Posts for: Lance Pearson
Jan 12, 2019 13:10:25 #
I tend to agree with you on nvd. After all, I am not shooting for 7 color high speed printing press separations for Vogue or National Geographic! I don't think there is a more oversupplied market in the world than that of photographs!
Jan 12, 2019 08:39:58 #
Thank you. The average higher level type cameras are getting to be really something special nowadays aren't they? If you look at these images on an ipad or samsung tablet s3 which have really good resolutions you will see amazing color and clarity. the big difference between this excellent sony range finder bridge camera and my professional nikon d4 is the speed of autofocus first and second the full frame sensor versus the small bridge camera excellent sensor. the full frame lets you do a much better job at speed in indoor poor lighting by jacking the iso way up and not seeing any apparent effect on normal sized photos. For normal carefully composed photos or videos these bridge cameras along with other range finder full frame or mid dslrs are all just amazingly good cameras. My Panasonic lumix fz1000 bridge camera is good but the sensor is a shade not up to the amazing sony Exmoor stacked, backlit sensor and only has a 400mm lens but I am keeping it as a backup. It takes some really good photos as well with the same limits on speed of autofocus. They do that to protect their upper end camera sales investment. this is one from the panasonic bridge camera that is now a backup here. This is a local Belgium draft horse who is beautiful. the 1941 packard is my neighbor's car...anyway, you get the idea. You can do pretty well with these. I buy used very good quality cameras and in 99% of the cases they are like a car with 10,000 miles on it...just barely broken in at half the price.
Jan 12, 2019 08:29:37 #
the pixel peepers, so called look for the sixth sigma of difference on massively enlarged and the average good camera now does a really good job with the vast majority which will never be blown up that large anyway. What does NVD mean? My ignorance asks!
Jan 11, 2019 08:45:32 #
What is interesting to me is where you must have been standing to get a somewhat downward view of the action. Were you up in the stands somehow? Looking down gives it a different perspective. Pretty interesting shot and I have done what you did re: the crop issue or sometimes used depth of field filters on post to fuzz them into pseudo bokah to minimize things I can't quite crop out. Nice job.
Jan 11, 2019 08:36:41 #
I have a nikon d4 that is superb but heavy with lenses. I have been playing with sony bridge cameras that give you 90% of the performance for 20% of the cost and am most pleased with my sony rx10 miii which I now carry everywhere with me..24-600mm f 2.8-4.0 lens (20.1 mp, 1" cmos stacked and backlit rexmoor sensor) Capable of very good images and quite multipurpose. A value tho probably not for Nat Geo shots or truly fast action sports. None the less, the Nikon now sits on the desk at home save for special purpose shoots such as the national borzoi specialty show I am shooting in Gettysburg in May. Biggest borzoi only show in North America annually. (I live with my pair of borzoi here at home) .
I'll include some recently taken images from the Sony bridge camera all hand held, often out the suv window and all compressed somewhat in post. if you download them look at them on a good resolution monitor such as an ipad or samsung tab s3 tablet and they pop out with amazing clarity and color. You need a good monitor resolution to catch up to the sensor and camera's ability at least at my house. A normal laptop is way behind the cameras nowadays. The pro women's beach volleyball shot was my mii...same sensor just shorter lens.
As a value it is every bit of that. I buy used very good quality cameras one technology back so having several is manageable. I have a panasonic lumix bridge fz1000 as well and am selling shortly on ebay the sony rx10 mii which is 200mm lens and keeping the rx10 miii plus the nikon and selling a canon m3 and a nikon d7000 dslr as well. The bridge camera weakness is autofocus speed. Up to human running it is fine but faster than that for sports action photo it is a tad slower than a top end dslr still. They can do it but so far in cameras I own the camera makers have not put those systems in them. There are also more recent rangefinder models that do have the systems but at top end dslr prices which is out of my budget range.
The power shovel shot was 900-1000' away, hand held again. The last shot is the camera with the added directional stereo mic to minimize when filming high quality movies with it getting my own breathing into the sound...It is not small like a point and shoot but this camera type is very versatile.
this is about a value for convenience versus cost. Any observations are welcome.
I'll include some recently taken images from the Sony bridge camera all hand held, often out the suv window and all compressed somewhat in post. if you download them look at them on a good resolution monitor such as an ipad or samsung tab s3 tablet and they pop out with amazing clarity and color. You need a good monitor resolution to catch up to the sensor and camera's ability at least at my house. A normal laptop is way behind the cameras nowadays. The pro women's beach volleyball shot was my mii...same sensor just shorter lens.
