The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: watering

I am getting many more photographs by using a cheap lightweight Nikon D40 with an AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G lens. I will readily concede, however, that contrast and fidelity would be improved by using a zoom lens with a smaller range of focal lengths, and that there is no comparison with a decent prime lens. This was shot at 105mm (a 157mm full-frame equivalent) using an aperture of f/5.6. It would probably have had greater clarity at f/8 or f/11. Back to school for TLC.

Today I bought a Nikon D70s, a camera dating from c.2005. The D70 models are some of the few SLR cameras with a CCD sensor. These were abandoned because alternative technology was cheaper. It is claimed that CCD technology provides a particular character of rendering and resolution; a vibrancy not always evident in the CMOS sensors which replaced them. Differences in colour and white balance can be adjusted in post processing, whereas the difference between a faintly antiseptic CMOS and a vibrant CCD cannot be replicated after the shutter has been activated. Zack Arias, a photographer who started out with the D70/70s described the skin tone resolving power of the D70, as “mind-blowing”. (I have yet to risk blowing my own mind). I thought it might be instructive to conduct my own tests, a fairly cheap exercise given the secondhand values of 14 year old digital cameras. I hope my D70 holds up long enough to reach a conclusion! Lens at 70mm. 200 ISO; f/8; 1/400th.