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p.1658 #1 · p.1658 #1 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Early morning in the mountains with the 50-135mm.

DSCF6696 by Tom Womack, on Flickr

May 23, 2022 at 01:43 PM

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p.1658 #2 · p.1658 #2 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

You can do a lot on the cheap these days. I use USB powered ring lights and an Anker USB battery "brick" that can go anywhere. Of course it has distance limitations but for things like Jim is doing in the kitchen and for my fishing flys and up close stuff it is great.

leighton w wrote:
Hey, those are pretty cool. Looks like diffused LED's. Very handy.

May 23, 2022 at 01:54 PM

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p.1658 #3 · p.1658 #3 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Mark that spot. I want to shoot that with 4x5 film next time up to visit

Great shot Leighton! Classic Shenandoah that I remember from road trips as a kid

leighton w wrote:
Early morning in the mountains with the 50-135mm.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52093205642_60623c8551_b.jpg DSCF6696 by Tom Womack, on Flickr

May 23, 2022 at 01:56 PM

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p.1658 #4 · p.1658 #4 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

GeorgeBo wrote:
Mark that spot. I want to shoot that with 4x5 film next time up to visit

Great shot Leighton! Classic Shenandoah that I remember from road trips as a kid

Thanks, I know exactly where it is, I've shot it a few times through the years. Come on up and we'll make a day of it.

In fact, you can't tell, but just on the other side of the little hill to the right of the house is the main road from my house into Staunton.

May 23, 2022 at 02:58 PM

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p.1658 #5 · p.1658 #5 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

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55mm Micro-Nikkor f/2.8

May 23, 2022 at 07:16 PM

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p.1658 #6 · p.1658 #6 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

leighton w wrote:
Early morning in the mountains with the 50-135mm.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52093205642_60623c8551_b.jpg DSCF6696 by Tom Womack, on Flickr

This is a gorgeous scene and exactly how I envision the Shenandoah Valley. I've ridden most of Skyline Drive through Shenandoah National Park, but have never seen what it looks like. Let me explain. Several years ago, my wife and I planned a trip to ride Skyline Drive through the Park starting at the top and riding South. We would continue on the Blue Ridge Parkway all the way back to Cherokee, North Carolina. We took the interstate up to Front Royal and spent the night. We got up the next morning to begin our journey only to find out that fog had set in and it was so thick that you couldn't see more than maybe 50-75 yards. We got on Skyline Drive and began our drive sure that the fog would burn off by midday. Boy, were we wrong!

By 10:00, it started raining. It was rainy and foggy the entire time we were on Skyline Drive. I am not exaggerating when I tell you that we never saw anything that was more than a few feet off the road. The weather didn't clear until we were on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Even so, we had a great trip and will try again someday.

May 23, 2022 at 07:44 PM

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p.1658 #7 · p.1658 #7 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Yeah, I thought so too, and after getting the one Dean suggested for the essential film holder (about the size of a ipad mini) I added this one as well...Nothing existed like this when I was purchasing all my existing lighting equipment. Seems prices have gone up a bit from when I got them. For image quality I still prefer soft-boxes, grids, barn doors, strip lights, scrims, and reflectors. However, I haven't explored modifiers for these rechargeable lights.

link here

leighton w wrote:
Hey, those are pretty cool. Looks like diffused LED's. Very handy.

May 23, 2022 at 08:32 PM

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p.1658 #8 · p.1658 #8 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

Appreciate it. I’ve come to realize any deficiencies in sharpness with this older glass (Series E 28mm withstanding) is my processing, not the lens!

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My laptop screen is so rubbish. These, especially the last one look fantastic on my desktop monitor.

May 23, 2022 at 10:00 PM

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p.1658 #9 · p.1658 #9 · Manual Focus Nikon Glass

"Purple Clematis" aka "Mountain Clematis" (Clematis occidentalis) is blooming in the mountains behind my house.

Here is an early evening shot with my Df with my 55mm f2.8 micro-NIKKOR. I had to push the ISO to 800 due to the approaching evening darkness and to get a fast enough shutter speed, but the Df handles it with aplomb! I had hoped to do a focus stack at f4, but these are so delicate, even the slightest breeze sets them in motion, so went with f8 to get it all in one frame. This bunch of flowers on this vine were wrapped around a branch of a small fir well in front of anything behind, so maybe f4 would not have offered better "isolation".

clematis 2022 by Doug Stevens, on Flickr
Nikon Df + 55mm f2.8 micro-NIKKOR; ISO 800; f8; 1/40 sec

Ain't Spring great!!

Doug

May 23, 2022 at 10:26 PM

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