I'm going to end my day by posting what is apparently my 1000th post. The photos below are from the Duncan truck show, courtesy of my Fuji X-T4 with the 25-50 f/4 Ai-s. The fourth photo was taken in the smithy that is a permanent fixture of the place where the truck show is staged each year.
GroWeb wrote:
I'm going to end my day by posting what is apparently my 1000th post. The photos below are from the Duncan truck show, courtesy of my Fuji X-T4 with the 25-50 f/4 Ai-s. The fourth photo was taken in the smithy that is a permanent fixture of the place where the truck show is staged each year.
Nice set Glen. The first one has a look of a toy, I love it.
Wish I could get out and shoot right now. Still working close to sixty hours with no relief in site till >maybe< October... then it's Christmas shopping season which means Christmas package season...
leighton w wrote:
Great to have you posting again George! Now, if we can just get the others who are MIA we would be back to "normal".
George, welcome back. After we ‘found’ Leighton a few weeks again I started to wonder where you’d been. I can appreciate the sentiment though, left social media several elections ago and don’t regret it.
Glen, agree that truck show looks like something you could shoot for days.
Rafael, always fun when you pull out the Micro Nikons.
A couple shots to move things along from the legendary S mount 10.5cm f/2.5 from the other morning.
What a pleasant surprise to open up this morning and find some lively activity here. Will need to come back for comments, but here's a typical sunflower field shot, with a 24mm f2.8 AIS.
Rafael - still waiting for you to open up that Nikon museum in San Diego
Jim - Good contrast. I like how the trunk of the trees just pop.
Glen - great series. I really like the rendering on the first one
Matt - I still have not made it back to the coast this year. One trip was canceled due to weather, so back to the mountains it was. One of the benefits of being in North Carolina. But I can always enjoy your images
rafaelcasd wrote:
Bellows Nikkor 105mm 1:4, not requiring as much extension.
Lovely copy of last version of the Bellows Nikkor (with the lens details on the front rather than the outer-rim). I had always wanted one to go on my minty PB-4 (aren't they all minty? most copies seem never to have been used) but wanted something that would allow movements even focused at infinity, which I later determined wouldn't be possible with the 105mm, so I eventually went with a Schneider-Kreuznach Componon-S 135/5.6 enlarging lens.
Some great shots with those vintage macro setups, Rafael! I too like using the stacked macro-lens setup. Normally folk reverse the front lens and use a shorter focal-length than the main lens (magnification is the focal-length of the main lens divided by the focal-length of the reversed lens), but I don't know how the magnification works out in the non-reversed setup you show. I've played around with my Micro-Nikkor 105/2.8 on the body, and the above Componon-S 135/5.6 mounted to the front. This gives very sharp macro results with a wide magnification range and good working distance.
rafaelcasd wrote:
I thought I would do a posting of weird MF nikkors. I use adapters, helicoids, and the K rings to bring these onto focus on the Z cameras.
First the 70mm 1:5 Micro Nikkor, maybe the sharpest lens I own for normal distances.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Wish I could get out and shoot right now. Still working close to sixty hours with no relief in site till >maybe< October... then it's Christmas shopping season which means Christmas package season...
AdaptedLenses wrote:
George, welcome back. After we ‘found’ Leighton a few weeks again I started to wonder where you’d been. I can appreciate the sentiment though, left social media several elections ago and don’t regret it.
Glen, agree that truck show looks like something you could shoot for days.
Rafael, always fun when you pull out the Micro Nikons.
A couple shots to move things along from the legendary S mount 10.5cm f/2.5 from the other morning.
pbraymond wrote:
What a pleasant surprise to open up this morning and find some lively activity here. Will need to come back for comments, but here's a typical sunflower field shot, with a 24mm f2.8 AIS. https://www.pbraymond.com/img/s/v-10/p196968207-6.jpg
I wouldn't go in there. They're all looking at you. Lovely shot, I think your best sunflower shot of the season.
rafaelcasd wrote:
I thought I would do a posting of weird MF nikkors. I use adapters, helicoids, and the K rings to bring these onto focus on the Z cameras.
That was a really fun and informative journey, Rafael. Thanks for sharing, I appreciate these surveys that you do.
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James Markus wrote:
Re-imaged an IR from a couple years ago. Four horizontal image stitch with the new color IR profile. I'm finding that every image is unique so i have to edit by the numbers then by WYSIWYG. 20mm f2.8 ais
Love how IR really allows the shape of the tree trunks to make their statement.
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AdaptedLenses wrote:
George, welcome back. After we ‘found’ Leighton a few weeks again I started to wonder where you’d been. I can appreciate the sentiment though, left social media several elections ago and don’t regret it.
Glen, agree that truck show looks like something you could shoot for days.
Rafael, always fun when you pull out the Micro Nikons.
A couple shots to move things along from the legendary S mount 10.5cm f/2.5 from the other morning.
Wonderful captures Matt, and I agree with Leighton, great moment in the second shot.
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GeorgeBo wrote:
Rafael - still waiting for you to open up that Nikon museum in San Diego
Jim - Good contrast. I like how the trunk of the trees just pop.
Glen - great series. I really like the rendering on the first one
Matt - I still have not made it back to the coast this year. One trip was canceled due to weather, so back to the mountains it was. One of the benefits of being in North Carolina. But I can always enjoy your images
Ray - Outstanding!
Thanks George. hard to imagine that in over 30 years of shooting, I had never been to a sunflower farm. I now have some other ideas I'll need to tryout next season.
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leighton w wrote:
I wouldn't go in there. They're all looking at you. Lovely shot, I think your best sunflower shot of the season.
Thanks, and yes they are. Even more intimidating is that the majority of the blooms were way above my head, this shot was taken with my feet probably three to four feet off the ground, standing on the railings of a cart that was used as a viewing platform.
Made a new color profile for my original first IR camera - the 5D, also converted to 665nm. Back then I wanted a golden/orange output, and the profiles are camera specific. I could not match the two cameras - so I redid the original profile color..BTW, the lenses change the colors of the file. I think it is the coatings.
