t2i with nikon 24mm 2.8 screen shots

[story2rewrite]

Here's some shots in dark interior and exterior on a cloudy day. At first I did with a light but then I liked it better with just the dark and natural light. I crushed the blacks a bit to make her look more like shadow. By doing that it also decreased the fuzziness and gave it a clean look.

The first shot is actually when is was brighter. I'm going to reshoot when it's cloudier and darker to fit the look of the darker two. I tend to like that look better. What do you think?

 

[PerroneFord]

Yep,

That's the Nikon look I remember.

 

[story2rewrite]

Perrone,

it was all your motivation for Nikons in various post that made me take the plunge and now I'm hooked. I'm going to be going all nikon in the future. Thanks for your input on the boards. Nikon should give you some sort of kickback.

 

[PerroneFord]

I've been shooting Nikon lenses since the early 80s. Love em, even with their flaws. They aren't the best lenses in the world, but they are my favorites. I seem to like the look of Cookes as well.

 

[story2rewrite]

I bought this one for a 100 dollars on ebay. Great deal. I have a feeling I can't get the cookes for that. But eventually I would love to get my hands on some. Not in that price range yet.

 

[reem12]

I have the same nikon and it gives off a certain texture that I don't get with the canon. Less video if you want to put a label on it.

 

[stip]

Less video if you want to put a label on it.

Good description! I just compared Canon 50mm 1.4 with a 15$ Helios 44M-4 side by side. Helios delivered charisma and depth straight out of cam, Canon is perfect, clean, great but sterile, indifferent. Personal taste.

 

[PerroneFord]

I really believe it's the fact that these lenses AREN'T perfect that adds to their appeal. Just like the subtle grain in film, these lenses have flaring, haloing, different aberrations, etc. They have color shifts and other things that make for a VERY complex mix. That's mostly been engineered out of newer glass so if you want it, you have to work like the devil in post to put some of it back!

I'd LOVE to take something like an Epic, and put some 60's Nikon glass in front of it.. or a Helios, or my Fujinon and see how that holds up. Would be interesting to have a lens that is not longer out-resolving the sensor...

 

[reem12]

I have a older version 80 to 200 nikon push zoom version with a slight color shift that hands down give my 5d a filmic quality and texture that none of my other lenses give me. a slight shift in post to the mid blue spectrum and you have glory from this lens.

 

[PerroneFord]

Hollywood cinematographers spend a LOT of time selecting film stocks and lenses. Even at a level of the game where they can spend half a million on post color, they still choose lenses VERY carefully. There is a lesson there for those who are trying to get a "filmic" look.