Zeiss – 18mm Lens for Nikon
I saw this lens at Camera Cafe —– The test shot in the Cafe showed me
pretty impressive quality. Virtually no Distortion or Chromatic aberration.
And this lens got the Number 1580xxxx, the number of my fate. => So,
I decided to buy. —– Lens itself is well known Distagon 18 mm F3.5 yet
this is for Nikon DSLR = FZ.2 type which has a Microchip built in and works
same as Nikon’s own lens, except auto-focus (still gives Focus-confirmation).
(Lens was designed by Zeiss but actuary made by Coshina in Japan. )
From Camera Cafe, I took the direction south, on foot while shooting
time to time.— I felt the camera (Nikon D810) was working a bit funny.
= taking much longer to show the image though, I didn’t investigate it
on the spot. —– But after I checked the image on the PC, I realized that
D800 had been malfunctioning = gave all the exposure in HDR mode.
And the photo above was the most severely mal-processed one. (straight
from CF card) And the photo below is the normal one. (though, clopped).
For HDR mode, three images in different exposures has to be integrated
= position has to match exactly —– though, the wrong one showed an utter
dislocation of the image and the color has been red-shifted.
Richard of Camera Cafe explained that the So-called lens-mount adapter
with “Focus Confirmation type = microchip built in” often cause the
camera to malfunction. —– Though, it is too early for me to decide the
cause of this trouble.
(Whether the trouble could be repeated ? — in what condition etc etc. )
South of British Museum = Covent Garden area has many Dance / Ballet shops.
Royal Opera/ Royal Ballet and the Drury Lane Theatre (which used to
perform “Cats” are there = Mecca of Dance.
And further walk down south => we get to the Waterloo Bridge.
And the South-bank = Art centre is over the bridge.
It’s a funny installation though, as it was outside of Hayward Gallery,
it must be an art. —– is it ? —– You got to be serious ! 🙂
—– So, optically superb. Electronically —– not sure.
I need to test this 18mm lens further.
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