Nikon 28mm f1.8

[Milan Vjestica]

First chance to use my new lens and it hissed down almost all day. A short break in the weather. The rest of the day was grey and gloomy. Not even interesting clouds!

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[Rob MacKillop]

My kind of clouds! Looks great, Milan. Clearly a good lens.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Thanks Rob. It appears to be good at first use. Time and more use will tell.

 

[Brian Moore]

Smashing image, Milan. The dramatic sky is really wonderful.

 

[Hamish Gill]

One of my favorite lenses the 28 1.8, a great bit of kit!

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Hamish, after a 24-70 or 16-28 it feels almost weightless! More use required to get a better feel for it. The size and weight work well for me.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Hamish, after a 24-70 or 16-28 it feels almost weightless! More use required to get a better feel for it. The size and weight work well for me.

Looking good Lilan. That is the great thing and what i like about wide primes is the size and weght, not a hassle to carry around.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Julian,

When I took that photo a lady carrying a D800 and 24-70 Nikkor asked me why use a prime when you can get the same focal length with a zoom?

I replied,

• It's not all about size
• It is about quality
• It is bigger than it looks
• So I offered her a feel of the size and weight

My wife was listening. I'll back on solid food soon.

 

[Tom Dinning]

You have captured something near and dear to my heart, @Milan Vjestica.
My favorite city of all times.
Forty years of traipsing the streets and I return as often as I can.
My Old Man taught me a lot about life in those streets. Who to talk to, where to go for a beer, which alleys led where. He's gone now, along with a lot of the old stuff. But it's still a fascinating city. And beautiful as well.
That could very well be taken from Observatory Hill overlooking Argyle Street. Nice place to picnic.
Bless you Milan.
Send more, and I don't care what camera and lens you use.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Tom, it is indeed Observatory Hill. Not too far from the 'Duke of Wellington', one of Sydney's best pubs that unusually will serve pints (they did last time I was there). Part of 'The Rocks' and the maze of lanes, alleys and a few good watering holes.

That was the only worthy one from that trip into the city. I'll be sure to post some more. If it triggered memories and emotion it has done it's job, regardless of what equipment was used.

Thanks Tom.

 

[Tom Dinning]

I knew the licensee of The Duke back in the 80's. I taught his daughter physics. I could always get a free drink. He claimed anyone who taught his daughter anything deserved or needed a drink.
My Old Man's favourite haunt was The Ship Inn down by the Quay. Now it's a fancy wine bar and restaurant. In my youth it was The Rose, Crown and Thistle in Paddington. It was guaranteed your arm would stick to the bar and a fight was always in order. Women could only drink in the Ladies lounge. Drinking pints was the only option unless you wanted someone to beat the shit out of you for ordering something less like a schooner or pony. Poofter and Sheila's drank shandies.
Them were the days.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

The Ship Inn is still there and still a pub!

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Sorry to butt in on this conversation mates, but..may I say that it's a beautiful scenic picture and I assume the 28 shall serve you well Milan.

 

[Tom Dinning]

The Ship Inn is still there and still a pub!

Not a real pub, Milan. Back then it opened onto the street through narrow doors where sweaty wharf workers would spill onto the foot path and hassle young women to and froing from their office or shop, cooled in the summer heat from an oily breeze off the harbour. Them smell of urine fought back any scent of the sea. Food was restricted to a pie from the local baker or a bag of chips dripping lard and crispy with salt or soggy with sauce. Rough men lined the bar from one side, with their hand on a warming pint and their foot on the ash tray that skirted the bar along its entire length. Rough women with large hair and even larger breasts shoved beer at the clients and fought off offensive remarks. You couldn't hear above the chatter, you couldn't breathe through the smoke, you couldn't walk through the crowd and you couldn't leave until someone carried you out or through you out. All this under a decor of green and yellow.
The pub is dead. Well and truly. Only the name proudly looks out onto the hustle of ferries and the beloved coat hanger.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Tom,

That is a prose of literary standards. What an evocative picture it creates. Alas the progress of civilization has taken another toll.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

Ivar, thank you. It is indeed serving well.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Hamish, after a 24-70 or 16-28 it feels almost weightless! More use required to get a better feel for it. The size and weight work well for me.

I sold my 24-70 after buying mine...
I now shoot a 28 and 85 with the Nikon and little else ... Less weight in those two lenses than the 24-70 alone. Mad really.

 

[Milan Vjestica]

I still like the versatility of the 24-70 (I use the Tamron with VC) as I can get lazy. I am getting very temped to go out next time with the 28, 50 and 105.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Do it ...
My hobby gear - I rarely take more than one focal length.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Well I have done as you Milan, but the three lenses you mention are mounted on three different cameras. Two XE-1 and the 105 on Pentax ( 70mm/2,4 ltd kind of pancake ), and they still do not weigh much. Suits me terrifically Sold all other gear. Really like your pictures from Sydney North and others on your Flickr.