AM4L wrote:
Very cold today, however, back to the bottoms again, I just need to visit there several more times to capture all the eye candy. Today I took the Nikkor 28 F/3.5 PC Shift Lens out on the GFX and Laowa Adapter.
Mark,
I am enjoying this insight into your neck of the woods - particularly those lovely old red-brick buildings and warehouses.
So full of history and character.
With the aid of Google maps I cruised around the streets of 'The Bottoms' but I don't think I'd feel safe being there after dark.
Have many of those old buildings been replaced with modern warehousing or is the new stuff complimentary?
David Antilley wrote:
Is the 55 f3.5 noted for any bad copies? Is there a specific range of years I'm suppose to look for? Explain it to me like I'm a six year old.
Hi David
I my experience I have found my 55 f3.5 Ai'd to be very sharp and nice to use. I had the 55 f3.5 Ai previously (two copies) and feel the Ai'd is slightly better. One of the Ai versions had oil on the blades.
Hopefully James will weigh in on this as he recently has done some research on the 55's. He has settled on the 55 f3.5 Ai'd I believe.
Scott
I am enjoying this insight into your neck of the woods - particularly those lovely old red-brick buildings and warehouses.
So full of history and character.
With the aid of Google maps I cruised around the streets of 'The Bottoms' but I don't think I'd feel safe being there after dark.
Have many of those old buildings been replaced with modern warehousing or is the new stuff complimentary?
Colin
Hi Colin,
I think there are efforts to preserve it, however, year by year I think more and more of it erodes away. There is some newer warehouses that have popped up. Safety is an issue, sometimes even during the day. Many ot the cities haunted houses use the buildings down there, The Edge of Hell and the Insane Asylum are two I know of offhand. Some pictures of the outside of the former to come as I get them processed. I used to collect stamps, somewhere I have a collection of old postcards depicting the city back in the day, lot of history here if one digs.
David, I don't think any of the 55's are noted as being bad. I wrote a while ago how Scott's copy was so good - it made me explore the lens. To be clear - I was looking at it for a landscape lens, not macro. In my other lens acquisitions generally the newer versions performed better. In this case - I have late production copies of three versions of the 55, and the oldest one is the best for landscape, and resolving distant details. Hope this is of help
David Antilley wrote:
Is the 55 f3.5 noted for any bad copies? Is there a specific range of years I'm suppose to look for? Explain it to me like I'm a six year old.
James Markus wrote:
David, I don't think any of the 55's are noted as being bad. I wrote a while ago how Scott's copy was so good - it made me explore the lens. To be clear - I was looking at it for a landscape lens, not macro. In my other lens acquisitions generally the newer versions performed better. In this case - I have late production copies of three versions of the 55, and the oldest one is the best for landscape, and resolving distant details. Hope this is of help
Hey party people. Thank you very much for your words of encouragement and thoughts over the past few days. I have read them all. It once again underscores how great this corner of FM is. I've had some good and some really great days, so much so that I was having second thoughts about this upcoming procedure. However, it keeps reminding me that it's not over and I better do something about it. I want to go to work today, and I'm determined to see my colleagues for the first time this year and just remind them that "rumours of my demise have been greatly exeggarated" , even though I had the worst of nights.
Anyway, you all keep well. After a music listening binge on Saturday night, Sunday had no choice but to be a good day. I wanted to shoot, but it was windy all day. Eventually I thought to myself, maybe if I deploy flash! So, I called upon the SB-400. Not too much power, and not to much weight to add and aggrevate things. I'm grateful for the Df, can hold it in one hand and just deploy the left hand for minor focusing tweaks.
Covid test tomorrow and then I'm going in on Thursday. Who knows how long before I can do this again. Thank you all.
That's a great 2.5cm Nikkor pic for black & white season George!
James, hats off to you for braving the cold, and still out experimenting. Unlike my shot below, from the comfort of a heated drivers seat; I had gone just to see some sunlight, and grabbed a shot. I don't think the seatbelt even came off, I liked the reflection off the bridge beam and varied the shots between including trucks or not, and thinking in B&W. 85mm f1.8 H.
Thanks Ray. There is a shot 2 mile loop trail right by the house. Great lighting between 4pm and 5pm this time of year. Only saw one other person.
pbraymond wrote:
That's a great 2.5cm Nikkor pic for black & white season George!
James, hats off to you for braving the cold, and still out experimenting. Unlike my shot below, from the comfort of a heated drivers seat; I had gone just to see some sunlight, and grabbed a shot. I don't think the seatbelt even came off, I liked the reflection off the bridge beam and varied the shots between including trucks or not, and thinking in B&W. 85mm f1.8 H.
pbraymond wrote:
That's a great 2.5cm Nikkor pic for black & white season George!
James, hats off to you for braving the cold, and still out experimenting. Unlike my shot below, from the comfort of a heated drivers seat; I had gone just to see some sunlight, and grabbed a shot. I don't think the seatbelt even came off, I liked the reflection off the bridge beam and varied the shots between including trucks or not, and thinking in B&W. 85mm f1.8 H.
The truck adds to the color shot, but I prefer the tones in the black and white.
Thanks George. I use to print on a gold metallic paper in the 1980s Pretty sure there is still some in my darkroom. Anyway, the "enhanced color IR" at 665nm produces an appealing orange-ish / red tone with the WB preset I created, and I have been pushing it towards gold with some LR adjustments. (Closest is the 4th image)
Jim
GeorgeBo wrote:
Jim. I am really enjoying your IR shots. The false colors are interesting and much different than the typical black and white conversions in IR.
Since the thread is a little slow, I will post one more from my lens test walk yesterday.
In the last post I wanted to see how the lens performed in that environment mid aperture range (f/8). Next I wanted to see how it performed wide open at f/4. In bright light and at distance subjects it is not the best at f/4 (no sample postings for that). But given the right light and at closer distances, I think it holds it own. I have not had any issues at any aperture on a monochrome sensor or black and white film.
This lens is definitely on the list for my Linville Gorge trip this coming spring.
This shot is not very interesting but does show that you can achieve some "pop" wide open.
, even though I had the worst of nights.
