Curtis, after what I told you about my 80-200, I decided to look at some images from it and I'll have to eat my words. Not bad at all. Maybe time I look to get another one. These were with my D600 though.
Reagan wrote:
86 here today
sunny with no clouds and a nice ocean breeze
but June 1 starts Hurricane season so a lot of tree trimming starts
R
75 here in UK today. Had to break out the sunscreen.
Sunny with no clouds and a lot of stuff to do in the garden. Hedge and tree trimming actually. The shredding machine is fun to use. Chop, cut, shred, --> compost pit.
June 1st - I wonder if I'll still be working from home or back in the office, or even have a job........
DeltaSigma wrote:
75 here in UK today. Had to break out the sunscreen.
Sunny with no clouds and a lot of stuff to do in the garden. Hedge and tree trimming actually. The shredding machine is fun to use. Chop, cut, shred, --> compost pit.
June 1st - I wonder if I'll still be working from home or back in the office, or even have a job........
Colin
75? Showing your age Colin. I thought the UK went metric in the 70s!! Or was that for the benefit of us yanks who are still keeping the English system alive - still using inches/feet/miles.
graytrekker wrote:
75? Showing your age Colin. I thought the UK went metric in the 70s!! Or was that for the benefit of us yanks who are still keeping the English system alive - still using inches/feet/miles.
Indeed. Converted to Fahrenheit for my American friends.
We often use Kelvin in electronic equations - so using that measurement scale we were just a few degrees shy of 300 Kelvin today.
Leighton, I was surprised about your comment on the 80-200 f/4.5 and its bokeh. In my experience the bokeh produced by that lens is quite wonderful... my own reminder. I think you recall this photo...
It is 73 degrees at 12:30 p.m. but we expect it will drop below 60 by the time the sun goes down. According to the forecast we'll have highs in the mid-sixties for the next five or six days with two days of minimal rain. This is still Spring in the northern hemisphere so all is in order... if a bit warmer.
I'm coming to the end of a wonderful book titled The Snow Leopard set in Nepal in high mountains. What is amazing is how people find a way to live in even the most inhospitable climates. We all seem to be doing reasonably well where we live, whether warmer or colder. At least no one seems to be rushing to a different location to find a more pleasant environment. Of course, jobs and networks of family and friend often keep us tethered to a location. That is probably what keeps the Tibetans living in high desert country from leaving. Where would they go? Where would any of us go... beside Reagan who would move to the Bahamas...
All this talk of nice weather around the forum, so I thought I would make my contribution. Hopefully this qualifies for Photo Challenge #8 Out the Window of My Home. Taken today with the 105 f2.5 Ais. Thanks for looking. If you would like any of the snow, wind, or cold air, I will be happy to send it your way.
Scott
DeltaSigma wrote:
75 here in UK today. Had to break out the sunscreen.
Sunny with no clouds and a lot of stuff to do in the garden. Hedge and tree trimming actually. The shredding machine is fun to use. Chop, cut, shred, --> compost pit.
June 1st - I wonder if I'll still be working from home or back in the office, or even have a job........
Colin
"hot" here as well. Tomorrow it be much colder.
I'm still waiting for the extension of my contract. If not, it will be an early retirement.
Working from home at least until September 1st but probably longer.
The measures are gradually becoming more flexible here, but it is expected that in mid-June there will be another spike in infections.
mp356 wrote:
All this talk of nice weather around the forum, so I thought I would make my contribution. Hopefully this qualifies for Photo Challenge #8 Out the Window of My Home. Taken today with the 105 f2.5 Ais. Thanks for looking. If you would like any of the snow, wind, or cold air, I will be happy to send it your way.
Scott
leighton w wrote:
You know, I didn't like the 50-135 as much when I was shooting with my FF Nikon. Now, that have a crop camera, it's my poor mans 70-200/2.8.
I don't shoot very long often, so that's one reason I sold my 80-200. Not sure if I had a bad copy, but I never liked the bokeh from it.
I told a friend not long ago that my dream setup would be the Leica M10 with a 28, 50 and 75mm. That would be all I needed. Having said that, I would still need to keep my Nikkors.
You could always adapt the M10 to use the Nikkors you keep. M10 has live view
graytrekker wrote:
It's really nice when one of your kids takes an interest in tings that have been important to you over the years. My daughter is also really into photography. While we both enjoy landscapes, she has such a different "eye" than I do - better, I think. But it is so fun to go out and shoot together. She and her family got out of California before the lock down to weather the storm here in Montana. My second joy, next to having a granddaughter here for 3 months, is to go out and hike/shoot together.
I hear you loud and clear about both the time going fast in your previous post and the enjoyment of them being home. In my selfish frame of mind, I am really enjoying the extra time that he is home.
I wanted to thank everyone for the comments and congratulations of our achievement today. Really appreciated.
Curtis - regarding your comment that I can start building my Leica kit now with a change in financial burden. Don't plant that seed
But I do have all the bases covered in the Nikkor LTM range with the exception of the Nikkor 2.5cm wide angle. That one will stay away due to the collector status and price. I have 21mm and 25mm covered with Voigtlander lenses.
Since we were on the topic of Leica, one last one from today using the Monochrom and Nikkor 5cm f/2 LTM. Not much to post process when all you can shoot is black and white
Preparing for his online graduation talk.
I have to say, the college staff did very well conducting the event using Zoom. Some graduates were like my son, back with their parents and some were in one state with family across the country but were all able to view like we did last week with our Forum Zoom meeting. It was pretty cool. Will definitely be a memory and a story for the future.
Unfortunately a whole mission to Mars a couple decades ago was lost due to confusion over the metric vs. the traditional systems. And reading through this also reminded me how critical those specifications for software interfaces are.
The primary cause of this discrepancy was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit, contrary to its Software Interface Specification (SIS), while a second system, supplied by NASA, expected those results to be in SI units, in accordance with the SIS. Specifically, software that calculated the total impulse produced by thruster firings produced results in pound-force seconds. The trajectory calculation software then used these results – expected to be in newton seconds (incorrect by a factor of 4.45)[16] – to update the predicted position of the spacecraft.[17]
Interesting George, that's how many of the graduation ceremonies and much else is being done today. Probably changing many aspects of life forever. And good to see proud dad clicking away!
gbohannon wrote:
I wanted to thank everyone for the comments and congratulations of our achievement today. Really appreciated.
Curtis - regarding your comment that I can start building my Leica kit now with a change in financial burden. Don't plant that seed
But I do have all the bases covered in the Nikkor LTM range with the exception of the Nikkor 2.5cm wide angle. That one will stay away due to the collector status and price. I have 21mm and 25mm covered with Voigtlander lenses.
Since we were on the topic of Leica, one last one from today using the Monochrom and Nikkor 5cm f/2 LTM. Not much to post process when all you can shoot is black and white
Preparing for his online graduation talk.
I have to say, the college staff did very well conducting the event using Zoom. Some graduates were like my son, back with their parents and some were in one state with family across the country but were all able to view like we did last week with our Forum Zoom meeting. It was pretty cool. Will definitely be a memory and a story for the future.
George let me tell you what I told my Doctor who was telling me about his daughters tuition. I said “When your kid graduates college you’ll be surprised how much money you have.” We did! Twins, one at Penn State the other U of Michigan. Once those bills were done with, life became pretty easy.
As far as a Leica kit, I say go for it! There was a Life Magazine photographer I ran into during the 80’s Who said To me “Nikon is nice, but I like a Leica.” I had a Leica Rangefinder after that but really liked and used the Oly OM1. Hands down a camera you always had with you. Now Nikon Camera - Nikon lens.
