One - The Polarizer
This is so obvious I shouldn’t need to get into “why” you need it, but I’m me, and that means I’m going to talk about it anyway. Any time light moves from air to a transparent substance, some of the light doesn’t penetrate into the transparent substance and is reflected away. Whether the light hits water on a lake, the natural oil on human skin, clear cellulose and wax on plant leaves and flowers, lacquer on a car or a guitar, or glass on a building, there are reflections. The reflections are “white light”; they “fill in” the color and reduce saturation… read Full Article.

I’m a very satisfied customer of theirs with no other connection. The last large job I had they done, a veteran professional framer said the print looked to be on par with some of the art gallery work he frames. Lots of people here likes MPix for doing large prints. Probably hard to go wrong with just about any professional print lab. The process is pretty painless.

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Photography Challenge #1 - Unforgettable
Photos of the Month - April #1

First of all, prints are cool. A 30×45 print of your photo gives a much richer impression of the scene than a crappy flickr page. Not only is it bigger, allowing your eyes to wander around the image, but the color gamut of a printer (= the displayable spectrum of colors) is much wider than what you typically see on a monitor too.

Second, you can make money with prints. Maybe you actually can’t, maybe only after you die, but there is the slight chance that someone pays you 3.3 million dollars for a c-print diptych of a supermarket interior. Thus it won’t harm if you are at least prepared.

Third, if you have a serious camera fetish such as I have, you simply want to know what can be done with the binary data you collect on your compact flash cards.

Consequently, in order to become smarter, more hoity-toity and richer, I am now going to make some occasional print experiments. First of which I did on the weekend. Read full article.

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AF on 18/2.8 is very responsive (but noisy and I don’t understand why Nikon makes the focus ring rotated when it works in AF mode) because it has a rather very short rotation for focusing. This is a great convenience too if you prefer to run in manual focus, just rotates the focus ring in 90 degrees by my thumb and that already covers from nearest distance to infinity.

These features and high speed performance at f/2.8, 18/2.8 is great lens for dynamic and low light environment, in addition to landscape work. Now, I would only consider the bulky 14-24/2.8 for its widest 14mm and versatile zoom convenience. Though I prefer 18/2.8, who needs 14mm and zoom capability should definitely go to 14-24/2.8, in fact, 14-24/2.8 is one of the most valuable lens Nikon ever made.

See full article at Nikon AF Nikkor 18mm f/2.8D Assessment & Samples.

Nikon claimed that 24-70 can produce prime level image quality, is that true? Yes, that is true! At least based on the limited test mentioned in this article, 24-70 is matching and even better than my two classic primes - 28/1.4 and 45/2.8 P which are indeed very sharp lenses.

See full article at Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED Assessment & Samples.