Thanks Ken, that was Saturday! PO work week goes Saturday thru Friday. I get to go to window training next week, then after I pass the test, onto the new assignment in another station.
One downfall to this new gig, I have to drive to and from work with too many other people again, and it's bright out there! (at least if the sun's shining, and my car seat is hot)
Ken Hill wrote:
Well I guess you’ve had your first full day of work Laura as permanent personnel! Congratulations, now bid for your dream job. I recall you had dinner with Robin and me just after you got cut because of injury. So Congratulations !👏🚀🏆🥇
Ha ha... Ben, you definitely had the bug for lenses... you even got Curtis hooked on buying more...
bruni wrote:
Oh Laura how could you say that??!! I admit I was very enthusiastic about certain lenses but I absolutely deny ever "tempting" people to buy buy BUY - look at Curtis, I've only been back one day and he's already trying to get me to re-buy 100 lenses.
He did Laura, despite his denial. I would never have gotten lost in the pre-AI world had it not been for his 55 f/1.2 S, or was it an S.C. I had the 50 f/1.2 AI-s, then tried a 55 f/1.2 AI before I saw how gorgeous the all metal lens is... and so the journey began. I'd thought I needed to buy AI-s lenses since they were the latest and ostensibly the best, but as many folks know, the older optical designs produce excellent results. I joked about Ben's role in all of that and he consistently denied it, but I honestly thank him for that...
bruni wrote:
Rafael - I'm with Kevin - although I think they're all sensational. Beautiful light. The second and third look so wide it's hard to believe they were taken with the 55.
ben
Thank you Kevin and Ben, I do get the lens wrong sometimes, forget to change the name while converting.
bruni wrote:
Oh Laura how could you say that??!! I admit I was very enthusiastic about certain lenses but I absolutely deny ever "tempting" people to buy buy BUY - look at Curtis, I've only been back one day and he's already trying to get me to re-buy 100 lenses.
Samy and Ken - I'm shocked you liked Laura's post
Ben, you are guilty of me buying at least one UD (from Sidney) and a Nkki sister. Plus you gave the 55 1.2 bug to Curtis who then passed it to me.
CGrindahl wrote:
Thanks George and Doug. I've set the camera up correctly... I even pulled out the Df manual to make certain I hadn't missed anything. I checked the lens and watched its operation through the front element as I took a photo and the aperture blades seemed to close without difficult. This is very bizarre. I even tested it again a few moments ago and it was overexposing even with -3 exposure compensation and fixing exposure on the brightest part of the scene. The image was glowing it was so overexposed. I've no problem with other lenses, so I have to conclude something is amiss with this lens. Mmmm.
CGrindahl wrote:
I think you're right Reagan that we miss our everyday life, whatever that has involved. I don't mention it here, though I may have said something to you and Ray when we met years ago, but I have a skin condition called vitiligo. For some bizarre reason the melanin in my skin has over time lost its capacity to protect me from the sun.
It began when I was in my late teens and gradually extended from the back on my hands and around my eyes to most of my body. They characterize that as "universal" vitiligo. It is for this reason that I always wear a hat, usually wide brimmed when the sun is high. I also wear long sleeve shirts even in hot weather and typically forego wearing shorts or sandals without socks. Needless to say, beaches are my least appealing places. And when I hike I do my best to walk trails with trees. I'll put sunblock on the back of my hands and occasionally on my neck, though I often wear a kerchief to protect my neck. So beaches work for you and tree shaded trails work for me... and I miss them. ...Show more →
Vitiligo is very common in my family, we are born Bronze and end White. Nothing sunscreen can't fix, by the time it comes around it is too late to be good looking anyway.
rafaelcasd wrote:
Ben, you are guilty of me buying at least one UD (from Sidney) and a Nkki sister. Plus you gave the 55 1.2 bug to Curtis who then passed it to me.
OK, OK.......yes, I'll admit to the 20mmUD and the 55mm f1.2SC.......but you got me to buy the 5.8cm f1.4, which is one of the lenses I kept and bought with me. But I'm begging you NOT to post pics of your immaculate lenses, Rafael, I'm BEGGING....or else I can't be responsible for what happens.
Curtis - my 5.8cm (that Rafael forced me to buy) works perfectly on my Z7, actually it's never looked better. Maybe you should think about a Z6/Z7.......after all, as you always say, kit building is forever!
Reagan wrote:
I have done the walk in the woods and know how the smells and background sounds are very relaxing
but the wide open space of the ocean has won me over as I have gotten older
I guess just being separated from everyday life is what makes the difference
About a week ago Leighton asked about our weather.
On monday a cold front came in off the South Atlantic accompanied by gale force wind and torrential rain during the night. Yesterday morning we had a rare hailstorm, small fortunately, but the mountains about 20 miles away were capped with snow and a bit further inland - 30 miles - were covered in heavy snow.
The wind off those mountains was strong and very cold yesterday when Ingrid and I went for an afternoon walk.
The front has moved on but the fireplace will be roaring for the next few nights and probably through winter. Very grateful I don't have to shovel snow though
We will move to Covid Alert level 3 on Monday which means phased, responsible reopening of our shattered economy. However we count ourselves lucky to have locked down promptly in March and have contained infections to about 22000, 8000 recoveries and fewer than 500 deaths - in a population of about 55 million. There seems to be no doubt that isolation, masks and hygiene measures at shops and malls are working but we can't be complacent.
rafaelcasd wrote:
Vitiligo is very common in my family, we are born Bronze and end White. Nothing sunscreen can't fix, by the time it comes around it is too late to be good looking anyway.
I started developing it just over a year ago. Showed up on my feet first. Always hidden by socks, never noticed it until my feet were pretty much clear. Now it’s mostly on my hands and feet. Have a couple spots on the rest of me... Weird.
CGrindahl wrote:
At the moment it is 95 degrees in San Anselmo but it is still early. Yesterday it reached 97. That was when I left home with the 180 f/2.8 AI-s mounted on the Df and headed for the Marin Municipal Water District watershed. I've been watching videos by a medical doctor certified in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice. He suggested that a good thing to do for our bodies is to head into the woods, preferably woods where ferns are growing. Well I happen to know a trail where ferns are in abundance. A creek wanders through this area, the trail actually following the creek. With sheltering in place we've been discouraged from heading into territory like this but yesterday things were relaxed a bit. When I arrived I saw a large sign telling us how to maintain distance as we walked trails that are often quite narrow. I headed off and once past the stables and into the watershed I felt myself relaxing. I've so needed my time in the woods.
So here are a few photos from the walk. It was about twenty minutes in and twenty minutes out... but I brought a book so I could spend some time next to the creek... which I did. It was very warm, but I was in the shade.
CGrindahl wrote:
He did Laura, despite his denial. I would never have gotten lost in the pre-AI world had it not been for his 55 f/1.2 S, or was it an S.C. I had the 50 f/1.2 AI-s, then tried a 55 f/1.2 AI before I saw how gorgeous the all metal lens is... and so the journey began. I'd thought I needed to buy AI-s lenses since they were the latest and ostensibly the best, but as many folks know, the older optical designs produce excellent results. I joked about Ben's role in all of that and he consistently denied it, but I honestly thank him for that... ...Show more →
Yes, like the 135mm f2.8 QC. When you did your comparison between that lens and a few others, it sold me on it. I don't have that lens anymore, but may have to pick up another.
