Joseph. wrote:
Fantastic view. I can stare at these all day!
Thanks Joseph, my memories of this place range from nearly drowning at six years old to being an accomplished skier at 16. The best memories are all us kids who used to freely boat it at day and night, bring our guitars and come to the "lunadas" or moonlight parties, crashing a different designated house each night and always welcomed.
wwebmastrk9 love your use of the 58mm noct That should be my next lens.
HienDiep landmark 81 either impresses me or scares me, not sure but thanks for showing me.
Chin, what a valley!
Robert, it is 90F here. won't show my grill.
Beautiful horse sunset Ram, but the road is really form creative!
Joseph, La Gioconda with the 55mm S.C- cool- is that the closest you can get?
Nice play of light and shadows Luka. Diud you take lessons from Ben for street photography? the B&W is truly good
Somehow a couple of guys movig a sofa while a 55 chevy is parked nearby does come together well Peter.
Kristian, love the spring photos.
Steve, nice spring photos as well. is it the 105 2.8 or the 4.0 or the 2.5? good for critter undersides. Planes and flowers?
Paul, the 25-50mm is slow but sharrrpp.
Ric cket man!
Stunt, the 28mm 2.0 renders well, open it up!
Samy, I always wanted the 2.5 P, they are hard to find in mint condition, keep posting with it.
Jeff you are the master of Sand in the Ocean or the Desert.
Jay, FANTASTIC Utah composition!
Phong, love the seagull sunset.
George, great to see an 8mm being used well.
Buddy, is the 55mm 1.2 glow all natural? it is really unique either way.
Life has brought a really bad 2018 so far, and taken a lot of my time to make things better. Got to keep on trucking so here are some earth day celebratory pictures from my backyard.
These are all with the 200mm 5.6 C. Medical a with the 1/2 auxiliary lens. love it outdoors where you do not need the flash. Mount it, set the D3 to ISO 800 set f/16 on the lens +2.0 exp compensation and shoot away, focus with your body - get closer or further away. Best Bokeh ever. Perfect set with the cables and power supply cost me $130.
And finally, my near perfect 800mm 5.6 EDIF ais, in its new home, a Pelikan 1650. Can hardly lift it! Have no real use for it, but mine it is. Should trade it for a Nocturnal.
Spring is finally here, and I finally got out with my camera; so I'm returning from lurkdom and Like-dom to post a couple of shots. But first, my condolences to Ken and Robin. It's been a bit under 3 years since my own father passed, and a bit over 15 months since my mother died, so I have an idea what you're going through. It's been quite a transition for me. I still frequently think of them.
Here are a couple of shots looking from nearby Nanoose Bay over to mainland BC. Both were taken with my 200 f/4 Q on the Fuji X-T2 (thus, 300mm equivalent field of view).
The 105mm is the f2.8 micro a lens that stays long on the camera, even though I have the 105mm f1.8 and 105mm 2.5 plus if I want to go really close have the matching PN-11
The planes and flowers ..... it just is what it is .... I was trying the 500mm f4P again after it had been in the case for a while. So they are just what passed my vision, and testing hand-held at MFD and infinity.
What it told me was that yes I can still just about handle the beast, and also that I do not desperately need the 200-500mm AFS lens that I am going to pull the trigger on one day. Just not yet.
I have been looking at the 200-500 thread and the pix are amazing .... specially for birds in flight
I just can't match that these days with MF lenses, I'm sure the body is getting too old for that stuff .... though the mind says 'of course you can do it'
Well after much consideration and soul searching (not really ) - just file it under the Curtis "kit building is forever" motto, I have decided to settle on native mounts for my Nikkor glass.
Fuji gear to the buy/sell board. APS-C size sensors with adapter 35mm equivalent glass just doesn't do it for me. Loses some of the unique character of the old glass, flaws and all when you can't utilize the full frame of the lens.
Posting my last Nikkor glass on Fuji picture. At least until the rumored GFX 50R medium format rangefinder comes out
Below L-R - Native F on Nikon Df, native S mount on Nikon S for my film itch, and native LTM mount on Leica. (all 2.8cm/3.5 lenses)
Shot with Nikkor 24mm/2.8 Ais on X-Pro2. Good camera, served me well. Time to move on
gbohannon wrote:
Well after much consideration and soul searching (not really ) - just file it under the Curtis "kit building is forever" motto, I have decided to settle on native mounts for my Nikkor glass.
Fuji gear to the buy/sell board.
Posting my last Nikkor glass on Fuji picture. At least until the rumored GFX 50R medium format rangefinder comes out
Below L-R - Native F on Nikon Df, native S mount on Nikon S for my film itch, and native LTM mount on Leica. (all 2.8cm/3.5 lenses)
Shot with Nikkor 24mm/2.8 Ais on X-Pro2. Good camera, served me well. Time to move on
Not really. If Fuji comes out with that GFX 50R medium format, that will probably be my only body. I had the opportunity to shoot a 50s last week. WOW. Medium format with the ability to crop down to 35mm. Wide open possibilities for adapting many mounts.
And my wife has an X-E2s that she may let me borrow from time to time
gbohannon wrote:
Not really. If Fuji comes out with that GFX 50R medium format, that will probably be my only body. I had the opportunity to shoot a 50s last week. WOW. Medium format with the ability to crop down to 35mm. Wide open possibilities for adapting many mounts.
And my wife has an X-E2s that she may let me borrow from time to time
) - just file it under the Curtis "kit building is forever" motto, I have decided to settle on native mounts for my Nikkor glass. 
