Nikon D850 camera

So far I am REALLY impressed with this new camera! The closeup images I am getting using my Nikkor micro lenses are way better than I had been expecting.

I've been zooming in looking at cropped 1:1 images and it's pretty remarkable how sharp the images still are at that level. And that is with the camera being hand held! Even with my old shaky hands holding this beast, which weighs a LOT with the flashes and bracket mounted on it.

This is the setup I am using, with the 200mm micro lens attached.







It's quite the hand full trying to hold it all steady while getting the shot. Using the smaller 105mm or 60mm does help a little, but the longer lens is better for shooting something a little further away that is difficult to get closer to. I've had all three of these lenses for years, and only used the 105mm on occasion with my old Fuji camera body when I needed closeups of something or another. This new Nikon D850 camera body beats that old Fuji all to hell and back again in the quality department. And I have barely scratched the surface of what this camera can actually do. Heck, I haven't even been doing any post processing on the photos they are turning out so well. Exposure with the flashes seems pretty much dead on as it is straight from the camera.

I recently got a wide angle zoom lens (15mm to 30mm) for this new camera body and wanted to try it out with something, well, unusual. During Christmas, Connie wanted to put some colored lights out on the palm trees outside of our house, and she decided she liked them enough to just keep them there all year. So I was curious about a number of factors from a photographic slant using this wide angle lens at night. The camera was mounted on a tripod, of course, with the smallest aperture for the best depth of field. Shutter speed was 20 seconds.

The colors look kind of psychedelic. When I zoomed in to see the details, I was pleased with how sharp the image is, even zoomed in to a 1:1 image of the front door.