Worn but fully functional WITH a manual focusing screen for $850! Come one people, save me!
SiMuMe wrote:
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!
Here is a little infrared confection for your weekend entertainment, which resulted from playing around like an undisciplined child (something my wife says I'm very good at ) in DxO PhotoLab 7, then adding a frame in On1 PhotoRaw 2024. I have posted this image previously, in a much less flamboyant form. It was shot with my 720nM D7200 and the 20 f/2.8 Ai-s at Forbidden Plateau.
Been organizing like a madman, and came across a partial pack of color gels, linen paper, and two of my mini led light panels. "Red to Blue" was the result.
Hmm. What IS this DC-3 aircraft doing here? Ferrymead again.
The clue is that Ferrymead is near Christchurch. Christchurch in case you don't know is the location of the American Antarctic Centre for Exploration and that this plane has skis fitted as it was used to fly back and forth from New Zealand to the Antarctic with supplies.
These days they have a Hercules transport plane that is regularly seen flying in and out from Christchurch (my company always has the branch right next to the airport)
GroWeb wrote:
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....Show more →
Just like anything else, once you get past the learning curve it's fine. I am liking the challenge of learning something new. But you're right, It's a lot different than LR.
pbraymond wrote:
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....Show more →
Yea, I think you're right, I don't see Adobe going back to a perpetual licensing model either. I also keep waiting for them to raise the price. Greed always seems to win out in the end, just look at the streaming companies. Most of them have raised prices in the past year.
GroWeb wrote:
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....Show more →
Beautiful red on white shot Scott.
Leighton, I can relate some. We woke up to 1 degree this morning.
Andy, congrats on the new 28mm PC. Looks like a great sample.
It's supposed to be some powdery snow later this week, with gusting winds. May make for some interesting ground level shots. Let's see how I really feel looking at it from inside the warmth of our home....
James Markus wrote:
Glen, these are suberb! An IR D7200, is that new?
Thanks for your kind words, Jim. I got the D7200 converted last summer. I had the unconverted camera sitting in my cupboard, going unused and looking plaintively at me whenever I went to take gear out. The selling price for the D7200 had gone so low that I didn't want to virtually give away such a great camera, and I didn't know anyone I wanted to just give it to. So I decided it would be nice to have a 720nM DSLR to go with my 590nM Fuji X-T2. As a result, I now have more photographic options instead of an unused camera. It also inspired me to bring my glorious D800E back into the rotation. Now with the X-T4 also available, I can mix and match the DSLR experience---which, as you know, is uniquely enjoyable---with the mirrorless experience.
Now, since I still have quite a few images left from the fall, and as Scott's winter berries, Leighton's birdhouse, and Ray's frosty forest scene have evoked shivering coldness in me (to go with the "Arctic vortex" outside ), here are a few more photos from a warmer time. These are some forest still-lifes from Big Qualicum River on October 1, 2023. They were taken with the 135 f/3.5 QC (first three) and the 35 f/2 OC (last one) mounted on the Fuji X-T4 and Lens Turbo II.
) in DxO PhotoLab 7, then adding a frame in On1 PhotoRaw 2024. I have posted this image previously, in a much less flamboyant form. It was shot with my 720nM D7200 and the 20 f/2.8 Ai-s at Forbidden Plateau.
28mm f2.8 ais.
), here are a few more photos from a warmer time. These are some forest still-lifes from Big Qualicum River on October 1, 2023. They were taken with the 135 f/3.5 QC (first three) and the 35 f/2 OC (last one) mounted on the Fuji X-T4 and Lens Turbo II.
