The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G

Alexander Keiller's ambitious project for Avebury resulted, inter alia, in concrete plinths being positioned where stones once stood in neolithic times.

Nikon D90 and AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G.

Hold it. Gently.

Stourhead, Wiltshire. Nikon D90 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens at 90mm (equivalent to a field of view of 135mm on a full frame camera).

Nikon D50 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens. That lens is a secondhand bargain and there are plenty available. This photograph was shot with the lens at 135mm - beyond that it deteriorates. On the D50 that is similar to shooting at 200mm on a full-frame camera. The D50 was pretty clean for digital noise at any ISO, but this was shot at 200 ISO and may benefit from that. Shutter was 1/640th and aperture f/6.3. I could have reduced the former and closed down a bit on the latter, because the background is neither here nor there. The photograph is cropped to remove the boring bits.

Nikon D50 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens.

Nikon D50 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens at 145mm. A bit of tweaking in Lightroom.

Nikon D50 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens.

At 129 ft high, Silbury Hill is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe and one of the largest in the world. There is nothing inside it other than chalk, clay, rubble and soil, and there is no big hole to account for the materials used in construction. It would have taken 500 labourers 15 years to complete. I used an AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens to photograph the mound. I have owned two of these lenses and sold both. They are not designed for demanding standards of quality, and not very well built either. Yet within their limitations they can turn in a decent image. They need to be well stopped down, and not used beyond 200mm. Here, the focal length is 78mm and the aperture f/11, with a shutter speed of 1/640th to ameliorate the effect of shaky hands being magnified. The main advantage of this lens is its light weight, useful when tramping over fields for three or four miles. Camera: Nikon D90.

This photograph dates from February, 2012. It was one of those 'let's see what happens' efforts which worked out better than anticipated. I used a Nikon D90 with an AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens at full stretch (not a setting where it excels: it's performance is usually poor beyond 200mm). Aperture was f/7.1; speed 1/3200. Elsewhere I have remarked on how difficult it is to repeat a photograph due to factors like different light, forgotten camera settings, mistaken perspective; in this case it is impossible because the tree has been felled. I doubt the picture would be half as attractive without the spindly twigs silhouetted in the winter sunset.

Nikon D90 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens.

AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G at 250mm on a Nikon D50.

Nikon D50 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens.

Nikon D90 and Nikkor 70-300mm AF-G f/4-5.6 zoom lens.

I used a cheap AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens on a Nikon D50. Here the camera was set at 400 ISO on a bright day with a shutter speed of 1/1000th; the aperture was f/8 and the focal length 70mm. At those settings the result ought to have been better. I have had quite acceptable photographs from this lens but not many that sparkle in the way a 50mm prime lens frequently does.