As a value it is every bit of that. I buy used very good quality cameras one technology back so having several is manageable. I have a panasonic lumix bridge fz1000 as well and am selling shortly on ebay the sony rx10 mii which is 200mm lens and keeping the rx10 miii plus the nikon and selling a canon m3 and a nikon d7000 dslr as well. The bridge camera weakness is autofocus speed. Up to human running it is fine but faster than that for sports action photo it is a tad slower than a top end dslr still. They can do it but so far in cameras I own the camera makers have not put those systems in them. There are also more recent rangefinder models that do have the systems but at top end dslr prices which is out of my budget range.
The power shovel shot was 900-1000' away, hand held again. The last shot is the camera with the added directional stereo mic to minimize when filming high quality movies with it getting my own breathing into the sound...It is not small like a point and shoot but this camera type is very versatile.
this is about a value for convenience versus cost. Any observations are welcome.
Jan 11, 2019 07:53:50 #
good observation. As a guy with a couple of published mystery novels to my name I learned you have to have a thick skin when you put anything out in public whether it is words, images, paintings, performing a song or anything else. People have a very wide range of responses to your work. In my experience they range from loved it, neutral about it and don't care, hate it. You might notice that two out of the three general responses aren't good for the author/performer/photographer's ego! LOL...If you put it out there wear the hide of a rhino and filter the crap out for the things which have merit in your eyes or teach you something you need to learn. Not easy but it is possible.
Dec 23, 2018 17:37:00 #
Shot with sony rx10 iii bridge camera hand held here in the area...the james river, the dutch gap wetlands, shirley plantation, the beaver lodge at Shirley's small lake, etc...there is beauty in the winter too...the wetlands in fall tans and golds on a calm day as well. It grows on you, the peace of it and then the ducks and geese fly in!
Dec 11, 2018 21:12:11 #
sony rx10 miii bridge camera two days after 15" snowstorm in my area now with sun on it.....and some of my neighbors homes around my street. i love the gazebo by the water shot
Dec 7, 2018 07:56:57 #
I will repeat what I posted in reply to another mark iii owner's post but as a separate topic here:
I just bought a mark iii used and have shot it for a week now. I own a nikon d4 with pro lenses full frame for absolutely serious work and top end sports but it now sits on the kitchen desk unused. I am astonished at how good this camera is. The stacked and backlit Sony Exmoor 1" cmos cropped sensor is very good and can shoot in bursts at 14 fps or 5 fps if each frame refocused....and the image stabilization is the best of any camera I have ever shot. I also own a sony a7 I shoot 35 year old canon full frame fd lenses on which is a full frame camera. It also sits in the camera cabinet unused now. If this thing had existed 25 years ago I never would have bought the first dslr. the analysis of 90% of the quality for 20% of the cost as a value is dead on. I don't shoot for Vogue or National Geographic and this thing is so handy and so good it is amazing....just amazing. It has effectively added about 20 yards to my hand held ability to shoot. With long arms my hold is not the greatest but this thing and on video as well is terrific. The leaves are about 15 yards away and the power shovel was about 1,000' away....hand held. The photos of my big champion level borzoi six year old male, Far Field Remoulade, Rom, was about 20 to 25 yards away....just to show you the range I actually experience with it...all hand held on gray days light this time of year. Lastly is a stump about 35 yards away in a nature preserve area where it is shallow and the wild fowl love to spend time...just lots of detail and contrast. Again, hand held. You can download to see the exif data on them. Mostly just cropped or perhaps lightened or darkened slightly in post but generally about what was shot. I am able to shoot the sensor with neutral exposure value compensation and it lets the iso float beautifully. I added a directional shotgun cardioid stereo mike on top for video so the two mics in the camera don't pick up my breathing when or if my eye is to the eye piece and an l bracket to mount easily on tripod heads as I am starting to shoot videos with it as well as stills. 50 years I've been a stills guy. You can shoot this thing in slow motion and the video from it is rather good. I have a good video of that orange shovel taking broken concrete and feeding a machine which turns it back into gravel from about 1,000' away that is just terrifically good and detailed. All around camera? Pretty darned close to it and I bought it used....not new. the first image is my camera with the shotgun cardiod directional mic on it ready with L bracket for standard grooved tripod head on base or side to turn easily 90 degrees for change in perspective. I added one more showing the cardiod mic on one but without the dead cat wind noise fluff on it. Fairly small and adds little weight. The L bracket machined out of 6061 aluminum is a very practical addition for the standard grooved tripod or monopod head at little cost. machined for the camera so you can get to everything with it on.
