Good luck on your kit reboot. Kit building is forever right?
A friend of mine wanted to see what it was like to shoot a monochrome camera so we swapped for a couple weeks.
Now if the Zfc could get the Z7II sensor and IBIS then we would be talking some kit building with me Or better yet a Df/F3 F mount body with those mirrorless features. But that F mount train has left the station for good
George
Cool. Interesting take on the looks of the Z. With just Z5 and Z50, I have not given them that kind of assessment. I know I like the Z50 more now. Perhaps because besides the Z 28mm, I haven't found a lens that makes me want to always reach for the Z5. It has very stiff competition with the Df. If the FT-Z was more useful with Exif, it would be a different story because IBIS and manual focusing is so much easier with it. The Df just feels more complete.
Regarding the flip out screen, they would have dropped the ball if it were to snap out of the camera. I have owned the D5500 for six years and before then the D5100, the things don't break. In fact, it's the thing I miss the most on the Z cameras. Many times I have put the camera in portrait orientation and realised the LCD screen can only do the open door position. Had me seriously considering the Zf-c until I remembered it has no grip. My spot in the Nikon mirrorless segment is still not well catered for. Hence the DSLRs are still quite compelling.
Auckland Skyline. I was passing and had already missed the gate for my campsite (within NP beach reserve so they close the gates at 8pm! Meant parking the car and walking 10 mins with all my camera gear).
Sunset at Piha Beach (West Coast of N.Island about an hour from Auckland, just down the coast from Muriwai Gannet colony)
8 minute exposure !
I met the builder of the beach shelter in the right of shot, young lad and his dad who runs the nearby Surf Club. Said he made it 4 months earlier. I commented that where I'm from someone would have set it on fire within 3 minutes ! I was actually hoping the setting sun would make it look like a fire but it wasn't to be.
The Gap. No sunset this time. I actually saw a Fur seal lying on the beach here during the day. I asked passing locals if it was OK and they replied "yeah it's fine, just having a rest" Sure enough the next day it was gone.
cadman342001 wrote:
Auckland Skyline. I was passing and had already missed the gate for my campsite (within NP beach reserve so they close the gates at 8pm! Meant parking the car and walking 10 mins with all my camera gear).
Sunset at Piha Beach (West Coast of N.Island about an hour from Auckland, just down the coast from Muriwai Gannet colony)
8 minute exposure !
I met the builder of the beach shelter in the right of shot, young lad and his dad who runs the nearby Surf Club. Said he made it 4 months earlier. I commented that where I'm from someone would have set it on fire within 3 minutes ! I was actually hoping the setting sun would make it look like a fire but it wasn't to be.
The Gap. No sunset this time. I actually saw a Fur seal lying on the beach here during the day. I asked passing locals if it was OK and they replied "yeah it's fine, just having a rest" Sure enough the next day it was gone.
cadman342001 wrote:
Auckland Skyline. I was passing and had already missed the gate for my campsite (within NP beach reserve so they close the gates at 8pm! Meant parking the car and walking 10 mins with all my camera gear).
GFX + 105/2.5 P.C.
Sunset at Piha Beach (West Coast of N.Island about an hour from Auckland, just down the coast from Muriwai Gannet colony)
8 minute exposure !
I met the builder of the beach shelter in the right of shot, young lad and his dad who runs the nearby Surf Club. Said he made it 4 months earlier. I commented that where I'm from someone would have set it on fire within 3 minutes ! I was actually hoping the setting sun would make it look like a fire but it wasn't to be.
The Gap. No sunset this time. I actually saw a Fur seal lying on the beach here during the day. I asked passing locals if it was OK and they replied "yeah it's fine, just having a rest" Sure enough the next day it was gone.
I could live there ! Bay of Islands.
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Those are all great shots, Andy, but I especially like the brooding monochrome; too bad the fur seal didn't stick around to add a bit of glamour!
I'm enjoying the discussion of kit building, as it is a process that does, indeed, seem to go on forever (as Curtis used to like to point out periodically), and it is a process that has intensified for me lately. Buying an X-T4, converting my X-T2 to infrared, selling off a pile of gear I no longer use (my listing of the remaining items I'm selling is here, in case any of you kit-builders might be interested) and, most recently, buying an 18mm f/3.5 Ai-s, has all occurred over a period of a couple of months. And I'm thinking of thinning out my MFNG collection slightly in the near future. Now that the clutter has been cleared out of my gear cupboard, I've been looking at my trusty old D800E with new eyes (I even ordered an L-bracket as a renewal-of-relationship gift for my old friend ). I know it well, and it pairs so nicely with most of my MFN lenses---especially the big ones, like the 200 f/2 and the 24 PC-E---that I've been thinking up ways that I can bring it back into my active gear rotation.
In the meantime, while I figure all of that out, I'm continuing to have a barrel of fun with my Fujis and MFNG. Here are a few abstract photos from the X-T4 together with the 35 f/1.4 Ai-s (first and third images) and the 50 f/1.2 Ai-s (second and fourth images).
cadman342001 wrote:
Auckland Skyline. I was passing and had already missed the gate for my campsite (within NP beach reserve so they close the gates at 8pm! Meant parking the car and walking 10 mins with all my camera gear).
