Colin, yes, the F6 was tripod mounted, and it might have been a 20s or 30s exposure. Despite trying to use reciprocity curve calculations for the film there was slight underexposure, and the image has a bit of tweaking to bring out shadows.
Steve, great photos of Malta. Keep them coming. Thanks for the tour!
Andy, excellent series from India. Would love to stand in front of The Taj someday.
Samy, great b&w photos of the Golden Gate. I have a few from the same spot (2017) but unfortunately, all with AF. It is an awesome view.
These are from the April 2019 visit to Florence.
Hospital of the Innocents founded in 1445, the world's first orphanage. Architect and engineer was Filippo Brunelleschi who also designed the great dome of Santa Maria Del Fiore. Smart chap!
Fuji X-E1 + 28/2.8 AIs
At the end, there is a great small bar with inexpensive local bottled beers. Yep, had at least a couple.
Steve, great photos of Malta. Keep them coming. Thanks for the tour!
Colin, excellent series from India. Would love to stand in front of The Taj someday.
Samy, great b&w photos of the Golden Gate. I have a few from the same spot (2017) but unfortunately, all with AF. It is an awesome view.
These are from the April 2019 visit to Florence.
Hospital of the Innocents founded in 1445, the world's first orphanage. Architect and engineer was Filippo Brunelleschi who also designed the great dome of Santa Maria Del Fiore. Smart chap!
Hi felllows, managed to get out to the last crusing grand street, the nitro dragster run, a show not a race. Took the wrong lenses, ended too far from the cars, got there too late, poor photos but had a lot of fun regardless. Next year it will be the 200 2.0.
Photos are at night with street lights, both the Z6 and D810 are satisfactory in these conditions. The Z6 is better.
35mm 1.4 last series at 2.8, please ignore file names, must have been tired, don't even own a 58mm.
I just purchased a Fotodiox Pro TLT ROKR lens adapter to mount Nikon lenses to my Fuji X-T2. This is a tilt-shift adapter that makes the same movements as a tilt-shift lens. This allows me to add tilt-shift capabilities to any Nikon lens. I did some experimenting this afternoon using our local courthouse as the subject.
All photos were made with a Nikkor 24mm AI. The first shot is with no corrections at all. In the second photo, I corrected the verticals by shifting the lens up. I didn't adjust it quite far enough, but you can still see a marked improvement over the uncorrected photo.
Pano in horizontal orientation. With the adapter, the camera doesn't move. I shifted the lens to the far left and made an exposure. I then moved the lens to the right by 5 clicks and made another exposure. I continued to do this until I reached the far right, making a total of 5 exposures. They were extremely easy to stitch since they lined up perfectly. 3a Horiz Pano_Final by Scott Poupard
All in all I'm extremely pleased. I still have quite a bit of experimenting and learning to do, but I'm definitely liking it. I wish it had the ability to make vertical corrections while making panos, but it isn't quite that versatile.
This psoting will likely bore you. Two years ago I bought one of my dream lens from Japan, the 800mm 5.6. The lens is pristine, not a scratch, not a spec of dust.
I have not been able to use this lens for anything. It is just too long and I do not do birds. There are hardly any in SoCal. When I use it for faraway subjects the atmospheric conditions ruin the photo, it also seems sensitive to overheating under the sun and getting fuzzy.
Today is a nice shady day so I tested it around the house with the TC-14 and by itself.
The results are outstanding and the lens with or without the converter is super sharp and contrasty.
I was not able to focus it very well with DSLRs, with the Z6 it focuses easily.
One detail for the outstanding results of today, I turned the Z6 VR OFF.
I am just back from 4 nights in Yellowstone. I had the bounty of a couple of nice sunsets. In particular, I have been trying to get a really nice one at Great Fountain Geyser. Apparently I am not alone. The night I wasn't there (at a different geyser), I was told there were about 3 dozen photographers with big cameras and heavy duty tripods all elbowing in for some space.
Anyway, there were only 6 of us the night I was there. Here I am amongst "pros" with big super megapixel Canons and D850s and tall, heavy tripods (almost needing a stool to look through their viewfinders), with fancy pano heads, etc. Me, with my 40 years old manual lenses on an oddball camera and a diminutive backpacking tripod. My whole kit cost less than their tripod! It was weird.
I have a very nice shot from about 20 years ago on a cheap point-shoot, so trying to improve on the quality oof that photo. More often than not, what starts out to look like a potentially good sunset ends up fading as the clouds seem to disappear about 10 min before the sun goes down.
Here are 2 - one just before sunset with the 20mm f2.8. This lens seem to give pretty good sun stars. Then the post-sunset with the 24mm f2.8 non-AI. Both taken with the Df. they feel a bit lopsided to me, with most of the color on the right. However, if you move to the left to more center the color, then you also get White Dome Geyser (off to the right) with a bunch of cars and headlights/taillights in the picture. So, it is what it is.
I'll have another chance this w/e. We are going back for the last w/e the Old Faithful Inn is open. Not sure what to expect. Up here (NW Montana), we are getting hit with an early winter storm. I had planned on heading to the east side of Glacier for the magnificent fall colors there - but they are expecting up to 4 feet of snow by Monday - there is already 21 " in the town of East Glacier by 6 pm tonight. I think that's a bit of a season ending event! I suspect this will also result in few people also in Yellowstone. So far weather forecast for next w/e looking optimistic.
rafaelcasd wrote:
This posting will likely bore you. Two years ago I bought one of my dream lens from Japan, the 800mm 5.6. The lens is pristine, not a scratch, not a spec of dust.