I just bought a mark iii used and have shot it for a week now. I own a nikon d4 with pro lenses full frame for absolutely serious work and top end sports but it now sits on the kitchen desk unused. I am astonished at how good this camera is. The stacked and backlit Sony Exmoor 1" cmos cropped sensor is very good and can shoot in bursts at 14 fps or 5 fps if each frame refocused....and the image stabilization is the best of any camera I have ever shot. I also own a sony a7 I shoot 35 year old canon full frame fd lenses on which is a full frame camera. It also sits in the camera cabinet unused now. If this thing had existed 25 years ago I never would have bought the first dslr. the analysis of 90% of the quality for 20% of the cost as a value is dead on. I don't shoot for Vogue or National Geographic and this thing is so handy and so good it is amazing....just amazing. It has effectively added about 20 yards to my hand held ability to shoot. With long arms my hold is not the greatest but this thing and on video as well is terrific. The leaves are about 15 yards away and the power shovel was about 1,000' away....hand held. The photos of my big champion level borzoi six year old male, Far Field Remoulade, Rom, was about 20 to 25 yards away....just to show you the range I actually experience with it...all hand held on gray days light this time of year. Lastly is a stump about 35 yards away in a nature preserve area where it is shallow and the wild fowl love to spend time...just lots of detail and contrast. Again, hand held. You can download to see the exif data on them. Mostly just cropped or perhaps lightened or darkened slightly in post but generally about what was shot. I am able to shoot the sensor with neutral exposure value compensation and it lets the iso float beautifully. I added a directional shotgun cardioid stereo mike on top for video so the two mics in the camera don't pick up my breathing when or if my eye is to the eye piece and an l bracket to mount easily on tripod heads as I am starting to shoot videos with it as well as stills. 50 years I've been a stills guy. You can shoot this thing in slow motion and the video from it is rather good. I have a good video of that orange shovel taking broken concrete and feeding a machine which turns it back into gravel from about 1,000' away that is just terrifically good and detailed. All around camera? Pretty darned close to it and I bought it used....not new. the first image is my camera with the shotgun cardiod directional mic on it ready with L bracket for standard grooved tripod head on base or side to turn easily 90 degrees for change in perspective. I added one more showing the cardiod mic on one but without the dead cat wind noise fluff on it. Fairly small and adds little weight. The L bracket machined out of 6061 aluminum is a very practical addition for the standard grooved tripod or monopod head at little cost. machined for the camera so you can get to everything with it on.
Dec 7, 2018 07:37:45 #
I just bought a mark iii used and have shot it for a week now. I own a nikon d4 with pro lenses full frame for absolutely serious work and top end sports but it now sits on the kitchen desk unused. I am astonished at how good this camera is. The stacked and backlit Sony Exmoor 1" cmos sensor is very good and can shoot in bursts at 14 fps or 5 fps if each frame refocused....and the image stabilization is the best of any camera I have ever shot. I also own a sony a7 I shoot 35 year old canon full frame fd lenses on which is a full frame camera. It also sits in the camera cabinet unused now. If this thing had existed 25 years ago I never would have bought the first dslr. the analysis of 90% of the quality for 20% of the cost as a value is dead on. I don't shoot for Vogue or National Geographic and this thing is so handy and so good it is amazing....just amazing. It has effectively added about 20 yards to my hand held ability to shoot. With long arms my hold is not the greatest but this thing and on video as well is terrific. The leaves are about 15 yards away and the power shovel was about 1,000' away....hand held. The photos of my big champion level borzoi six year old male, Far Field Remoulade, Rom, was about 20 to 25 yards away....just to show you the range I actually experience with it...all hand held on gray days light this time of year. Lastly is a stump about 35 yards away in a nature preserve area where it is shallow and the wild fowl love to spend time...just lots of detail and contrast. Again, hand held. You can download to see the exif data on them. Mostly just cropped or perhaps lightened or darkened slightly in post but generally about what was shot. I am able to shoot the sensor with neutral exposure value compensation and it lets the iso float beautifully. I added a directional shotgun cardioid stereo mike on top for video so the two mics in the camera don't pick up my breathing when or if my eye is to the eye piece and an l bracket to mount easily on tripod heads as I am starting to shoot videos with it as well as stills. 50 years I've been a stills guy. You can shoot this thing in slow motion and the video from it is rather good. I have a good video of that orange shovel taking broken concrete and feeding a machine which turns it back into gravel from about 1,000' away that is just terrifically good and detailed. All around camera? Pretty darned close to it and I bought it used....not new.
