Ken Hill wrote: graytrekker wrote:
Any love for this lens?
Doug I have been on the road and have used the 35-200 a lot. If you look at some of my previous posts you’ll see it paired up with the Df and Z6. While its not the sharpest lens in the drawer it’s sharp enough and gives great color rendition. I think it is truly a “jackknife.” I’ve used it while traveling and I’m pleased.
Ken: Thanks. Yes, I find it "serviceable" (even on my Sony A7RII).
I am not sure how to find your older posts with this lens vs other "reply" posts when I search. Maybe I need to look somewhere else - or you could PM me some links. I would like to see others' work with the lens.
I have a part 2 to the review, but haven't finished it yet. One missing link is to compare it to the 80-200 that everyone loves (or at least used to in the 70s). I don't have one of those (yet)
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Time to ditch that card, Curtis
I think I was able to salvage that card with a piece of software called SD Card Formatter that allows for erasure of the card and re-establishing the FAT32 format. I tested the card by taking a set of photos and the computer both recognized the card without difficulty and uploaded all the photos. I think that process worked. I do have a second 32GB Lexar card that has acted up and was not recognized by the Card Formatter, so that will be thrown out. I've always relied on my camera to erase cards but have never before reformatted one. This may be a wise thing to do. I don't know if others do special maintenance of the compact flash cards. I'm curious about that...
CGrindahl wrote:
I think I was able to salvage that card with a piece of software called SD Card Formatter that allows for erasure of the card and re-establishing the FAT32 format. I tested the card by taking a set of photos and the computer both recognized the card without difficulty and uploaded all the photos. I think that process worked. I do have a second 32GB Lexar card that has acted up and was not recognized by the Card Formatter, so that will be thrown out. I've always relied on my camera to erase cards but have never before reformatted one. This may be a wise thing to do. I don't know if others do special maintenance of the compact flash cards. I'm curious about that......Show more →
After every photo download, I reformat the card in camera to erase the contents. I have never had a card issue.
Chris Dees wrote:
I'm now at Kuala Lumpur Airport killing time with some Q&D developments.
Bats flying out the Deer Cave at Mulu National Park.
Every end of the day (except when's raining) 2-3 million bats are leaving the cave looking for food. The consume 15 tons (no typo) of insects every day.!
It took about 45 minutes before the last one was out, very unreal sight.
Seems like Bat Cave would be the most appropriate name!
I had one card go bad, and in the trash it went after I managed to get all my files off, with one exception.
SD cards are cheap enough now to not worry about trashing a corrupt one, rather than shooting a special one of a kind event and finding out afterwards there is no recovery.
I still have the 2GB cards from my D50 days that still work with no issues None of mine are Lexar though.
CGrindahl wrote:
I think I was able to salvage that card with a piece of software called SD Card Formatter that allows for erasure of the card and re-establishing the FAT32 format. I tested the card by taking a set of photos and the computer both recognized the card without difficulty and uploaded all the photos. I think that process worked. I do have a second 32GB Lexar card that has acted up and was not recognized by the Card Formatter, so that will be thrown out. I've always relied on my camera to erase cards but have never before reformatted one. This may be a wise thing to do. I don't know if others do special maintenance of the compact flash cards. I'm curious about that......Show more →
Still in the midst of processing today's shots. There was supposed to be an aircraft flying over the runway at the museum, with parachutists jumping from said plane. However, Ohio weather kicked in, it's cook, barely above 50, and was raining pretty good this morning, with off and on showers still ongoing around here. I drove the 45 minutes up to Grimes and hoped it would at least take off while I was there, but no. The aircraft is D-Day Doll, a C53 from WWII.
graytrekker wrote: Ken Hill wrote:
Doug we are on the road and my computer is an iPhone/Pad. Actually we are spending the night in Missoula on Wednesday, enroute to Seattle. My pics with a 200mm exif would be the 35-200. I’ll try and look and post if I find anything.
Loving what you've been dropping on the thread Ken. The only micro lens I have is a 55 f/2.8 AI-s but alas, it never leaves the cabinet. Seeing shot you and others post taken with this or another micro lens are inspiring, though I don't know if I have another lens purchase left in my system... I think I'm carrying the weight of the 47 Nikon manual focus lenses already in my kit...
Appreciate the comments and likes everyone. It is nice re-joining the conversation on this thread with other lens junkies...
My test shots with the salvaged SD card include only one I'll post here, this taken with the 135 f/2.8 Q.C. AI. Folks who've been around for some time will recall when I first began talking up this lens. It really is a wonderful performer. This, of course, was taken in my living room... the photo was converted with Silver Efex Pro 2.
Later I took a ramble around the neighborhood with the same lens. I'd spent the entire day inside and thought it might be good for my body to take a walk.
Finally I feel a need to return to the car show on Saturday... I gave no attention to Corvettes, which is shameful given the appreciation for those vehicles by folks on this thread... and the fact I owned three of them myselfs in another era. So here goes, these taken with the 25-50 f/4 AI-s and the 135 f/2.8 Q.C. AI. First an early Vette, perhaps 1958 or 59. My first one was a 1956 with a bobbed read end, painted with five coats of candy apple red lacquer... a new paint on the market at the time.
Finally, close shots of a 1967. I told the owner the story about bringing my buddy's 1967 427 cubic inch Vette to work one Saturday to show my boss. At the time I was working as a management trainee at a Ford Motor Company assembly plant in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I'd talked with him about Corvettes but he didn't see why I'd find that more interesting than my 1967 Ford Mustang fastback. I took him for a ride after lunch, launching the Corvette from a stop light and speed shifting from first to second gear as we drove down a freeway entrance ramp. The engine was so powerful you felt the front tires were lifting off the pavement. He grabbed hold with both hands and said with a gasp... "I get it..." Of course, I wasn't driving a Shelby or there might have been something to talk about.
Back from a day "at the range"
No- not the driving range, or rifle range, rather like more "home on the range" :-)
Specifically, the National Bison Range. A lovely18,800 acre "hill" on the Flathead Reservation that the federal government "appropriated" from the Tribe in 1908 to save the last of the bison (that they themselves had killed off). It is the nation's oldest National Wildlife Refuge.
It is located less than 1 hour north of Missoula and well worth a visit. The numbers of bison are carefully controlled through their spring roundup (darn, missed photographing that - again!) - but it is a place where the "buffaloes roam", and one should always be able to see them there (without the traffic congestion like in Yellowstone), along with deer, elk, pronghorn, bear (saw all those today), cougar, 200+ species of bird. The loop road takes about 2 hours - it's one way, so once your start you have to finish.
Right now the arrowleaf balsamroot is in full bloom and is everywhere. Its not the super bloom of California poppies, but still pretty impressive. They are a member of the sunflower family. There were also larkspur, just opening glacier lillies and shooting stars. The Bison Range sits due west of the taller peaks in the Mission Mtns and I was hoping for some good late afternoon/early evening shots with the flowers in the foreground. Alas, the clouds rolled in and I settled for just the flowers and animals.
Here is a focus stacked image (3) of what I am talking about. Although a calm day, there were still wafts of air enough to make the flower heads sway. I was surprised it came out this well. I might post some other photos if any strike my eye tomorrow when I look at the full set of images from today.
None of mine are Lexar though.
