I have the original 50-300 (my dad's) not converted, an AI, and the AI-s
SiMuMe wrote:
I love the grip on that for sale Df.
Just missed a 180mm locally. Must be only the second time I have seen one for sale in three years. The first one was pristine, but with a pristine price too. Back then I had the AF-D and thought no ways. This one just went too quick. Now there are two 50-300 f/4.5, one ED, one Auto. ED is a bit beat up, auto's been converted to AI. Decisions.
Because I intend to keep and use it ten years, I ordered the Mac Studio with 32gb ram and 512gb ssd. I just opened a card with the bx, so I get 10% off my first order, plus no interest for 18 months, and no sales tax. Not a bad deal
I'll have to invest in external drives for sure.When I take my trip to Ireland next year, I plan on beaucoup photos. This windows 7 laptop has served me well since March of 2012 but it is showing its age.
James Markus wrote:
3rd try the charm?
Thank you Leighton for the wonderful compliment. concerning ram - here are my thoughts
Though Apple likes to call their new hardware SOC (System On a Chip) it actually is a "System on a package". The memory is a seperate part of a pre-configured package, is not "unified", is on a fast BUS, and can not be changed. You have to order the size configuration you want. That aside, I doubt it is the bottle-neck. Something I have noticed is that the longer Lr runs on mac - the more memory it takes. That is a memory leak by either the OS memory handling, or Adobe's code.
I did what Kevin suggested, and I got a warning notification that disabling the "auto" gpu usage would have negative performance results. It did. However, it managed to import a 14k photo folder without crashing. I know of two bottle-necks. I'm doing this through wifi, and a cat5 cable would be way faster. The other potential factor is I am letting face recognition run concurrently with the imports. I have machines with 64gb, 32gb. 16gb, and 8gb of RAM. Almost always. when you go beyond 16gb - scheduling actually slows things down.
I'm still chuffed about the base mini. It is more computer than 99% of the world needs. Certainly more than any photographer needs. Of course, there are always people that have to have the biggest, fastest, newest thing out there.
James Markus wrote:
Yesterday, my less than two year old grandson didn't get the snack he wanted. He sat down at our kitchen computer - grabbed the mouse - and tattled on me to his mother (he thought it was a phone).
It's blurry, but a memory now. D850 with the Nikon 24mm f2.8 air & the TC-16a
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Mention of the 50-300 made me go hunt for the pictures I took of my dad's gear. He sent it to me and I've kept it in the case he had it all in.
Such a cool set! Have you used the 50-300 on your D850? I'm always very curious about how it performs on a DSLR.
pbraymond wrote:
"All the better to create a serious upcharge for RAM increases, my dear" said the wolf. That's probably the biggest beef I have with Apple, the base systems seem fairly competitive, but go beyond 8GB RAM or scale up the storage and you're into upper crust pricing.
Continuing to embrace the lens' characters, a couple with the 50 f1.4 AI on tubes.
That is why I bought through the Apple refurb store.
My dad's lens won't work as it isn't converted. I just got the D850 so no, haven't tried either of the newer ones on it yet. I have a vacation scheduled to take in October, but it's also the same time another guy is having hip replacement surgery... and there's only two of us that cover a lot of the back end things in the office. I may just alternate days off that week. If I let the work pile up, it will be awful when I get back.
ocean2059 wrote:
Such a cool set! Have you used the 50-300 on your D850? I'm always very curious about how it performs on a DSLR.
That's on one of my PCs - a Dell mid tower that I got coming off lease for almost nothing, and max'd out spec-wise. The mini is sporting an ebay special $20 wireless Logitech keyboard/mouse. All I have to do is pull the dongle out of the mini and plug it into the Shuttle Win10/UbuntuMATE book PC - which shares the same TV as the mini.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Mention of the 50-300 made me go hunt for the pictures I took of my dad's gear. He sent it to me and I've kept it in the case he had it all in.
I really like these patterned Nikon lens caps like this, or the ones with the little chromed buttons. 5DS-R with the Nikkor 105mm f4 ais micro and a 10mm extension tube. Topaz deNoise took 11 seconds on the 10 year old PC, and the Mac mini was the same - In Photoshop using Topaz.
I also temporarily hooked up a cat5 cable to the Mac and it is noticably faster. I never intended to end up editing photos on this mini with a TV as a monitor. I was looking to do some analog/digital capture and edits of video. Now, I sit here with shiny new copies of Lr and Ps. Another 5 port switch and two cat5 cables are on their way from ebay. Geesh.
The PC & Mac took 1 second for the Topaz dialog box to appear in Ps. Two versions of Photoshop, but same version of deNoise
In Lr (on Mac) the dialog box took about 5 seconds to appear, and about 3 minutes to apply the filter
Congrats on the awesome new computer. I'm sure it will last more than 10 years!
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Because I intend to keep and use it ten years, I ordered the Mac Studio with 32gb ram and 512gb ssd. I just opened a card with the bx, so I get 10% off my first order, plus no interest for 18 months, and no sales tax. Not a bad deal
I'll have to invest in external drives for sure.When I take my trip to Ireland next year, I plan on beaucoup photos. This windows 7 laptop has served me well since March of 2012 but it is showing its age.
I did miss quite a few shots which was to be expected. Auto focus would have been much better and a heck of a lot easier on the eyes.
You must have an endless supply of classic vehicles to photograph. Keep them coming, I very much enjoy your work.
Serge
Thanks, Serge. There do seem to be a lot of classic car shows in the summer here on Vancouver Island, with a large number and a wide variety of cars, yet very few repeat appearances of individual vehicles. This definitely makes for a rich source of photographs!
Here are a few more visible spectrum shots from Coombs, taken with the 24 f/2.8 NC (first two) and the 5.8 f/1.4 S (third one).
SiMuMe wrote:
This is great, Serge, and with a lens you rarely use.
Thank you, Siphiwe.
I do use them but since I have all four of the 50/2 series, you may not notice. There is something about the H.C version that is special in my view. It is an excellent lens that can be purchased for very little money. A couple of years back they were practically giving them away.
I would love to give the little Nikkor a spin with your DF.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Mention of the 50-300 made me go hunt for the pictures I took of my dad's gear. He sent it to me and I've kept it in the case he had it all in.
Serious gear that your Dad had. You're lucky. I started reading up on the thing and at > 2kg, I wimped out. It will not see much use.
I had fun when I rented a 200-400 f/4 for an airshow. Not much time to get used to it, and I would lift it up, follow the plane, set it down again till the next pass. I've gotten stronger and more core strength, and try to find something to prop against if I can.
SiMuMe wrote:
Serious gear that your Dad had. You're lucky. I started reading up on the thing and at > 2kg, I wimped out. It will not see much use.
After months of sweltering, it finally cooled off enough (101 °F) that we could go out to a state park this evening without melting. I went to take a picture of several of some of the crew in purple shirts next to the Leavenworth’s Eryngo that are in full bloom on the otherwise dried out prairie and we came around the corner and startled a whitetail doe and her two fawns. Alas that I wasn't set to ISO 1600 and maybe with the 105/2.5 on the camera instead of the 50/1.2. I still managed a few really good quick grabs of a very fun and fleeting experience.
