The first thing that springs to mind, is I’ld probably have shot it from the other side (face onto the tower) to avoid capturing the modern buildings in the photo. Or crop very close to the tower to take them out. The lines leading from right to left draw your eye straight to them.
There is a nikon f1.2 MF AIS discontinued now, probably over ?350 second hand, i have the 1.4 MF and i love it, amazing sharpness, beautiful DOF, zoom’s just arent the same for portraits :)
Can be found going with some old nikon film SLRs on ebay….
Will only meter on D200 or better. Below is full manual.
To be honest, the lenses are easily upgraded after. I dont want to buy the D80, then realise that it was really the D200 I wanted (which is the way I am edging anyway).
I voted for “crop in computer”, simply because most things do require some level of cropping afterwards. I try to get the framing as close as possible though.