So the mail finally showed up!! Congrats George, and it goes both ways. I have a few LTM lenses for the Z now, which is all your fault
Well you will take it to places I can't. No way I am hauling around the Wista too far from the car. You did mention the Z6 adapter, that's really cool.
BTW the Reagan lens is intriguing me, if just for the fact that it can make the darn square change colour.
gbohannon wrote:
How about a hardware shot to move the thread along?
This is all Samy's fault
Delivered today. 4x5 back and 6x9 (120) sliding back. Can also adapt the Z6 for stitched panorama shots up to 88mmX44mm. (Samy a quick test shows I can achieve infinity focus using the Z6 adapter with the 135 lens, but not much room for movement)
Now configuring a backpack to carry with tripod for some NC Mountains and OuterBanks shots.
I don't know if I would call it the "Reagan" lens
John Hinkey was using it years ago when he was hiking
I just think it's a nice fit with the FTZ and the Z6
and the contacts giving it focus confirmation really helps me
not to mention its nice and sharp
I really love these images. You are on a roll! Would just die for the chance to see such!! Did you try any of these four in B&W?
Mary
Thanks Mary, one o the advantages of the XT1 I was using in India was the ability to shoot RAW+jpeg with the jpeg being the film preset on screen as it were so I shot most things B&W as well as having the option in post of course.
Here they are anyways, if not the exact same shot then one of the series
These people are selling flowers, an important part of the daily ritual of offerings to the gods, and also you can see the bottles on the left. These do not contain drinking water, they are empty. People fill them with water from the holiest of holy rivers The Ganges and take them home, using them for blessings and giving as gifts to friends and relatives who haven't been able to make the pilgrimage, whether through ill health or poverty.
There are normally very long lines to enter the Accademia Gallery but not on this off season day. We were amazed to see zero lines plus for whatever reason, the tickets were on the house. It was also very easy to move about inside the small gallery which is normally flooded with visitors.
Michelangelo's David (ca 1504) The lighting was a heck of a lot better compared to Donatello's version.
To the right, one of the several unfinished works by the artist that are on display.
Reagan wrote:
I don't know if I would call it the "Reagan" lens
John Hinkey was using it years ago when he was hiking
I just think it's a nice fit with the FTZ and the Z6
and the contacts giving it focus confirmation really helps me
not to mention its nice and sharp
The most spectacular sight in Varanasi are the Temple rituals performed every night on the top of the ghats outside the temples. You can watch from the shore (if you get there early enough) or from a boat on the Ganges. It lasts about 45 mins and they go through each item, the feather stick, the burning incense stick, the smoking genie lamp, the towering tiered flame thingy
There are 4 or 5 guys in a line all doing the same thing.
one last image from Joshua Tree. I also posted this over in the Landscape Forum a couple of days ago.
This is from Thursday's brief last visit to the Park. I was hoping for a good sunset, but the clouds in this image totally dissipated in the 15 mins between this capture and actual sunset, so the sky was clear with little color - odd. Oh well - I guess I have to just come back again another day!
