I don't have much of a view from the dock, and even so, I'm still working hard when sunrise hits.. By the time I get my first break, it's usually about 9. (darn new england yankee work ethic)
jimmuller wrote: NightOwl Cat wroteOh and Jim, I'm up a wee bit earlier this morning, told to come in two hours earlier. The station I just left, I was going in at 0300, so up at midnight...there were about ten of us at that station at 0300Oh my. At least you should be able to get some good sunrise pics on one of your breaks.
Trip already complete and back in Ohio. I was out in CA visiting family. The circumstances of the trip were such that I did not even pull the camera out once I was on the ground, so all shots are from the journey itself.
Did go thru Salt Lake City airport, so here's a selection from the only spot I had time to pull out the camera. 28mm f2.0 AIS or 85mm f2.0 AI.
This is a cautionary tale. I passed 40 sales of photographic equipment (+ a couple vintage motherboard-cpu-ram combos) since August. It generated about 7K of which only about $400 remains. What happened? It turns out this photographic thingy is an addiction. I ended up adding two complete medium format systems, and three half frame cameras. Mostly film, but one digital, and about half are AF - due to my eyes. They share lenses between bodies. One thing that didn't sell - even at a loss - was a beautiful black body Nikon FM version 3 with motor winder and an ai converted 50mm f2 Nikkor-H.C. The Nikon FM can mount non-ai lenses and (just flip a tab) and I was sick of seeing all these gorgeous cheap non-ai leses that are available.. So I have three coming that have all those special addon letters to their names "H. C. O. U, D, Q." Here is a regret photo of a pristine 35mm f2.0 ai nikkor that I sold almost 13 years ago, It's the smooth out of focus area that I just love - here at f2. I purchased the immediate precursor version - the Nikon Nikkor-O.C Auto 35mm f/2 Non Ai. The cautionary part is if you do not play musical chairs with your gear - you better have deep pockets,
I've been enjoying the pics, though they be sparse lately. Been too busy with commitments and work to take any pics of my own. Plus the temperature has been down in the very-cold range while Nikon's spec for the Z5-II has an operating temperature 32F and above, not that I'm a slave to specs but single-digit temperature is ridiculous.
OTOH, a Nikon HS-8 hood arrive in the mail yesterday, looking brand new, better than expected. It was of course intended for the 105mm as you folks suggested but the 52mm diameter fits my lenses too. That's one advantage of an detachable hood! Plus it makes any lens look so darn serious and menacing.
Edit: The HS-8 has too narrow an opening for even a 55mm. So for any shorter lens it turns out not to be useful except for special effects. See pic below.
If we get more snow on Sunday my sweetie and I will spend the day indoors and I'll have to invent something else to take a picture of.
In the spirit of moving things along, here is what happens when you put an external hood on a wide-angle lens. I like the effect on this sort of subject. Probably shouldn't use it all the time though .
jimmuller wrote:
In the spirit of moving things along, here is what happens when you put an external hood on a wide-angle lens. I like the effect on this sort of subject. Probably shouldn't use it all the time though .
James Markus wrote:
This is a cautionary tale. I passed 40 sales of photographic equipment (+ a couple vintage motherboard-cpu-ram combos) since August. It generated about 7K of which only about $400 remains. What happened? It turns out this photographic thingy is an addiction. I ended up adding two complete medium format systems, and three half frame cameras. Mostly film, but one digital, and about half are AF - due to my eyes. They share lenses between bodies. One thing that didn't sell - even at a loss - was a beautiful black body Nikon FM version 3 with motor winder and an ai converted 50mm f2 Nikkor-H.C. The Nikon FM can mount non-ai lenses and (just flip a tab) and I was sick of seeing all these gorgeous cheap non-ai leses that are available.. So I have three coming that have all those special addon letters to their names "H. C. O. U, D, Q." Here is a regret photo of a pristine 35mm f2.0 ai nikkor that I sold almost 13 years ago, It's the smooth out of focus area that I just love - here at f2. I purchased the immediate precursor version - the Nikon Nikkor-O.C Auto 35mm f/2 Non Ai. The cautionary part is if you do not play musical chairs with your gear - you better have deep pockets,...Show more →
Congrats on your purchase - looking forward to seeing some shots of them
nice shot here
