Hey gang reporting in from the UP! Hello Curtis and Ben.
I have a question!!!! My Z6 went with me yesterday to a few sites and I took about 90 pics. All outdoors 75•F without any issue. Last night I attempted to shoot the sunset and my battery was dead. I started the day with a ~94% ~ EN-EL 15B. Thinking the battery went down way too fast I checked the camera and found nothing wrong. Same shot count etc..
Same scenario today and I’m at 77% which is as expected.
Anyway Amazon will deliver me a new battery Friday. Do you think my old one has seen its final days. I’ve never in my years seen a battery go like this. Your ideas welcome.
I have obviously been away far too long... people are shooting with cameras and I have NO IDEA what they're talking about. At least you've got the lenses right!
What is an R5 and what the heck is George shooting with? CFV II 50C/907X?
I must be getting older faster than I think!
I know we opened Pandora's Box years ago when we invited other cameras that could mount Nikon manual focus lenses. I guess almost anything is possible now. All I can say is... have fun everyone!
Hey Curtis. Alphabet soup for sure. I jumped head first into digital medium format and have a Hasselblad digital back (that is the CFV II 50C part of it) and it has a mini body for coupling the lenses (that is the 907X part of it)
But I got it for the digital back that can be used with technical camera bodies much like the 4x5 large format field cameras. For full tilt, shift, swing, rise/fall movements.
The great part of it is a lot of the large aperture Nikkor lenses over 50mm focal length cover the sensor quite well and the PC-Nikkor 28mm/3.5 covers the sensor and allows some shift movements.
I blame Samy for getting me down this path Have to blame someone besides me, right?
Anyway, It is GREAT to see you on the thread again Curtis. All the best to you!
George
CGrindahl wrote:
I have obviously been away far too long... people are shooting with cameras and I have NO IDEA what they're talking about. At least you've got the lenses right!
What is an R5 and what the heck is George shooting with? CFV II 50C/907X?
I must be getting older faster than I think!
I know we opened Pandora's Box years ago when we invited other cameras that could mount Nikon manual focus lenses. I guess almost anything is possible now. All I can say is... have fun everyone!
You didn't have it in a bag and accidentally turned on and the shutter release may have been depressed keeping the camera "awake" did you? Just thinking of possibilities other than a battery fault.
G
Ken Hill wrote:
Hey gang reporting in from the UP! Hello Curtis and Ben.
I have a question!!!! My Z6 went with me yesterday to a few sites and I took about 90 pics. All outdoors 75•F without any issue. Last night I attempted to shoot the sunset and my battery was dead. I started the day with a ~94% ~ EN-EL 15B. Thinking the battery went down way too fast I checked the camera and found nothing wrong. Same shot count etc..
Same scenario today and I’m at 77% which is as expected.
Anyway Amazon will deliver me a new battery Friday. Do you think my old one has seen its final days. I’ve never in my years seen a battery go like this. Your ideas welcome.
GroWeb wrote:
Here is my first set of images from the Comox classic car show on Saturday. Each set of my photos from this event will be unified by one or more specific qualities which, in this case, is probably obvious (think "perspective"). Along with the respective automobile owners, the contributors to these results are my Fuji X-T2, Mitakon Zhongyi Lens Turbo II lens adapter and focal reducer, 55 f/1.2 SC, 28 f/2 N, 16 f/3.5 ai fisheye, Lightroom Classic, and Nik Colo Efex Pro 5.
CGrindahl wrote:
Yes I did Leighton and at least THIS year I didn't forget the date. I came today to honor those folks who continue to row this boat down the stream... merrily, merrily, as they say.
Alas, my Df spends more time sitting on the cabinet next to me than in my hand or even in my camera bag. The last three years have slipped by with photography as an afterthought. Yes, I've picked up the camera once or twice but as I look at my Flickr account for which I pay each month, I believe all but the last photo I uploaded have been posted. But I will post two photo. If the second appeared before it was so long ago most folks will have forgotten it! Embarrassing but true... the first was shot with the 55 f/1.2 SC AI and the second with the 180 f/2.8 AI-s... two of my desert island lenses.
I've only sold one lens, and that was one of my THREE 55 f/1.2s I'd promised some time ago to Ken Ballard with whom I'm still in touch. That means I still have 46 of those gorgeous manual focus lenses. I expect that photography will die for me only when I decided to get serious about selling lenses. I'm in a situation not unlike our Montana buddy Jack. I turn 81 in about a month. I still hike in the nearby watershed and my health is basically good... but making photography a priority isn't happening. Rinie continues to entice me to visit her in the Netherlands. That seems impossible... but I know one thing. If I were to travel just about anywhere I'd start taking photos. I guess I'm bored by the possibilities in my corner of the Bay Area.
