Ahh, the "joys" of snow. I lived my first 28 years in Minnesota so I have a long history with the stuff. I know from first hand experience that snow can offer pleasure in a number of ways. Yes, it can be beautiful. Yes, it can offer opportunities for outdoor fun like skiing, tobagganing, ice skating. But it also involves scraping ice off of windshields, shoveling driveways and driving on slippery streets. In Minnesota we'd plug cars in at night so the tank heater would keep the engine and radiator from freezing. Honestly, the greatest pleasure I take with regard to snow at this time in my life is looking at photos taken by friends from this thread who live with the white powdery stuff. Thanks everyone.
leighton w wrote:
Just like George, it snowed here all day but we only ended up with around 3 inches.
The bad part about it was that it was our first food delivery to our customers. We had 20 orders so we had to get to town. The lane leading down to the road from our house is REALLY steep and with a trailer loaded with food, heading down on a snow covered road is a little nerving. But we made it to town as well as all our customers and all was good! Actually getting back up the lane was harder than coming down.
I went out at chore time just to keep the camera working and took a few.
Even though it was snowing and cold outside as evidence of this tired looking tomato, the next image shows fresh green garlic growing in one of our h-houses!
Nice shots Leighton. Like the b/w last image. I initially thought the first one was a habanero pepper and you had a fire and ice thing going Nikki is working well on the Fuji.
So if you were in the Bay Area during the Summer of Love Rafael, you arrived well before I did. A buddy of mine grew up in Los Altos, graduated from Cal and completed his PhD at Stanford, all during that period. He was at Stanford when Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster were organizing the Kool-Aid Acid bus tour. It was also where he met Ram Das, whom he followed to India in the early 1970's. He spent a year with Neem Karoli Baba. He LIVED the Summer of Love. Alas, it was all beyond me. I didn't have my first experience with grass until the following year, still in Minnesota. Had I been in San Francisco I'd have had no idea what to do with it all...
We did a bit of biographical conversation some years ago. I'm not suggesting we do it again, but I've no doubt that most of us have lived rather remarkable lives with adventures of all sorts. Amazing what this human journey is all about...
I'm about to go without a Nikon digital body for the first time since 2003 or so.
The A7RIII just arrived this past week and it's a pretty darned significant upgrade from the RII - the EVF, IBIS, and other upgraded features make manual focusing even better.
The D800 (and A7RII) will be sold and I'll likely try to find a deal on a used D850 sometime in the future . . . that or wait until Nikon comes out with an A7RIII competitor.
The 16/3.5, 300/4.5 ED AI, 400/5.6 ED AI, and 600/5.6 ED-IF AIS have no fear of being sold, so they will still make appearances on this thread.
jhinkey wrote:
I'm about to go without a Nikon digital body for the first time since 2003 or so.
The A7RIII just arrived this past week and it's a pretty darned significant upgrade from the RII - the EVF, IBIS, and other upgraded features make manual focusing even better.
The D800 (and A7RII) will be sold and I'll likely try to find a deal on a used D850 sometime in the future . . . that or wait until Nikon comes out with an A7RIII competitor.
The 16/3.5, 300/4.5 ED AI, 400/5.6 ED AI, and 600/5.6 ED-IF AIS have no fear of being sold, so they will still make appearances on this thread....Show more →
It's nice to be able to own the camera you want and still be able to contribute to this thread via these old wonderful Nikkors. Enjoy your Sony and I truly do hope that Nikon eventually comes out with a great mirrorless body.
leighton w wrote:
It's nice to be able to own the camera you want and still be able to contribute to this thread via these old wonderful Nikkors. Enjoy your Sony and I truly do hope that Nikon eventually comes out with a great mirrorless body.
Yes, it will feel very weird for sure. For my needs Nikon has some major catching up to do before they'll get any more of my $$. Between Sony and Zeiss they are coming out with outstanding full frame E mount lenses. Thought the A7RIII is great, it still is not even close to Nikon for external button ergonomics nor user interface. I don't even necessarily need a small body Nikon mirrorless, just give me the D850 sensor in a D850-sized mirrorless body for tripod work and I'd likely be sold.
EDIT: Those of you who haven't shot MF Nikkors on a FX mirrorless body will be sold too.
