Tag: bokeh

Lens

As a birthday present – a bit early – I got the Nikon 32mm f1.2 for the Nikon 1 cameras.  I have the V1.  This lens, equivalent roughly to an 85mm lens, has a separate manual focus element on it, unlike the others in the Nikon 1 series.

Yesterday, I went to a local garden, and took a series of pictures.  Some I used the automatic focusing, on others I used the manual focusing.  I need to figure out how to use it.  The main, point, though, of the excursion was to simply evaluate the lens at f1.2, to check the bokeh, to check the accuracy, and to simply see how it worked.

Follows are some of the shots, with some post-processing, just because that is what I do, but I did very little sharpening because that was the main focal point – observe the depth of field of the lens.

Overall, I am quite pleased with the lens, but there is definitely a time and place for such a wide open f/stop.  Click on the composite picture below, then click again to enlarge it, if you want to see more of the details.

Nikon 32mm f1.2

Lost in the Trees

Lost in the Trees

This is a panorama done a la Ryan Brenizer – about my 4th attempt. Not especially interesting. Things are out of focus. Hopefully I’ll get better! Composition is really a key element in these pictures, as well as focal point. There are 84 images stitched together here, with post processing and cropping. If you click on the image, you get to see it larger.