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Thanks for this. You're right I should have used a tripod, this could well be camera shake. I'd done a lot of research about this lens...

Well, the last two you posted were taken at 1/40 sec, and appear to be very soft center to edge. My guess is camera shake. The first two...

Bad neighborhood. :oops: (Actually, No. 7 is probably awaiting an engine) [Staunton, VA, 04/29/2026, D5100]

Maybe it's easier to start with an example pic I'm disappointed with. This is untinkered with. I probably should have stepped up the...

I thought about this and I was wondering if: Camera + Viltrox 2.0x Teleconverter + Viltrox Extension Tube 24mm + Nikon Z 28-400 lens...

If you look at the Nikon Z 1.4 converter, the lens element extends far above the mount. On many lenses this results in the converter...

Chesapeake & Ohio station at Staunton, VA. (Pronounced STAN-ton. not STAWN-ton). [D5100, 04/29/2026]

They look so dainty and graceful.

So I re-took them, focussing on the grey bin (dead centre). Obviously light levels have now dropped, and there doesn't seem to be as...

Hiya, thanks for the response. I set the focus in dead centre middle of the frame in both. But what you're saying tallies. Maybe I need...

I have to ask where you set focus on? The only sharp area on the Nikon 35mm I see is the extreme right inside the garage door. I think...

Found at Ringoes, NJ on the Black River & Western, an operating model SW-1 built in 1949 for the Pennsylvania Railroad. She's been...

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