James Markus wrote:
It is raining again - feels like weeks and weeks of rain. Here are some more from yesterday's 60 minutes of gray skies, no sun, and no rain with 55mm AI'd Nikkor P.C
AM4L wrote:
From yesterday evening after work, decided to take the XT-4 and 800 F5.6 out for more testing. Frames have Camera/Lens Info. I left one shot uncropped so you can see how the 800 vignettes with speed booster on the XT-4. Gloomy weather here this weekend plus trapped here waiting for a delivery this afternoon so not sure if I will get much camera time. Hoping everyone is having a great weekend!
Those photos look nice and sharp at this size. My use the speedbooster Mark, use the additional magnification of the plain adapter.
DeltaSigma wrote:
Getting my Halloween images in early. Work is all consuming at the moment.
Flickr is running a Lego photo contest. I happened to be playing around with the 55/2.8 micro a week or so ago with this guy.
The 40/2 (plastic fantastic) that is glued to my Z6 at the moment was no match for the 55/2.8.
One of my many 'issues' is that I am a homebody, just love being at home and don't like to drive far unless I have to. I do not like to travel, if someone were to offer me a free trip to Paris or Tahiti, I would gracefully decline.
Going on long motorcycle trips like Andy seems like going to Mars for me. This trait makes my photo ops minimal. I walk around the house and take photos here on many occasions.
Like today.
I have been encouraging the local trees to grow for many years, the comes down to Encinas for the most part.
rafaelcasd wrote:
One of my many 'issues' is that I am a homebody, just love being at home and don't like to drive far unless I have to. I do not like to travel, if someone were to offer me a free trip to Paris or Tahiti, I would gracefully decline.
Going on long motorcycle trips like Andy seems like going to Mars for me. This trait makes my photo ops minimal. I walk around the house and take photos here on many occasions.
Like today.
I have been encouraging the local trees to grow for many years, the comes down to Encinas for the most part.
raboof wrote:
I’ll look and see how I did it. It’s been a while. If I remember it correctly, I had to rotate the focus ring to make room for the lever to pull out.
Thank you Chuong, you are correct, one must focus the lens close to make room for the fork lever to release. Placed the Finnish ai kit No. 54 ring on the lens. Tested the lens in the D810 at max frame rate and it gave me even exposure at all apertures.
Took advantage of the disassembly to clean all parts and apply a tiny bit of Dow Corning high vacuum grease to the helicoid. (this grease does not outgas, it is meant to not contaminate experiments or work in high vacuum)
AI conversion is done, now just to enjoy the 300mm 4.5 ED K ai converted lens!!!!!!
Respectfully
Rafael
HCE HCE wrote:
Ben There must be a Pizza Hut or Little Caesar's in Rome, think of the photo ops just outside their doors!
Extending my walk with the D800 and 24mm f/2.8 AI-S
Jay - I didn't know what Little Caesar's was when I read your comment, I had to look it up. As for Pizza Hut, no there's no Pizza Hut in Rome. Pizza is something we're quite serious about. Even if there were such establishments here, I'm afraid I would have to draw the line. As my nanna used to say, "you can stoop and pick up nothing".
James Markus wrote:
It is raining again - feels like weeks and weeks of rain. Here are some more from yesterday's 60 minutes of gray skies, no sun, and no rain with 55mm AI'd Nikkor P.C
James Markus wrote:
Serge,
Have you ever been inside that building? It looks like the floors are running down hill - as well as no plumb walls. Bet the dry wallers used some salty language on that job.
Jim
James, have not been inside. It is an area that I normally only pass by in the water taxi.
It is an eye catching design and was surprised to read that it was a rental apartment building. I would not mind a swim in roof top pool and check out great views.
bruni wrote:
Jay - I didn't know what Little Caesar's was when I read your comment, I had to look it up. As for Pizza Hut, no there's no Pizza Hut in Rome. Pizza is something we're quite serious about. Even if there were such establishments here, I'm afraid I would have to draw the line. As my nanna used to say, "you can stoop and pick up nothing".
James Markus wrote:
I'm very pleased with this lens!
Very Nice, James.
