Background. I recently acquired a Nikkor Medical 120mm f/4 lens for my Nikon gear. The lens pairs well with my Nikon Df digital camera, now let’s see how well it works with my Nikon F2S shooter (“Nikon Athena”).
I hooked the lens up to Nikon Athena, slapped a roll of expired Fuji Superia 400 into the chassis, and added the mobile battery pack (which, guess what, comes with a stylish belt clip). And now it’s time for a photo walk.
I left the medical lens’s zoom indicator light active, so that I could test this bad boy and see what kind of hand-held sharpness I could get from this camera-lens mixture.
A short walk around the neighborhood, and I instantly found a good photographic subject. Some kid had left their plush stuffed toy – a royal frog – on top of a chain-link fence.
This thing couldn’t have said “photograph me” any louder if it also said “Cheese.”
So here we go. Eleven pictures, all showing the medical lens’ zoom qualities. You can scroll through the images, and see the magnification on the lower right corner of each photo.
Damn, if I got any closer, my lens would have touched the toy and the toy probably would have turned into a fabric-crafted prince.
Okay. So we know this medical lens can now work outside the home.
I think I can have some serious fun with this.
Chuck The Writer 