DeltaSigma wrote:
HBD Curtis! I hope you have a lovely lunch.
Back in 'Old Blighty' the days have a definite autumnal feel to them.
Scraped off a thin layer of ice from the car windscreen yesterday morning - due to the clear skies.
During the day it is beautiful. Too good to be stuck indoors at work. All I could muster was a half hour walk at lunchtime. I hope the weather holds until Saturday because the leaves are turning......
Took the D7100 IR for a spin with the 16/3.5 along the Kennet & Avon canal.
CGrindahl wrote:
Thanks Chin and others for the birthday wish. Back from the farmer's market with many melons and a few photos I'll process later. At the moment we are heading our for lunch and an afternoon in west Marin... there will be more photos, no doubt. See you all later... though perhaps that will be tomorrow night since I'm at Sue's and all my photo software is at home with the iMac...
webmstrk9 wrote:
For those interested in the Nikon Z Mirrorless and manual lenses, someone posted a video of a 50/1.4 ais and z7.
So it won't display the F stop on the LCD screens? THe D850 does this and I was wondering is there any other features that will be lacking on the Z7 compared to the D850 with AI/AIS lenses?
mysh wrote:
So it won't display the F stop on the LCD screens? THe D850 does this and I was wondering is there any other features that will be lacking on the Z7 compared to the D850 with AI/AIS lenses?
Once you set/choose your non-cpu lens, it’ll display the maximum aperture, but it wont change because there isn’t the ‘pin’ like on the df, to track which aperture the lens is set to
in that video at 7:00min he talks about the focus peaking and says its exactly like the Sony and he says it could be good in video but bad in stills. Does anyone know what he is talking about?
Ah, the Z7, close, but not quite Nikon to pull me back from Sony.
In the mean time here's one from the 300/4.5 ED AI @ f/8.
Too much pollution coming from that cargo carrier, but it seems no one is around to police such things. Such polluting ships shouldn't be allowed in our territorial waters . . . .
I'm really blown away by the D7100 - sorry to keep going on about it but the colour rendition is amazing. Neither of my previous cameras could cope with sunlit reds - and I tried. This camera just handles them beautifully.
As we head for spring and have had plenty of rain, the flowers are looking gorgeous. The ash from the fires seems to have helped the soil and our vehgetation is making a comeback too. Some flower shots taken with the 300 f4.5 and the 500 f8 mirror lens. The mirror lens is really nicely balanced on the camera and despite the windy afternoon performed pretty well - any errors are mine not the lens'!
Oosty wrote:
I'm really blown away by the D7100 - sorry to keep going on about it but the colour rendition is amazing. Neither of my previous cameras could cope with sunlit reds - and I tried. This camera just handles them beautifully.
As we head for spring and have had plenty of rain, the flowers are looking gorgeous. The ash from the fires seems to have helped the soil and our vehgetation is making a comeback too. Some flower shots taken with the 300 f4.5 and the 500 f8 mirror lens. The mirror lens is really nicely balanced on the camera and despite the windy afternoon performed pretty well - any errors are mine not the lens'! ...Show more →
It's great to hear the excitement in your words, Peter. That's bound to spur some new creativity as you explore the D7100's boundaries. I loved my D200 (which was a large jump all around from the D100), and there was some special D200 sauce, but there were also limitations at the ends of the dynamic range relative to the newer sensors.
George, terrific work with the CLA project. Your Leica screw mount 5cm is a beautiful lens. I have looked at a few of the M mount Nikkors but they have become a bit pricey.
Thanks to all for the likes.
A couple with the S5 Pro and Nikkor 105/2.5 @ f/5.6 and f/4.
George, terrific work with the CLA project. Your Leica screw mount 5cm is a beautiful lens. I have looked at a few of the M mount Nikkors but they have become a bit pricey.
Thanks to all for the likes.
A couple with the S5 Pro and Nikkor 105/2.5 @ f/5.6 and f/4.
Thanks Serge. Yes the Nikkor LTM lenses have really gone up the last couple years. You really have to search for bargains and then roll the dice on condition if you can't inspect them in person. I have taken a chance on a few of them but in each case have been able to CLA them to great shape. The best finds so far have come from a local camera store and a thrift shop. They either get traded in or donated thinking they are no longer relevant equipment and most camera store employees do not have much background on the old stuff. I went into one shop that had a huge selection of used equipment and asked about Nikkor rangefinder lenses... The sales person said they thought they had something "in the junk room". I watched him go to a cluttered room and pulled out a cardboard box from a filing cabinet. We went through it and there were a couple lenses in there. Covered in years of dust. I got one of them and it cleaned up to near mint condition.
So they are out there, but definitely hard to find at bargain prices. Buy low, sell high. Not a knock against KEH, but saw a few on their site. Using the 5cm 1.4 as an example... They will purchase one in BGN condition for $131, but had one listed for sale on their site in BGN condition for $468 Quite the mark up.
You definitely have to be more discerning finding these lenses than F mount.
Peter, the Sierra Nevada pictures are always amazing, glad to see you got to be out there again.
Love the double bug, Serge. Made me do a double take, well executed bu the artist.
Some 24mm f2.8 AIS bokeh work, I like how the tennis court lines appear in this wide open shot.
gbohannon wrote:
Amazing shots Peter! I can only imagine the actual views standing there. I really need to get out west one day
G
Ah, stay home. It is totally overrated and getting really crowded
I am actually holding back some of what I think are the better shots of the trip - will post them over the coming weeks to have a few of them make it into Flickr Explore (you only get one every 8 days I think, and I am still in that blackout phase from the last one that was featured there).
Also, the majority of the images this year were taken with the AF 24-85mm, so companion thread stuff, especially almost all the stitched panos. The 16mm is just not very easy to use in Photomerge. Even with massive overlap, I have a lot of panos that just won't stitch in Photomerge.
pburke wrote:
Ah, stay home. It is totally overrated and getting really crowded
I am actually holding back some of what I think are the better shots of the trip - will post them over the coming weeks to have a few of them make it into Flickr Explore (you only get one every 8 days I think, and I am still in that blackout phase from the last one that was featured there).
Also, the majority of the images this year were taken with the AF 24-85mm, so companion thread stuff, especially almost all the stitched panos. The 16mm is just not very easy to use in Photomerge. Even with massive overlap, I have a lot of panos that just won't stitch in Photomerge.
I get away with 16mm panos on my DX IR modded camera. Depends on the scene though.
Looking forward to the shots you are holding back. Your present ones are amazing enough.
Quite the mark up. 