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D600/D610
D600 -- Which Glass Will You Use With It?
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<blockquote data-quote="macjim" data-source="post: 84435"><p>While I agree with both your comments about the quality of lenses, and the suggestion that you should buy the best that you can afford, most folk can't afford to buy both the D600 and a high quality lens. Any good quality lens I've seen and wanted, are made by Zeiss and Voigtlander which in comparison are the better choice. The biggest problem with these is the lack of an appropriate focusing screen. In my mind, you need to get a focus screen which has a split viewfinder to allow accurate and sharp focusing such as I had in my Olympus OM-1n. Yes, you can get away with the one that comes with the D600 but that involves a degree of compromise. I had originally wanted to buy the Zeiss ZF.2 50mm f1.4 Planar Lens</p><p>Or the Voigtlander 40/2 Ultron SL II N in Nikon AI-s fit</p><p>To go with the D600 but the thought of having to replace the focus screen put me off. Maybe I might trade in my Nikon lenses for one of these lenses and have a split screen focus screen but that will have to await the day I can afford them. </p><p>Regarding the optical quality, the mention of pin cushion, barrel distortion etc made me smile — I thought I'd bought the best nikon lens when I bought the f1.4G 50 mm nikon lens but when edited in Lightroom 4.2, I was amazed at the amount of distortion with this lens! But in all fairness, all manufacturers lenses suffer from problems too as my Fujifilm X-Pro1's 18, 35 & 60mm lenses too suffer from some distortion and they are high quality lenses — probably better than nikons lenses I must say!</p><p>Between Nikon and Canon, I'd say Canon make the better lenses as I've yet to use a Nikon lens that wasn't free of distortion — that is why I had thought about the 6D as a full framed camera choice as it will come with an L zoom lens, it was the body spec that final made me go for the D600. Oh, and just as an extra bit of info, I've owned the D50, D90 and now the D600 so I've had some experience of Nikon kit lenses. </p><p>Cheers, Macjim.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="macjim, post: 84435"] While I agree with both your comments about the quality of lenses, and the suggestion that you should buy the best that you can afford, most folk can't afford to buy both the D600 and a high quality lens. Any good quality lens I've seen and wanted, are made by Zeiss and Voigtlander which in comparison are the better choice. The biggest problem with these is the lack of an appropriate focusing screen. In my mind, you need to get a focus screen which has a split viewfinder to allow accurate and sharp focusing such as I had in my Olympus OM-1n. Yes, you can get away with the one that comes with the D600 but that involves a degree of compromise. I had originally wanted to buy the Zeiss ZF.2 50mm f1.4 Planar Lens Or the Voigtlander 40/2 Ultron SL II N in Nikon AI-s fit To go with the D600 but the thought of having to replace the focus screen put me off. Maybe I might trade in my Nikon lenses for one of these lenses and have a split screen focus screen but that will have to await the day I can afford them. Regarding the optical quality, the mention of pin cushion, barrel distortion etc made me smile — I thought I'd bought the best nikon lens when I bought the f1.4G 50 mm nikon lens but when edited in Lightroom 4.2, I was amazed at the amount of distortion with this lens! But in all fairness, all manufacturers lenses suffer from problems too as my Fujifilm X-Pro1's 18, 35 & 60mm lenses too suffer from some distortion and they are high quality lenses — probably better than nikons lenses I must say! Between Nikon and Canon, I'd say Canon make the better lenses as I've yet to use a Nikon lens that wasn't free of distortion — that is why I had thought about the 6D as a full framed camera choice as it will come with an L zoom lens, it was the body spec that final made me go for the D600. Oh, and just as an extra bit of info, I've owned the D50, D90 and now the D600 so I've had some experience of Nikon kit lenses. Cheers, Macjim. [/QUOTE]
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