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Chris's 24-120/4...

Postby Remorhaz on Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:27 pm

Chris has very generously loaned me his 24-120/4 VR for a couple weeks to try it out on my new D600. I'm trying to decide whether I want the 24-120/4, the 24-70/2.8, (even the 28-300 I guess - but unlikely) or even no midrange zoom and just get an ultrawide, some fast primes in the middle (I have a 50/1.4 and 85/1.8 (& 90/2.8) already) and one of my tele zooms (70-200/2.8, 70-300 and 50-500).

Here are a couple of images in the city the day of picking up the lens

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This is a monochrome HDR created from two of the shots from a bracket I took handheld in the QVB - I used the 0EV and -3EV frames only. The 0EV frame is 1/25sec @ f/4 @ 24mm at ISO 500

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Also here is the straight 0EV frame - this is basically SOOC RAW - the only adjustment I made was to do a little highlight recovery.

What's impressive to me about this is the dynamic range and control of highlights and shadows on the D600 - the inside of these steps in the QVB are dark but outside it was clear blue skies and the midday sun was beaming straight at those windows - they should be completely blown out and there should be no details in the shadows - Lightroom shows no shadow clipping and minimal highlight clipping (and was recoverable).

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Another monochrome effort in the QVB (@ 120mm)

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Postby chrisk on Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:30 am

Glad you're enjoying it mate.

Very nice perspective I those stairs and yes you're right the dynamic range is excellent. Try doing that in a single frame on a d200. lol
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Re: Chris's 24-120/4...

Postby ozimax on Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:09 pm

Very nice photos. I never even knew one of those lens existed!!
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Postby Geoff M on Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:18 pm

Love the monochrome of the stairway. I have the same lens and it is my go to lens for versatility (on the FX), the distortion is fairly well pronounced at the wide end but easily corrected in post. I paid $1150 (ish) when DWI had it on a 'Deal of the Day' recently.
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