Sunset at Piha Beach (West Coast of N.Island about an hour from Auckland, just down the coast from Muriwai Gannet colony)
8 minute exposure !
I met the builder of the beach shelter in the right of shot, young lad and his dad who runs the nearby Surf Club. Said he made it 4 months earlier. I commented that where I'm from someone would have set it on fire within 3 minutes ! I was actually hoping the setting sun would make it look like a fire but it wasn't to be.
The Gap. No sunset this time. I actually saw a Fur seal lying on the beach here during the day. I asked passing locals if it was OK and they replied "yeah it's fine, just having a rest" Sure enough the next day it was gone.
Yes! For $89 I’d likely preorder it if they made one. After all, asking for a lot less than the Leica M one you referenced, just recording focal length and aperture setting. Unlike a lot of folks I don’t have a personal need to see the screw drive AF coupling on such a device.
GeorgeBo wrote:
You mean like this one for Leica M lenses to Nikon Z for $90?
How about some from Hobbiton ? Any LoTR fans here?
Let's start with view from the little farm stay nearby. Had a nice evening sharing a bottle of red and chatting to my next door neighbour for the night, a 23 year old girl from Bordeaux who is taking 12 months to walk from the top of the N.Island to the bottom of the S.Island on her own !
I'm a shy person but when travelling try and make myself talk to people, which I thoroughly enjoy and makes travelling on my own much nicer, meeting people from all over the World.
This was the view during the Golden Hour before sunset.
cadman342001 wrote:
How about some from Hobbiton ? Any LoTR fans here?
Let's start with view from the little farm stay nearby. Had a nice evening sharing a bottle of red and chatting to my next door neighbour for the night, a 23 year old girl from Bordeaux who is taking 12 months to walk from the top of the N.Island to the bottom of the S.Island on her own !
I'm a shy person but when travelling try and make myself talk to people, which I thoroughly enjoy and makes travelling on my own much nicer, meeting people from all over the World.
This was the view during the Golden Hour before sunset.
cadman342001 wrote:
How about some from Hobbiton ? Any LoTR fans here?
Let's start with view from the little farm stay nearby. Had a nice evening sharing a bottle of red and chatting to my next door neighbour for the night, a 23 year old girl from Bordeaux who is taking 12 months to walk from the top of the N.Island to the bottom of the S.Island on her own !
I'm a shy person but when travelling try and make myself talk to people, which I thoroughly enjoy and makes travelling on my own much nicer, meeting people from all over the World.
This was the view during the Golden Hour before sunset.
Thanks Andy. I read the books about 40 years ago - so I'm a fan.
cadman342001 wrote:
How about some from Hobbiton ? Any LoTR fans here?
Let's start with view from the little farm stay nearby. Had a nice evening sharing a bottle of red and chatting to my next door neighbour for the night, a 23 year old girl from Bordeaux who is taking 12 months to walk from the top of the N.Island to the bottom of the S.Island on her own !
I'm a shy person but when travelling try and make myself talk to people, which I thoroughly enjoy and makes travelling on my own much nicer, meeting people from all over the World.
This was the view during the Golden Hour before sunset.
Very cool, was just watching Rings of Power and thinking I needed to reread The Silmarrilion
cadman342001 wrote:
How about some from Hobbiton ? Any LoTR fans here?
Let's start with view from the little farm stay nearby. Had a nice evening sharing a bottle of red and chatting to my next door neighbour for the night, a 23 year old girl from Bordeaux who is taking 12 months to walk from the top of the N.Island to the bottom of the S.Island on her own !
I'm a shy person but when travelling try and make myself talk to people, which I thoroughly enjoy and makes travelling on my own much nicer, meeting people from all over the World.
This was the view during the Golden Hour before sunset.
A couple more showing the subtle detail of the 2.8cm RF lens. A lens from 1952.
Something about its rendering that makes you feel you are inside the image.
Today I was looking for details. D800 tc-16a and the 200mm f4 ais micro. Also brought the D7200 tc-16a and 55mm f3.5 ai micro, but will posts those after imaging them. I shot with neoprene gloves on (about 48 F), and it slowed me down a bit. Here are some from the D800 combo.
My wife and I ate a bite each of the mini (large marble size) apple looking fruit in that last photo. It tasted just like a yellow delicious apple. Then we both realized..."why hadn't the animals, bugs and birds eaten any?" The large tree was spade shaped 20-25' high with hundreds of branches all just loaded with fruit. Nearby, we found another tree loaded with red fruit.
Or better yet a Df/F3 F mount body with those mirrorless features. But that F mount train has left the station for good 
). I know it well, and it pairs so nicely with most of my MFN lenses---especially the big ones, like the 200 f/2 and the 24 PC-E---that I've been thinking up ways that I can bring it back into my active gear rotation.
