New Hampshire photos (updated lens used)

[bobfriedman]

Nikon D800E ,AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED  ,RG830 

1/250s f/8.0 at 24.0mm iso200

 

1/320s f/8.0 at 16.0mm iso200

 

1/250s f/8.0 at 14.0mm iso200

[colinbm]

Excellent Bob.

[rfcurry]

Bob,
Superb!

Very angry clouds! It makes me realize that I barely know clouds at all. :) 

[Nate]

Nice shots Bob,

Lens performs great.

[Andy Perrin]

Lovely, the second one is my favorite on composition grounds. 

[Doug A]

Dramatic infrared. They jump off the screen. Well done.

Thanks for sharing,

 

Doug A

[Bill De Jager]

Very nice results! I've tried so many lenses that don't provide that kind of clarity in IR thanks to haze and flare.

[Doppler9000]

Beautiful shots.  Reminds me of the Canon 10-18mm, which is also very bright and sharp in IR.

 

Can you clarify which lens this is - the first line says 8mm fisheye.

[bobfriedman]

16 hours ago, Doppler9000 said:

Can you clarify which lens this is - the first line says 8mm fisheye.

my mistake... turns out i had trouble creating clear text with this editor when I cut/pasted a link involving a lens.. needless to say i wasn't paying attention when I finally fixed it.. 

 

should be AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED

 

The Ai Fisheye-Nikkor 8mm f/2.8 is an excellent performer in the IR but obviously not the lens used here... Sorry!

 

 

[bobfriedman]

my best performing lenses in the IR are:

 

Ai Fisheye-Nikkor 8mm f/2.8 or Ai-S version

AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
AF-S NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8 ED
 

I was also considering AF-S NIKKOR 16-35mm f/4G ED VR one of the better lenses but did have a small bit of trouble once. 

 

There are more of course..  For example, some below, but not all that sharp.

 

Ai Nikkor-QD.C 15mm f/5.6

Ai Nikkor-UD 20mm f/3.5

Ai Nikkor 28mm f/3.5

 

Any of these lenses will flare under the right circumstances (which is true in general).

[Kai]

A great landscape - extremely interpreted by IR.
For my taste, however, the micro-contrast is used too strongly (I think, on the contrary, a slight glow would also be suitable here).
But it would be boring if everyone did the same thing ;)
Either way, very impressive pictures!
Thank you for sharing, Bob.

[Doppler9000]

Hi Bob,

 

What do you use to mount filters to this lens?

[photoni]

other questions Bob

 

what soft did you use (looks like a filter - Nik Silver Efex)

even if the files are very small it seems to me that there is a low micro contrast mask and a higher macro contrast.

 

My favorite is the first

the third I find that the grass in the foreground is a bit too gray, I would have masked the sky and contrasted the image as if there were snow

Thanks for sharing

A

 

P.S. it would have been nice to see a comparison between an 830 - 720 - 580 nm
I miss the first one, the white of your pines fascinates me.
With my Hoya R72 the pines become very dark, not like light birches.

 

[bobfriedman]

On 7/30/2022 at 5:07 PM, Doppler9000 said:

Hi Bob,

 

What do you use to mount filters to this lens?

The 14-24/2.8G Nikon does not accept filters due to a bulbous front element (of course there are expensive ways to do it).

 

My D800E has an internal RG830 by Maxmax. 

[bobfriedman]

On 7/31/2022 at 2:24 AM, photoni said:

other questions Bob

 

what soft did you use (looks like a filter - Nik Silver Efex)

I don't use Nk Silver Efex... I use Photoshop and DXO Photolab routinely. 

[bobfriedman]

On 7/31/2022 at 2:24 AM, photoni said:

other questions Bob

 

P.S. it would have been nice to see a comparison between an 830 - 720 - 580 nm

Why is that?... I have plenty of comparisons on my web site that nobody seems to care about.

 

For these two locations, turns out that I didn't have the time and didn't bring my internal RG720 with me this time.  I literally took a few snaps.

[Doppler9000]

1 hour ago, bobfriedman said:

The 14-24/2.8G Nikon does not accept filters due to a bulbous front element (of course there are expensive ways to do it).

 

My D800E has an internal RG830 by Maxmax. 

Yes, I saw the expensive options.  This is really too bad, as there are not many full frame wide options with this level of IR performance.  I would be adapting the lens, so the field narrows further.

 

 

[bobfriedman]

5 hours ago, Doppler9000 said:

Yes, I saw the expensive options.  This is really too bad, as there are not many full frame wide options with this level of IR performance.  I would be adapting the lens, so the field narrows further.

 

 

internal filters are fine... I own a UV-VIS-IR, RG830 and RG720 D800...  so depends on what I am shooting and with what lens.

[Doppler9000]

I would be adapting the Nikon to an L mount camera, so I don’t believe any internal options are available.

[dabateman]

1 hour ago, Doppler9000 said:

I would be adapting the Nikon to an L mount camera, so I don’t believe any internal options are available.

You seem to be correct. I just saw that Kolari only offers R-mount,  Z-mount,  E-mount and coming soon to X-mount. But no L-mount. The STC clip ins are in m43rds, F-mount and EF-mount,  so it looks like L-mount is still left out.

Maybe message Kolari and see if its possible. 

[bobfriedman]

my internal filters are not clip-in.. they are sensor package modifications that remove the UV-IR cut filter and replace with IR filter.