BartyLobethal: Gear list: Digital Photography Review

Photo gear list

Photographic gear BartyLobethal currently uses and / or owns.

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	Kodak Pocket Instamatic 110	My first camera ever! Still have it in a drawer somewhere.
	Nikkor AF 105mm f/2.8 micro	Nice sharp lens. Heavy and with razor-thin DOF. Really only good for one thing, but good at it.
	Nikon AF Nikkor 24mm f/2.8D	Acts as a mild-wide on DX. If I had to only have one of my current lenses, I would probably choose this* (*this stopped being true after I bought my Nikkor AF-s 24 - 70mm f/2.8!)
	Nikon AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6G	Cheapest lens I own, but by no means the worst. Noticeable chromatic aberration, and unremarkable contrast, but really sharp at all focal lengths at f/5.6-8. Have owned this for years and hardly used it 'til earlier this year (2011) when I 're-discovered' it.
	Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D	Nice and fast. Great value-for-money.
	Nikon AF Nikkor 70-300mm f/3.5-5.6G	Little to recommend it. 'OK' stopped down between 70-190mm, very soft at longer focal lengths. Slow. Noticeable chromatic aberration.
	Nikon AF-S 80-200 f/2.8D ED (IF)	Really sharp across the whole frame at all apertures unaffected by diffraction. Fast accurate AF - makes a squeaking noise when focussing sometimes. Heavy.
	Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED-IF	OK. Good contrast and sharp enough stopped down at the wider focal lengths. Soft at 70mm. Ugly moustache distortion at 18mm. Update April 2012: Have recently started using Lightroom 4.0 and re-visited some old shots taken with this lens. It's actually pretty sharp at all focal lengths, and the moustache distortion is easily dealt with by using the Lens Correction Profile.
	Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED	Awesome!
	Nikon D50	My first DSLR. Excellent IQ and still 'good enough' for most purposes, I prefer the colour rendition of this over that of my D300s.
	Nikon D300S	Picked this one up on eBay in 2011 in 'near new' condition for a song. Excellent ergonomics and operation, it would be difficult to go back to a 'lesser' build. That said, I don't like the colour rendition as much as that of my D50. It's CMOS vs CCD, but I though we were meant to be moving forward?
	Nikon F55	Very inexpensive plastic SLR. Given to me as a gift by my brother following a burglary in which I lost my old Minolta, good on him! Back in the day when the quality was determined by the film and lenses and not the body it was 'good enough'.
	Nikon F80	Loved this although I haven't shot with it since I 'went digital'. Has the On Demand Grid Lines feature as a display feature.
	Samyang 14mm F2.8 IF ED MC Aspherical	Great lens, excellent value for money.

Wish list

Items BartyLobethal has added to their 'Photo gear I want' list.

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	Nikon AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
	Nikon D700	Will be keeping an eye on the 2nd-hand price of these once the successor has been released.
	Nikon PC-E Micro-Nikkor 85mm f/2.8D
	Nikon PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
	Nikon PC-E Nikkor 45mm f/2.8D ED

Photo gear history

Cameras, lenses, printers and accessories that BartyLobethal once owned.

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	Minolta MC Rokkor 58mm f1.4	I owned and lost this lens years before I realised how good it was. Lost to burglars.
	Nikon F601	The lesser version of the excellent F801. An 'OK' camera that got me started down the Nikon path. Lost to burglars.
	Sigma 28-300 Hyperzoom f3.5-6.3 (Nikon mount)	Rubbish. Heavy and slow and soft at all focal lengths. I wasn't that sorry when the burglars took this.
	Vivitar 28 - 210mm f3.5 - 5.6 push-pull MF	I can't remember if I had this in a Minolta or Nikon mount (Minolta I think). Haven't looked at any photos I took with it for some time, but I remember it as being pretty good (for the money). Lost to burglars.
	minolta srt101	My first SLR. Excellent introduction to photography. Lost to burglars. I liked this so much that I'm tempted to re-buy one for sentimental reasons.