AFS 16-35mm f/4G ED VR

Intro

For Nikon FX users, the 16-35mm f/4 zoom lens is probably the best landscaping lens available from Nikon. Now some of you are probably thinking, what about the 14-24mm, sure it may be a little sharper with a lot less distortion, but it is of limited use to a true landscaper since it offers less range and no support for common filters. The AFS 16-35mm offers three distinctive characteristics: Firstly, the constant f/4 aperture which we haven’t seen from Nikon in a long time, secondly, the VR technology on a wide angle zoom lens and thirdly, it’s the widest FX lens from Nikon that works with filters (screw on and front mounted). FX users have been waiting for this lens for a long time. The same cannot be said of DX users, since the range is not exciting enough on the smaller format (24-52.5mm).

Nikon D700

I wanted to post a shot of my son so this is a good excuse :-)  OK, so I've been shooting with the D700 for over a year and never really bothered to do a write up since there was so much info about the camera online, plus i had nothing new or different to add. Anyway, even though we all pretty much know about the high ISO performance capabilities of the 12MP Nikon FX sensor, we don't automatically go shooting at high ISO's. So the other day, I was shooting my son indoors with just a tungsten light bulb overhead and to get a decent exposure had to pump up the ISO to 5000. I knew there would be some acceptable noise, but i was in for a surprise, i mean those shots were incredible!! And to think that for my commercial work I have limited myself to ISO 3200 just to be safe.