GroWeb wrote:
As Regina keeps bringing on the flowers, I'll keep bringing on the cars. Here are some of the infrared photos from my first outing with the newly converted D7200 with a 720nM filter. All were taken with the 18 f/3.5 Ai-s, which was also being put to its first use by me.
Looking at this set I can't help but remember the two sliver 1965 Corvettes I owned along the way.... the first a roadster with hardtop, the second a fastback with gorgeous aluminum wheels. I'd previously owned a 1955 Chevy Bel-Aire coupe and a 1956 Corvette. You could say I was smitten with those early cars.... hence my appreciation when anyone posts photos of cars from that era. Thanks Glen.
A couple of photos from a ramble through the neighborhood a couple of days ago. I'm still getting my bearing and brief walks are helping. Nothing special about these, but at LEAST I picked up a camera... mounted a lens and turned the focusing ring. Nice to hang out with friends who understand what that is all about...
I love shooting with a 135mm lens and Nikon did a great job producing many fine lenses at that focal length... RIGHT Andy? Love that first shot with the f/2... a big, beautiful lens that is a handful...
CGrindahl wrote:
In browsing I noted reference to you journey Rafael. Stuff around our eyes is scary. I'm glad you're recovering from cataract surgery. When I had my eyes examined earlier this year... for the first time in my life so far as I can remember, they mentioned evidence of cataracts, though in such an early stage they are simply tracking it. I was disturbed simply by the fact I need to wear glasses for distance after a lifetime without glasses. This wasn't taken with a manual focus lens, but I'll share it nonetheless... me in the optical department of my HMO trying on the glasses I ultimately chose... though with a rectangular rather than round lens. Blessedly, I can still get focus with the green light in the viewfinder so I'm not wearing glasses when shooting. I imagine you're thrilled to have gained perfect vision as a result of your surgery. You NEED to be able to turn that focusing ring with all the gorgeous lenses in your collection.
SiMuMe wrote:
Also, I didn't know you had a D850 too.
Another recent addition ! It was a cheap buy with a shutter count of 172K !
I sold my Z6 II (that I wasn't using) and bought the D850 plus a used 200-500 for AF captures of birds and wildlife in NZ (with the battery grip and EL-EN18 battery for 8 FPS in DX mode) and of course the MF nikkors that don't cover all of the GFX medium format sensor and I do still have a 24-70, 85/1.4 and 105 VR macro AF lenses I can use on it.
It's also useful for astrophotography with the Rokinon 14/2.8.
It's the 2nd D850 I've had, great 2 in 1 camera. Probably the best dslr Nikon ever made.
I tell you what though, I do miss the WYSIWYG of the Z6 II screen/EVF. Back to chimping !
CGrindahl wrote:
Deja vu all over again as Yogi Berra might have said. I love Siena. You remind me of my visit...
In 1975 before a few of you arrived on the scene I spent a month on my own in Italy... with a Nikkormat and a couple of Soligor lenses. On a train to Florence I met a couple of college students who were spending time studying abroad. They invited me to stay at their apartment that evening to give me a bit of time to find a place for myself. It turned out quite a few of the students in Florence were from California. That evening we all went out for pizza and wine. I found a pensione for $3 a night and stayed for three weeks. Needless to say I LOVED Florence.
I took a day trip to Siena and San Gimignano. In Sienna I met an American student from NYU who was living with an Italian family that didn't speak English. I had to shake my head. The kids from California where hanging out with one another eating pizza, drinking wine but far removed from what this young woman from New York was experiencing.
I love Italy and Italians. Thanks for the photos you are sharing with us... ...Show more →
Hi, Curtis:
It sounds like you had a lot of fun on your Italian adventure I have also met quite a few folks in Italy and have made great Italian friends. The latter we met through a cooking class in Florence they hosted and they are always fantastic. When they prepare a four course meal, the same number of bottles of wine are selected that compliment each dish, amazing.
