Always like the shots from Acadia, Scott. Like the way the cloud formation works in the middle of the first shot.
Jay, your comment on less "character" to work through on the 24mm PCE is interesting. How often do you work with the lens fully shifted, or do you shift and stitch enough to not ever use the edges of the shifted image?
Doug, thanks for the comparison. I have to admit to not looking through all the images, I kinda got lazy after a few. I take it you're sticking to 28mm then for better optical performance?
Continue to enjoy the India images, Andy. Lot's of subjects I have never seen or heard off, so it's been a great virtual tour for me.
Martin, I had forgotten about the sandscapes you do so well, it's great and pleasurable to see them here again.
Colin, too many images to comment on, but your posts over the past few weeks have been very inspiring, makes me want to get and shoot, though this next few days' of heat index over 100 degrees will likely mean nothing over this weekend.
I'll add one benefit to James' advice on off-lease computers, it's a cheap way to get an OS license. I discovered in my build, reusing some previous components, if I had to purchase a new OS license it would have been 20-25% of my total cost. Feel free to PM if you want more info Jay.
I built dual processor workstations for over 20 years, and it is usually very expensive. Back then (mid 1990's) there were few options for dual processing - which photoshop utilizes quite well. My first duallie was a Pentium III 450mhz 2gb ram in an Asus p2b-ds. The motherboard ended up costing $500. It ended life still running overclocked to about 800mhz with two coppermine core Pentium III 700's - I still have it. The sound of all those SCSI drives spinning up sounds like a space ship.
Then cheap options began to come available. Abit made a motherboard that was a viral smash. Well over a million boards sold within a year, and a web site started named after the board...bp6.com. The trick was you could use two original celeron cpus which were not suppose to be smp enabled, and yet they worked great. That duallie ended with two 533mhz celerons overclocked to 600mhz and was my primary server for the house running various linux distros for many years. Interestingly, I sold it for what I had invested 15 years earlier to an auto dealership in Indiana that had based their business on a slower version of the same board - which had recently died.
Then I built a couple duallie AMD based boxes. The original Athlon XP had not been smp disabled. So I built a Tyan Tiger S2460 based box using Athlon 1700 XPs which ended up having two Athlon 2400 MP for their newer core (Palamino I think), and another another AMD based box for my Receptionist area of my studio using the Asus A7m266 rev 1.06 with two barton core 2800+. I still play around with both.
My last big build was a dual 3.2 ghz Intel xeon (yorktown hyper-thread cores) based on the Asus PC-DL. The OS thought it had four cores, but it was two full cores and two partial cores. Then bought a couple premade boxes in 2008 which proved to be irritating. Soon I was perusing hardware again on ebay (it is a lot like the nikon addiction ) when I noticed a boatload of HP xw6600 server/workstations for sale. I picked up a dual 3.0ghz quad core E5450 xeons - thats eight cores! For the sum of $88. Added 32gb ram for $100. These old workstations are built like tanks, and quite often come with very high end graphics cards, and other perks. So, besides the OS savings - the hardware savings are huge!
pbraymond wrote:
I'll add one benefit to James' advice on off-lease computers, it's a cheap way to get an OS license. I discovered in my build, reusing some previous components, if I had to purchase a new OS license it would have been 20-25% of my total cost. Feel free to PM if you want more info Jay.
My last build was an I7 on a P6T Deluxe V2 in a Lan Li case with 24gb ram. A bit slow by today's standards but it still was fine until WINDOZE 10 decided to scuttle. I ran a bunch of stress tests and then tried to duplicate a 6tb external drive. 2 hours into the copy it could not find the source drive.
So, if I stick to ATX I have a transferable OS and case.
The new technology seems much faster, I'm having all sorts of fun learning about such devices as M2 NVMe drives and RGB controllers(!)
Jay,
You may want to read this HERE Also, your copy error sounds like a bad usb port.
HCE HCE wrote:
Colin, Ray, Jim, thanks for the help!
My last build was an I7 on a P6T Deluxe V2 in a Lan Li case with 24gb ram. A bit slow by today's standards but it still was fine until WINDOZE 10 decided to scuttle. I ran a bunch of stress tests and then tried to duplicate a 6tb external drive. 2 hours into the copy it could not find the source drive.
So, if I stick to ATX I have a transferable OS and case.
The new technology seems much faster, I'm having all sorts of fun learning about such devices as M2 NVMe drives and RGB controllers(!)
Here's a shot with the Nikkor-H.C 28mm f/3.5, wide open.
Even though it has a boat load of field curvature and is mostly useful at f/11, I still like this lens a lot.
A few candids whilst walking between London train terminals, tube stations and my destination
No surprise that people are doing their 'thing' on smart phones.
Personally I like looking at the architecture, scanning for a photo opportunity and ensuring I don't get run over by a crazy cyclist or motorist jumping red lights.
I love going to London but would not want to live there.
I tried the 28/2.8 AI-S but felt it wasn't as good in IR as the 24/2.8 NC at close distances.
The 24 also gives me a slightly wider field on the crop sensor D7100 for this kind of shooting
I have to say I love these lenses on my Z6. I don't need high resolution, so this combination is perfect for me. Also, just for the fun of it, got a Nikon F3 to really get out of the megapixel race ...
Andy, your shot made me google Rajasthan, hope to see more shots from you. Looks like a really architecturally interesting place.
Good "street" shots, Colin. I like the way the OOF areas frame the real action.
Well captured detail in the fungus shots, Jay.
Serge, thanks for sharing the very cool pics from the 50th Moon Landing anniversary. The Hassys are awesome looking, and the Moon picture gallery looks like there would be quite a bit of detail to explore.
pbraymond wrote:
Serge, thanks for sharing the very cool pics from the 50th Moon Landing anniversary. The Hassys are awesome looking, and the Moon picture gallery looks like there would be quite a bit of detail to explore.
Hi, Ray:
Thanks and glad you enjoyed them. The Hassy & Zeiss combination captured beautiful detailed images in b&w and color. Great endorsement for quality film gear.
I wanted to take photos of the color displays but they were crowded and the glass reflections were terrible.
It is good to see the renewed interest in the NASA accomplishments during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions.
HCE HCE wrote:
Colin, Ray, Jim, thanks for the help!
My last build was an I7 on a P6T Deluxe V2 in a Lan Li case with 24gb ram. A bit slow by today's standards but it still was fine until WINDOZE 10 decided to scuttle. I ran a bunch of stress tests and then tried to duplicate a 6tb external drive. 2 hours into the copy it could not find the source drive.
So, if I stick to ATX I have a transferable OS and case.
The new technology seems much faster, I'm having all sorts of fun learning about such devices as M2 NVMe drives and RGB controllers(!)
