24-70 2.8 questions

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  • Dooginfif20Dooginfif20 Registered Users Posts: 845 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2010
    haha trust me i want to! i will be renting one in seattle here in a couple weeks so i can see it first hand. hopefully soon i will actually purchase it!
  • borrowlenses.comborrowlenses.com Registered Users Posts: 441 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2010
    haha trust me i want to! i will be renting one in seattle here in a couple weeks so i can see it first hand. hopefully soon i will actually purchase it!

    Once you get your hands on it you will fall in love; it's awesome.
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  • PhotometricPhotometric Registered Users Posts: 309 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2010
    It's a lens with a learning curve. I have been shooting with it, but I still feel like there's performance hidden within. I was playing with it at a dinner with friends and it was performing ok. However, I tweaked the camera slightly later and was stunned at the image in the LCD. As always, It takes a little time/patience to figure this lens out.
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  • Dooginfif20Dooginfif20 Registered Users Posts: 845 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2010
    It's a lens with a learning curve. I have been shooting with it, but I still feel like there's performance hidden within. I was playing with it at a dinner with friends and it was performing ok. However, I tweaked the camera slightly later and was stunned at the image in the LCD. As always, It takes a little time/patience to figure this lens out.

    Do you mind if I ask what you tweaked in the camera later? I also have a D90.
  • PhotometricPhotometric Registered Users Posts: 309 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2010
    Well, at first, it was very very dark, and I was wondering what the heck I did. Then I realized I was using center weighted metering, and changed it to matrix metering, and all of a sudden, it was like someone turned on the lights....I'll upload images later. Mind you I keep the ISO at maximum 400 also.
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  • borrowlenses.comborrowlenses.com Registered Users Posts: 441 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2010
    Well, at first, it was very very dark, and I was wondering what the heck I did. Then I realized I was using center weighted metering, and changed it to matrix metering, and all of a sudden, it was like someone turned on the lights....I'll upload images later. Mind you I keep the ISO at maximum 400 also.

    Matrix metering with D-lighting set to normal is a good combo.
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  • Dooginfif20Dooginfif20 Registered Users Posts: 845 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2010
    Matrix metering with D-lighting set to normal is a good combo.

    do you guys have any 24-70s you are trying to sell?
  • PhotometricPhotometric Registered Users Posts: 309 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2010
    Matrix metering with D-lighting set to normal is a good combo.

    I find that Dlighting strips contrast out of the image. When I shoot, I do it in raw and add dlighting later in CaptureNX2 if I want it.
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  • PhotometricPhotometric Registered Users Posts: 309 Major grins
    edited February 23, 2010
    do you guys have any 24-70s you are trying to sell?
    Sorry, no. I just got mine.
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  • borrowlenses.comborrowlenses.com Registered Users Posts: 441 Major grins
    edited February 24, 2010
    do you guys have any 24-70s you are trying to sell?

    Not at this time, sorry.
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  • Dooginfif20Dooginfif20 Registered Users Posts: 845 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2010
    so I rented a Nikon 24-70 2.8 yesterday in Seattle. I loved the lens, but there was one thing that I noticed that I wanted to ask all you current users about. The zoom ring seemed really stiff and at times was incredibly hard to move. Have any of you users noticed this problem?
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