CGrindahl wrote:
So if you were in the Bay Area during the Summer of Love Rafael, you arrived well before I did. A buddy of mine grew up in Los Altos, graduated from Cal and completed his PhD at Stanford, all during that period. He was at Stanford when Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster were organizing the Kool-Aid Acid bus tour. It was also where he met Ram Das, whom he followed to India in the early 1970's. He spent a year with Neem Karoli Baba. He LIVED the Summer of Love. Alas, it was all beyond me. I didn't have my first experience with grass until the following year, still in Minnesota. Had I been in San Francisco I'd have had no idea what to do with it all...
We did a bit of biographical conversation some years ago. I'm not suggesting we do it again, but I've no doubt that most of us have lived rather remarkable lives with adventures of all sorts. Amazing what this human journey is all about... ...Show more →
Curtis, I did not live the summer of love in SF, I arrived in 1971, but I did live it.
Went to Point Loma to try and use the 800mm 5.6, dismal failure, the lens reaches too far catching lots of atmospheric distortion and no interestung subjects came by.
Consider these sharpness tests with the usual atmospheric distortion.
This is where I was. (with the UD) down by the fence.
If you are curious about the lens look at the ones below 100% in Flickr,
The beach fence separates the public beach from the one belonging to North Island Naval Air Station (Halsey Field), (Game: identify the sunk vessel in the pic below)
A quick one from this early evening/late afternoon with the 300/4.5 ED AI hand held. A7RIII IBIS at work or else no way I could get this sharpness hand held at 1/200 sec.
The usual subjects as I don't have much time these days to go to any other exotic place!
CGrindahl wrote:
Ahh, the "joys" of snow. I lived my first 28 years in Minnesota so I have a long history with the stuff. I know from first hand experience that snow can offer pleasure in a number of ways. Yes, it can be beautiful. Yes, it can offer opportunities for outdoor fun like skiing, tobagganing, ice skating. But it also involves scraping ice off of windshields, shoveling driveways and driving on slippery streets. In Minnesota we'd plug cars in at night so the tank heater would keep the engine and radiator from freezing. Honestly, the greatest pleasure I take with regard to snow at this time in my life is looking at photos taken by friends from this thread who live with the white powdery stuff. Thanks everyone. ...Show more →
FYI.... you really don't see the tank heaters much anymore. Many new cars still offer it from the factory, but the days of buying a core plug heating element seems to be a thing of the past. I think the newer cars are more impervious to the cold, or perhaps it is that engines are smaller these days and easier to crank over. Not sure why, but it is less of a thing.
Hell, maybe it's global warming and people just work from home on snow days.....!
It keeps snowing and snowing.
Weather alert "red" and people are advised to stay at home (I did ).
Still over 1500km traffic of jams (almost twice as high as the previous year-record), cancelled flights, less busses and trains.
We're definitely not used to this kind of weather.
Max Power wrote:
FYI.... you really don't see the tank heaters much anymore. Many new cars still offer it from the factory, but the days of buying a core plug heating element seems to be a thing of the past. I think the newer cars are more impervious to the cold, or perhaps it is that engines are smaller these days and easier to crank over. Not sure why, but it is less of a thing.
Hell, maybe it's global warming and people just work from home on snow days.....!
I may have noted where you live Max, but the fact slipped my mind. Perhaps if you're old enough we passed one another on the street one day. I grew up in Richfield, graduated from the University of Minnesota, worked for Cargill downtown Minneapolis briefly and then for Ford Motor Company at the Twin Cities Assembly Plant in St. Paul near the river. Regardless, we've shared the experience of growing up in what is really a beautiful region cursed with a climate that is at times brutal. But I have heard from my nephew who still lives in Shoreview north of St. Paul, that winters have been quite mild of late. I guess if global warming really is happening, places like Minnesota will appreciate the milder winters. Unfortunately, for those of us in California it could mean drought and an extended fire season. Of course, it ultimately doesn't matter since whatever the climate, those of us still above ground will need to find a way to deal with it all.
By the way, I did pull an engine out of a 1955 Chevrolet in January in an unheated garage. I don't believe the temperature ever got above zero and I know most mornings it was over twenty below zero. That experience has doubtless colored my attitude toward winter...
