pbraymond wrote:
It's look great down to the screwhead orientation (all but one!). Was this a kit speaker drivers build with a kit crossover (the driver combination looks very diverse), in your own cabinet, or is the entire thing a Jim invention?
No kit - I drew the plans myself, and got the hardware from a professional music hardware store (Electro Voice) that use to be in my city. They helped many musicians with speaker choices and hardware for their rock bands. I did get a wealth of information from the local Mcintosh store - which also use to be in the city. Most of their gear didn't even have prices on them. Receivers started at about $2500 back in the 1970s, but they made amps, all kinds of components, and speakers. They had a pair of speakers almost identical in size and shape to the ones I built - all in a rosewood veneer finish. THEY WERE GORGEOUS. I knew better than to ask how much, but the sales rep gave me a glossy four page - four color - letter-sized brochure that detailed the hardware used, the math for sizing the air port, how it was insulated - it basically told you how to build it. So I did.
Kingfishphoto wrote:
Several images of a new born male lion cub at the Phoenix zoo. My first outing with a just acquired Nikon 500 F4 P AIS lens.
Harry Palmer
James Markus wrote:
No kit - I drew the plans myself, and got the hardware from a professional music hardware store (Electro Voice) that use to be in my city. They helped many musicians with speaker choices and hardware for their rock bands. I did get a wealth of information from the local Mcintosh store - which also use to be in the city. Most of their gear didn't even have prices on them. Receivers started at about $2500 back in the 1970s, but they made amps, all kinds of components, and speakers. They had a pair of speakers almost identical in size and shape to the ones I built - all in a rosewood veneer finish. THEY WERE GORGEOUS. I knew better than to ask how much, but the sales rep gave me a glossy four page - four color - letter-sized brochure that detailed the hardware used, the math for sizing the air port, how it was insulated - it basically told you how to build it. So I did.
Seems McIntosh is still at it - Linked here ...Show more →
Modern McIntosh gear still commands a high price, but don’t last like vintage gear does. I’m a marantz fan, and they are starting to climb out of the cheap early 2000’s quality that most brands suffered in that era. I have a modern home theater receiver that almost sounds like my 50 year old stereo, but not quite…even though it’s rated at triple the wattage.
There has been a lot of great photography showcased in this thread lately, keeping my Like button finger busy. I'm dropping in today with a few more photos from 2024's summer car shows. Like the previous set, all of these were shot with my IR-converted Fuji X-T2 and the 2.8 f/3.5 H assisted by the Lens Turbo II focal reducer. The first, second and fourth are from the British car show in Ladysmith, and the third one is from the show in Duncan on the same day (the two towns are quite close to each other).
I'd be very proud of that second "playing shot" Scott. Love that OOF tree in the background against the snowflakes.
Thanks Ray. I was trying to work a touch of color into this winter day. As you have said before, it can be a challenge to find something other than white and tan in the winter!
rolubich wrote:
The lens is a pre-set one, it means that the diaphragm does not stay always wide open and stop down to the set aperture just before the shot, but it stay at the value set on the second (from the front of the lens) thin ring.
The first (from the front of the lens) thin ring is an aperture limiter, it means that if it is set to f/8 the second ring can go from fully open to f/8.
This is to allow you to set the desired aperture on the first ring, than to move the second ring from the wide open aperture (that is supposed the aperture you want to use in order to have a brighter view and focus more easily) and than set the desired aperture moving the second ring quickly to the mechanic stop of the aperture limiter just before the shot, so you don't have to count the step or look at the aperture scale.
Hope that is clear.
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Thanks rolubich, all clear to me now.
High quality glass even tilt function ignored.
Phong.nh wrote:
Thanks rolubich, all clear to me now.
High quality glass even tilt function ignored.
Phong, it is also a great lens for panos when used on a tripod. By using the tilt mechanism horizantally you can overlap images by about a third without vignetting. Great for including wider buildings without moving a tripod. I'll repost an old image below.
James Markus wrote:
No kit - I drew the plans myself, and got the hardware from a professional music hardware store (Electro Voice) that use to be in my city. They helped many musicians with speaker choices and hardware for their rock bands. I did get a wealth of information from the local Mcintosh store - which also use to be in the city. Most of their gear didn't even have prices on them. Receivers started at about $2500 back in the 1970s, but they made amps, all kinds of components, and speakers. They had a pair of speakers almost identical in size and shape to the ones I built - all in a rosewood veneer finish. THEY WERE GORGEOUS. I knew better than to ask how much, but the sales rep gave me a glossy four page - four color - letter-sized brochure that detailed the hardware used, the math for sizing the air port, how it was insulated - it basically told you how to build it. So I did.