All the best to friends from my past and to the newcomers who joined the party after I departed. These lenses are amazing and they are still worth using... but then you all know that or you wouldn't be on this thread. ...Show more →
Glad to hear you are well Curtis, You were a young 69 when the thread started, I was a kid at 59! how time flies! this thread has added much enjoyment to my life over the years, albeit at a cost! $$$. Call it an investment. My Heirs will benefit as will those who buy the lenses then/
Mary, Ray, and Rafael, thank you for your kind comments on my first set of car photos; and thanks to others for your likes.
Curtis, I'm so glad to see you here and to learn that you are well and still living your best life!
Here is my second set of automobile images from Saturday in Comox, which reflect a twofold theme: they are photos that have been, a) shot from a low angle, and b) processed as monochrome in Silver Efex Pro 3. Please see the captions for the lenses used.
Hello. Long time. I've been consumed with another hobby the last few years plus other commitments. On a lark I stopped by a camera store a few weeks ago and pick up a 35mm f3.5 P.C. that was calling my name. Knowing I was going camping the next week. This shot is from the first use. 8-8-2022111_DxO by ric_hammond, on Flickr
Yes Rafael, I'm lurking. (still here Ray). I would be jealous of your 3,5cm but I have it myself although, needless to add, it is in nowhere near the pristine condition of yours.
Curtis - you really need to drop in more often, it's your parental responsibility. I wrote R5 in short form because I figured everyone knows I use that cam and some people have given me stick about it. Curtis you used to be a Canon shooter. The Canon mirrorless cameras are all called R, like the Nikons are called Z. You've got to be pulling my leg.
It's George and Samy we need to worry about, they're lugging arcane monsters around. But as George's pic shows, there are compensations.
Glen - it's always a pleasure to see the 16mmm fisheye. It's given you perfect little sunstars on both "t"s of Corvette, so perfect they almost look photoshopped.
Ken Hill wrote:
Hey gang reporting in from the UP! Hello Curtis and Ben.
I have a question!!!! My Z6 went with me yesterday to a few sites and I took about 90 pics. All outdoors 75•F without any issue. Last night I attempted to shoot the sunset and my battery was dead. I started the day with a ~94% ~ EN-EL 15B. Thinking the battery went down way too fast I checked the camera and found nothing wrong. Same shot count etc..
Same scenario today and I’m at 77% which is as expected.
Anyway Amazon will deliver me a new battery Friday. Do you think my old one has seen its final days. I’ve never in my years seen a battery go like this. Your ideas welcome.
Go into the Nikon menus and go to the battery info. Compare the status info with the 15c battery that came with the camera.
All you can do is charge it up again. If you often recharge batteries when they are not fully (or near) depleted then they won’t last as long. Lots of ‘top up’ charges are not good for them long term. Another contender is that your 15b is not an original Nikon product. Did it come with a new camera or did you buy it online?
I prefer the color, shows off that smirk just a bit more
Lens Tagger is just for LightRoom? How old a version of LR?
James Markus wrote:
Just noticed this one from when I aimed the giant front element of the 200mm f2.0 ai at Marnie and the look she gave was priceless, and it made me laugh. I'm leaning towards the grayscale, but don't know - like them both. I also want to thank George for the offhand comment about Lens Tagger. You have no idea how many programs I have tried to easily edit exif data for lenses. There are some amazing, and complicated ones out there - this fits my workflow really well.
Check Battery Info in the menu settings with the battery in the camera. It will show you the age, 0-4 with 4 being replace it time.
Ken Hill wrote:
Hey gang reporting in from the UP! Hello Curtis and Ben.
I have a question!!!! My Z6 went with me yesterday to a few sites and I took about 90 pics. All outdoors 75•F without any issue. Last night I attempted to shoot the sunset and my battery was dead. I started the day with a ~94% ~ EN-EL 15B. Thinking the battery went down way too fast I checked the camera and found nothing wrong. Same shot count etc..
Same scenario today and I’m at 77% which is as expected.
Anyway Amazon will deliver me a new battery Friday. Do you think my old one has seen its final days. I’ve never in my years seen a battery go like this. Your ideas welcome.
George, Colin & Laura thank you for the replies and I can only say the battery is a Nikon battery and was in “0” condition and wasn’t in a camera bag, just hanging off a strap. There were no accidental exposures either. I was a bit frustrated since it crashed so quickly hence my post asking if this has happened to anyone else. Thanks again.
mp356 wrote:
Nice picture Ben. You are just rubbing it in by using the 18mm f3.5. Should not have let my copy go.
Scott - you let it go? That was not clever. Still, I can't talk, I sold mine too when I left Australia. I figured that as I had the 20mm f3.5, I didn't really need the 18mm and as I couldn't bring everything...... blah, blah, blah ....I sold it. I so regretted it. I love the 20mm but it's not a substitute for the 18. So 6 months ago I bought another 18mm. I don't use it that often but I love having it and it's wonderful on the R5. Scott, I don't want to sound like Curtis but what can I tell you, I think a purchase is called for. You know what they say, kit building is forever.
Ben
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Have to blame someone besides me, right? 
