Out before dinner with my daughter and some way way older-than-me film cameras that still work: Kodak Retina IIa and a Mercury II Model CX (half frame).
300/4.5 ED-AI f/5.6 or f/4.5
For a pic of Chloe sporting her Retina IIa go to here:
It'd been raining a bit last week and the local waterfalls started flowing again. I took the opportunity to test for the first time my trusted AI-S 50-300/4.5 ED on the D850. What a fantastic zoom-lens!
Last of the 25-50mm day of the dead at San Luis Rey Mission, not as good as other years as the Franciscans did not open their prettier locations. There are also way too many vendors, too commercialized.
Maya Lin, architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, speaking at the memorial she designed, as part of Veterans Day commemoration today.
More from Veterans Day at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense and today's keynote speaker at the ceremony. Also with Df, and the 300 4.5 K lens, wide open. ChuckHagel by Maryland Photos, on Flickr
After the ceremony was over. Df and Nippon Kogaku 10.5cm f2.5 P.
John, very nice to see the next generation taking up vintage camera gear!!!
Rafael, very colorful and interesting displays.
Scott, it was cold enough to snow here today, but glad its stayed up north! I think the snow looks better with some fall color to offset it
Dan, sure, let me know and will try and see if we can connect when you come through here next year. You are going to make me invest in polarizer or ND filters
This might be a bit off topic, but I wanted to pass on a link to the prints and photography online catalog at the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
The catalog is very impressive, and it contains some excellent and well-known photographers.
What I've found most interesting is the number of public domain images that are available for download in relatively large files. After some spotting, dodging and burning, these files print well, and I've enjoyed having nice quality reprints of works by photographers like Dorothea Lange, Edward Curtis and Walker Evans to hang at home.
Here's one example from the archives. It's a photo of Thelonious Monk that I enjoy quite a lot. It was taken by William Gottlieb and it's part of the Gottlieb Jazz Photograph Collection that was donated to the Library and is available online.
Not offtopic much Jeff. Mark and I have been exchanging notes over photography books, it would be good to have a virtual book/reading club around the thread. Will definitely check out that LOC link. I was looking at some archives of Ansel Adams large format photographs recently at a National Archives website: https://www.archives.gov/research/ansel-adams.
The Marshal Press was a 6X9 rangefinder produced sometime in the early/mid 1960s. Somewhat similar to the Mamiya Press camera line, it differed in having a fixed lens and a fixed back. The Marshal Press was designed by Seichi Mamiya, previously chief engineer (and founder) at Mamiya Optical Works. He replaced the Sekor lens with the 105mm f3.5 Nikkor, which may have been the same formula as the 105mm Nikkor used for Bronicas.
The back opens relatively easily with a lever that gets pulled up around the side. The focus thumb wheel is at the top rear. The shutter cocking lever is in the front; with some practice, I don't have to move around to look at the front of the camera for that purpose The shutter speed and the aperture mechanism are around the little lens in the front too, so one definitely cannot make those adjustments without peeking around the front of the behemoth. The film advance is a wheel at the top left. Forgetting to advance the film of course results in multiple exposure. I have had a few of those. Tripod really is a must, I don't fancy losing even more frames to shaky hands. All you get is 8 per 120 roll anyway.
