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George, this lens looks perfect and untouched, don't need to work the Helicoid or the aperture. Will disassemble to make sure the elements are centered and firm in their mounts.
Celebrated birthday with a birthplace dinner, in downtown Escondido.
Phong, terrific photo of your daughter a few pages back
Andy, awesome sunset capture.
Have not posted something with the Nikkor-O 35/2 in a long time and found this one. I only noticed the rather large reptile lurking in the background while tweaking the photo.
Vintage Nippon Kogaku large format lens. Not Rafael quality (or Dean quality), and has slight edge separation at the rear element. The newer version Nikon LF lenses have 5-bladed apertures, its neat to come across this older specimen with 10 well rounded blades.
Taken with Z6, 5.5cm f3.5 Micro-Nikkor, and Nikon ring flash. Nikon on Nikon on Nikon on Nikon!
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Serge, looks like a pre-pandemic scene in NYC. Making me think of those street performers in Baltimore, although I never came across one with a snake.
Samy, it is pre-pandamecic. For some odd reason, not too crazy about photos with a bunch of folks wearing masks.
That is a very cool lens!
A couple from Stony Creek, CT. I loves this town and the surrounding Thimble Islands. A place like this feels like a darn good idea just about now.
Last Saturday night at 10pm, Staunton had a torrential rain that turned the creek running through it into a flash flood. This is the third time that I know of that had this parking lot, (where the market sets up) under water. TLW09859 by T. Leighton Womack, on Flickr
The first time was in 1996 when Hurricane Fran came through and the market had to close because of flooding.
The parking lot was under water by 2 feet in 2003, but the water receded enough for us to have the market. This was the time I found a cherry vette totaled with nothing but mud inside of it.
Now, this time, last Saturday night dumped 3 feet of water in the parking lot.
This is where the creek comes down the hill and goes under the parking garage. TLW09843 by T. Leighton Womack, on Flickr
It's roughly 10 ft wide and 12 ft tall right here. But it was obviously too much for the garage as it lifted the concrete deck and cracked it. TLW09841 by T. Leighton Womack, on Flickr
164 public, residential and commercial properties totaling $3.1 million in damages. I know some of the business owners and they went through the one in 2003 and now this one. I think I may move after this.
Because of the efforts of a lot of people, the market went on as normal today.
It's been a while but I have been watching. I've spent hours teaching myself new pp skills and learning about (blush) AF techniques. Also revisited some old images.
Specially for Siphiwe - hope you enjoy it my friend.
This is a Nguni bull - our native breed of cattle that were made famous due to Shaka Zulu whose troops used their hides for their magnificent rawhide shields. Each regiment had specific colours - what a sight they must have been.
This guy was not taking prisoners that day D200 105 2.5 @ 2.5
My new child, a Nikon F3 HP Also got myself a light meter and a voice recorder for notes.
I've gone from pen and note pad to text notes on my phone, to using a dedicated app to making voice recordings on my phone. This voice recorder is by far the best (quickest) way of taking notes on each shot.
The last time I used my FE2, I was 47, 3 years ago in 2017. In those three years, my eyesight has degraded so much that I now wear progressive glasses and focusing with it is a bit of a struggle. After a bit of research, the F3 HP with a DK-17M attached seemed like a good idea, and it was! I tried a DG-2 with the FE-2, but it's not exactly ideal having to flip the magnifier up and down all the time. So really, I had no choice but to buy a new F3 But ... WOW, this camera is incredible. It handles so nicely and is beautiful to use with everything in the right spot. This will be my main MF camera, I think. What a beauty.
I've never used a light meter before, but a friend suggested I start using one as it will help with my film exposures. I used it all weekend metering for shadows where possible and shooting on manual. So far, so good but a lot to learn.
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It's been a while but I have been watching. I've spent hours teaching myself new pp skills and learning about (blush) AF techniques. Also revisited some old images.
Specially for Siphiwe - hope you enjoy it my friend.
This is a Nguni bull - our native breed of cattle that were made famous due to Shaka Zulu whose troops used their hides for their magnificent rawhide shields. Each regiment had specific colours - what a sight they must have been.
This guy was not taking prisoners that day D200 105 2.5 @ 2.5
Great shot! And nicely edited. You would not want to get in his way!!
A friend of ours has a farm near Vrede in the Free State. 8,000 head of free range cattle as well as maize and soya. Breeds for genetics though and sells bulls. Looks like an amazing place and he’s asked us to visit many times. The farm is actually in a meteorite crater We will certainly take up his offer at some point (when this disaster of a year ends!!!). The last time we were in SA was in 2012 at Madikwe Game Reserve. I really enjoyed SA and next time we will also visit Cape Town.
But ... WOW, this camera is incredible. It handles so nicely and is beautiful to use with everything in the right spot. This will be my main MF camera, I think. What a beauty.
We will certainly take up his offer at some point (when this disaster of a year ends!!!). The last time we were in SA was in 2012 at Madikwe Game Reserve. I really enjoyed SA and next time we will also visit Cape Town.