Rafael,
Those are so sharp and crisp it is amazing. Your recent purchase got me to dig out my AFS 10.5mm f2.8 DX Fisheye, but I used it on the D7200. Maybe on the D800 or another full frame it will make a circle, but I am certain it can't match your 10mm OP. I guess from your point of view it was well worth the search, and effort to find this gem. And it certainly was worth it to look over your shoulder and share in it's acquisition.
Jim
rafaelcasd wrote:
This will be the last 'test' shots with the 10mm OP.
I can't help being awed by the OP sharpness, contrast and handling of the sun. Lenses like the 2.8cm produce a lot of detail with lower contrast and a pleasing rendition, but nothing like this lens.
This OP helped me understand what people mean by micro contrast, too bad my highest res mirrorless is a Z6.
James Markus wrote:
My first f3.5 55mm micro ai (after getting the f2.8), but before the Nikkor-P.C ai'd 55mm...whew. Yes, I still own all three 55mm's, and I don't know why?
Because all 3 are good lenses. Cool shot. The 55mm f2.8 ais was my first manual focus lens when I came back to using them. As much as I like the 28/2.8 ais and the 50-135mm, I think the 55/2.8 would be the one I'd never get rid of.
Since the thread is slow, I wanted to post a question and I guess can be under the guise of NMFG since it is about storing the images
If anyone is using a Mac/Macbook and using a Thunderbolt/USB-C external drive for storing and managing images, I would be interested in your solution. I have outgrown my internal capacity and looking at options. I will probably shoot for something in the 4TB range total with 2TB mirrored/raid configuration.
PM me if you wish and feel it takes away from the thread, but we have a helpful community here and i value your opinions.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Since the thread is slow, I wanted to post a question and I guess can be under the guise of NMFG since it is about storing the images
If anyone is using a Mac/Macbook and using a Thunderbolt/USB-C external drive for storing and managing images, I would be interested in your solution. I have outgrown my internal capacity and looking at options. I will probably shoot for something in the 4TB range total with 2TB mirrored/raid configuration.
PM me if you wish and feel it takes away from the thread, but we have a helpful community here and i value your opinions.
Hey George, first of all, no problem with posting this question.
Not sure this will help but, this is what I'm doing on my MBP. I have a 2TB Samsung T5 that I store most of my images on. I can also work from this drive with no noticeable slowdown in performance. My Mac has a 1TB internal drive so I only keep the past 2 years of images on it. All previous years go on the Samsung. Both the internal and the external Samsung get backed up onto a 5TB G-Tech drive via Time Machine.
I might have to get a larger Samsung one of these years, but for now, it's big enough. I cull my images really hard.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Since the thread is slow, I wanted to post a question and I guess can be under the guise of NMFG since it is about storing the images
If anyone is using a Mac/Macbook and using a Thunderbolt/USB-C external drive for storing and managing images, I would be interested in your solution. I have outgrown my internal capacity and looking at options. I will probably shoot for something in the 4TB range total with 2TB mirrored/raid configuration.
PM me if you wish and feel it takes away from the thread, but we have a helpful community here and i value your opinions.
leighton w wrote:
Hey George, first of all, no problem with posting this question.
Not sure this will help but, this is what I'm doing on my MBP. I have a 2TB Samsung T5 that I store most of my images on. I can also work from this drive with no noticeable slowdown in performance. My Mac has a 1TB internal drive so I only keep the past 2 years of images on it. All previous years go on the Samsung. Both the internal and the external Samsung get backed up onto a 5TB G-Tech drive via Time Machine.
I might have to get a larger Samsung one of these years, but for now, it's big enough. I cull my images really hard....Show more →
George,
I'm running Windows, but use a setup very similar to Leighton's. I use a Dell laptop with a 1TB NVME M.2 internal drive where I keep my most current work. I also have 2 2TB external drives. Everything that is written to my "Photos" folder on my laptop drive is mirrored to both external drives in real time. In total, I have 3 copies of my most recent work, but still have copies of all work on my external drives after I remove photos from my laptop's internal drive. I hope that makes sense.
George,
I built my own cat 5 network decades ago. The current config is a mini (about the size of a thick book) quad core PC by Shuttle running a linux based media server called OpenELEC (64-bit Generic Build Disk Image using Kodi as it's desktop OS) v8.0.4 that hasn't been updated in years. A full install is 90-125mb on an SSD drive that shares files via Samba. The Shuttle mini PC has v3 usb ports with various sized external drives plugged into the ports - a second set of external drives is synced about twice per year as backup and then stored in another locale. I also have a 2-bay Synology NAS which has a simple mirror raid array. The NAS could allow access to files from anywhere on the planet, but I have always disabled this feature even in my previous NAS - simply because I don't trust it. I use to burn optical DVD backups at 4.3GB per disk, and then Blu-ray at 24.3GB per disk (single layer). I lost track of the number of disk wallets I own, but I have had to go back innumerable times to fetch raw files. Only a couple disks have gone bad since the early 1990s. It may be overkill, but I have lost very few images.