Siena is a great but Florence is a beautiful and very special, my favorite city. In the past few years all the monuments have been refurbished and look like the day they were completed. Santa Maria del Fiore remains a work in progress but it is getting there.I have some photos coming that need to get around to processing.
You have me beat on your $3/night pensione deal. The lowest I have managed to spend is $6 during a time when the budget was super tight, the place was interesting to say the least.
A trek from Piazza del Campo to the highest point of the city is Siena Cathedral. Every great Italian architect, sculptor and painter of the time contributed to the completion of this masterpiece. A project to double the size of the Cathedral was begum around 1339 but arrival of the Plague halted all progress in 1348, the work never resumed.
The Cathedral is best known for the 56 panels on inlaid mosaics which cover the majority of its marble floor. At the main entrance:
This is part of the aftermath in the garden. Notice the holes in the leaves and the broken branches. A few years ago, this would have made me sick because of trying to make a living raising vegetables.
This is part of the aftermath in the garden. Notice the holes in the leaves and the broken branches. A few years ago, this would have made me sick because of trying to make a living raising vegetables.
Thanks, Serge. I loved your pictures from Italy. It has been a while since I went to Italy. For sure, I want to go back. I love the people and the food.
CGrindahl wrote:
In browsing I noted reference to you journey Rafael. Stuff around our eyes is scary. I'm glad you're recovering from cataract surgery. When I had my eyes examined earlier this year... for the first time in my life so far as I can remember, they mentioned evidence of cataracts, though in such an early stage they are simply tracking it. I was disturbed simply by the fact I need to wear glasses for distance after a lifetime without glasses. This wasn't taken with a manual focus lens, but I'll share it nonetheless... me in the optical department of my HMO trying on the glasses I ultimately chose... though with a rectangular rather than round lens. Blessedly, I can still get focus with the green light in the viewfinder so I'm not wearing glasses when shooting. I imagine you're thrilled to have gained perfect vision as a result of your surgery. You NEED to be able to turn that focusing ring with all the gorgeous lenses in your collection.
Thank you Curtis, It seems when all the healing is done, my vision will be quite OK, it takes a long time for the tissues in the eye to settle after surgey, vision is great one day, not so much the other and it is too early to get prescription glasses.
Even now I am able to much better see the viewfinder and focus more accurately.
Here is my old 9ft headboard, reminiscent of my surfing days. The home armory hangs from it.
With the 5cm 3.5 Reproduction-Nikkor, R-Nikkor. but at high ISO handheld. This lens really needs a shade when used outside. Anyone have a spare 5cm 3.5 34.5mm thread Nikkor or Nicca shade?
Happy for you Colin. I did not go to the dark side - I added to my already existing win/linux/mac collection.
mini mac update
I have a couple more ideas to try, and if they don't work I am ready to give up the notion of Lr on a mac. There are other M1 and M2 owners with better specs that are having the same problems I have. Some are my fault,but I have had some weird updates from Apple and Adobe. My 381k photo database is almost 1.2TB, and the database files are hidden. 575k win10 photo database is 230gb. I suggest anyone getting Lr to turn off face recognition, and set your "standard" previews to 1440 pixels on the long edge. By default they use your computer screen resolution for preview size, and the face recognition is on.
Topaz software runs great on the mini as a stand-alone or as a Ps plugin. Of course the ideas required more purchases. grrrr
DeltaSigma wrote:
Hi All,
Thought I'd throw in some info into the Mac Mini / Studio versus PC and Lightroom's ability to denoise images.
With my meagre i5, 7600K, 4 core processor, 32GB dram and a 4GB,GTX 1050 ti graphics card denoise was taking just over 4 mins whilst number crunching Z6ii and D610 ISO3200 sensor images.
I was nearly tempted to move over the the dark side and get a Mac Studio but did some reading on the topic. In the end I bought a RTX 3060 graphics card with 12GB memory.
I just plugged it in an re-ran denoise on the same set of images.
Times are now in the 10sec to 16sec range. I am really pleased with the improvement.
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