Nov 30, 2018 19:08:17 #
I did not realize the 64 came with the 327 engine which was a good engine. I own a 76 tuned and a 91 zr-1 with lotus designed lt5 tuned engine. They are such fun to drive. The 91 is a better car in terms of power and speed but the 76 draws whistles, claps, crowds with the sculptured shape of it. With stiffer shocks and wider than stock tires it is a real road loving car that I've even raced on a road racing course at VIR driving it myself in four sessions one day.
The 91 engine made the vette twice the price of the normal vette as in five years they only made 6900 of them. It sold with taxes as a 91 in Dec. of 1990 in El Paso to the original owner for $72,000 approx. Pretty expensive...more than a caddy at the time. Fabulous car that is as fast as the current c7 vette. Engine tuned to approx 500 hp without getting into the block, rechipping.
The 60's vettes were great from 63 on. I big on this 69 at a charity auction and lost it when I was outbid by $6,000 and it needed new exhaust and new top but loved the old steel back bumper 69's. the 64 above is nicely kept...nice shots.
The 91 engine made the vette twice the price of the normal vette as in five years they only made 6900 of them. It sold with taxes as a 91 in Dec. of 1990 in El Paso to the original owner for $72,000 approx. Pretty expensive...more than a caddy at the time. Fabulous car that is as fast as the current c7 vette. Engine tuned to approx 500 hp without getting into the block, rechipping.
The 60's vettes were great from 63 on. I big on this 69 at a charity auction and lost it when I was outbid by $6,000 and it needed new exhaust and new top but loved the old steel back bumper 69's. the 64 above is nicely kept...nice shots.
Nov 30, 2018 18:55:08 #
Excellent shot especially with the note that it was hand held at 600 mm. How on earth do you stand and do that. I am a big guy with 36" sleeves and no matter how hard I try I can't hand hold that well? Are you braced against a tree or some such thing? that is amazing. What is your method? I have a woman friend who is a good nature photographer and her secret is three things I am not: 1. she is incredibly patient 2. she has short, very stout arms and large breasts which all form a terrific triangle of sorts to make her hold the best and most stable I've personally seen.
I'm a tall guy with long arms and to get that kind of shot with a 600 mm on my nikon d4 I had to use a tripod and release.
I am really congratulating you on how well that was done. Now...teach the rest of us your hold, please!
I'm a tall guy with long arms and to get that kind of shot with a 600 mm on my nikon d4 I had to use a tripod and release.
I am really congratulating you on how well that was done. Now...teach the rest of us your hold, please!
Sep 22, 2018 07:53:59 #
nice work. Turkeys are hard to shoot as they around here are wary and take off like a shot or even fly a hundred yards or so at the first sign of man. Beautiful birds...the hooved animals are great too.
Sep 22, 2018 07:47:14 #
navy corsair, vought f4u. Was a very powerful, very fast wwII and in Korea airplane. It had a 13' diameter prop coupled with the 2,000 hp engine and so much torque they had to be careful on carriers not to flip it on the deck! Very fast in the air as a fighter bomber. ".....The Vought F4U Corsair is an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Demand for the aircraft soon overwhelmed Vought's manufacturing capability, resulting in production by Goodyear and Brewster: Goodyear-built Corsairs were designated FG and Brewster-built aircraft F3A. From the first prototype delivery to the U.S. Navy in 1940, to final delivery in 1953 to the French, 12,571 F4U Corsairs were manufactured,[2] in 16 separate models, in the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U.S. history (1942–53).[3][4][5]"
Sep 21, 2018 15:18:00 #
Dale Chihuly is now 77 and in Tacoma, Wa. His work has been all over the world as his studio's outputs have been displayed everywhere. World renowned and classy stuff all done in glass and frequently huge in scale. I saw a yellow full sized tree of his at the Legion of Honor in San Fran in 2009 with my then girlfriend that when the sun set was just startlingly aglow. He is unique and this piece fits this spot perfectly. Nice shot. I sure can't afford anything his studio does!