Hope that gives you some ideas
Jim
GeorgeBo wrote:
Since the thread is slow, I wanted to post a question and I guess can be under the guise of NMFG since it is about storing the images
If anyone is using a Mac/Macbook and using a Thunderbolt/USB-C external drive for storing and managing images, I would be interested in your solution. I have outgrown my internal capacity and looking at options. I will probably shoot for something in the 4TB range total with 2TB mirrored/raid configuration.
PM me if you wish and feel it takes away from the thread, but we have a helpful community here and i value your opinions.
I’m using a 2021 MBP M1 Max, 32Gb memory and 1Tb SSD. I have 2 27” screens connected to the MBP
The images from the current year are on the MBP.
All my images are stored on a 4TB Corsair SSD in an Acasia Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. Read/Wright speeds are about 2600/2000Mbs.
I use this setup from the beginning of this year and so far no problems. 😊
After every major editing session I backup the MBP SSD to the external SSD. Together with the LightRoom Catalog.
Every month or so I backup the external SSD to a HDD (2x6Tb) using FolderSynchronizer. 1 HDD is at my sons house.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Since the thread is slow, I wanted to post a question and I guess can be under the guise of NMFG since it is about storing the images
If anyone is using a Mac/Macbook and using a Thunderbolt/USB-C external drive for storing and managing images, I would be interested in your solution. I have outgrown my internal capacity and looking at options. I will probably shoot for something in the 4TB range total with 2TB mirrored/raid configuration.
PM me if you wish and feel it takes away from the thread, but we have a helpful community here and i value your opinions.
Leighton you are right on the reason to keeping the 55mm f3.5 ai - look at this 100 percent view of the upper right-hand fuzzy flower thing-a-ma-bob in the last post. I never noticed barbs on those white fluffy threads before.
Chris Dees wrote:
I’m using a 2021 MBP M1 Max, 32Gb memory and 1Tb SSD. I have 2 27” screens connected to the MBP
The images from the current year are on the MBP.
All my images are stored on a 4TB Corsair SSD in an Acasia Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. Read/Wright speeds are about 2600/2000Mbs.
I use this setup from the beginning of this year and so far no problems. 😊
After every major editing session I backup the MBP SSD to the external SSD. Together with the LightRoom Catalog.
Every month or so I backup the external SSD to a HDD (2x6Tb) using FolderSynchronizer. 1 HDD is at my sons house.
Hi Chris, I like your idea of using the 4TB Corsair SSD in an Acasia Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. I may look at that option. Am I to assume you don't use Time Machine?
James Markus wrote:
Leighton you are right on the reason to keeping the 55mm f3.5 ai - look at this 100 pervent view of the upper right-hand fuzzy flower thing-a-ma-bob in the last post. I never noticed barbs on those white fluffy threads before.
It’s not the cheapest option, but very fast.
I do use time machine, but not for images (on the SSD) and documents (in the cloud).
leighton w wrote:
Hi Chris, I like your idea of using the 4TB Corsair SSD in an Acasia Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. I may look at that option. Am I to assume you don't use Time Machine?
Great feedback folks. Thanks! It is one thing I keep planing to do, but then a lens or camera comes along and takes my disposable funds. But now it is reached the pain point where I have to do something.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Great feedback folks. Thanks! It is one thing I keep planing to do, but then a lens or camera comes along and takes my disposable funds. But now it is reached the pain point where I have to do something.
Or... you could just buy another Macbook with a larger ssd.
I was at the Apple store in Richmond a few weeks ago and my wallet almost jumped out of my pocket when I was looking and the Macbooks!
GroWeb wrote:
Here are a couple of regular (i.e. non-IR) black and white shots from the 50 f/1.2 Ai-s and the 35 f/1.4 Ai-s to keep things rollin' along.
That second shot, for me, is fantastic Love the smooth silver tonality and simplicity.
It's price has been a mental thing. How can a $40 lens be so good? More from the 55mm f3.5 AI initial assessment. I've reached acceptance now - cheap can be very good, but it took me over five years to get here. D300 on the gear, D800 on the feather.
James Markus wrote:
It's price has been a mental thing. How can a $40 lens be so good? More from the 55mm f3.5 AI initial assessment. I've reached acceptance now - cheap can be very good, but it took me over five years to get here. D300 on the gear, D800 on the feather.
