Krosya
Konicaze
Well, over last weekend me and my wife decided to take a small trip - just to get out of town, do something different. After some thinking/researching we agreed on doing some caving - i.e. visiting some caves. The ones we had in mind were some of the prettiest and longest in the world - Mammoth Caves in KY, USA. there many different caves in that Mammoth Caves national park, - some prettier than others, with Diamond Cave being the prettiest in my opinion and Mammoth Cave being the longes in the world. There other caves, with underground river tours, etc. We spens a couple of days there - one of them being very much physically demanding - we took a 5 hour walking tour - all inside the Mammoth cave - many places you have squeeze through tight places, go up and down different elevations. All turned out to be great fun.
Ok, so here is the photography part of it. While my wife had her little Casio digital P&S - which btw delivered some very good results, I wanted to keep things pure - no flash. I tell ya - it's very hard to do when you are in a cave that is far from well lit. Many places it was impossible to handhold camera at all. And they dont allow any bags, tripods, etc. So my kit had to be simple - one camera, one lens. And of course the lens I used was Nokton 35/1.2. Wide open at all times. And even at ISO 800 or even pushing it to 1600 I had a fair share of blurry shuts. Yet - I'm VERY impressed bu this lens. At times it was not as wide as I would like it to be, but since f1.2 was the only useful setting w/o a flash - I feel I had the best lens availible.
Well, let me stop talking - here are the results - all at 1.2 - lights just whatever lights they use in a cave:
Larger size photos can be seen on my flickr page - link below.
Ok, so here is the photography part of it. While my wife had her little Casio digital P&S - which btw delivered some very good results, I wanted to keep things pure - no flash. I tell ya - it's very hard to do when you are in a cave that is far from well lit. Many places it was impossible to handhold camera at all. And they dont allow any bags, tripods, etc. So my kit had to be simple - one camera, one lens. And of course the lens I used was Nokton 35/1.2. Wide open at all times. And even at ISO 800 or even pushing it to 1600 I had a fair share of blurry shuts. Yet - I'm VERY impressed bu this lens. At times it was not as wide as I would like it to be, but since f1.2 was the only useful setting w/o a flash - I feel I had the best lens availible.
Well, let me stop talking - here are the results - all at 1.2 - lights just whatever lights they use in a cave:
Larger size photos can be seen on my flickr page - link below.
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