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Terrific collection of wildlife with the D300/800 5.6!

jamesdak wrote:

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.
https://pbase.com/jhuddle/image/175922317.jpg


Then these were at a den in the little
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Nov 04, 2025 at 05:03 PM
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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.


Really like the grain on this file! I just read up about it, it has good reviews. Haha I am not sure I have the patience for stand development



Nov 04, 2025 at 05:06 PM
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jamesdak wrote:

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.
https://pbase.com/jhuddle/image/175922317.jpg


Then these were at a den in the little
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That's some great work with the 800mm. MF on a swallow nonetheless, and the bear pics are great Jim!

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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.


Meanwhile, this Jim is busy sniffing on chemicals to delight us with another processing find!



Nov 04, 2025 at 07:23 PM
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serge07 wrote:
Andre, welcome to the forum. Super nice images from the land of Rembrandt.

Jim, excellent capture! Wow, congrats on finding the 20K images.

A detour through Strawberry Fields on the way to capture fall colors at .........
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54896374526_1341009250_h.jpg
Bow Bridge, Central Park's most romantic spot. I was surprised to see the minimal wind damage to the leaves..
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54896620929_bdb075328c_h.jpg
Fuji S5 + 16/3.5 & 28/2.8 AIs
Serge


That looks like nice color at the bridge, a very filmic look Serge. A Fuji sim or S5 magic?

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milt wrote:
A ride along the Charles River. Nikon D850, 45mm P lens.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54895587547_3cbd0028c3_b.jpg_DSC2145_1301 by Regina, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54895588977_29fd7773e3_b.jpg_DSC2146_1302 by Regina, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54896695623_cce5655fde_b.jpg_DSC2148_1303 by Regina, on Flickr



Regina, beautiful bike in terrific condition for 27 years young! Like the blast from the past paint job!

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saph wrote:
Welcome to all the new folks on the thread!!! Its great to see new voices pitching in to the discussion on these lenses.

One of my very first favorites for manual Nikkors is the early 9-blade F-mount 10.5cm f/2.5 P. Here it is on the Zr. Probably ~ f/3.5.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54896931380_fefd0d5b71_b.jpgDSC_0131-a_009 by Maryland Photos, on Flickr

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.


The Zr is intriguing. Larger, brighter VF, and larger battery, almost like a supercharged Z30 but FF and with a much larger capacity battery. Waiting on more reporting from you Samy. Good to see you post again.




Nov 04, 2025 at 07:29 PM
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p.2536 #5 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass


Sky started to look interesting as I was backing out of the garage this morning, so made an unplanned stop. Glad I did. Four shot HDR stack in LR, with "Auto Settings" on in the HDR dialog box. I think auto is too classic HDRish, but feel free to comment, interested in feedback from this group. 24mm f2.8 AIS.







Nov 04, 2025 at 07:34 PM
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Glad you made that unplanned stop! I really like this Ray

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Sky started to look interesting as I was backing out of the garage this morning, so made an unplanned stop. Glad I did. Four shot HDR stack in LR, with "Auto Settings" on in the HDR dialog box. I think auto is too classic HDRish, but feel free to comment, interested in feedback from this group. 24mm f2.8 AIS.
https://www.pbraymond.com/img/s/v-10/p1178872502-6.jpg





Nov 04, 2025 at 08:52 PM
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pbraymond wrote:
Meanwhile, this Jim is busy sniffing on chemicals to delight us with another processing find!


Ray, I couldn't smell anything. In fact, it didn't look like any chemicals at all - just plain water. I had to make a 1:100 dilution of Rodinal. Less than a tablespoon into a quart of water. (10ml into 990ml). There are people that even do 1:200 dilutions. It seems that about the time I left film behind someone came up with the process.



Nov 04, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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p.2536 #8 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass


saph wrote:
Really like the grain on this file! I just read up about it, it has good reviews. Haha I am not sure I have the patience for stand development


Samy, Have you ever tried the NYT's "No Knead Bread"? You dump everything into a cast iron pot - stir it up, wait, bake and you get an amazing cob of delicious crusty bread. Stand development is simple. Pour the developer in the tank, agitate for 10 seconds, come back in 30 minutes and invert the tank twice, and go away for another 30 minutes. To say I was skeptical is an understatement, but it produces that lovely grain, and the smoothest gradient transitions + subdued contrast I have ever seen.




