Avast Marine Works Porthole XL

Avast Porthole XL mounted on Nikon D3200 with 85mm VR Micro

One of the coolest things about having an aquarium is photographing the life within. Sometimes, however, getting the pic through the glass of the aquarium is difficult, or the angle you want isn't from the side. Instead you want to shoot from above. Or better yet, within the water.

Bachelor Buttons

Handheld macro is tough. The shots in this post are all done with the Nikon D80 and a Micro-Nikkor-P 50mm macro lens. Because I was doing this handheld, to keep the shutter speed up I had to open the aperture. These are all around f5.6.

Must be Spring!

I was hanging out in front of the house on Saturday morning and noticed my tree was budding. Since I was waiting for my son to finish getting ready, I decided to go grab my camera and see if there was anything interesting to shoot.

Using old non-Ai lenses.

Fountain Pen Nib
Shot with Nikon D80 and 55mm f3.5 Micro non-Ai lens
on adapter made from extension tubes

There are some great lenses out there for dirt cheap. I mean REALLY cheap. If they were made before 1977, they had slightly different mounts and aperture controls. Newer bodies are unable to mount these lenses without damaging the lens and/or body. That includes my Nikon D80.

Inventory of old gear...

Getting that D80 kit got me thinking about photography again, as I've mentioned before.

So today I got out my camera bags to see what bits and pieces I still have left and figure out what might be useful still.