Oosty wrote:
Sadly, a good friend and golfing buddy passed on yesterday morning. It was the 3rd day of being able to leave home for exercise and he died of a heart attack while walking in one of Knysna's hillier suburbs. He had a full life and was what appeared to be a very fit 82 - but one never knows. In 2012 I visited his magnificent rose garden and took a few shots that I've reprocessed with a lot better technique than then.
Very sorry to read this, Oom Oosty. Sending you and his family lots of comfort.
CGrindahl wrote:
For the record I want to report that George read my lament about the 35-200 f/3.5-4.5 AI-s earlier today and offered to send his copy of the lens so I can try it out. How could I say no?
You're the man George. Thanks. I promise to take very good care of it and send it back once I've finished my evaluation. I know from seeing what Ken and David Hamments have done with the lens that it is a good performer. Now I need to decide whether I want another lens in my kit... You all with be the first to know...
Peter sorry for your loss. I’m sure he reveled in his last day at the freedom to move about and passed peacefully.
Curtis, I am personally glad you are taking up George’s offer. I think you will really like this lens. I have a very good friend, retired and shoots Nikon exclusively. He captures the beauty of birds, wildlife, the spring runs, sunrise and sunsets of Florida. He has an incredible investment in lenses. Wide to tele’s all costing into the multi thousands. His purchase of a $5500 lens exceeds the total cost of all my MF glass which includes a NOCT.
I realize I have had the fortune of buying used MF lenses at Marshall’s Camera and at the Kiwi Swap (where I got my 35-200) and prices are way better than eBay.
Traveling in the Corvette means limited room for camera gear. I usually take a wide, the NOCT and a 105 or 135. The 35-200 is a no brainer. Its utility cannot be ignored and of course YMMV but I’m betting on the lens.
I regret buying the 50-300, 100-300 & the 15 F3.5 which are all too large for me.
What you've done Ken is what all of us are doing in one way or another... buying lenses because they are so affordable and then playing to see what suits our preferred style of picture taking. And that can change with circumstances. I've not been inclined toward zoom lenses, preferring to use primes. I generally leave my camera bag in the trunk of my car and carry only the lens mounted on the camera. I've done that during this shelter-in-place but found as the days sped past that carrying a zoom lens gave me more flexibility... which is what they're about in the first place. And because I like to shoot flowers close, having longer zooms is fine. Even the 100-300 f/5.6 AI-s worked and that is a lens that had been stuck in the back of my cabinet for over five years.
I look at the kit you take when you travel and wonder whether you've considered leaving the 105 and 135 and taking the 50-135 f/3.5 AI-s that does an excellent job of covering that focal range... just a thought. I read about that lens recently and learned it was produced at the end of the manual focus era as automatic focus lenses were arriving on the scene. It was only manufactured for two and a half years. It was considered a very fine lens but the market must have disappeared. That particular focal range was not translated by Nikon into an AF lens. It is a winner...
Are you planning on selling lenses or opening a lending library? I'll check out the 50-300 if you do...
Shot outside my window from the kitchen. The thing I like the most with our view is the big maple tree. It gives some nice shadow in the summer and I love the sound when the wind blows through it with all the leafs rattles against each other....Other than that I think it is a typical garden view from most of the houses in my neighbourhood...
Not any way near as awesome as Ani´s view but this is how it is living in Malmö which I still like very much. Even though I dream of moving to the countryside some day.
CGrindahl wrote:
What you've done Ken is what all of us are doing in one way or another... buying lenses because they are so affordable and then playing to see what suits our preferred style of picture taking. And that can change with circumstances. I've not been inclined toward zoom lenses, preferring to use primes. I generally leave my camera bag in the trunk of my car and carry only the lens mounted on the camera. I've done that during this shelter-in-place but found as the days sped past that carrying a zoom lens gave me more flexibility... which is what they're about in the first place. And because I like to shoot flowers close, having longer zooms is fine. Even the 100-300 f/5.6 AI-s worked and that is a lens that had been stuck in the back of my cabinet for over five years.
I look at the kit you take when you travel and wonder whether you've considered leaving the 105 and 135 and taking the 50-135 f/3.5 AI-s that does an excellent job of covering that focal range... just a thought. I read about that lens recently and learned it was produced at the end of the manual focus era as automatic focus lenses were arriving on the scene. It was only manufactured for two and a half years. It was considered a very fine lens but the market must have disappeared. That particular focal range was not translated by Nikon into an AF lens. It is a winner...
Are you planning on selling lenses or opening a lending library? I'll check out the 50-300 if you do...
Curtis I too am not in favor of zooms. In travel or hiking when we get to someplace we like the zoom is I guess ... mandatory. I usually pack the 18 or 20 mm. Since I got the Z6 I also got a chipped 28mm F3.5 for $59 off eBay which may get a seat. The chip does nothing but provide me Exif.
You’re right about buying quality glass on the cheap. It doesn’t make sense not to. I usually shoot PANOs of the horizon, scenic sites, sunsets with the NOCT to get that wide perspective. As to the 50-135, I own one, it’s nice but the 35-200 has much more utility and IMHO is as good. Using the 35-200, I guess in early March I shot a baseball game and the lens captured the laces on the ball. That was shooting through protective netting.
Now is it and end all/ do all lens! NO! One of my AF lenses is the cheap 28-200. Really really cheap and really really good. Able to catch golf balls in flight. It’s small and it’s sharp. Thats all I ask.
