Lovely weather today in the medium apple with ice pellets flying around.
Rafael, that is an awesome collection of rangefinder lenses. Between you, George and suspect Samy, there is not much left for others.
I loves stumbling across the small off the eaten path piazzas. This is where one finds the excellent small local restaurants with very reasonable prices.
rafael,
I could not agree more! They are beautiful, and the crisp knurls look unused. It is only because the lens has such resolving power that you can even see the occasional schmuts in the bottom of the grooves. Out of curiosity, but does the mount lack any screws? You got me looking at the compensating version of the 55mm - until I reminded myself I already have three of the five versions of this lens.
Jim
rafaelcasd wrote:
James, if I want to show lenses at this magnification I will have to clean them under the microscope! Posting these photos is about sharing the craftmanship built into the original Nikkors, but it becomes so easy to see tiny bits of dirt in the grooves, dust specks and tiny scratches that a bath and make up session is warranted.
But - isn't that iridescent chrome and engraving just beautiful!. At least to an engineer, something about ground and polished lenses and machined metal turns me on.
A couple of things I have been trying to find answers to for quite some time.
One was, I wanted to find an image that I took some time ago .... 12 years it seems.
I was reminded of the image, from a TV program on UK tv channel ITV
Program is Shetland, based on books by Ann Cleeves, about a Detective and the police in the Shetland islands.
At the start of the program in the title pages is a picture of an old push bike shown in a sepia tone
Anyway to make a long story even longer ..... no let's not do that
I finally found the picture I was looking for - hopefully below
Now to do what I wanted to do with it ..... I needed to find a sepia type preset ..... not in Photoshop ..... but I'm sure you will let me know I was looking in the wrong place.
Found something in On 1
But it would only store with extension of .jpf
.jpf would then not open in PS and allow me to save it as .jpg
Which meant could not reduce the size of the file, and therefore not be able to post it here for any form of help or critique.
In the end I resorted to an online convertor - why? when I should have all the tools I need in PS and ON1
So if anyone has a down and dirty conversion technique that I am missing .... pleased put this old guy out of his misery ...
Going to add some warmth that was taken on a cold day in Florida.
Serge I have the weirdest feeling that I've seen the red and green benches in front of the store. I think you travel quite a bit which is a good thing!
Raphael your lens collection is superb, you need to think a Coffee Table book or a reference manual.
Stokesey wrote:
A couple of things I have been trying to find answers to for quite some time.
One was, I wanted to find an image that I took some time ago .... 12 years it seems.
I was reminded of the image, from a TV program on UK tv channel ITV
Program is Shetland, based on books by Ann Cleeves, about a Detective and the police in the Shetland islands.
At the start of the program in the title pages is a picture of an old push bike shown in a sepia tone
Anyway to make a long story even longer ..... no let's not do that
I finally found the picture I was looking for - hopefully below
Now to do what I wanted to do with it ..... I needed to find a sepia type preset ..... not in Photoshop ..... but I'm sure you will let me know I was looking in the wrong place.
Found something in On 1
But it would only store with extension of .jpf
.jpf would then not open in PS and allow me to save it as .jpg
Which meant could not reduce the size of the file, and therefore not be able to post it here for any form of help or critique.
In the end I resorted to an online convertor - why? when I should have all the tools I need in PS and ON1
So if anyone has a down and dirty conversion technique that I am missing .... pleased put this old guy out of his misery ...
Ken Hill wrote:
Going to add some warmth that was taken on a cold day in Florida.
Serge I have the weirdest feeling that I've seen the red and green benches in front of the store. I think you travel quite a bit which is a good thing!
Raphael your lens collection is superb, you need to think a Coffee Table book or a reference manual.
Where is Jay?
So here are some from the beac!
Somebody's sensor needs a clean... the pitfalls of living near the beach?
