gbohannon wrote:
I watched Daytona yesterday. First race I have watched in a couple years. Hard to watch now. I grew up with the Saturday night short tracks of South Boston Va and Orange Co NC when the Grand National guys would come. Once they shut down North Wilkesboro and Rockingham NC, putting the emphasis on the super speedways and after Dale Sr's accident, I sort of lost interest. But I do agree, that is some amazing safety engineering in both car and track to prevent injuries.
G
I tuned in to the last hour, meaning I saw 9 laps, 4 of which were following a pace car. Honestly, this stuff is unwatchable at this point. I probably tuned in to a half dozen race endings last year, and all of it was the same. Everybody pretty well behaved and then the last 10 laps everybody gets the reefer madness. It feels like all star wrestling now. Ugh.
And some Hood photos, not sure of the aperture, some are fully open.
My house can be seen in this one, as well as Palomar mountain, a former famous observatory. Need to tilt my head to the right a little, or turn the grid on.
Jay you've got to love Bryce and its just an amazing place. I went into my archives and dug up my photo of the spot where you probably snapped your shot. The second photo is at that rim looking down. I caught a few hikers.
Not happy about that
I put the Zeiss 50 on and even though it has contacts
It was focus peaking only and no aperture
I wonder if the Nikon 24PCE and the 45 Ai-p work any different They both have contacts
Probably move the Df after vacation along with the Fuji
Reagan wrote:
Not happy about that
I put the Zeiss 50 on and even though it has contacts
It was focus peaking only and no aperture
I wonder if the Nikon 24PCE and the 45 Ai-p work any different They both have contacts
Probably move the Df after vacation along with the Fuji
R
Reagan,
I just tried two lenses with CPU's. The Nikon 45 Ai-P and my dandelion chip modified 20mm f/3.5.
Both give me green outline of the focus point confirmation when in focus and correct aperture information recorded when setting the lens ring aperture to minimum aperture and controlling shooting aperture via the rear command dial.
Non-cpu lenses will not register shooting aperture because it does not have mechanical aperture coupling in the FTZ adapter.
It may be a Zeiss compatibility issue. I know there are some issues with 3rd party and the FTZ. A friend of mine at work tried his Tamron 150-600mm on my Z6 and it would not autofocus. On Tamron webpage he found out he would need to send it in for a firmware update.
This is a storied building in suburban Maryland just north of Washington DC. It was built in the 19th century as a summer vacation "retreat" for DC residents, evidently the ones that could afford one back then. Maybe not enough customers showed up so it became a finishing school (!) for women until World War II. After the war, it was repurposed into a quiet retreat for soldiers recovering from injuries. While the grounds are still scenic, the quietness is now gone. Where I was standing with the tripod for this shot, I could turn around and look at Interstate 495 right over some sparse trees, and the traffic noise was non-stop.
The building now houses apartments for the last about 15 years, after some restoration work. There's smaller ancillary buildings in the complex that still need much work, however. One in particular looked in quite bad shape. Several houses near the Seminary building and designed by architect Emily Holman have a unique international influence, including the Japanese pagoda structure I posted a couple days back. I will try to get back to this very interesting location for more pics in a few weeks, including trying a different perspective on the main building itself.
Side story - while I was in the middle of whatever I have to do for about 20 minutes for the couple shots I took, a lady, probably a resident, walking back to the building stopped and told me excitedly that this was the first large format camera she had seen in a few decades. The Wista sure gets attention
