side, depending on the vintage and condition. This lens is available in AI and AIS spec, and besides the "S" indexing...

Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 is a legendary manual focus lens. Available in AI and AIS versions and was still in production until quite recently. Read about it here.