leighton w wrote:
Thanks Ken, but I played just a small part in the success of the market. We owe it to the market committee, dedicated vendors and great customers.
Leighton you are far to modest. The saying that a Camel is a Horse designed by a committee comes to mind.
That was around the age when I gave up riding a bicycle. Part of the decision came after Rinie's brother was riding a motorcycle and had a nasty encounter with a vehicle. Riding in Marin with curvy narrow streets shared by both bicycles and autos is a game for young folks to play. Old age and treachery may overcome youth and skill in the office, but not so much on the street...
Yesterday I took another walk and went a bit farther afield... testing my healing thigh. Things went well until I started going up a hill... not a steep one mind you but after about half an hour of walking. I decided not to push through, turning around and heading home. And yes, I did have my camera with me. That is what gives me the greatest pleasure. Again I had the 135 f/3.5 Q AI mounted. What a lovely lens!
I thought I'd share a photo of the location where all those wonderful roses are growing... this taken as I walked along the street where I live.
CGrindahl wrote:
Yesterday I took another walk and went a bit farther afield... testing my healing thigh. Things went well until I started going up a hill... not a steep one mind you but after about half an hour of walking. I decided not to push through, turning around and heading home. And yes, I did have my camera with me. That is what gives me the greatest pleasure. Again I had the 135 f/3.5 Q AI mounted. What a lovely lens!
I thought I'd share a photo of the location where all those wonderful roses are growing... this taken as I walked along the street where I live.
I came across this fellow as I scoped out the possibilities with the fennel growing wild adjacent to the main thoroughfare in my neighborhood called Center Boulevard. At one time this was a train line. The platforms still exist.
leighton w wrote:
Bet the rest of the yard looks nice too.
There were two homes side by side of the most modest construction... two bedrooms, one bath on a single level... perhaps a thousand square feet but maybe not even that large. This couple, with two young children needed more than that. They did a remarkable job of recreating that home... two stories with a lovely front porch. I'll have to take a photo of the two homes so you can see what they did. I tried to wrangle a tour to the inside of the recently remodeled home but I hadn't gotten to know the couple well at that time and the offer never came. As a former construction inspector I LOVE watching things built... that was probably why I spent five years remodeling the only home I've ever owned. I was working full time so it took awhile. I did the foundation, had carpenters come in to do rough framing and then I did all the electrical, plumbing and finish work. It came out beautifully but alas, it went to my wife when we divorced...
Here's a photo of that home... I bought it for $36,000 and they now say it is worth over half a million... Bay Area real estate is jaw dropping.
This is the first time I've used this lens in at least 15 years. The focus is incredibly stiff. I guess the grease must have dried up. I used to shoot basketball with this lens but it's so stiff there's no way it could ever be used to track focus now.
You just need to get it cleaned and relubricated. Elkins45 wrote:
105mm f1.8 AI-S, D300
This is the first time I've used this lens in at least 15 years. The focus is incredibly stiff. I guess the grease must have dried up. I used to shoot basketball with this lens but it's so stiff there's no way it could ever be used to track focus now.
This is the first time I've used this lens in at least 15 years. The focus is incredibly stiff. I guess the grease must have dried up. I used to shoot basketball with this lens but it's so stiff there's no way it could ever be used to track focus now.
The first 55 f/1.2 S.C. AI I bought had very stiff focusing. I took it to a local camera technician and asked if it needed a CLA. He suggested I use the lens for a bit to see if would loosen up... it did and is still going strong. You might wish to play a bit more with that lens. It has been a favorite of mine for portraiture. In reality is excellent for a variety of uses. Put it through its paces...
CGrindahl wrote:
The first 55 f/1.2 S.C. AI I bought had very stiff focusing. I took it to a local camera technician and asked if it needed a CLA. He suggested I use the lens for a bit to see if would loosen up... it did and is still going strong. You might wish to play a bit more with that lens. It has been a favorite of mine for portraiture. In reality is excellent for a variety of uses. Put it through its paces...