Nov 04, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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pbraymond wrote:
Sky started to look interesting as I was backing out of the garage this morning, so made an unplanned stop. Glad I did. Four shot HDR stack in LR, with "Auto Settings" on in the HDR dialog box. I think auto is too classic HDRish, but feel free to comment, interested in feedback from this group. 24mm f2.8 AIS.
https://www.pbraymond.com/img/s/v-10/p1178872502-6.jpg


Fantastic work here!



Nov 05, 2025 at 06:31 AM
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pbraymond wrote:
Sky started to look interesting as I was backing out of the garage this morning,... I think auto is too classic HDRish, but feel free to comment, interested in feedback from this group. 24mm f2.8 AIS.
https://www.pbraymond.com/img/s/v-10/p1178872502-6.jpg


I wouldn't know what "classic HDR" looks like. In fact, I'm not really sure what that picture looks like because my two monitors are so different. (I could tweak one but the laptop has no obvious monitor controls.) That being said...

Lot of color and a lot of subtlety. Great picture!



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James Markus wrote:
... but thought i would mention OBS and Divinci as excellent free solutions.

[Caution: Nothing in this note is about MFNG. Sorry.]

I have used both OBS and DaVinci Resolve for producing a few concert videos shot with various videocams. OBS (Open Broadcast Studio) is good for interactive live recording but was intended for live broadcast. With multiple cameras it can record multiple video tracks for you to work with. It has some zoom and pan features.

Resolve is versatile, especially with transition effects and track mixing, but can be frustrating. An hour-long, multi-track concert is demanding on the computer's memory. On my Win10 laptop for the first production, a Covid-induced backyard concert, it ran okay but after a version upgrade it ran with fits and starts. On Win11 it ran worse, usable on my laptop but requiring lots of patience and re-checking. Under Win10 and 11 some operations caused unexpected time shifts for some tracks that I had to re-sync, time-consuming when playback was so uneven. (I wrote to Blackmagicdesign about it, not asking for support but just informing them of a problem. I got a response that since it wasn't a paid-for product they wouldn't provide support. Okay...) It also had issues syncing audio to video. I wish I could run it under Mint Linux. IIRC it has to run under Wine because there is no Linux version. However that had some fatal issue, maybe because it is 64-bit. I gave up, would like to find an alternative.

More frustratingly and not the fault of Resolve, audio/video sync would be unpredictable in the final product depending on what player is used to watch it. I tried more a dozen different production codecs and settings combinations but none produced a result consistent across different players. I really don't know video file structure and I never found a solution. Streaming such as from YouTube would be handled differently than how an mpg4 (or mov or avi or wmv) is played. I could burn it to a writable DVD but that's not a good distribution method for most cases.

That's been my experience. Good enough for amateur production. Frustrating and a huge time-sink. To produce high quality video I would need to buy hardware. Ain't gonna' happen in the near future. But it's better than nuthin'.

Now back to your regularly scheduled MFNG discussion.



Nov 05, 2025 at 08:15 AM
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jimmuller wrote:
[Caution: Nothing in this note is about MFNG. Sorry.]

I have used both OBS and DaVinci Resolve for producing a few concert videos shot with various videocams. OBS (Open Broadcast Studio) is good for interactive live recording but was intended for live broadcast. With multiple cameras it can record multiple video tracks for you to work with. It has some zoom and pan features.

Resolve is versatile, especially with transition effects and track mixing, but can be frustrating. An hour-long, multi-track concert is demanding on the computer's memory. On my Win10 laptop for the first production, a Covid-induced backyard concert, it ran
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You may want to look into Ubuntu Studio - a linux distribution that is specifically made for audio, video, vector and bitmap graphics, and any creative venture. It has been around for a long time, and recently moved from a Gnome based desktop to Fusion. My video/audio workflow dates from the 1990s using vintage container file formats, PCI cards, and time - lots of time. Currently MP4, MKV are all I need, and long gone are the hacked MS avi video codec, and variants.(xvid, etc)



Nov 05, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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James Markus wrote:
You may want to look into Ubuntu Studio


Thank you.

