Street Art

D200, Nikkor 24mm f2.8

We were at the North Beach Festival yesterday, on a very warm day. I also took a picture of a street artist at this festival in 2010. Maybe you remember that one? Linked here.

On that day in 2010, I had just transitioned to shooting Micro 4/3, and that day I decided to take my D100 out for a spin. I was able to make some pretty good pictures with that old D100, and I seem to have repeated the experience yesterday with the D200 :).

--Warren

Venice Carnival in North Beach

Nikon D100, Nikkor 50mm f1.8D

A couple of women dressed for the Venice Carnival at the North Beach Fair last weekend.

--Warren

Street Artist

Nikon D100, Nikkor 50mm f1.8D

For about three months, my D100 sat idle as I concentrated on getting to know the Lumix G1. Yesterday, I took the D100 out with us on our usual City walk/photo excursion. The North Beach Fair was on, and there was a section of a street that was roped off for the street artists to do their work.

I like to work with prime lenses, and yesterday I chose to use the Nikkor 50mm f1.8D exclusively.

Maybe it's because I've had the D100 for so long, but even though it had been three months since I last used it, the camera was instantly familiar, like meeting an old friend :).

A lot of people on the camera forums have written off the D100 as hopelessly obsolete, but at least for me, that is simply not true. :)

--Warren