I bought it for an experiment... no really

One of my most favouritest (it's a word) ever camera and lens combinations of all time is my Nikon D700 and Micro-Nikkor 105mm f2.8G macro lens.  The images I can get from that kit are just sublime, with a certain indefinable quality to them.

And after all, I call that lens the GOAT - the greatest of all time!

Maybe it's the old-fashioned optical formula in the lens, or it must just be the old, no ancient in digital terms, 12-megapixel sensor that produces images just like this one.

I sometimes adapt the lens to shoot on my much higher resolution (40 megapixels to be exact) Fujifilm X-H2.  And while the images are fine, they somehow lose some of that Nikon magic amongst all that modern electrical and silicon technology, or witchcraft as I like to call it!

So, what then if I shoot the lens natively on a higher resolution Nikon body?

Well, now I can!  I went out (stayed in actually but you get the point) and bought a 2012 vintage Nikon D800e with 36 megapixels and, importantly, no anti-aliasing filter which I am assured results in cleaner, sharper images.

Now I can use the lens on a body it was designed for (or given that the lens is older than the camera it's probably the other way around) and revel in images like this one of a rose.

Of course, I couldn't let this new purchase go by without at least one video about it, and here are two; one introducing the camera and the other looking at how the camera stacks up against the D700.