NightOwl Cat wrote:
Good to see, Leighton. And yes I know that feeling about getting up on the roof, and mine's single story. Looks like quite the crew up there, and all brand new boards? YIKES on the wallet.
Crew that did mine was 3-4 guys, and I had other work done while they were here. Crew that did mine in 2012 did shoddy work and left old rotted board and old shingles under new in some places. Also did new gutters, soffits, downspouts, add framing and boards over enclosed porch, aka florida room, so that it never had to have rubber roofing put on, it got shingled the same as the rest of the house.
cadman342001 wrote:
Sorry for not posting and thanks to those who have been. I've been hitting that like button though.
I'm now back in Australia, been diagnosed with HCM (Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy), sold my van in NZ, bought a worse one in Oz, lived/worked in Brisbane for a couple of months, had a bit of a breakdown, quit my job, drove down to Tasmania for a month (2000kms), got a job in Perth start next Monday, (3500kms drive. Van blower fan stopped working on the way so had to endure a day or two of 44 degrees centigrade - windows down !).
The ferry (River Cat). You can travel up and down the river, ferries every 15 mins, they run until 11pm. Currently, public transport in Brisbane is only 50 cents per trip, bus, train, tram or ferry. THAT is how you get people to use public transport, although they're now having problems with too many cars parked near the train stations etc. !
Oh man Andy - that sounds like a rough patch. Hopefully, you can get to an equalibrium soon. How did you "drove down to Tasmania for a month"? Did you take the "vomit comet"?
Should post those 24-120/4 shots in the thread for that lens (if you haven’t already).
DeltaSigma wrote:
A couple from Cornwall using the 55/2.8 micro.
I managed to get an hour to myself and my Z8 on consecutive days just as the sun was about to set below the tree line.
The light was incredible on the tidal estuary.
It was even better on the 2nd occasion when I only took out the 24-120 Z lens.
I think I am getting pretty far down the "to-do list". The other day I came across a shoe box with a brass lens I got at a thrift shop when I had first moved out of my parents house ages ago. It had splatters of white paint all over it, and I think the people at the shop had it in one of those "everything on this table is 1$" areas of their store. I didn't get back to it for almost 50 years. So, I looked it up, and was surprised it was a view camera lens (the store owner thought it went to a projector), and from one of the pioneering companies of photography (founded 1839). For me, it was like the attraction crows have for shiny objects, but now - oh boy! I chipped all the paint off with a bamboo skewer, disassembled it twice, and cleaned it twice. I think they used lamp black on the inside to cut reflections, and there is some gassing after each clean - less each cleaning. Then I hunted for a retaining flange that seems to be a very rare size/pitch 45mm @ .75. I found only one newly made in China. Thus I can now adapt it to my D800 - which I just did. It's focal length is 11 inches which puts it in the 115-125 year old time frame. I think the tubes are causing the vignette. Couple links about it - all of this was completely unknown to me, fun.
James Markus wrote:
I think I am getting pretty far down the "to-do list". The other day I came across a shoe box with a brass lens I got at a thrift shop when I had first moved out of my parents house ages ago. It had splatters of white paint all over it, and I think the people at the shop had it in one of those "everything on this table is 1$" areas of their store. I didn't get back to it for almost 50 years. So, I looked it up, and was surprised it was a view camera lens (the store owner thought it went to a projector), and from one of the pioneering companies of photography (founded 1839). For me, it was like the attraction crows have for shiny objects, but now - oh boy! I chipped all the paint off with a bamboo skewer, disassembled it twice, and cleaned it twice. I think they used lamp black on the inside to cut reflections, and there is some gassing after each clean - less each cleaning. Then I hunted for a retaining flange that seems to be a very rare size/pitch 45mm @ .75. I found only one newly made in China. Thus I can now adapt it to my D800 - which I just did. It's focal length is 11 inches which puts it in the 115-125 year old time frame. I think the tubes are causing the vignette. Couple links about it - all of this was completely unknown to me, fun.
One of the now retired photography instructors at my campus has that very camera and lens! She used it for daguerreotype, photogravure, and large format photography. We hosted a photographer who shot on glass plates and used her camera when a branch fell on his camera and damaged the bellows. Very cool output!
James Markus wrote:
I think I am getting pretty far down the "to-do list". The other day I came across a shoe box with a brass lens I got at a thrift shop when I had first moved out of my parents house ages ago. It had splatters of white paint all over it, and I think the people at the shop had it in one of those "everything on this table is 1$" areas of their store. I didn't get back to it for almost 50 years. So, I looked it up, and was surprised it was a view camera lens (the store owner thought it went to a projector), and from one of the pioneering companies of photography (founded 1839). For me, it was like the attraction crows have for shiny objects, but now - oh boy! I chipped all the paint off with a bamboo skewer, disassembled it twice, and cleaned it twice. I think they used lamp black on the inside to cut reflections, and there is some gassing after each clean - less each cleaning. Then I hunted for a retaining flange that seems to be a very rare size/pitch 45mm @ .75. I found only one newly made in China. Thus I can now adapt it to my D800 - which I just did. It's focal length is 11 inches which puts it in the 115-125 year old time frame. I think the tubes are causing the vignette. Couple links about it - all of this was completely unknown to me, fun.
Nice work, I have the early black version and it’s a favorite in spite of the annoying aperture ring. Can’t see myself ever having the gumption to take apart one of the apertures.
James Markus wrote:
Oh man Andy - that sounds like a rough patch. Hopefully, you can get to an equalibrium soon. How did you "drove down to Tasmania for a month"? Did you take the "vomit comet"?
Yeah but back on the meds so not too bad now thanks.
I'm presuming you mean the ferry? Wasn't too bad tbh, did a night crossing on the way and a day crossing on the way back. My trip between the North and South Islands of NZ last year was much much worse.
James Markus wrote:
I think I am getting pretty far down the "to-do list". The other day I came across a shoe box with a brass lens I got at a thrift shop when I had first moved out of my parents house ages ago. It had splatters of white paint all over it, and I think the people at the shop had it in one of those "everything on this table is 1$" areas of their store. I didn't get back to it for almost 50 years. So, I looked it up, and was surprised it was a view camera lens (the store owner thought it went to a projector), and from one of the pioneering companies of photography (founded 1839). For me, it was like the attraction crows have for shiny objects, but now - oh boy! I chipped all the paint off with a bamboo skewer, disassembled it twice, and cleaned it twice. I think they used lamp black on the inside to cut reflections, and there is some gassing after each clean - less each cleaning. Then I hunted for a retaining flange that seems to be a very rare size/pitch 45mm @ .75. I found only one newly made in China. Thus I can now adapt it to my D800 - which I just did. It's focal length is 11 inches which puts it in the 115-125 year old time frame. I think the tubes are causing the vignette. Couple links about it - all of this was completely unknown to me, fun.
Morten, looks like you need to get an 85/1.4 to complete your set of Chubby Nikkor light-monsters! I lack only the 135/2, but that focal length never resonated with me, so I've resisted..
