Equipment: Nikon FE-2 with Nikkor 85 1.8 lens. No filter or hood.
I absolutely love this lens, especially when I open it up to capture just my subject. I wanted to put a couple of pics up so if someone is considering the lens (mine was in great shape, purchased on e-bay for $200) they at least have some idea of what images look like.
Note on the scans: All scans are straight from my Kodac Picture CD. I reduced the size using Lview, and on the Red Knight and Josh in the swing I cropped a little. If I knew how to use photoshop I'm sure I could improve on them a bit. My monitor at home isn't terribly great (but only 12 years old) so I really don't know how the reduced size looks. At work, on my whiz-bang Pentium, they look pretty good straight from the CD (but are 300K in size).
Update 09/05/01: If I can locate the CD I'll try and improve and expand on this page a bit by removing the 'photoshop haze' and finding some more, interesting pics. I have a serious box full of photos and CD's and stuff so there should be more to come. -- Brian
The above two images were taken at the local Rennaisance festival. (If you think they are any good, tell my wife, as I was holding Josh at the time so she took both of these). Film is Reala, exposure unknown.
Another image, again Reala. I took this one :-)
This is why the kids were so sleepy in the above pics.
If
they would only use real swords...
A different day, this one was NPH. I cropped to get rid of the (IMO) ugly baby in the next swing.
Another shot using NPH.