That's a great story, Jim! A Jim re-invention, bet it still sounds great!
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GroWeb wrote:
There has been a lot of great photography showcased in this thread lately, keeping my Like button finger busy. I'm dropping in today with a few more photos from 2024's summer car shows. Like the previous set, all of these were shot with my IR-converted Fuji X-T2 and the 2.8 f/3.5 H assisted by the Lens Turbo II focal reducer. The first, second and fourth are from the British car show in Ladysmith, and the third one is from the show in Duncan on the same day (the two towns are quite close to each other).
Well seen on that last shot with the complete car reflection Glen.
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Oosty wrote:
Early morning image of Cape St Francis lighthouse taken in 2016 D200 plus 28 3.5 PC
Harry, congratulations on the 500/4 and great captures of the young lion.
Music and music systems are also a hobby. I am a fan of vintage audio gear, own a minty Pioneer SX 1250 monster receiver from the 1970s. They do not build them like they used to.
James Markus wrote:
Congrats Harry! The image quality looks great.
Thanks James, it does seem a sharp copy and is close to mint. I took the TC-16A along with hopes for some Mandrill photos, but he did not cooperative.
Harry
serge07 wrote:
Harry, congratulations on the 500/4 and great captures of the young lion.
Music and music systems are also a hobby. I am a fan of vintage audio gear, own a minty Pioneer SX 1250 monster receiver from the 1970s. They do not build them like they used to.
A lot of changes over the years. The right hand unit use to be video only. DVD, VHS, and Bluray + a 32" tube TV. When the TV came out I had more room for my LPs. The left-hand unit has a huge (dove-tail) drawer that holds at least 250-300 LPs. Middle TV stand holds two computers I built a dual boot Win10 + Linux Media center, and an old one for ripping audio from my own media (Has all the old analog, and digital connections to my 1970-80s stereo). About 2 linear feet of albums I haven't ripped yet are there - plus Barbs cook books, which she never uses. What is odd is that once we both had been widowed - we couldn't listen to music anymore. Eventually, the music came back into our lives.
20mm f2.8 ais
Huge drawer with a bunch of species of wood - 24mm f2.8 ais
Top of audio unit - top Cherry, next Black Walnut - then White Oak (got a molding head for my tablesaw)
One of eight feet made from Cherry (dusty) Nikkor 50mm f1.2 ais
Today I tried out something I figured would work, and it did. I recently picked up Helicon's software, Stack & Remote. My tangent into microscope photography created a problem - not enough DOF. I shot a fine sewing thread at 400x stacking 126 images using my old method. Time consuming, and it still wasn't enough DOF. This should allow stacking 100s more, and it is very fast. So, I thought - bet that would work with a manual focus Nikkor paired to the modified TC-16a - it did. One of the 55mm f3.5 ai micro on the D850 - 89 image stack of a Trilobite fossil.
rolubich wrote:
The 85mm f/2 is quite weak at f/2, very low contrast, the 85mm f/1.8 at f/1.8 is better; maybe this is the reason it's poorly regarded, in the film era you could not easily increase contrast in PP.
Buti it sharpen up quickly and at f/2.8 it is about the same.
If you look at the corners the f/2 version is better from f/4 and at f/5.6 it is perfect (excellent lens for landscape pictures in my opinion), the f/1.8 never reach the same sharpness.
I like it very much because f/2.8 is more than enough for me, and it is very light and small, nice lens for traveling.
serge07 wrote:
Harry, congratulations on the 500/4 and great captures of the young lion.
Music and music systems are also a hobby. I am a fan of vintage audio gear, own a minty Pioneer SX 1250 monster receiver from the 1970s. They do not build them like they used to.
James Markus wrote:
A lot of changes over the years. The right hand unit use to be video only. DVD, VHS, and Bluray + a 32" tube TV. When the TV came out I had more room for my LPs. The left-hand unit has a huge (dove-tail) drawer that holds at least 250-300 LPs. Middle TV stand holds two computers I built a dual boot Win10 + Linux Media center, and an old one for ripping audio from my own media (Has all the old analog, and digital connections to my 1970-80s stereo). About 2 linear feet of albums I haven't ripped yet are there - plus Barbs cook books, which she never uses. What is odd is that once we both had been widowed - we couldn't listen to music anymore. Eventually, the music came back into our lives....Show more →
This is awesome, James. Pretty sure it will outlive many of us. Very interested in those 80s/90's hifi components. They are so hard to find now.