Edit: I'm loving this thread and its community.



Nov 05, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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jimmuller wrote:

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
http://www.SouthernRail.com/pics/Z5/Nov2/Trees.jpg


The view during lunch:
Pine needles in the sun. 35mm f/2.8
http://www.SouthernRail.com/pics/Z5/Nov2/halo.jpg

200mm f/4
http://www.SouthernRail.com/pics/Z5/Nov2/WatersEdge.jpg


A view through the forest. 35mm f/2.8
http://www.SouthernRail.com/pics/Z5/Nov2/YellowTree.jpg



Jim, what version of the 35 2,8 are you using? I am struggling finding a 28 and 35mm Nikon manual lens that would best for landscapes a mere AF 28 80 3,3 5,6 G.



Nov 05, 2025 at 01:18 PM
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lumenspixel wrote:
Jim, what version of the 35 2,8 are you using? I am struggling finding a 28 and 35mm Nikon manual lens that would best for landscapes a mere AF 28 80 3,3 5,6 G.


If I remember the serial number right, it is the 9th line in the 35mm section of this database:
http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/serialno.html#35
Its appearance agrees with the description.

I bought the camera in '72 or '73, probably 73. The 35mm was the second extra lens I bought, probably '74. By its serial number it had been manufactured 10 years earlier. I had found that it wasn't short enough to be a true wide-angle, but with my new Z5-II it makes a good alternative when I'm carrying my 200mm. I can usually crop a shot to make it more like a 50 or 55.



Nov 05, 2025 at 01:33 PM
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jimmuller wrote:
If I remember the serial number right, it is the 9th line in the 35mm section of this database:
http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/serialno.html#35
Its appearance agrees with the description.

I bought the camera in '72 or '73, probably 73. The 35mm was the second extra lens I bought, probably '74. By its serial number it had been manufactured 10 years earlier. I had found that it wasn't short enough to be a true wide-angle, but with my new Z5-II it makes a good alternative when I'm carrying my 200mm. I can usually crop a shot to make it more like a 50 or 55.


So if I understand it is a pre K version so a 7 elements lens.I own the K 6 elements version and the AIS 5 elements and consider the K a better lens but I need to close the iris to f6,7 for landscape use. And this only to equal the performance of the plastic zoom at F5,6. So if the previous computation has any chances to be a better lens I might chase for one.



Nov 05, 2025 at 01:53 PM
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lumenspixel wrote:
So if I understand it is a pre K version so a 7 elements lens.


Well, if it helps any, the database lists it as type F though the F description in http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/lenstype.html doesn't hit everything right. SN 187117. Front lens reflection is pink, rear reflection is more like light purple. No screws in the rear mounting plate. Range marked in feet. Focus and f rings black plastic, the rest soft-finish metal that looks like aluminum but might not be. The name says NIKKOR-S. I have no idea how many elements it has. - [Edit] Various online references say it should be 7 elements, 2nd generation 35mm f/2.8. I've had no reason to question its quality but I've never pushed it very hard.

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jimmuller wrote:
Well, if it helps any, the database lists it as type F though the F description in http://www.photosynthesis.co.nz/nikon/lenstype.html doesn't hit everything right. SN 187117. Front lens reflection is pink, rear reflection is more like light purple. No screws in the rear mounting plate. Range marked in feet. Focus and f rings black plastic, the rest soft-finish metal that looks like aluminum but might mot be. The name says NIKKOR-S. I have no idea how many elements it has. - [Edit] Various online references say it should be 7 elements, 2nd generation 35mm f/2.8. I've had no reason to question its
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Many thanks. If you consider it sharp to the borders prior f6,7 that triggers my attention.



Nov 05, 2025 at 03:20 PM
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Yup, but the upgrade path to 11 would have been free too.

fjablo wrote:
Well windows 10 is also kinda out of service now..





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lumenspixel wrote:
Many thanks. If you consider it sharp to the borders prior f6,7 that triggers my attention.


Like I said, I've never tried to push it, never worried about it though nothing ever jumped out at me. I can do some tests. I can't guarantee I'll learn anything though!



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