{"id":2181,"date":"2020-06-12T07:13:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T06:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2020-06-13T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T15:16:10","slug":"welcome-to-the-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/welcome-to-the-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the club!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Or should I say, &lsquo;collection&rsquo; ? I&rsquo;ve just splashed out on this little beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/nikon-50mm-f18-z-1-55.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2182\" width=\"523\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/nikon-50mm-f18-z-1-55.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/nikon-50mm-f18-z-1-55-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of the series of f\/1.8 prime lenses that Nikon produce for the Z series cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is astonishingly sharp, across the frame, even wide open &#8211; there will always be people who complain about the quality of the &lsquo;bokeh&rsquo; but frankly, I&rsquo;m more concerned about the sharp bits rather than the blobs that are out-of-focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stumbled across this on the site &lsquo;Leboncoin&rsquo; (a site where people sell off all they don&rsquo;t want, can&rsquo;t use etc.) and the man selling it seemed a bit odd\u2026.he had purchased the lens a few weeks ago, had never used it, and was now selling it at 2\/3 the price. I had to take a closer look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I drove over to Libourne, near Bordeaux, and met the chap in a carpark (very secure!) &#8211; turns out he&rsquo;s one of the breed who believe EVERYTHING written in photo magazines, and as such, had decided that he prefered zoom lenses and that this lens wasn&rsquo;t for him., without even bothering to actually put the lens on the camera and try it&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, everything checked out &#8211; he had the bill, I saw his ID card and the name was the same on the bill&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now all I have to do is try it out! This shot is hardly a definitive test, but it does show the lens is VERY sharp!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/50mm-f1.8-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/50mm-f1.8-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/50mm-f1.8-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/50mm-f1.8-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/50mm-f1.8-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/50mm-f1.8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/50mm-f1.8-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SA-1-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SA-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SA-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SA-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SA-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SA-1-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SA-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SA-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/SA-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or should I say, &lsquo;collection&rsquo; ? I&rsquo;ve just splashed out on this little beauty. This is one of the series of f\/1.8 prime lenses that Nikon produce for the Z series cameras. It is astonishingly sharp, across the frame, even wide open &#8211; there will always be people who complain about the quality of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/welcome-to-the-club\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Welcome to the club!&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}