rafaelcasd wrote:
Hello gentle fellows, I am back! My time was consumed closing out the totaling of the Nissan Pathfinder, producing documentation to be paid by the insurance company and buying a new car. Selecting a car is a great pain in the behind, selecting what one wants and finding it at a good price. But it is all behind now, good riddance.
Speaking of values, I am totally happy with my like new $2000 800mm 5.6 Nikkor. Nothing in the current line up comes close to this much for this much money, if only I knew what to do with it.
This weekend my friend Nicole visited, we took my new farmer's Cadillac, a 2017 Ram 4x4 Laramie ecodiesel (paid 66% of msrp) down to Jeff's hangouts, Solana, Beacon's, Grandview.
CGrindahl wrote:
Temperatures were over 80 this weekend and for the next week will be in the low to mid-seventies with clear skies. We all want rain, but very few Californians are complaining about the sun.
It's so flat around here (first pic) that the neighborhood sledding hill is man-made (2nd pic). This should be packed with kids later today (pics from yesterday evening).
My favorite lake in the Sierra Nevada. You've seen many photos from there, many with the 16mm, but I don't think there's been a black and white shot, nor a panorama with the 16mm. The pano took several steps, since Photoshop just won't stitch that lens. However, saved to JPEG sources, I was able to line up 6 of them with Microsoft ICE. Result below the black and white, which I like a lot more, probably because I had to go back to the EXIF and take a hard look at the images before and after to make sure it really was a fisheye shot and not the 20mm. It's too sharp to be the 20mm, but there's really no distortion other than the slightly leaning trees on the right that smells like fisheye.
Again with D800 and 24 3.5 PC-E, sans tripod. Laura I was just being tongue in cheek offering to show up at the museum in your town, but thanks!!! Is that the Dayton Air Force museum?
rafaelcasd wrote:
Hello gentle fellows, I am back! My time was consumed closing out the totaling of the Nissan Pathfinder, producing documentation to be paid by the insurance company and buying a new car.
The offer stands. The official name of the museum is the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Technically, it is outside Dayton's borders, but everyone gives credit to it being in Dayton cause Dayton is more well known than Riverside, Ohio. The museum is on base property though, so when the government has a shutdown, it becomes closed to the public.
Again with D800 and 24 3.5 PC-E, sans tripod. Laura I was just being tongue in cheek offering to show up at the museum in your town, but thanks!!! Is that the Dayton Air Force museum?
