Great work on the eclipse photos and allowing me to vicariously experience it everyone.
(I have experience of it twice in my life, 1 time in the UK and once sitting on a tropical beach in Australia too anyway)
As we're on the subject, I just wanted to share a couple of recent astro shots from my flickr shot with my mobile van based astro rig, thought you may be interested.
Let me know if those links don't work (I removed the s from https)
And as it is Autumn here (Fall to most of you), my first for 17 years, here's a couple of shots from the Queenstown Gardens to compensate for indulging me.
I know I have posted this before (a couple of years ago now), but here are some Montana Pasque Flowers that I captured with the 55mm micro-Nikkor f2.8 adapted to my Sony A7R III (focus stacked). The peak of the Pasque Flowers had passed, but I found a couple of clusters in the forest one drizzly day in early June when I was mainly "focused" on the big balsamroot bloom along Montana's rocky Mountain Front. I didn't think of using my 105 f2.5 - Hmmm.
graytrekker wrote:
I know I have posted this before (a couple of years ago now), but here are some Montana Pasque Flowers that I captured with the 55mm micro-Nikkor f2.8 adapted to my Sony A7R III (focus stacked). The peak of the Pasque Flowers had passed, but I found a couple of clusters in the forest one drizzly day in early June when I was mainly "focused" on the big balsamroot bloom along Montana's rocky Mountain Front. I didn't think of using my 105 f2.5 - Hmmm.
I photograph them every year
has become a habit that I try to maintain
Backsippa (Pulsatilla vulgaris ) peace-loving in Sweden .. they not be picked or dug up wild in nature
here they usually come in April .. depending a on the weather
but they quickly bloom over
Love the rendering and depth on the first one and the colors all around. What lens was used?
cadman342001 wrote:
Great work on the eclipse photos and allowing me to vicariously experience it everyone.
(I have experience of it twice in my life, 1 time in the UK and once sitting on a tropical beach in Australia too anyway)
As we're on the subject, I just wanted to share a couple of recent astro shots from my flickr shot with my mobile van based astro rig, thought you may be interested.
Let me know if those links don't work (I removed the s from https)
And as it is Autumn here (Fall to most of you), my first for 17 years, here's a couple of shots from the Queenstown Gardens to compensate for indulging me.
Ronny Olsson wrote:
Anyone tested nikkor 300mm 4.5 ed if ai-s with extension tube? some picture examples just in case ?
Is closest focus distance around 2m with 36mm tube ?
and how does it work with the Nikon TC-14B ?
Ronny
IF you can wait Ronny, I can take a test shot of a flower, emulating yours, with the extension, the 1.4X and both the 300mm 4.5 EDIF ais and the 300mm 4.5 ED K this weekend.
V/R
Rafael
rafaelcasd wrote:
IF you can wait Ronny, I can take a test shot of a flower, emulating yours, with the extension, the 1.4X and both the 300mm 4.5 EDIF ais and the 300mm 4.5 ED K this weekend.
V/R
Rafael
Gladly
is very interesting
I will buy one .. the a-is version
My first Nikon lens, the Micro-Nikkor 55mm F2.8 that I got as a teenager in 1988. I havent used it a lot durin the last ten years, the focus-ring is a bit stiff and uneven in the movement.
My first Nikon lens, the Micro-Nikkor 55mm F2.8 that I got as a teenager in 1988. I havent used it a lot durin the last ten years, the focus-ring is a bit stiff and uneven in the movement.
Time is coming for Nippi to go to Scott, Kevin will send her most likely next week. We'll let Scott know when it leaves and the tracking number.
V/R
Rafael
rafaelcasd wrote:
Like the rainy deck composition Siphiwe, try it in BW!
Loved the flower-y headdress Serge.
Beautiful sticks and sunsets Matt
They do not make fuel pumps like they used to, Andy.
Ronny, that is one fantastic wispy flower, is the background all the lens? or is there some processing help?
Great eclipse photos everyone!!! The ingenuity price goes to James Markus!
Learned too late that there is a filter called H-Alpha that removes the white brightness from the sun and leaves the "Chromosphere" below, which is that reddish, grainy and flaming surface.
In my quest to play with lenses I bought an inexpensive EL-Nikkor 63mm 3.5, this lens was designed to print the negatives created with the Micro-Nikkor 70mm 1:5, which I own.
The Micro Nikkor 70mm 1:5 was designed to microfilm documents onto 70mm film, and is a successor to the R-Nikkor 5cm 3.5, meant to do the same on 35mm film.
I found the EL Nikkor 63mm to have the same behavior I had seen on the EL Nikkor 50mm 2.8, close-up they are excellent lenses, flat field, no focus shift with aperture, no chromatic aberration, very little distortion. These 63mm 3.5 were sselling for $800 due to having a fame of being great for UV, likely it si the same as other EL Nikkors for UV, I got mine rather cheap.
At a distance the 63mm has ugly sides, like the EL 50mm, but if you close it down to 1:8 or 1:11, it will look fantastic all across the frame. To open it wider you have to be closer to your subject.
These samples will show the lens at its best and will not really show the behavior I an describing.
M. Tanyflex in Flckr posts this interesting Nikon Branded serial 200003 lens with a Magnification factor of 30, my lens is branded Nippon Kogaku with serial 207XXX and no magnification factor print, else they look the same. That 200003 lens could be very unique, but still it looks pretty much the same, nice little M39 lens head.
Magnification factor of 30 with a 36mm frame means the lens is optimized for a ~1 Meter long front subject.
Addendum: looked into the regular 63mm 3.5 and it is designed for a 2x-20x range, that M-30 lens is really unique, got to get one!
cadman342001 wrote:
Great work on the eclipse photos and allowing me to vicariously experience it everyone.
(I have experience of it twice in my life, 1 time in the UK and once sitting on a tropical beach in Australia too anyway)
As we're on the subject, I just wanted to share a couple of recent astro shots from my flickr shot with my mobile van based astro rig, thought you may be interested.
Let me know if those links don't work (I removed the s from https)
And as it is Autumn here (Fall to most of you), my first for 17 years, here's a couple of shots from the Queenstown Gardens to compensate for indulging me.
12 years ago when getting on the ground didn't elicit unsolicited sounds - I shot this using a Canon 7D and a reversed 24mm f2.8 ais lens. One of those floating seeds tangled in the brush.
