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Beach side - Vama Veche

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The pictures below were all taken using the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens. I just had some fun playing around in Aperture 3.0 for Mac with the brightness/contrast and saturation. Apart from that, it’s the best lens you can get for under $200 !

As you can see the results are pretty sharp and almost no distortion is visible.

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Try this at home, maximum fun … guaranteed !

you jump and she's taking off ! use any type of inflatable mattress.

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Park Plaza Amsterdam - room

The Tamron 17-50 mm on the Nikon D300 @ ParkPlaza Hotel / Amsterdam.

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Just came back after some Siemens training in Birmingham – UK. Made some new friends (Allan @ ATS  / Laura @ G.Elliot Pub) and almost … 10 horrible pictures taken. Maybe next time… I’ll do better.

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Sometimes it’s impossible to get to work using the boat due to bad weather , this is the time when I put my ass in the helicopter.

No more than 25 minutes of good music coming from the rotor. If you have ever wondered how this looks like here are some photos taken @ Tuzla – Constanta a few seconds after departure.

Mihai Photography, Social life helicopter, offshore

I really love this photo. I just don’t know why but it’s cool enough to make me happy. Waiting for my lunch to show up after I’ll prepare my Lavazza espresso. It’s just an ordinary day …. by the way just got Snow Leopard installed 4 days ago ! No big differences from it’s younger brother but I have noticed a speed increase and I’m a really big fan of 64 bit applications.

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Kodak received a massive boost in sales following the release of the Vanity Kodak in 1928. Fast forward 76 years and Apple did similar with the release of the iPod Mini.

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Nikon calls this the Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 D. I’m using this lens for almost one year. Yet I never had the opportunity to see it’s impressive performance for it’s small price. If you’re a Nikonian you need one…here is why:

This is a very sharp lens even at f/1.8. At f/1.8 the DOF is very shallow so nailing the focus is very important. As a traditional AF lens it works with every Nikon ever made, digital and film, auto and manual focus.

It’s a full-coverage FX lens, so it works great on FX digital, DX digital and film. It works especially well on the Nikon D3 , Nikon D3X, Nikon D200 and D300. Like all of Nikon’s 50mm f/1.8 lenses, this has almost no distortion. Its distortion is so low that it was never visible in film days, and I only can see it today in digital by blowing up images to the equivalent of 6 feet (2m) wide on a computer screen and dropping an electronic straight edge on them, and then only if I deliberately shot a test.

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Nice people, a lot of fish food and 100% fun. This describes my 4 days journey in the Danube Delta this year. I’ll have more photos uploaded in the photo gallery here on th blog.

Mihai Photography, Social life barbeque, Danube Delta, Delta Dunarii, Dunavatul de Jos

I’ll be out until 1’st of August. More updates after that date.

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nikon 18 135 mm compact lens

The first thing you notice about the 18-135mm DX lens is that it’s rather compact. Where the heck is the 135mm stuffed in? After all, this is a lens that’s smaller and lighter than most previous mid-range zooms Nikon has made. On the flip side, it’s not that much smaller than the also compact 18-200mm, though it is significantly lighter.

The 18-135mm focal range gives you angle of views from ~10 to 66 degrees across the horizontal axis on a DSLR; it’s effectively the same as using an 28-200mm lens on a 35mm body. For some users, that’s a stay-on-camera range. There’s no denying that this is a much-asked-for focal length range. Indeed, even I find it interesting to walk around with this lens, the 10.5mm, plus a small extension tube–that makes for a very compact, light kit that covers a pretty incredible focal length and focusing range.

This is a two ring design; like most recent consumer Nikkors, the zoom ring is the front most ring and the focusing ring is closer to the camera. Yuck. The lens does not have a distance scale, and no depth of field or infrared markings.

The lens does not have VR (vibration reduction), a big disappointment to many potential purchasers. At 135mm and f/5.6, this lens really could use VR.

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Mihai Photography Black Sea, sunset

Yesterday…. fuzzy day… nothing to to so I went for shopping. I’ve spent the money on a Black MacBook that pleases me now while posting this on the blog. The old X60 it’s on the left side now… successfully replaced by Steve Job’s MacBook. 2 GB RAM/250 GB HDD /Inter Core 2 Duo 2,4GHz, Mac OS X Leopard and that’s it. I’m still getting used to the new keyboard shortcuts, however it’s stable and speedy… hopefully it will be like this more than 1 year . I will come up with something later.

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I have tested my new Nikon D80 under “extremely” wonderful weather conditions in the mountainside. A few shots attached. 

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On a sunny day like this the only thing I want to do is get to Varna  in Bulgaria for a nice Karting session with my buddies. Unfortunately I’m trapped somewhere else at this time but I’ll make it to Varna in a couple of days.

Mihai Photography, Social life Bulgaria, Kart, Karting, Varna

A few pics from my trip in December 2008 to Homorod – Romania. Nice to visit….ugly people. 80% of them are speaking hungarian and they’re quite rude to romanians. Fuck them all !

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