AdaptedLenses wrote:
I hit the NC beach this morning for 5 min too. The Pelicans were quiet but it is fun and relaxing to watch them go by. They never seem to run out. Watching them dive to eat is pretty cool too. Few B&W from this morning, Z6II w/ 105/1.8. 105 made me want an 85…
PS, someone please buy that Df before I do something I shouldn’t.
I'd be shocked if we don't talk you into buying it yourself. Now is the best time to buy a Df. I still won't mind a black one for the AI/AIS and AF-D lenses. I missed out on one. Oh, before I forget, Buy it!
leighton w wrote:
You know when you get a new toy, you want to play with all the time? Well, I'm playing with On1 now. This is a neighbor down the hill. This house was built in the early 1800s.
James, very glad to hear that your health is on the mend and your activities are returning to normal.
A couple more from The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon. It was my favorite area of the city with its awesome views and architecture.
leighton w wrote:
You know when you get a new toy, you want to play with all the time? Well, I'm playing with On1 now. This is a neighbor down the hill. This house was built in the early 1800s.
DeltaSigma wrote:
We decided on St. Anton in Austria this year. Been a long time since we were last there.
Hoping the weather holds fair and the connecting runs will be open to allow us to circumnavigate the St.Anton-Zurs-Lech-Zurs-St.Anton loop.
I ordered the 24-120 f/4 S. The deal was too good to pass up.
Colin
Colin, you will get a lot of use out of this lens! Have fun on the trip!
Colin, Scott, if I recall correctly when you do get out of the photo blahs the results are great. Hang tight.
Colin, I know we are MF aficionados here, but the 24-120Z is incredible.
James, good to hear you are coming out of your health slowdown and getting better. Our bodies are a combination of miraculous and confounding at the same time.
Laura, the work you are putting in for your health will pay off!
Whoever is looking at the Df, and additional lenses, BUY IT. There, fulfilled my duty to this group for the week. Feels good.
Samy, I really like how yo framed up the trees and path at the Elizabethan Gardens .
Looks like you'll get along just fine with On1 Leighton. That B&W of your neighbor down the hill is top rate.
pbraymond wrote:
Colin, Scott, if I recall correctly when you do get out of the photo blahs the results are great. Hang tight.
Colin, I know we are MF aficionados here, but the 24-120Z is incredible.
James, good to hear you are coming out of your health slowdown and getting better. Our bodies are a combination of miraculous and confounding at the same time.
Laura, the work you are putting in for your health will pay off!
Whoever is looking at the Df, and additional lenses, BUY IT. There, fulfilled my duty to this group for the week. Feels good.
Samy, I really like how yo framed up the trees and path at the Elizabethan Gardens .
Looks like you'll get along just fine with On1 Leighton. That B&W of your neighbor down the hill is top rate.
Took a quick walk in the park with my wife, before the single digit highs hit. We had a good snow yesterday but alas followed by rain, which took all the beautiful snow off the trees before I could get out. 25-50 f4 AIS. A zoom is invaluable when it gets cold outside and my fingers don't work well.
leighton w wrote:
You know when you get a new toy, you want to play with it all the time? Well, I'm playing with On1 now. This is a neighbor down the hill. This house was built in the early 1800s.
I finally ordered a replacement 28mm PC lens last night. Mint example from a Japanese seller.
Truly a difficult operation, changing address and payment method from Australian to NZ in ebay (even then I had to pay in Aussie dollars) and then find a seller who was prepared to post to NZ (a lot of them don't/ won't for some reason).
Anyway, it's done, my postal address is my work in Queenstown. No more blurry right hand sides of every pic ! Panos won't have blurry patches in random places !
pbraymond wrote:
Took a quick walk in the park with my wife, before the single digit highs hit. We had a good snow yesterday but alas followed by rain, which took all the beautiful snow off the trees before I could get out. 25-50 f4 AIS. A zoom is invaluable when it gets cold outside and my fingers don't work well.
spoupard wrote:
Hang in there with On1. It took me a little while to warm up to it, but I really like it now. It can do pretty much anything well.
leighton w wrote:
You know when you get a new toy, you want to play with it all the time? Well, I'm playing with On1 now. This is a neighbor down the hill. This house was built in the early 1800s.
Your experience and results are very encouraging to me, Scott and Leighton. I own On1 PhotoRaw 2024, but I've been using it very little because its user interface and way of working are so different from Lightroom, DxO PhotoLab, and even Photoshop, all of which are quite similar to each other. However, at least one knowledgeable infrared photographer---Rob Shea, who has made videos about using pretty much every photo processing app on the market for IR---appears to prefer PhotoRaw over PhotoLab for processing his IR images, so I would like to be able to bring it into my workflow. Your experience with it makes me think I should devote a bit of time to learning how the program works. As it happens, I am awaiting delivery of a rather powerful photo processing computer, on which all of these programs should work at their optimum level of functionality, especially those like PhotoRaw that make use of a lot of AI technology.
While I await that exciting addition to my photographic life, here are a few more infrared images from my D7200 with the 55 f/2.8 Micro Ai-s at Forbidden Plateau.
leighton w wrote:
I quite liked LR when I had it. But I HATE the subscription model. If they went back to a stand alone version again, I'd probably go back.
I dislike the subscription model too. I still have LR5 installed! But, I finally gave in after I evaluated my string of upgrades through LR5, and then looking at the pricing options and upgrades of some of the competitors back then that were still on perpetual license. I determined that for me, while the subscription model was still a higher cost, I upgraded software just often enough that the price difference was worth it to me. For now anyway, who knows when the LR subscription price will go up and by how much.
I am pretty certain after reading about Adobe's record profits of late that they will not be going back to perpetual licensing.
And thanks!
