rafaelcasd wrote:
Thanks for your advice Leighton, will start sending the lens around in a couple of weeks, most practical seems to be to send in mounted on a S to LTM adapter and a LTM to Z adapter. Most everyone into adapting lenses will have an LTM adapter for their mount. This time around we will have 8 people at most, we can take a month each for a relaxed experience, at the end of the tour the lens can go live with whomever seemed to enjoy it the most based on their postings.
Just had surgery (all is well that...), need a week or two to get over the pain, next week I will be publishing a Miranda screen name list of participants, and PM people for their e-mail and physical address.
Many thanks Jim! It’s been interesting, comes with workouts too so it’s got a lot of benefits. Kinda looking forward to seeing how the light progresses this spring (and getting into better shape). Might have to do a compilation after a while.
James Markus wrote:
Matt,
The flag image earlier, and these three "misty morning" images are special - thanks for sharing.
Jim
Well, I have just finished setting up my new desktop computer, whose primary purpose is photo processing. So far, I am quite blown away by its speed and power. I ended up getting a 32" Asus ProArt 4K monitor, for which my old 27" Philips 1080p monitor will serve as an extended desktop. I'll be calibrating both with a Calibrite spectrophotometer. According to the marketing info, the Asus displays 100% sRGB and 100% Rec 709 (whatever that is) with a colour accuracy rating of ∆E<2, which is apparently very good according to the self-styled experts on YouTube. In any case, it sure looks good to me. The whole arrangement represents a huge step up in my processing setup.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am planning to go back through the photos I have taken since I moved to Vancouver Island and process any good ones that I didn't process previously. I'll be starting that process this weekend, so I'll be able to post some results pretty soon. In the meantime, here is my final set of photos from Olympic Park at the end of September, 2023. These were taken with my Fuji X-T4 and Lens Turbo II with, respectively, the 24 f/2.8 NC, the 50 f/1.2 Ai-s, and the 135 f/2.8 Q.
Bummer about the surgery, and as the medical people will tell you, don't let the pain get ahead of the meds.if you need them.
rafaelcasd wrote:
Thanks for your advice Leighton, will start sending the lens around in a couple of weeks, most practical seems to be to send in mounted on a S to LTM adapter and a LTM to Z adapter. Most everyone into adapting lenses will have an LTM adapter for their mount. This time around we will have 8 people at most, we can take a month each for a relaxed experience, at the end of the tour the lens can go live with whomever seemed to enjoy it the most based on their postings.
Just had surgery (all is well that...), need a week or two to get over the pain, next week I will be publishing a Miranda screen name list of participants, and PM people for their e-mail and physical address.
GroWeb wrote:
Well, I have just finished setting up my new desktop computer, whose primary purpose is photo processing. So far, I am quite blown away by its speed and power. I ended up getting a 32" Asus ProArt 4K monitor, for which my old 27" Philips 1080p monitor will serve as an extended desktop. I'll be calibrating both with a Calibrite spectrophotometer. According to the marketing info, the Asus displays 100% sRGB and 100% Rec 709 (whatever that is) with a colour accuracy rating of ∆E<2, which is apparently very good according to the self-styled experts on YouTube. In any case, it sure looks good to me. The whole arrangement represents a huge step up in my processing setup.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am planning to go back through the photos I have taken since I moved to Vancouver Island and process any good ones that I didn't process previously. I'll be starting that process this weekend, so I'll be able to post some results pretty soon. In the meantime, here is my final set of photos from Olympic Park at the end of September, 2023. These were taken with my Fuji X-T4 and Lens Turbo II with, respectively, the 24 f/2.8 NC, the 50 f/1.2 Ai-s, and the 135 f/2.8 Q....Show more →
Did you process these on the new monitor? 2nd and 3rd image seem to have an overall magenta cast (esp visible in the clouds) and some of the blown highlights in the cloud also have a color shift going on. Nice compositions and subjects though! 👍
Lately I‘ve seen a couple of forest images in this thread with a very apparent magenta cast, not sure if they were from you or someone else. It often happens because the camera gets confused by all the green in the scene and overcorrects the white balance to magenta. The most telling sign is purple tree trunks that should be a reddish brown.
Not being a ski person but having visited some ski fields here when there's no snow I have seen lots of "snow makers", they look like large blowers on poles. Do they have them there ?
Ulmer Huette. We stopped for a refreshment at the outdoor bar.
Top right on the horizon is Schindlerspitze gondola lift at 2648m.
There is a nasty little traverse to take you away from the gondola station to get onto the wide piste, down past the other chairlift, to get to the mountain hut. From the Ulmer Hut the run takes you down into the valley. Amazing! The gondola that takes you to the Valuga (2800m) is visible. We didn't travel on the Valugabahn since it is for expert skiers only and you need to have a mountain guide with you (as well as all the avalanche gear)
Yes, they do have snow blowers. Not that they have had to use them this season.
You can see a yellow one in the St. Christoph pano/crop.
They are positioned on the lower slopes - usually in south facing high traffic areas.
Colin
cadman342001 wrote:
Wow that's a lot of snow.
Not being a ski person but having visited some ski fields here when there's no snow I have seen lots of "snow makers", they look like large blowers on poles. Do they have them there ?
Wow Andy, seeing that landscape intended for skiing but without snow looks painful with all the exposed rocks. What a difference the seasons make
cadman342001 wrote:
Wow that's a lot of snow.
Not being a ski person but having visited some ski fields here when there's no snow I have seen lots of "snow makers", they look like large blowers on poles. Do they have them there ?
I hear our planet is rotating around a star known as the "sun". I think I will need to see that to believe it. So dreary here. Downy Woodpecker with the D7200 400mm f5.6 ais, and tc16a
I was thinking the same - not much vegetation visible.
GeorgeBo wrote:
Wow Andy, seeing that landscape intended for skiing but without snow looks painful with all the exposed rocks. What a difference the seasons make
Frecciarossa trains at Santa Maria Novella, Florence. The speedsters make travel within Italy a breeze with cruising speeds of up to 300 kilometers/hour. Departing from Florence, travel time to Rome, Venice and Milan is a tad over two hours.
House in the fog. 28mm f2.8 ais.
