Saturday, February 23, 2013


A little Common Redpoll chowing down on my window mounted bird feeder.

From Photo of the day 2012
Black-capped Chickadee on the same feeder, not cropped.

Suddenly remembered that the D200 I bought nearly 2 years ago can actually make use of my old lens that came with my old Nikon EM film camera. I had been talking to a friend in Vanderhoof who recently got a new fixed 2.8 50mm-ish lens. I decided I'd double check this old lens and see what it had going for it - f1.8 fixed 50mm! Not bad! Fairly useless for wildlife unless they come to your window, but this revelation also means that my macro-converter I had for the old film camera will also work on my D200. Unfortunately I left it at work, so I dont have any macro shots to show off today. Loving how sharp it is though - the top photo is heavily cropped, but you'd never guess. I love how Nikon never changed its lens mount through the years.