{"id":651,"date":"2016-01-21T23:12:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T12:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/?p=651"},"modified":"2016-08-19T14:41:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T04:41:50","slug":"in-the-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"In the Prime&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very close to home the last couple of weeks, but did have a chance to experiment with the <em>Nikkor 50mm F1.4 D<\/em> quite a bit. It&#8217;s a wonderful little lens and still does remarkably well on the D810. It&#8217;s sharper than the <em>Nikkor 50mm F1.8 D<\/em> but I wouldn&#8217;t say hugely so considering the few hundred dollars difference in price. Value for money, the <em>Nikkor 50mm F1.8 D<\/em> at just over a $100 (AU) is probably hands down winner of all the Nikkor lenses. It&#8217;s a great little lens that will go in your pocket easily and takes great shots. It&#8217;s just a simple thing made well. It&#8217;s not perfect, but for the price it&#8217;s unjustified to complain. If you have the budget the 1.4 gives you better shots, but those hundreds extra could go towards something else if you have the <em>Nikkor 50mm F1.8 D<\/em>. that said, Mina (featured image) was shot with the <em>Nikkor 50mm F1.4 D<\/em>. But one of my favourite shots of Tigga was with the <em>Nikkor 50mm F1.8 D<\/em> as was the little tweeter underneath. Also the self portrait I use for my business cards was shot with the <em>Nikkor 50mm F1.8 D<\/em>. It&#8217;s easy to see why the 50mm prime receives such reverence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/wp-content\/gallery\/pets\/C1M2008.jpg\" alt=\"Mina Enjoying a Brush\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/wp-content\/gallery\/pets\/1CM4126.jpg\" alt=\"This bears closer inspection\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While visiting Andrew the other weekend I happened to be graced with Mina modelling herself on the kitchen table when I arrived. I was allowed a few shots before she decided that she&#8217;d done enough work, and wandered off to sleep on the window sill. Along with practising with the <em>Nikkor 50mm F1.4 D<\/em> I\u2019ve begun to experiment with Lens Filters. I&#8217;m really appreciating the benefits such accessories bring to my photography. Of course these aren\u2019t the only experiments going on at the moment, but more on that in a later post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very close to home the last couple of weeks, but did have a chance to experiment with the Nikkor 50mm F1.4 D quite a bit. It&#8217;s a wonderful little lens and still does remarkably well on the D810. It&#8217;s sharper than the Nikkor 50mm F1.8 D but I wouldn&#8217;t say hugely so considering the few&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/?p=651\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,41,2,11,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","category-close-up","category-filters","category-furbags","category-goals","category-lenses-gear","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}