A borrowed lens

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I mentioned in an earlier post (See: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery/Old Dutch Burying Ground) that I was trying out my friend’s almost 20-year-old Nikon D40 digital camera. On that occasion I used the camera with her Nikon Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 lens in Sleepy Hollow cemetery. This time I went down to the Hudson River waterfront in Ossining and used the camera with her other lens: a Nikon Nikkor 70-300mm f4.5-5.6.

I like this lens. Of course, being a 70-300mm zoom it’s heavier, but not so heavy that my aging arms can’t tolerate it. It’s also better made. It’s clearly a more expensive lens than the other one (which I suspect was a kit lens). It’s very sharp from 70-200mm; is image stabilized (what Nikon call’s “vibration reduction”); It has a large easy to use zoom ring; The autofocus is fast and accurate. I couldn’t find much to dislike (but that might just be me).

I enjoyed using it.

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Taken with a Nikon D40 and Nikon Nikkor 70-300mm f4.5-5.6

Staten Island Ferry

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My younger daughter and her two girls are currently in New York. We spent a night in a hotel in Tribeca and the next morning went for a look around taking in the 9/11 memorials, the Oculus and finally the Staten Island Ferry. The latter was of particular interest to me because I lived on Staten Island for three years in the 1970s.

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Taken with a Sony RX100 VII.

Waiting for the Haverstraw Ferry

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“The Haverstraw–Ossining Ferry is a passenger ferry over the Haverstraw Bay and Hudson River, which connects Haverstraw with Ossining in the U.S. state of New York. The ferry operates during rush hours on weekdays only (Update: the ferry now operates on weekends too.), primarily transporting commuters from the west side of the river to the Ossining Metro-North Railroad station on the east side, where they can transfer to Metro-North Railroad trains headed to Grand Central Terminal in New York City, or Croton-Harmon and Poughkeepsie, via its Hudson Line. The ferry has been in operation since September 2000.” (Wikipedia)

Taken with a Sony A6000 and Tamron 28-300mm f/4-7.1 Di III VC VXD lens.