I have not been able to use this lens for anything. It is just too long and I do not do birds. There are hardly any in SoCal. When I use it for faraway subjects the atmospheric conditions ruin the photo, it also seems sensitive to overheating under the sun and getting fuzzy.
Today is a nice shady day so I tested it around the house with the TC-14 and by itself.
The results are outstanding and the lens with or without the converter is super sharp and contrasty.
I was not able to focus it very well with DSLRs, with the Z6 it focuses easily.
One detail for the outstanding results of today, I turned the Z6 VR OFF.
What can I use this lens for? ...Show more →
A few thoughts on what to tray it on, non Birds
Try the Moon
Try leveraging the compression effect, IE roads with telephone poles or other scenes where the tremendous compression effect will shine.
graytrekker wrote:
I am just back from 4 nights in Yellowstone. I had the bounty of a couple of nice sunsets. In particular, I have been trying to get a really nice one at Great Fountain Geyser. Apparently I am not alone. The night I wasn't there (at a different geyser), I was told there were about 3 dozen photographers with big cameras and heavy duty tripods all elbowing in for some space.
Anyway, there were only 6 of us the night I was there. Here I am amongst "pros" with big super megapixel Canons and D850s and tall, heavy tripods (almost needing a stool to look through their viewfinders), with fancy pano heads, etc. Me, with my 40 years old manual lenses on an oddball camera and a diminutive backpacking tripod. My whole kit cost less than their tripod! It was weird.
I have a very nice shot from about 20 years ago on a cheap point-shoot, so trying to improve on the quality oof that photo. More often than not, what starts out to look like a potentially good sunset ends up fading as the clouds seem to disappear about 10 min before the sun goes down.
Here are 2 - one just before sunset with the 20mm f2.8. This lens seem to give pretty good sun stars. Then the post-sunset with the 24mm f2.8 non-AI. Both taken with the Df. they feel a bit lopsided to me, with most of the color on the right. However, if you move to the left to more center the color, then you also get White Dome Geyser (off to the right) with a bunch of cars and headlights/taillights in the picture. So, it is what it is.
I'll have another chance this w/e. We are going back for the last w/e the Old Faithful Inn is open. Not sure what to expect. Up here (NW Montana), we are getting hit with an early winter storm. I had planned on heading to the east side of Glacier for the magnificent fall colors there - but they are expecting up to 4 feet of snow by Monday - there is already 21 " in the town of East Glacier by 6 pm tonight. I think that's a bit of a season ending event! I suspect this will also result in few people also in Yellowstone. So far weather forecast for next w/e looking optimistic.
The numbers might have been due to a few photo tours on location?
I had a similar experience taking suset photos in Hong Kong with regard to high end kit. I felt like a poor neighbour with my litlle 50/2 and D610 mounted on a travel tripod. Apart form the obvious stability advantages a bigger tripod claims a larger working area due to it's wider footprint. Therefore more elbow room. I guess we are all seeking a good shot and so long as people are civil and courteous to each then each to his own.
If you wanted to then you could address the sky colour imbalance in post processing. The grad filter in LR has a 'range mask' that will do what you want. Another item to add to your list of things to check out!
You did say winter was on its way so perhaps you might have more indoor time
rafaelcasd wrote:
This psoting will likely bore you. Two years ago I bought one of my dream lens from Japan, the 800mm 5.6. The lens is pristine, not a scratch, not a spec of dust.
I have not been able to use this lens for anything. It is just too long and I do not do birds. There are hardly any in SoCal. When I use it for faraway subjects the atmospheric conditions ruin the photo, it also seems sensitive to overheating under the sun and getting fuzzy.
Today is a nice shady day so I tested it around the house with the TC-14 and by itself.
The results are outstanding and the lens with or without the converter is super sharp and contrasty.
I was not able to focus it very well with DSLRs, with the Z6 it focuses easily.
One detail for the outstanding results of today, I turned the Z6 VR OFF.
Well - Moon-shots of course!
Then you got to travel around the world with it to every solar eclipse, I guess that would be no fun regarding size and weight though...
Rafael, maybe bring a white towel to put over the lens when you're outside with it.
rafaelcasd wrote:
This psoting will likely bore you. Two years ago I bought one of my dream lens from Japan, the 800mm 5.6. The lens is pristine, not a scratch, not a spec of dust.
I have not been able to use this lens for anything. It is just too long and I do not do birds. There are hardly any in SoCal. When I use it for faraway subjects the atmospheric conditions ruin the photo, it also seems sensitive to overheating under the sun and getting fuzzy.
Today is a nice shady day so I tested it around the house with the TC-14 and by itself.
The results are outstanding and the lens with or without the converter is super sharp and contrasty.
I was not able to focus it very well with DSLRs, with the Z6 it focuses easily.
One detail for the outstanding results of today, I turned the Z6 VR OFF.
Thanks for the advice with the 800mm, will cover it from the sun and maybe it is the VR on the Z6 that has been a problem, will test that.
To give you a sense of the reach of this lens here is the same place with the 105mm and the 800mm with 1.4 TC. The 1120mm combo is just as sharp as the 105mm micro, fully open.
Thanks for the tour!