I've owned it since it was new in 1987 and it's gone way far the other way of where it used to be. I sat on the couch and played with it for a few minutes but it made my hands cramp to even turn it a single time. It's so stiff I'm afraid it's stressing the locking pin.
I see these lenses going for $300+ online, so spending a little money on it might be justifiable as an investment. How much does it usually cost to have a lens relubricated?
CGrindahl wrote:
As a former construction inspector I LOVE watching things built...
As a former Structural Draughtsman I LOVED watching projects I had done the plans for being built, so long as I wasn't near enough for anyone to ask me any difficult questions ! I worked on Shopping Malls (Biggest the Trafford Centre in Manchester UK, 800 million GBP), Nuclear Power Stations, Railways - the Hong Kong to Lantau Island Airport rail link, Water Treatment Plants, Sports Stadiums, Oil Refineries and more. Biggest was $7 Billion green field refinery in Jamnagar in India for Reliance Petroleum in 1995.
General Arrangements - reinforced concrete or steelwork structures (dimensions, plans, sections through, details etc.) and Rebar drawings/schedules (each bar needs scheduling - size, length, shape, number of, spacings etc.)
Not so keen on renovations though as I'm half way through tiling a bathroom at the moment.
We went to a native plant nursery on Sunday, as much for a drive as anything just to get out. I had the XT2 with 28/2 ais on LTII and took along the 200Q pre-ai. Had a problem in that it would only shoot wide open, turned out that the aperture controller on the LT was half way so messing things up (it's for if using a Nikkor G AF lens you can change aperture)
Interesting Andy. A neighbor when I was growing up was District Engineer for the Minnesota Highway Department and he got summer jobs for all the boys in the neighborhood. I found myself on survey crews and in asphalt batch plants. One winter when I dropped out of college I was working as a draftsman. Although I didn't pursue engineering in college... liberal arts to be exact, my experience as a teen opened doors for me. I got jobs with testing companies and worked on a wide variety of projects, small and large. I did quite a bit of work on concrete pours and did both soil and concrete testing. When I moved to Seattle I worked for another testing outfit and was doing inspections on concrete pours on some major high rise buildings. I'd arrive at the site and go immediately to the plans to see the reinforcing steel layout, then visit the site of the pour and make certain everything was in order. Then I'd check the concrete, taking slump tests and making cylinders for later testing. I also spent a year in graduate study of architecture... though I didn't finish the three year degree program.
When I moved to California and was searching for a job I applied for a position in Santa Cruz as a civil engineer and after reviewing my work experience they allowed me to apply. I didn't get the job but after being hired by the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Vallejo, I was assigned as project manager for construction in one of the neighborhoods... this with my undergraduate degree in American history.
When the City of Vallejo began design development for a new city hall the architect asked that each department submit an analysis of space utilization. My boss asked me to do it for our department and when they were all submitted the architect said mine was the only one they could use. They asked if I could be assigned to do studies of every department. I did and within a year the City Manager assigned me as project manager for the City... something that the Director of Public Works was not that happy about. It was likely that experience that led to a series of promotions leading eventually to becoming a department manager... I was in the right place at the right time with a bizarre set of skills I developed because that neighbor found a job for me when I was 16 years old...
This is the first time I've used this lens in at least 15 years. The focus is incredibly stiff. I guess the grease must have dried up. I used to shoot basketball with this lens but it's so stiff there's no way it could ever be used to track focus now.
Mine has always had stiff focus too. I bought it used at a local camera shop. Excellent condition but focus so stiff I could barely turn it with arthritic hands. I've had it lubed twice. It's still stiff but much less so. The repair technician said many of the 105/1.8 lenses have stiff focus and that's normal for them. I don't have any idea why Nikon would make the focus stiffer than other lenses.
Maybe the lubricant being used by the repair shop is too thick. I’ve relubricated myself two 105 f1.8’s this year that had dried out. When they dry out they lock up tight. They both moved pretty well after that, though they have a well damped feel. They have large diameter helicoids so there is a lot of surface area contact. I used a Japan Hobby tool 30 grease on them. That usually works well for most MF lenses. I have a 10 weight that I use primarily for for 55 f2.8 micros which have twice the helicoids due to their complicated CRC mechanism. With a 30 they are hard to turn. It would probably be possible to lighten up a 105 f1.8 more by using that 10 wt instead.