.jpf is a jpg with a transparency channel - like .gif. It is based on the jpg2000 standard that was suppose to replace the original jpg, or jpeg standard. Photoshop should open it - then you could simply do a "save as" and choose the jpg extension file format. I have run into files that had their extensions changed before, and I usually make a copy and rename the copied version using different extensions...nef, tif, psd etc - then try opening those in photoshop. Good luck.
Jim
Stokesey wrote:
But it would only store with extension of .jpf
.jpf would then not open in PS and allow me to save it as .jpg
Which meant could not reduce the size of the file, and therefore not be able to post it here for any form of help or critique.
In the end I resorted to an online convertor - why? when I should have all the tools I need in PS and ON1
So if anyone has a down and dirty conversion technique that I am missing .... pleased put this old guy out of his misery ...
Stokesey wrote:
A couple of things I have been trying to find answers to for quite some time.
One was, I wanted to find an image that I took some time ago .... 12 years it seems.
I was reminded of the image, from a TV program on UK tv channel ITV
Program is Shetland, based on books by Ann Cleeves, about a Detective and the police in the Shetland islands.
At the start of the program in the title pages is a picture of an old push bike shown in a sepia tone
Anyway to make a long story even longer ..... no let's not do that
I finally found the picture I was looking for - hopefully below
Now to do what I wanted to do with it ..... I needed to find a sepia type preset ..... not in Photoshop ..... but I'm sure you will let me know I was looking in the wrong place.
Found something in On 1
But it would only store with extension of .jpf
.jpf would then not open in PS and allow me to save it as .jpg
Which meant could not reduce the size of the file, and therefore not be able to post it here for any form of help or critique.
In the end I resorted to an online convertor - why? when I should have all the tools I need in PS and ON1
So if anyone has a down and dirty conversion technique that I am missing .... pleased put this old guy out of his misery ...
Ken Hill wrote:
Going to add some warmth that was taken on a cold day in Florida.
Serge I have the weirdest feeling that I've seen the red and green benches in front of the store. I think you travel quite a bit which is a good thing!
Raphael your lens collection is superb, you need to think a Coffee Table book or a reference manual.
Where is Jay?
So here are some from the beac!
Ken, Love the white sand.
My lens collection is OK but it follows no logic and contains few rare lenses. It is all for fun! can't collect Ferrraris, not even Corvettes!
Stokesey wrote:
Shooting me could be considered ....
Steve
Nikon for Nikon
Shot on D2XS with 135mm f2 Ai-s
This is great, Steve.
On the other hand, I couldn't save my own life if it depended on my knowledge of Photoshop, LR or On1. I think James or Leighton will know what you need here.
.jpf is a jpg with a transparency channel - like .gif. It is based on the jpg2000 standard that was suppose to replace the original jpg, or jpeg standard. Photoshop should open it - then you could simply do a "save as" and choose the jpg extension file format. I have run into files that had their extensions changed before, and I usually make a copy and rename the copied version using different extensions...nef, tif, psd etc - then try opening those in photoshop. Good luck.
Jim
I see nothing wrong with them Colin and quite like them. Good angle and the flare adds to them in my opinion.
George
Yeah George , it has!
I've been off the air since Christmas, don't know why, but I saw these pics on Flickr and that shook me up. I said to Colin it reminded me of a certain Italian photographer but he didn't rise to the bait.
Rafael - love all the gear pics, but I hate that you've got the 8,5cm (and I don't).
One walks on a narrow corridor, steps through two massive doors and the the jaw drops. Part of the Medici Chapel complex this is the Chapel of the Princes. The octagonal interior required three centuries to complete due to the massive expense and difficulty in sourcing the marbles and the semi precious stones.
Will post photos of the dome art work when the tweaks are complete.
About the 8.5cm, you know it is only a matter of time. You can't resist much longer
G
bruni wrote:
Yeah George , it has!
I've been off the air since Christmas, don't know why, but I saw these pics on Flickr and that shook me up. I said to Colin it reminded me of a certain Italian photographer but he didn't rise to the bait.
Rafael - love all the gear pics, but I hate that you've got the 8,5cm (and I don't).
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