Harriet Tubman's statue in the State Capitol building. Happened to go to the building just a couple days after this and Frederick Douglass' statue were unveiled there.
Some amazing interiors in the building, definitely have to go back there with one of the PC lenses, and higher ISO film (or digital).
F2SB, 5cm f2 S tick mark lens, and Ektar 100. Nikon on Nikon and film for Maryland history!!!
Z7 + FTZ + Nikkor-P.C 105mm f/2.5 ai'd, ISO 64, f/2.8 at 1/400s. 2-shots pano. Sunny afternoon.
The most requisited sculptor in Europe from late eighteen to early nineteen centuries. For example, Napoleon was one of his most famous "clients".
The one above is my first real all brass 10.5 cm and it is in excellent condition, glass like new, metal and paint almost perfect except for a couple of chrome blemishes.
Fate put this other one in my path yesterday for a low price on the bay, has not arrived yet. It looks new with case, shade, cap. The cap alone is so hard to find in new condition, let alone the shade.
This one looks new all the way, it was sold as is, so I hope it is no a fungus case. Fingers crossed, will be here Tuesday
rafaelcasd wrote:
Jose, that is not the real P.C 10.5cm 2.5, pretty as the photo is.
You need a Leica Thread mount adapter for your Z7 and the real all brass original.
The one above is my first real all brass 10.5 cm and it is in excellent condition, glass like new, metal and paint almost perfect except for a couple of chrome blemishes.
Fate put this other one in my path yesterday for a low price on the bay, has not arrived yet. It looks new with case, shade, cap. The cap alone is so hard to find in new condition, let alone the shade.
This one looks new all the way, it was sold as is, so I hope it is no a fungus case. Fingers crossed, will be here Tuesday
Supposedly the same optics of the ai and ai-s versions, but I prefer the all heavy metal feel and the solid hood, not that flimsy one of the ai-s version. The great "sin" of the FTZ adapter is that there is no way to report to the camera which aperture was used, but for that shot I recall to be f/2.8.
I had looked at the 18, and then the 45 pancake, finally settling on shipping in one of those new old Lodge Blacklock cast iron pans. Guess I went for cooking over photography... lol
Then I received a PM from Andy which made me feel guilty for lurking and not contributing.
Here's another from Taiwan
Picturesque but I couldn't get past the fact that the buildings are built around rice fields... what about the foundations? Seepage? Moisture and dampness?
Zichar wrote:
I had looked at the 18, and then the 45 pancake, finally settling on shipping in one of those new old Lodge Blacklock cast iron pans. Guess I went for cooking over photography... lol
Then I received a PM from Andy which made me feel guilty for lurking and not contributing.
Here's another from Taiwan
Picturesque but I couldn't get past the fact that the buildings are built around rice fields... what about the foundations? Seepage? Moisture and dampness?
We did a short ride on the Darjeeling Express rather than the ride from sea level which takes about 6 hours iirc. The amount of physical debris (soot/coke/smoke) coming through the windows was astonishing !
I still have a few MF nikkors, and I'm thinking of an X-T2 to use them with as I so enjoyed the film presets that you can actually see while shooting with the Fuji's
I now have a more extensive Nikon body and AF lens kit as I picked some up for cheap last week to add to the D500, D810, 200-500VR -
D750 - perfect, 2811 clicks - probably sell this.
24-70 f2.8 - little bit of fungus from being in box in the tropics
70-200 2.8 VRII - ditto plus AFS motor - sent to Nikon
105 macro VR - perfect never been out of the box
85 1.4G - perfect never been out of the box
50 1.8G - bit of fungus
Lucky man there Andy. Too bad about the fungus on some of the lenses. These might turn out to be cost-neutral since you're planning to sell some.
I haven't posted in a while either. It's that time of the season when my subjects are starting to look raggedy.
Beautiful 105mm specimen, Jose. I think I can live with and use that. I think I can also live with Rafael's 15mm 3.5. It's so pretty but I think I'll be useless with it.
Pictures.
D5500 + NIKKOR-Q Auto 135mm f/3.5 | F8 ISO 100 -0.67EV
D5500 + NIKKOR-Q Auto 135mm f/3.5 | F3.5 ISO 100 -0.67EV
