jimmuller wrote:
Very nice! Great images of the Charles, great bike too! Is that pic on the bike/pedestrian bridge in Waltham?
We should try to meet up for a combined bike ride and photo op. (I'll ride my steel Masi. Aww, what the heck, all my bikes are vintage. I could ride anything.)
Hi Jim! Yes, I went to Hunt’s in Waltham (I sent my Df to Nikon). Definitely send me a message! Regina.
Still learning the Zr. Controls are very different from any Nikon DSLR or mirrorless I have used. Video is a whole new learning curve for me. Still figuring out how to work raw video files.
Wow. The Zr does everything and its only one pound. Not sure if Nikon is including decent video software, but thought i would mention OBS and Divinci as excellent free solutions. I cobbled together an ecletic menagerie of video software that I still prefer, but I doubt it can handle 6K Red raw files. I pretty much stopped at h.264 and h.265 codecs. Congrats on the new camera
Lordy, the nightmare of Windows 8... was just about as scary as Windows ME. You should have gotten the free upgrade to Win10, Win 8 is out of service now..
I am not a fan of software renting either. I'm using NX Studio and Gimp right now as my time is so limited that my shots from 2024 are still waiting for processing...
jamesdak wrote: , that one is actually running Windows 8. It's a standalone and until I truly figure out all that can be done with photoshop CS6 I see no need to upgrade. Although I do have a brand new Macbook Pro. But I just can't wrap my brain around this new "renting software" scheme of Adobe and so many others.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Lordy, the nightmare of Windows 8... was just about as scary as Windows ME. You should have gotten the free upgrade to Win10, Win 8 is out of service now..
I am not a fan of software renting either. I'm using NX Studio and Gimp right now as my time is so limited that my shots from 2024 are still waiting for processing...
Well windows 10 is also kinda out of service now..
Today's activity was an awesome November walk through Assabet River NWR. Not much bird activity but the light was interesting. I carried only two lenses today.
I did no color treatment on this. Just turned around on the trail and saw this, had to take a shot.
200mm f/4
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Lordy, the nightmare of Windows 8... was just about as scary as Windows ME. You should have gotten the free upgrade to Win10, Win 8 is out of service now..
I am not a fan of software renting either. I'm using NX Studio and Gimp right now as my time is so limited that my shots from 2024 are still waiting for processing...
, I know right! I actually run Powershell on it to make it more useable. Then went a long time not even firing it up. I was doing what little PP'ing I needed on a laptop running an even older version of CS2. When I heard about the free upgrade to Win10 it was too late. So now I'm sort of stuck. Truth be told, I'm just now really starting to learn all the capability of the photoshop I currently have so see no need to upgrade right now.
I did buy the Macbook Pro with the idea of sourcing some kind of post processing software to use on it. Thinking about trying the latest Affinity software that they just put up for free. I want something decent on the Mac for when I'm on trips shooting. I just downloaded NX Studio on the Mac. But then it wanted a Nikon account to run it. I'll probably set one up today .
A few more from the old setup. Colors and contrast were a bit "dead" on the RAW files of the two fox images. I struggle to get them looking real in post process. Yet other shots from this D300 & 800/5.6 are vivid.
This one was shot at a campground east of Yellowstone. Black clouds overhead and I was balancing between a high enough ISO and fast enough shutter speed. Well, usually around 1/250 so not really fast enough. I was tripod mounted but working fast before the sky opened up.
Then these were at a den in the little mountain valley of northern Utah I live at. One of many den sites lost to overdevelopment up here.
The bear was at Yellowstone in the Tower area. I worked him in the woods resting the beast of a lens again trees if I remember correctly. He was on the move so no chance for the tripod.
Found a pair of young amorous Grizzlies up in Glacier years back. It was June and they were fresh out of the den, skinny and scruffy. If I remember correctly I shot them multiple times over a 3 day period as they stayed around the one meadow. A little tricky because there were a lot of low spots in the meadow. So you'd think it was safe to walk in looking for them only to have one pop up nearby from the low spot they were resting in.
Shot these Swallow shots in the rain one day.
Finding the one above reminded me that my all time favorite swallow shot was taken with this same setup.
And there's a ton of Eagle shots from this period also.
And one final shot from a little cutie. These guys never hold still so shooting them with a long manual focus lens can test your patience, !.
High iso film by Rollei (Paul & Reinhold) 100th year anniversary developed in a new to me method called "stand development" N90S with the 85mm f1.4 ais and the modified tc16a.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Heading to Charlottesville this upcoming weekend for Family Weekend there, granddaughter asked a couple months ago since her mom couldn't go. Going to pack up some camera gear for the trip too, no idea where my CF cards are, nor my chargers, lost in this disaster area here... booked a hotel in Harrisonburg, closest we could get , should be a fun drive.
Ok, now back from a “trip to Google” to read about “stand development”. Definitely on my list of things to try. Thanks for sharing that Jim!
James Markus wrote:
High iso film by Rollei (Paul & Reinhold) 100th year anniversary developed in a new to me method called "stand development" N90S with the 85mm f1.4 ais and the modified tc16a.
George, From what I gathered from my reading that digging details out of highlights without blocking up the shadows was the original motive for the stand development process. I'm amazed it works so well. Same roll, camera lens and f-stop as the others. Just faster shutter speeds. I love the flattened contrast, and smooth transitions to the gradients. I have some finer grain film I want to try it on, but for this I embraced the graininess (though subdued by the 1:100 dilution of Rodinal).- wide open lens to get dreamy looks.
Jim, I should remember that you have done a whole bunch of photography and video work professionally! I am really only playing around. I downloaded Davinci last week and that's what I used to manhandle the .R3D file and output as h.265 (eventually ). I still mean to research all those terms like codecs etc.
The small weight and form factor of the ZR is really promising for travel and walk-arounds although longer lenses may not balance well on it without maybe an added grip.
James Markus wrote:
Wow. The Zr does everything and its only one pound. Not sure if Nikon is including decent video software, but thought i would mention OBS and Divinci as excellent free solutions. I cobbled together an ecletic menagerie of video software that I still prefer, but I doubt it can handle 6K Red raw files. I pretty much stopped at h.264 and h.265 codecs. Congrats on the new camera
, that one is actually running Windows 8. It's a standalone and until I truly figure out all that can be done with photoshop CS6 I see no need to upgrade. Although I do have a brand new Macbook Pro. But I just can't wrap my brain around this new "renting software" scheme of Adobe and so many others. 
