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We went to the zoo & the people who didn’t shower deserved the downpour!

Anyway I want to review the Nikon 100mm Series E f/2.8 on a D300. For lens freaks, here are my 2 cents.. I brought only my mini 100mm 2.8 Series E and worked like a charm. Not used to manual focus though and had many… err… a few unused blurred images.

The Nikon Series E 100mm f2.8 had challenged myself to focus farther away subjects as I normally get soft lines and magenta lines when I focus on them but lesser effort and most times tack sharp when manual focusing on nearer subjects, wide open.

Bokehs created at f2.8 are brilliant when background are further away from subjects but as you stop down to f4 and smaller, the quality and smoothness of bokeh reduces. It produces nice and smooth bokehs in other colours other than white and blue which gives out the green and magenta dark outlines.

Most images were boosted to ISO 500 and above with minimum ones at lower ISOs so results might be fucked up for pixel peepers. Noise reduction set to normal and I used the Nikon’s APS-C D300. Images are shot in Jpeg and are post-processed using LR2 and noise are not reduced at all, in fact some of the images I sharpened due to soft focus and got grainier. Full sized images looked good but since Facebook can’t identify colour profile, the colours look flat here with the resized length abt 950px.

Overall I love this lens, even Faizal had a great time shooting and captured beautiful shots using the lens but I would love to go AF with a 135mm / 105mm f2 DC or if it’s manual, I’d love to try the 105mm f1.8. Need to practice more with manual focus because I have weird funny eyes that can’t see both near and far.

I enjoyed myself the whole day and surprised I didn’t tire myself after the hospitalisation incident and had to take my hat off to Lis for “working out” so hard!!

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