CGrindahl wrote:
I received an email from Laura and began posting a response, then thought I'd post it here rather than via email. Thanks for reaching out Laura.
"We’re in the midst of a hell realm with Covid keeping us isolated and horrendous air quality keeping us inside our homes. Sue is apprehensive and talking about where in the United State she might find a safe haven… either as a place to move to or a place where she might spend part of the year. It is difficult to interpret what we’re experiencing. Virtually all the fires in California are result of a storm on August 16 that included a thousand lightening strikes on dry trees and grasses. The fires have been burning since then. Yes, we’ve had breathtaking heat on a few occasions. It was 112 where I live on one day, 108 the next. I don’t remember anything like that during my 48 years in the Bay Area. If this becomes the new normal it will be very difficult to live through. We’re really at the beginning of our dry season which typically includes fires… that it has started a month early is chilling. I turn 79 in two weeks so I’m sheltering in place hoping I’m not exposed to Covid. There is nothing else to do. The ONLY person with whom I have contact is Sue. We shared two hugs today when we spent a few hours together. Beyond that I spend long days home alone with occasional trips to the store wearing a mask to buy food. It feels like a dystopian movie… but it is my life."
What began as a walk in the park during the early days of Covid, when I could mount a lens and ramble through my neighborhood has become something very different. This is a strange world we inhabit at the moment, made even more strange by the apocalyptic conditions in which we now find ourselves. Fortunately, my health remains good... yes, a bit of dryness in my eyes and throat but the lousy air quality will do that. This is what I'm told is air quality at the moment.
10 Minute Average US EPA PM2.5 AQI is now 177
151-200: Everyone may begin to experience health effects if they are exposed for 24 hours; members of sensitive groups may experience more serious health effects.
The air quality average for the WEEK has been 145. Our friend Ken with the username Ballard lives in Portland and at this moment, the sensor two blocks from his home reads 594....
10 Minute Average US EPA PM2.5 AQI is now 594
>401: Health warnings of emergency conditions if they are exposed for 24 hours. The entire population is more likely to be affected.
Glad you are as well as you can be Curtis. Been thinking about you and Sue lately. Sacramento (where I live) had one day over 500 on the AQI, was 490+ in Roseville (17 miles from downtown Sacramento). 9/9 was the absolute worst day so far as smoke goes. It was red outside. RED! Not orange, not hazy white...red. I kept expecting to see the 4 horseman coming to my door for water!
Not my video, but this is accurate for the color that day. In the Sac area bowl, we had this color, but with much more soot and ash in the air. Visibility was about 1/8 mile.
I have a lot to catch up on and haven't shot in weeks.
The summer weather is starting to ease up and hopefully fall is not far away. Posting one from yesterday with a couple signs it may be. Orb weaver webs are out and a hint of autumn colors in the leaves.
Might be the adapter is on the tight side. I just got a Fotasy F to Z adapter to have a smaller profile option with my MF glass. It seems to work okay but is tighter than the FTZ.
rafaelcasd wrote:
The 3.5 cm came in, looks new but I could not mount it on the FOTASY adapter, any tricks to it? it is too tight, what gives? help!
jpelt78 wrote:
Might be the adapter is on the tight side. I just got a Fotasy F to Z adapter to have a smaller profile option with my MF glass. It seems to work okay but is tighter than the FTZ.
Ok, so break out the file, just kidding, well maybe not.
You didn’t explicitly state that it worked with other lenses and Fotasy is a cheap adapter so i jumped to a conclusion.
Edit: I think I misread your reply, is that the only lens you have tried? I’ve had some similar cheap extension tubes that are near impossible to mount a lens to so it is possible that they drifted a bit in their tolerances.
A couple things going on there, apart from pandemic life. The curved footpath that Ken keeps on fixating on , the little gentleman telling me off, and an apparent artifact from self developing the roll (I didn't know i could create scratches that straight?).
Provia 100F in Nikon F801s, Nikkor 10.5cm f2.5 P tick mark lens
Rafael, I have only tried the Fotasy adapter with longer lenses. Have to check if my 3.5cm 2.5 or 3.5 work with it. Or like Jeremy said it could be a QC problem with the adapter.
