Nikon 24mm f/2.8 D Street Photography at the Market 4K
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- After watching a video by my friend @davidsaylors, I decided to buy a Nikon 24mm f/2.8D prime lens. In this video, I unbox it and take it to the market for some Street Photography. I used my old Nikon D800 for the photography in this video.
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I adapted the Nikon 24mm 2.8 lens to my Fujifilm XH2s. While I do have the iconic Fuji 35mm 1.4, and love it, I find myself going back to this old school Nikon more often than not. With Fuji's focus assist features, it's no problem to nail focus with the old manual lenses.
With a Nikon D700 you'll be even better off.
I've just bought this 24mm (Nov 2023.) They are super cheap used and because they are 'chipped' they manual focus with Z6 giving a confirm square around your autofocus point in the viewfinder. It works brilliantly. Also works great on my D3S & D3X of course. 😊
I don't miss focus on my D700 and af-d 85mm at 1.4 on moving city traffic. I use continuous 3D tracking with focus lock duration at 5 seconds. I calibrate all my lenses and correct in camera before putting them to use. Even the abysmally slow DC 135mm rarely ever missed. The 24 uses a floating element if I remember correctly and they can in practice get misaligned if they hit something or are dropped. I can't imagine not having a high keeper rate with a 24mm on a D800
Great 👍🏻 good 👍🏻 I like this video. I can bay that leans 28, 2.8 d today. And will go tomorrow with my Nikon D 700 to the street’s of Moscow
Sounds great!
I have the D800, and I believe if you get the battery grip and the en 18a battery(high capacity), you get an FPS boost in crop mode (35mm equivalent); I don't remember if you get an fps boost in full frame. I remember configuring my D800 with the battery grip and this specific battery because of this very reason. People are lucky these days, that the D800 can be had for roughly $500. The D800 is still a very capable camera, and can still carry its own against newer camera. I've captured beautiful images with this camera, and do still use this when I feel like it (I now have the A7Rii).
Thank you.
Neat, Thanks I have this lens, and like it a lot. i have used on My Nikon D-610 & Nikon 850. On both lens it performs very well. In fact I use it with on Camera Speedlight with a make shift black foam to help me bounce off ceilings & walls for group images. Thanks for your input on this solid built lens.
I have used one of these for a while on a Nikon D7000 and what spectacular results! I like the quality feel of these older AFd lenses compared to the more modern AFs type which feel cheap and plasticky. I have recently got myself a Tamron 17-50 which is more versatile, just as sharp and just as fast at f2.8. Not designed for full frame FX cameras though.
Great video Phil and you can’t beat those old lenses. They really have a unique look to them. Don’t you agree? I lived the black and white pics. Thanks for sharing the video 👍🙏
Thank you, Adrian! I really do enjoy goofing around with older gear sometimes. As for black-and-white, I converted a few to black and white and then I decided to go ahead and present all of them both ways. After watching your recent videos, I am dying to get out and do some panorama work!
Nice I love when we get to see the dslrs.
I sold most of my old DSLRs but I do still have both my D800 and my D500 which I will definitely use from time to time. Thanks for watching, Christopher!
I like these older lenses. I will have to look into getting some at some point. In general I like the Black & White versions. You know I like the Orange shirt for sure!
It is an interesting old lens but if I was shooting in a more serious situation I would definitely use a 24 to 70 F 2.8, Nikon or Canon. Sometimes it’s fun though to use gear that kind of limits you. I thought you would like that shirt! Thanks for watching, Stephen!
Well now you made me want to take my D810 out and shoot with it.😄 Another good and entertaining video👍.
I think it's good to get out your older cameras and work with them from time to time. It helps you appreciate your new cameras more but also shows you that you can still make interesting photos without using the latest gear.
@@PhilThach Well said👍😎
I looking for a 35mm +/- on Nikon’s apsc, I found that 24mm serie S it’s not good and expensive, 24 DX 1.7 it’s not good for cheap, 26 Z FF it’s expensive and isn’t good, may be this lens ? Or 24mm F1.8 FF serie gold and 28mm F 1.8 same serie gold. Any recommendations yours?. Saludos 🇲🇽
Te faltó en apsc. Saludos
I find your interpretation of the images very interesting. You seem to be a very good observer.
Thank you!
Why such a high iso if your shutter speed is still pretty fast? It look like an overcast day.
Great content. I really enjoyed of your video and your street photography's philosophy .
The zone focusing in really king in street photography but unfortunately it useles on af nikkor lenses because of disappearing the dof marks .
Regards .
Mohammad
Thank you!
Thumbs up. 👍
Thank you, Leon!
Great review Phil , if you can share how to make the black and white setting thank you
Thank you! I just converted the images to black and white in Lightroom.
Some nice ones there Phil.
I have the same lens and believe it or not a D800 also , which I now use for landscapes with a 20mm f1.8 g lens.
The g version of the 24mm is reputed to be much sharper.
