{"id":5629,"date":"2012-06-22T21:24:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T21:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=5629"},"modified":"2012-06-22T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T21:25:14","slug":"summing-up-the-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=5629","title":{"rendered":"Summing up the experiment……."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, tomorrow the actual Nikon workshop starts and there will be little or no time to test the manual lenses for the rest of this trip. \u00a0So what have I learned? \u00a0Here goes:<\/p>\n

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1. \u00a0Not too surprising the older classic manual Nikkors were tack sharp back then and they still are today. \u00a0Are they sharper than current lenses? \u00a0No, but they are a lot better than you might think. \u00a0Some individual lenses are still very viable if you don’t mind the effort.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2. \u00a0The effort to use the older manual focus glass is considerable. \u00a0I found my work flow in the field to be a lot more “fits and starts”. \u00a0 If you want to make yourself slow down and work more carefully, this is a great way. \u00a0Through out the trip I found myself missing, the shorter zooms, autofocus, and the general comfort zone I’ve come to have with the modern lenses.<\/span><\/p>\n

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3. \u00a0What will I do in the future? \u00a0I enjoyed the experiment and I’m certain that, from time to time, I will get back on and ride these horses some more, but I won’t sell all my modern lenses, I just need to be able to work faster much of the time and the manual focus workflow, does slow things down, considerably.<\/span><\/p>\n

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4. \u00a0The final conclusion is that the old Nikkors hold up very well when compared to modern glass, but they do lack the more modern coatings, and except for close-up work, where I always focus manually anyway, I really missed the speed of the new lenses. \u00a0What’s neat is that manual lenses are still plentiful and can be an attractive bargain for something you just would love to play around with. \u00a0One thing is for sure, I don’t think my work suffered, it was quite pleasant to slow down and remember how things used to be!!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, tomorrow the actual Nikon workshop starts and there will be little or no time to test the manual lenses for the rest of this trip. \u00a0So what have I learned? \u00a0Here goes:   1. \u00a0Not too surprising the older classic manual Nikkors were tack sharp back then and they still are today. \u00a0Are they […]<\/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-5629","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\/5629","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=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5632,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions\/5632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}