TORONTO WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER JUAN ROJO DESIGN

Last night (Friday, Jan.9th) I attended a an outing of my local camera group (tpmg.ca) non-exclusive for Nikon users. As you can imagine, everyone brought out their gear and were ready to play. I thought I had some decent glass until people started pulling out the big guns and also the small ones but very fast. It's probably the first and last time (until the next meet-up) that I got to play with the very rare Noct-Nikkor 58mm f1.2 or handled first hand a Nikon D3x. People were definitely not messing around when the organizer said "bring your gear". Here are a few shots from the night using said optic pearls:

1. Shot using Noct-Nikkor 58mm f1.2. If you are not used to manual focus through the viewfinder, I picked up a tip from fellow TPMGer Charlie to use Live View when in need of precise focus. It worked every single time.



2. Another shot with the Noct-Nikkor 58mm f1.2


3. This one was taken with a rare Nikon 28mm f1.4 prime. Amazing what fast glass and the clean high ISO (4000 in this case) of the D3 can do with just a tiny bit of available light. This place was quite dark.


4. Shot with another rare piece of glass, a manual focus 35mm f1.4


5. This one was shot with a good old Nikon 50mm f1.4. I tried the new G version and really didn't notice any difference in performance but then again, I'm no pixel peeper.


6. The only D3x at the outing and Shelley wished it was hers ;-)