So the 2.1cm came and went right back, the lens was in cosmetically excellent condition with just a chip in the viewfinder eyepiece.
However it did not work on the Z6, this is my third 2.1cm, all the ones I have found are compromised in some manner, will cease to look for it actively.
This is the best photo I could take with it, it also pokes into the camera much more than the fisheyes, so much that I had to use the camera on silent, or it would hit the mechanical shutter.
Part if the image problem is that the rear element is so far back it develops issues with the sensor filters, but I have tested other 2.1cm and they were much better.
rafaelcasd wrote:
I will quit looking for 2.1cm, matter of fact I will quit actively looking for old Nikkor lenses and will sell a number of the ones I own.
To Mark this milestone I bought this Nikon F Voigtlander lens, the 15mm 4.5 SL, cost me the same as the new Mark III but I like old quirky lenses.
I am still hoarding the old Nikkors, I still love them, but I am not a true collector - I am a bargain-excellent condition-user hoarder, who will not buy anything I cannot use, and who has pretty much everything I ever wanted already.
Once in the 1980s I had an Olympus OM system, gave it away to family and stuck to Nikon.
Well, everything I ever wanted except for a 10mm 5.6 OP and a 58mm 1.2 NOCT, each in perfect shape for less than $3K! Anyone wants to help me get that?
I did buy this OP once, but had to return as it was defective due to element separation.
Jose,
Your e-book is wonderful. I thought I might be able to use google translate to get English translations from the Portuguese, but I can not select the text in the original (which is rotated 90 degrees CC). Acrobat reader allows me to rotate it Clockwise 90 degrees for viewing, and your photos are great! Congratulations! It looks like you put a great deal of effort into it's creation.
Jim
asiostygius wrote:
For those interested in photobooks, I would like to share a 99.99% finished version to be published (after approval of the host site) as a free ebook on birds relationships with plants:
Rafael,
Man that sounds like me. When I want a lens - I set a mental ceiling price I am willing to pay, and a condition threshold. I use to want the Nikkor 28mm f1.4 AF-D for years, and had a $1500 ceiling price when they were 4-5K. When the price fell below my ceiling - I lost interest in the lens...what's that about? mutters to self....
Jim
rafaelcasd wrote:
I am still hoarding the old Nikkors, I still love them, but I am not a true collector - I am a bargain-excellent condition-user hoarder, who will not buy anything I cannot use, and who has pretty much everything I ever wanted already.
Once in the 1980s I had an Olympus OM system, gave it away to family and stuck to Nikon.
Well, everything I ever wanted except for a 10mm 5.6 OP and a 58mm 1.2 NOCT, each in perfect shape for less than $3K! Anyone wants to help me get that?
I did buy this OP once, but had to return as it was defective due to element separation.
I like the old 9-blade now because I enjoy stopping down a little for sharpness but still able to maintain the nice bokeh. I like the old rendering style and how they were built.
So no, I don’t buy as much as I used to back in the days when I wanted to try almost all the lenses I could afford
rafaelcasd wrote:
I am still hoarding the old Nikkors, I still love them, but I am not a true collector - I am a bargain-excellent condition-user hoarder, who will not buy anything I cannot use, and who has pretty much everything I ever wanted already.
Once in the 1980s I had an Olympus OM system, gave it away to family and stuck to Nikon.
Well, everything I ever wanted except for a 10mm 5.6 OP and a 58mm 1.2 NOCT, each in perfect shape for less than $3K! Anyone wants to help me get that?
I did buy this OP once, but had to return as it was defective due to element separation.
The Ever Forward is ever stuck in the Chesapeake Bay so I made a trip out there this afternoon. The channel is narrow at that point, and seems the high winds last weekend may have pushed the ship off track. Or at least that's the story. The coast guard has been around to check up on it a few days ago but today it seemed to be sitting quite forlorn in the bay.
Its sister ship, the Ever Given, is more notorious for having run aground in a narrow part of the Suez Canal, completely blocking traffic through it for a few weeks. That was a few months ago. Wonder if Evergreen's insurance company is about to cancel their policy.
The Ever Forward was heading out from the port of Baltimore and in this picture you see it facing in the southward direction. Its location is across from the town of Pasadena, in fact right in front of a pleasant park on the water. There were quite a few folks sitting on the benches checking it out.
Z6, with 400 5.6 ED AIS and 13.5cm f4 QC rangefinder (S-mount) lens.
The Ever Forward is ever stuck in the Chesapeake Bay so I made a trip out there this afternoon. The channel is narrow at that point, and seems the high winds last weekend may have pushed the ship off track. Or at least that's the story. The coast guard has been around to check up on it a few days ago but today it seemed to be sitting quite forlorn in the bay.
Its sister ship, the Ever Given, is more notorious for having run aground in a narrow part of the Suez Canal, completely blocking traffic through it for a few weeks. That was a few months ago. Wonder if Evergreen's insurance company is about to cancel their policy.
The Ever Forward was heading out from the port of Baltimore and in this picture you see it facing in the southward direction. Its location is across from the town of Pasadena, in fact right in front of a pleasant park on the water. There were quite a few folks sitting on the benches checking it out.
Z6, with 400 5.6 ED AIS and 13.5cm f4 QC rangefinder (S-mount) lens. ...Show more →
Very nice Samy. If it does not free itself, I suppose they will need to start offloading some of those containers.
Off topic, sue me. I just got an email from Starlink telling me my dish is ready to ship. On a great day, I can get around 9 Mpbs download and less than 2 upload currently with my wireless internet. I was wondering how many of you use Starlink and what your thoughts are.
"Starlink's median download speed of 155.15 Mbps during Q4 2021 was much faster than the country's median download for all fixed broadband of 76.94 Mbps. That's also a large increase from Starlink's median download speed of 127.46 Mbps in Q3 2021"
leighton w wrote:
Off topic, sue me. I just got an email from Starlink telling me my dish is ready to ship. On a great day, I can get around 9 Mpbs download and less than 2 upload currently with my wireless internet. I was wondering how many of you use Starlink and what your thoughts are.
Huss, excellent capture and colors. I thought it was film at first glance and sure enough, it was.
Samy, very nice photographs and colors.
James, great shots with the new D7200.
Rafael that is breaking news. I figured you would run out of vintage Nikkors to chase after but to sell off part of you collection, shocking.
The last photos from Rome. I am not much of a night photographer but gave it the old college try. Exposure was at 1/15 sec leaning against the stone walls.
James Markus wrote:
Jose,
Your e-book is wonderful. I thought I might be able to use google translate to get English translations from the Portuguese, but I can not select the text in the original (which is rotated 90 degrees CC). Acrobat reader allows me to rotate it Clockwise 90 degrees for viewing, and your photos are great! Congratulations! It looks like you put a great deal of effort into it's creation.
Jim
Thank you Jim!
I do not know what happened to you seeing a 90º CC rotated book ?! Sorry about that.
Right now I downloaded the PDF in my PC and it just worked fine; I can select text in the file normally. I am using a generic PDF reader, Foxit, but suppose acrobat would work the same way.
Jose, Acrobat seems to not like some features that other PDF creating tools put in. I ran into this with a grievance form I was given, work has Acrobat, I have Foxit at home. No errors in Foxit, but Acrobat didn't like the form.
I highly recommend Foxit.
asiostygius wrote:
Thank you Jim!
I do not know what happened to you seeing a 90º CC rotated book ?! Sorry about that.
Right now I downloaded the PDF in my PC and it just worked fine; I can select text in the file normally. I am using a generic PDF reader, Foxit, but suppose acrobat would work the same way.
