Tonight I am going to South Mountain overlooking Phoenix to do some night photography. For this I will definately need my tripod and a remote shutter release since most of my exposures will most likely be 30 seconds or longer. For this I should only need one lens, my 18-55mm G VR, but for the heck of it I am also bringing along my 60 year old Kilfitt 400mm f/5.6 "FrankenLens". Here is the rundown.
My intention was to get some cityscapes during sunset and early evening. I spent most of my time shooting the
18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 G VR and it worked brilliantly. Shooting between 30 seconds and 5 minutes I got some gorgeous shots.
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Camera:
Nikon D80
Lens:
18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
Focal
Length: 18mm
Shutter:
26.7 sec
Aperture:
f/8
ISO:
100
Flash:
None
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Just to see what it could do I pulled out the Kilfitt 400mm f/5.6 "FrankenLens". This is a lens that was given to me with the original mount boogered up to fit some unknown camera. So I went ahead and bought some (ahem) high quality super cheap extension tubes and pressed a tube onto the mount. These all screwed together so I was able to mix and match until I got the lens mounted at the correct distance from the focal plane. It is definately a kludge job, but it works, and works quite well. Here is a shot from the old Kilfitt...
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Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Kilfitt 400mm f/5.6 "FrankenLens"
Focal Length: 400mm
Shutter: 3 sec
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 100
Flash: None
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Overall not bad. This was a good shoot, had the right equipment, and came home with some stuff I was proud of, and that is all you ever want.
Thanks for reading.
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