Ballard wrote:
Mine has always had stiff focus too. I bought it used at a local camera shop. Excellent condition but focus so stiff I could barely turn it with arthritic hands. I've had it lubed twice. It's still stiff but much less so. The repair technician said many of the 105/1.8 lenses have stiff focus and that's normal for them. I don't have any idea why Nikon would make the focus stiffer than other lenses.
Public holiday here today celebrating the handover of the city from the British to communists. I've figured out the only real time you can shoot here at the moment is to be outside at around 7am. By 9:30am the light is so harsh & bright that the photos just look awful. Good thing I'm always up around 5am anyway
Purposely left my 35mm and 50mm lenses at home and just took the 55/2.8 Micro and the 105/2.5 Ai-S. Used on my Sony A7iii.
Am I able to use a normal adapter like this with pre-Ai lenses? From what I’ve read it seems that I can but just wanted to be sure. I’ve steered clear of the pre-Ai lenses because of the D750, but now I’ve started using the A7iii with the MF Nikons things might be different. I got to admit using these lenses on the Sony is even more fun than on the D750.
Am I able to use a normal adapter like this with pre-Ai lenses? From what I’ve read it seems that I can but just wanted to be sure. I’ve steered clear of the pre-Ai lenses because of the D750, but now I’ve started using the A7iii with the MF Nikons things might be different. I got to admit using these lenses on the Sony is even more fun than on the D750.
Yeah, that will work. The adapters are dumb and transmit zero info, there is no limiting factor as unlike the nikon body there is no requirement to move the aperture from wide open to the selected aperture.
"The German yellowjacket (V. germanica) first appeared in Ohio in 1975, and has now become the dominant species over the eastern yellowjacket. It is bold and aggressive, and can sting repeatedly and painfully. It will mark aggressors and pursue them. It is often confused with Polistes dominula, an invasive species in the United States, due to their very similar pattern. The German yellowjacket builds its nests in cavities—not necessarily underground—with the peak worker population in temperate areas between 1000 and 3000 individuals between May and August. Each colony produces several thousand new reproductives after this point through November.
The eastern yellowjacket builds its nests underground, also with the peak worker population between 1000 and 3000 individuals, similar to the German yellowjacket. Nests are built entirely of wood fiber and are completely enclosed except for a small entrance at the bottom. The color of the paper is highly dependent on the source of the wood fibers used. The nests contain multiple, horizontal tiers of combs within. Larvae hang within the combs.[citation needed]
In the southeastern United States, where southern yellowjacket (Vespula squamosa) nests may persist through the winter, colony sizes of this species may reach 100,000 adult wasps.[4] The same kind of nest expansion has occurred in Hawaii with the invasive western yellowjacket (V. pensylvanica).[6] "
CGrindahl wrote:
I came across this fellow as I scoped out the possibilities with the fennel growing wild adjacent to the main thoroughfare in my neighborhood called Center Boulevard. At one time this was a train line. The platforms still exist.
gbohannon wrote:
I will have to check out the Marumi hoods. Thanks for mentioning those. Always good to have a backup or one that may be more sacrificial.
George, you can save your time. Received the Marumi short metal hood and its a tiny thin contraption that would only offer limited protection against bumps. It is a $3.50 part for $26 so back it goes in a hurry.
The Nikon NC 40.5mm filter fits perfectly and will have to do for a bit.
Live and learn. 
I worked on Shopping Malls (Biggest the Trafford Centre in Manchester UK, 800 million GBP), Nuclear Power Stations, Railways - the Hong Kong to Lantau Island Airport rail link, Water Treatment Plants, Sports Stadiums, Oil Refineries and more. Biggest was $7 Billion green field refinery in Jamnagar in India for Reliance Petroleum in 1995.
