Nikon D3s

Nikon D3s and Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

Nikon D3s and Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

Nikon D3s and Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

Nikon D3s and Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

Nikon D3s and Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens.

Nikon D3s + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

Nikon D3s + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

Nikon D3s + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-D lens.

Nikon D3s + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-D lens. There is something engrossing about shooting with a 50mm lens on a full frame camera. Perhaps it is another form of time travel, a subject which occupies my mind with occasional intensity. Unconventional camera settings for this picture: 1/2500; 800 ISO; f/5.6. A proper photographer would be appalled.

Nikon D3s + Nikkor 70-300mm VR lens.

Nikon D3s + Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF lens.

Nikon D3s and Nikkor-P 105mm f/2.5 lens with a Nikon soft focus No. 1 filter. Cropped and processed in Lightroom. F/8; 1/640th; ISO 200.

Photographed in available light using a Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 lens on a Nikon D3s. 5600 ISO; f/5.6; 1/125th.

A tentative excursion into neo-psychedelic. Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 lens on a Nikon D3s.

A Nikon D3s and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AF-D lens photographed in available light using a Nikon D2Xs with a Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 lens. 1/40th at f/4 and 400 ISO.

Nikon D3s with a temperamental Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 AF-D. Mostly it won't do automatic focus, indeed it may have been just chance that this picture of the Rev'd E. O. T. Bear preparing to deliver his weekly homily has come out so well. The sermon was a bit wooly though.

Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens on a Nikon D3s. A bit of adjustment in Lightroom. 200 ISO; f/3.5; 1/400th because of the breeze.

I return to the Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 lens because its fidelity is so fine. It can also focus close enough to almost qualify as a macro lens. Used here on a Nikon D3s at 200 ISO; 1/250th; f/8. I find this lens to be just as useful - if not more so - on the Nikon D2Xs, and that is because the D2x series was excellent in every way but one: it was poor at ISO levels beyond 400. But put a fast lens with image stabilisation on it and you never need to go into murky ISO levels.