In my openion the d version can be soft, as a matter of fact I find my 24-120 f4 lens sharper at the the 24mm length
That’s interesting, I find that my 50 mm F1.8 G is definitely sharper than my 50 mm F1.8 D. So I guess the same thing is true of the 24 mm glass.
Yeah, the 24-120 is definitely a nice lens (I have that one also), and while it's not TOO heavy all on its own, when you have your camera bag packed with a few primes instead of zoom lenses, it makes a big difference when you want to pack light.
Ciao Phil Buon Natale 🎁🎄💫
Great shots and stories with the old lens and the Nikon Anvil Shutter camera! lol. . I have to ask, since I have what just about amounts to a phobia about pointing my camera at people, does anyone ever object to you snapping photos of them in such a situation? Most seem to just ignore it. Or are you that slick that they don't notice the camera pointing at them? I'd be interested in knowing your process in getting shots of the people in street photography situations like this.
Thank you, Bill! The great thing about the Chattanooga market is it’s really crowded and most people don’t pay attention to you at all. I did have one lady say don’t take my picture, I had already made the photo so I deleted it. For the most part nobody even knows I’m taking pictures at all. At the market and crowded situations like that I use wide lenses like this 24. When I walk around in downtown Chattanooga which is not crowded at all, I use much longer lenses because you can’t take a picture of someone from 3 feet away without being very noticed when it’s not crowded. Thanks for watching, Bill!
I prefer the black and white in most of the photos. It almost seems that the black and white are sharper. I just don’t care too much for that lens it reminds me of my 35mm f2.0D which always seem to render all images soft and I was never happy with the sharpness of that lens. You should try zone focus with some modern glass.
I know that my 50 f/1.8G is sharper than my 50 f/1.8D so maybe this D lens isn't sharp either. Seems like when I actually focused and took time with single-point it gave me some nice results. I'm pretty sure that I'm done with zone focus for still photography. I know, critical focus isn't always critical to everyone but for me, zone focus just isn't precise enough. Everyone has to come up with their own philosophy about zone-focus and, after many trials, that's where I ended up.
@@PhilThach You have to do what makes you happy. You did get me thinking and again another idea for a video. A comparison on sharpness through the focus zone. Like a test chart photo at the far end of the zone, the actual focus and the short end. Now just need time to do it.
@@cubanrum I have thought about doing that exact thing. This is only in situations where there is a person in the picture. Obviously zone focus is fine for landscape photography. If there’s a person in the shot though, to me, the person should be where critical focus is. So if we were to make a video like that, The subject should be a person that moves about the frame which is pretty much exactly what I did in the lawnmower video, but my point was that video critical focus doesn’t matter as much if the subject is moving around.
The D stands for distance I think. The non D version still doesn't have focus motor, I think
I know the version with a G does have a focus motor but I think the ones that are older than the D do not have a focus motor and do not auto focus even on a screw drive camera.
The "D" solely refers to a distance chip in the lens with communicates to the camera for better flash control. The lenses that aren't "D" are identical except for that.
24mm is not good for taking people in short distance or portraits. Reason is different angle like see people our eyes, becose two of them from short distance see more. This portraits looks for as like distorted. But is good for architecture with people in distance few metres and nature. Depth of field is big, is posible from 0.5-0.6m to infinity. Nice fotos forixample with flavers front of camera, and mountains in background.
B&W My Brother!
Is this lens full frame?
Yes
great shots. how is quality of image when compared to 18-55 kit lens at 24 mm?
I would say it is much better at 24 mm than the 18 to 55 kit lens. You have to keep in mind though this is a full frame lens and it is a D lens so if your camera body does not have an internal focusing motor it will not autofocus. D 3000 series and D5000 series cameras will not auto focus this lens, D 7000 series will. Also, this lens will not auto focus on a modern Z series camera with the FTZ adapter. I believe all of the Nikon full frame F mount bodies will auto focus with this lens.
@@PhilThach Wow Thanks for this quick reply. Iam planning to buy a 24 mm 2.8 Ais lens which is cheaper and assuming that it will be better than the kit lens. Thanks for confirming it. I'm from India.
@@myblueandme yes I would say probably so. Of course that one won’t auto focus on any camera.
@@PhilThach Thank you very much
@@PhilThachD is for distance encoding. AF is the screw drive autofocus. Cameras without a drive require AF-S lenses.
Can this lens and nikon d700 shoot timelapse milky way? thank
I'd say it would be capable of that.
This would be good on my D90
Yep!
Shutter sounds like an anvil on the D800. ROFL.
Lol! I have been saying that for years, that thing is just loud! I still wish that old camera had a tilt screen, I might have carried it to polecat Falls the other day if it did.
Omg you got to be kidding me! I mean you have to be joking here. I have been using that lens for 40 years. I just can’t believe how stupid the photography videos are here in CZcams.
Thanks, Michael!
Why is this stupid? Just because it's old?