I have also been shooting a lot of stitched panos with various lenses - 35 f2, 55 f2.8 micro, and the Voigtlander 90 f3.5 Apo-L. I am seeing if this is a practical way of increasing the effective resolution of the 16 MP of my Df. I haven't analyzed them too much yet, and still have more experiments to do (always the scientist!), but I remain hopeful. One question I had was the reliability of PS stitching - does it introduce any softness by not matching the images exactly and, of course, the effects of moving objects, like leaves in the wind. I imagine that this latter one would also be an issue with pixel shifting cameras (Sony, Olympus).
What program did you use for merging photos for your stitched panos?
Some from yesterday, was contained to the house waiting on a riding mower delivery. So I roasted some coffee for one of my daughters and then made them a fresh pan pizza from scratch. The rest of the dough was used for a loaf. Liking the Fuji more and more, however the shallower DOF is noticed with a crop sensor so I will need to embrace that more! The IS is superb!
We realized that was the first time in a few years it was just the 6 of us sitting down to eat a meal together. They are all out on their own now 23, 25, 27, 29. Youngest brought her dog Hero so I caught a quick snap. They ate all the pizza, lol, snarfed it down, it was pretty good! If your wondering about the big pots, that whole area in the garage is my beverage lab, coffee roasting, beer making, wine making, and soon essential oil distilling, lots of fun!
Doug,
I just use Photoshop's "photo merge". I usually access it through Lightroom, and just right click > edit in > merge to panorama. To get to it in Photoshop just go file > automate > photo merge. I leave it in auto mode and tic all three boxes blend together, vignette removal, and correct geometric distortion. I never use a tripod. I get in a sugar-foot stance (wrestling term about your feet being directly under your shoulders splayed 90 degrees.) I rotate my torso only as far to the right as i can go, and begin shooting steady shots watching for only two things.
1-that the horizon remains at the same position within each frame, and
2-that I overlap each frame 20-25% as I uncoil turning left.
I can cover a bit over 180 degrees doing this. The only time I ever see blurring is either the lens shoots soft on the edges, one frame wasn't sharp due to focus or shutter speed, or there wasn't enough overlap to each frame. When Photoshop merges all the images it will increase the canvas size to accommodate the entire field of view captured.
As for moving things like leaves (in my case I was wondering about the waves traveling upstream) I think Photoshop adds in a bit of it's focus stacking abilities picking only the sharpest bits.
When I use to stitch photos manually back in the mid 1990s with Photoshop v4.01 and creating a layer for each frame - distorting that layer - aligning - feathering corners for vignettes etc - I could spend half a day on one photo. When that British Columbia student invented "Autostitch" I was ecstatic. Now, a bunch of programs do it automatically - many, I believe have Autostitch code at their core.
OVERLAP IS CRITICAL
Jim
graytrekker wrote:
Very Nice, James.
I have also been shooting a lot of stitched panos with various lenses - 35 f2, 55 f2.8 micro, and the Voigtlander 90 f3.5 Apo-L. I am seeing if this is a practical way of increasing the effective resolution of the 16 MP of my Df. I haven't analyzed them too much yet, and still have more experiments to do (always the scientist!), but I remain hopeful. One question I had was the reliability of PS stitching - does it introduce any softness by not matching the images exactly and, of course, the effects of moving objects, like leaves in the wind. I imagine that this latter one would also be an issue with pixel shifting cameras (Sony, Olympus).
What program did you use for merging photos for your stitched panos?
Mark,
I like the photos. Got a question about your watermark - is there a story about "ark Abraham"?
I shot an entire broadsheet newspaper section in 2007 about two friends from a religious college that began home brewing beer together (Founders Brewing). They sold it in 2019 to Mahou San Miguel's a Spanish Brewing conglomerate for 198.8 million dollars. May you have as much success in your "home" brewing. It looks like you are taking it seriously.
Jim
AM4L wrote:
Some from yesterday, was contained to the house waiting on a riding mower delivery. So I roasted some coffee for one of my daughters and then made them a fresh pan pizza from scratch. The rest of the dough was used for a loaf. Liking the Fuji more and more, however the shallower DOF is noticed with a crop sensor so I will need to embrace that more! The IS is superb!
We realized that was the first time in a few years it was just the 6 of us sitting down to eat a meal together. They are all out on their own now 23, 25, 27, 29. Youngest brought her dog Hero so I caught a quick snap. They ate all the pizza, lol, snarfed it down, it was pretty good! If your wondering about the big pots, that whole area in the garage is my beverage lab, coffee roasting, beer making, wine making, and soon essential oil distilling, lots of fun!...Show more →
