{"id":11159,"date":"2014-08-12T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T15:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11159"},"modified":"2014-08-12T20:05:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T20:05:49","slug":"what-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=11159","title":{"rendered":"What and Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Got a few emails, bet you knew that already!\u00a0 Quote from one, “Please make sure I get this right, you are dumping every single piece of Nikon equipment you ever owned!!??”\u00a0 No, and I didn’t say that, I said I hadn’t used my Nikons for over a year, and that I was selling off some Nikon equipment, not that I’m washing my hands of Nikon altogether.\u00a0 So what am I keeping and why?<\/p>\n

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For 99% of my day to day work I’m shooting the Fuji X-System, I love it, it meets all my needs, and it’s a kick to use.\u00a0 I do still have an ember in my heart of Nikons and Nikkor lenses.\u00a0 I have a particular love for the Nikkor lenses of the AI-s era.\u00a0 These mechanical jewels are a beauty to behold and hold.\u00a0 Translation they provide a tactal\u00a0 sensation going back to the days of Leitz lenses from Wetzler!\u00a0 These Nikkors are amazing in quality and fun to use.\u00a0 So, I’m holding on to a single Domke bag, filled with a manual system for the occasional times I need a Nikon manual fix!<\/p>\n

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So what’s in that bag?\u00a0 The body is a D700.\u00a0 In my opinion one of the best DSLRs Nikon ever made. It is essentially a D3 in a smaller package.\u00a0 Image quality is superb and it plays well with the manual lenses. Just in case you were wondering, These same lenses are also suberb on the D800\/D800e and I’m sure the D810 as well.\u00a0 So why is my body not a D800 series camera?\u00a0 Too much resolution for me, just don’t need it, the storage issues or the slow computer blues!<\/p>\n

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The lenses I chose are some of the “Legendary” Nikkors of all time, AI-s lenses.<\/p>\n

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The Nikkor 24mm f 2.8<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Micro Nikkor 55mm f 2.8 AI-s<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 25-50 AI-s f 4 Nikkor zoom lens.\u00a0 An incredible zoom with super sweet color.
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The Nikon 105mm\u00a0 Micro Nikkor f 2.8 AI-s<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Nikon 80-200 f 4\u00a0 AI-s Nikkor zoom.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nikon 50-135 f 3.5 AI-s Nikkor<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I also threw in a set of Automatic Extension tubes and some electronic cable releases.\u00a0 So for those that are worried, I still have some Nikon stuff and enjoy it on rare occasions.\u00a0 Does this mean that I think the new auto-focus glass in inferior?\u00a0 No the modern glass is certainly great, but in order to allow micro motors to move the focusing mechanism the lenses must be made lighter internally, and there goes the smooth, old world feel!\u00a0 A part of my past is using these old type lenses for the majority of my early career, and to be honest, I have a real love for the gear and the memories!<\/p>\n

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So all our decisions are not based in hard cold facts and specs!\u00a0 Photography is a part technical but even more aesthetic and this is some of my aesthetic love affair with the gear of photography!!!!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n

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A special thanks to my buddy Ken Rockwell for his wonderful product images.\u00a0 I’ve checked out gear for years on\u00a0 his site!<\/p>\n

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Oh yes, and I use my 400mm f 3.5 IF-ED AI-s, 300mm f 4.5 IF_ED AI-s, and 200mm Micro Nikkor f4 AF<\/strong><\/span> on both the Nikon body and with adapters on the Fuji X bodies.<\/p>\n

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  Got a few emails, bet you knew that already!\u00a0 Quote from one, “Please make sure I get this right, you are dumping every single piece of Nikon equipment you ever owned!!??”\u00a0 No, and I didn’t say that, I said I hadn’t used my Nikons for over a year, and that I was selling off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles","category-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11159"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11172,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159\/revisions\/11172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}