Is it weird that I bought a new, really amazing camera, and spent the day intentionally taking blurry, abstract, crappy images?
I dug out all my lenses and was playing with them to see what worked and what didn’t on a full frame camera. I have a collection of lenses that go back to my earliest Nikon SLR film cameras and span into my D70, D300, D500…. I have Nikon lenses, Sigma lenses, and a serious collection of Lensbaby lenses.
The Lensbaby lenses all work best on a full frame camera, so those are fine and largely the reason I bought the D810.
The old lenses that have been with me since film work just fine on the new F full frame body. The DX lenses I bought when I went digital work ok, they crop in but at least communicate.
Of my four Sigma lenses, the 12-24mm is a full frame lens that works well, the 30mm FX lens works, but doesn’t communicate so is basically now a completely manual lens. The 10mm fisheye is a digital lens but speaks to the camera so operates in a DX crop. Sigma, my 50-500mm lens is a full frame lens that, sadly, won’t talk to the camera. It will work manually, but won’t autofocus. I don’t care that much about autofocus….but I also don’t use the lens much and am halfheartedly considering selling it.
But I had so much fun today pushing the camera into manual mode and blurring the heck out of it intentionally just to create some abstract images while getting used to it. It’s similar to my D500, which is actually a newer camera than the D810, but the D810 definitely does some things that the D500 does not.
I think we will have fun together 🙂
