Ballard wrote:
Violets and dandelions coming up everywhere. It must be spring. Both with 63/2.8 EL-Nikkor reversed on PB-4 bellows; D700. Poor job of stacking on my part.
Looks just fine on my screen Ken. Look forward tumor postings from you.
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AdaptedLenses wrote:
Okay… we covered my initial feelings on the Zf, but I have to give credit where it’s due… slap a grip on it and it’s quite comfortable and enjoyable with larger lenses. Doesn’t fit well in my bag, but it’s enjoyable in the hand. And I continue to enjoy its SOOC color and sharpness, I could see having a JPEG mode on this camera and treating it like film.
A couple from the 105mm f/4 Micro.
Maybe even some shades of Df color (perhaps I'm just being influenced by the dials).
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kwoodard wrote:
Keeping on the EL train, I have the 105/5.6. Beautiful lens that renders details so damn well. 95mm of tubes. Reproduction ratio is about .4/1. You can see very fine spiderwebs on this spider plant bud.
SiMuMe wrote: Ballard wrote:
Violets and dandelions coming up everywhere. It must be spring. Both with 63/2.8 EL-Nikkor reversed on PB-4 bellows; D700. Poor job of stacking on my part.
Oh so pretty! Always wondered what can be done with the EL Nikkors and how they mount to F-mount cameras. This is very good.
I've gone through several video tutorials and learned key points I didn't know about negative processing in general and negadoctor in particular. I have also started to know my way around Darktable, still don't know what some of those tools are used for. The popups and user manual don't tell you what they do, only what the controls do.
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James Markus wrote:
I agree that Darktable is good for small to medium sized Digital Asset Management, which was it's original purpose.
The whole import-to-library feature isn't completely intuitive. For example I'd like to remove some images from the active library. I suppose I'll find how if I look hard enough but it isn't where I would guess at first. After playing with an image for a while I'd like to throw away all the changes and re-start, but AFAIK it requires hitting ctrl-z about 600 times and waiting between each hit.
I am not totally satisfied with negadoctor's results. Some images look good, others not so good. That might be my fault as a novice user or it might be because I have not watched Tampopo yet. Still, when I do what I'm supposed to do the results aren't always right. I need to scan-shoot the film again anyway to start with fresh images.
Meanwhile I have verified that despite its 50+ years of age my Nikkormat still works! Next I will put some film in the gifted F and try it. I have been able to see some features of film (at least that particular film) vs. digital. So far my Z pics come out better. I wonder where this road goes...
Saw a documentary on a baker. Everyone thinks his bread is perfect, the best, except him. He does the exact same thing every day, but only 3 to 4 times a year does the bread come out "perfect" in his opinion. Good enough is pretty much all we can expect.
