Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AF

Nikon D700 and Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AF lens. Wonderful light on a clear early November afternoon. I went equipped with a set of three lenses released to coincide with Nikon's introduction of automatic focus (not counting the two specialist lenses made a bit earlier specifically for the F3 camera). All of them must be 30 years old plus. Here I used the 24mm which is simply the optics of the 24mm AI repeated in AF mechanics. Likewise the 70-210mm f/4 which had an earlier iteration as a manual focus zoom in the 'E' series. And finally the 35-70mm f/2.8 which I guess has had the hardest life of the three but keeps turning in a stellar performance.

Nikon D700 and Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AF lens. 1/400th, f/11, ISO 200.

Converted to B&W. Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AF lens.

Nikon D700 + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Another visit to the ruins of Barn Farm, this time with companions who had never been to the place before. Almost fifty years ago this farmhouse was destroyed in a fire. A toy owl has appeared since my visit of 5 June 2016. There are strange goings-on in the Wiltshire countryside. Nikon D700 + Nikkor AF 24mm f/2.8 lens.

Parkland fencing shot into the sun with a Nikkor 24mm lens on a Nikon D700.

Nikon D3s + AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens.

On this day in history: I travelled across the county and part-exchanged a Benbo Trekker tripod for a Nikon MB-D10 grip to fit my Nikon D700. Returning, I stopped at Avebury and took a few photographs, using just two lenses: 24mm and 50mm. This one was shot with the 24mm. Shooting with the D700 was a bit like when the automatic focus multi-mode instruments came in during the late 1980s except it was digital and the AF was much better. It was like Christmas and birthday and holiday all rolled together.

In my photographic endeavours this is the most use the Cokin filters have turned out to be. Nikon D90 and Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AF lens. 1/125th and f/2.8. 800 ISO.