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Jim, Scott likes to keep a small kit, however.... when Scott and I met in 2016, I was on my way to Massachusetts. I stopped at a hotel near Rochester,, Scott, Joanne, and I met up at a restaurant. After dinner and a photograph, we made the way to the trunk of my car (sorry, no photos of that, all my gear was stowed, and I do mean ALL my gear). I opened the trunk to show off that I had more camera bags in the trunk than luggage bags  Good thing no cops of any kind came up thinking it was a drug deal... My plan for Massachusetts was that after the memorial service for my father in law, I was going to drive down the Cape, all the way to P-Town, as it was somewhere I hadn't been since I was a kid. There's that one section of Route 6 where there's an extremely narrow roadway, and when I got to the other side, first thing I needed was relief. Pulled into a gas station and was refused. Found a Chinese restaurant in the next parking lot, drove over, ran in, told them I would be ordering but first order of business needed taking care of first. Got some food to go, tipped well, continued my journey.
For a while, MF lenses had dipped in value as everybody wanted autofocus, then came the DF... Also Canon shooters have been able to adapt to their mount and were buying up Nikon MF lenses. Thankfully with the Z mount and the MTZ, we can adapt our F mount lenses easily. I try to avoid looking at the B&S forum here... I get into trouble fast That's what happened with the last acquisition, the Noct... The Devil is strong..
https://nightowldesigns.zenfolio.com/p392058693
Rochester photos got archived, waiting for it to unarchive too:
https://nightowldesigns.zenfolio.com/p433689103
This one is from 2017, when I went back for my mother in law's service, needs to unarchive first, hopefully by the time you read this.
https://nightowldesigns.zenfolio.com/p560346479
jimmuller wrote:
In that case I owe Scott a double debt of gratitude. It was Scott who tuned me into fredmiranda.com and this thread in particular. We met Scott and Joanne (and dog Cooper) while stopping for lunch at a trail junction in Acadia National Park. He saw my Nikon and came over to ask about it and say hi. Joanne and my sweetie/wife Sharon and Cooper sat in patient amusement while us guys did the guy-talk thing about camera stuff. Cognitive Redundancy Principle: Every conversation about banjos is the same. It applies equally well to cameras, apparently.
I had noticed the precision of those trees in the distance. What also struck me was the subtle shading on the bark of the tree in the foreground. Somehow the lens and those camera settings captured both near and far, both dark and light, and everything in between too. I didn't do anything special, at least I didn't think so.
So thank you both!
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An astute observation! As for the 35/50/200 collection, I see you are tracking my lenses. I must start wearing a tinfoil hat so you can't read my thoughts.
In fact, the collection has already doubled. Before that 55mm I had picked up an F-mount 300mm f/4.5 AIS. I like it! I've posted a few pics with it but its real value will come when the migratory birds return. Before that I had bought from my local Hunts camera shop an F-mount Tamron 90mm macro for "scanning" my slide collection from the old days. No pics with it here in the MFNG thread but I have taken some good dragonfly pics with it. I guess there isn't much market for F-mount lenses now because none of these new additions were over $100, including shipping. But this 55mm is special, and a real surprise.
At the risk of lengthening an already long post I will relate a story from a few days ago. Were walking a trail and encountered three young Japanese women (everybody looks young by my standards). One was carrying a Nikon bag and had a Nikon around her neck; I don't know what model. They asked if I'd take their picture. The woman with the camera pointed at Z5-II with the 55mm and said something about me being a "real" or "serious" photographer. (You talking about me??) She handed me her camera and they posed. It had a zoom lens but I saw no focus ring. I had to ask if it was auto-focus. ("Yes.") So I rotated the zoom ring for a good shot, observed the focus boxes around their faces, snapped two, showed them the pics. They like them but decided they wanted a different pose too, so I took another. They liked that too. We spoke for a few more minutes and went our separate ways, everybody smiling. The thing is, it was too easy. It made me think about an AF zoom like the 24-70 that gets such good reviews. That would be so easy, so convenient. (Also expensive.) And it would mean I don't have to work at it, don't have to think about the pics I'm taking. If I needed convenience or speed I might consider it. Maybe one day. But I don't take pics for that. I'll stick to the MFNG formula for now....Show more →
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