{"id":6949,"date":"2013-03-19T08:42:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=6949"},"modified":"2013-03-18T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T01:55:12","slug":"betty-boop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2013\/03\/betty-boop\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Boop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6950\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13M_8151-RAW-betty-boop-50mm.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6950\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13M_8151-RAW-betty-boop-50mm-500x800.jpg\" alt=\"betty boop 50mm f\/1.2 nikon manual lens ai-s\" width=\"500\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13M_8151-RAW-betty-boop-50mm-500x800.jpg 500w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13M_8151-RAW-betty-boop-50mm-156x250.jpg 156w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13M_8151-RAW-betty-boop-50mm.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Depth of field at f\/1.2<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The other day I was in Medford for work. On my way I met someone via Craigslist who was selling a couple of manual Nikon lenses. Having never used a manual lens before (although I have used my AF lenses in manual mode on occasion) I was interested to try them out. Plus the price was crazy cheap so even if I didn&#8217;t like them I figured I could unload them at a profit. <\/p>\n<p>Most of my lenses are largest at f\/2.8. My <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/tag\/sigma-85mm-f1-4\/>Sigma 85mm<\/a> goes to f\/1.4 though. This 50mm lens that I picked up has a maximum aperture of f\/1.2. It may be the only Nikon lens with an aperture so large. I had a half hour to kill so I dropped into the Medford library to try it out. The above was my first shot. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>I used it at the Stoneburner show too. My keeper rate at f\/1.2 with manual focusing went down of course, but the ones that came out OK are <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2013\/03\/stoneburner-johnny-bs\/>pretty cool<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was in Medford for work. On my way I met someone via Craigslist who was selling a couple of manual Nikon lenses. Having never used a manual lens before (although I have used my AF lenses in manual mode on occasion) I was interested to try them out. Plus the price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87],"tags":[150,222,197,397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6951,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions\/6951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}