When I look at eBay I always search newly listed, with Buy it now or accepts offers. No need to roam thru a gazillion pages or wait until the last second to bid. If I like it, (or make an offer that’s accepted) I buy. You don’t know how many I’ve snapped up in the opening hours of listing. Now that I’m thru buying I don’t mind passing my tactic along
Enjoy what George is sending. Now, do you want the 50-300? It’s an AiS and in Raphael condition! If so I’ll drive it to the Cal/Nv line in October.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
If you have an Apple phone, the compass app will show you your elevation. According to it, I'm at 920 ft above sea level. Android phones may have a similar app.
CGrindahl wrote:
Andy... wow! Those are extraordinary.
I purchased copies of Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher to experiment with. These pieces of software are pitched as replacements for Adobe Photoshop and InDesign, both of which I own and use. But like many I've stayed with CS6, the last Creative Suite one can own. Yes, I was extremely fortunate. Because I do graphic design for a non-profit organization I was able to get a deep discount on CS6... $160 to be exact. When Adobe moved to the Creative Cloud and licensed its software I decided against making the move. I am, basically, a cheapskate...
But Apple seems to think I need to buy new computers and upgrade my operating system on a regular basis. AND, of course, they are giving me ever BETTER and better features... NOT. The downside is that CS6 is getting long in the tooth. I've been told by a friend who stays closer to these things than I do, that with Catalina, the most recent OS offering, CS6 becomes unusable. I have four options... bite the bullet and sign my life over to Adobe; find an alternative and upgrade; stick with Mohave as long as I can or maintain a separate hard drive with an older version of the operating system and boot from that drive when I want to use CS6 software. That last option is obviously cumbersome and unpractical. It also runs against the reality that hardware changes happen that also affect what operating system can be run. I'd like to believe the iMac I bought a few years ago will function until I give up the ghost, but who knows when that will happen?
All of this musing relates to Andy's post because in looking at what Affinity has on offer, I've seen some whimsical and exciting tools for managing photos and text. I know those things are available in Lightroom and Photoshop but I've never felt a need to go there. Perhaps playing with these new programs will become an enjoyable exercise rather than a burden and I'll solve my problem with a piece of software that at the moment costs... GET THIS... $24.99. Beat that Adobe!
Decided to add a link in case anyone is curious about Affinity...
I still run Mohave on my IMac and don't plan on upgrading it because I still
use LR6
I upgraded my other Mac to Catalina and LR6 will open but doesn't run very well
A new Win 10 pc that I built sits behind me but I don't like it but LR6 runs very well on it
Thanks for that Reagan. You might want to check out Affinity for the fun of it. They'll give you a 90 day trial period. It used to be a week...
And Laura's guidance and your report motivated me to figure out how to A) turn on Location Services which was off and B) open the Compass. I'm almost NINE times higher that you at 80 feet above sea level.
Since I don't have a data plan on my iPhone... which means it is a pre-paid phone... I don't have the capacity to check elevation unless I have WiFi service, which I do at home but certainly not when I'm out hiking. I keep pondering the question of whether to go for a data plan but my cell phone use is so minimal it hardly seems worth it. I buy $25 worth of minutes every three months and NEVER use them all... that's at $0.10 per minute for calls received or sent. Eight bucks a month to have a cell phone AVAILABLE seems like a pretty sweet deal. The last thing I want to do when I'm out and about is stare at a small iPhone screen and do anything.
I have a free version of Capture 1 for Fuji
I created a library everything was great and I thought about getting a full version for all cameras
Then 1 day I opened Cap1 up and half the library was gone and the other half wouldn't open
I won't try anything else new because I don't want to have to learn how to use it
but with LR6 I am stuck with older cameras or convert my raw files with DNG converter
and I refuse to pay a monthly fee
I thought I might add a Mac Mini I could keep for an older operating system but they aren't cheap and it seems Apple has neutered them in one way or another depending on year. Some you can add RAM but not upgrade the hard drive... others you can change the hard drive but not RAM. One person said the Mac Mini is an Apple troll... intended to provoke outrage. So no Mac Mini for me. I'll just cross my fingers that my iMac lives as long as I do...
CGrindahl wrote:
A new club in the making Reagan... OTC...
I thought I might add a Mac Mini I could keep for an older operating system but they aren't cheap and it seems Apple has neutered them in one way or another depending on year. Some you can add RAM but not upgrade the hard drive... others you can change the hard drive but not RAM. One person said the Mac Mini is an Apple troll... intended to provoke outrage. So no Mac Mini for me. I'll just cross my fingers that my iMac lives as long as I do...
Mac Mini is what I put Catalina on it is always my test computer
I am going to try and put it back to Mohave
Tried a compass app. No elevation but I bet its way higher than a few inches above sea level that Reagan's stuck in I know the magnetic field strength though. 54 uT (u being the micro thing, just don't know how to type that), and dropping.
It has everything to do with the software you're running Leighton and since you've been operating in a windows environment you're likely going to need to replace some of that. Of course, you should be able to run Parallel or whatever the current Apple offering that allows you to run Windows on your machine. My guess your move to Mac, however, is the fact you're not happy running Windows. And, of course, if you're prepared to pay Adobe every month you'll have no problem with a Mac computer. But definitely in switching systems you'll want to assess your software needs...
