Posts for: wingclui44
Dec 4, 2023 13:31:27 #
joecichjr wrote:
You shouldn't have idled so long - these are top-notch, so I hope you continue 🥨🥨🥨🥨🥨
Thank you so much for your advise, I and my wife finally settled in our new home in upper NY, but our selling of my house in CT is not done yet but near the end for closing, then I will get my attention back to photography. It was a long tough process between us and the buyer through the the realtor agent. We both are near 80, and may not can take car of our self any longer, we are lucky that our daughter offered us to live with her and our son-in-law. We know the last path of our life is heading to nursing home and it will be end of it! Now we have a new hope and will start to enjoy our life again!
Dec 3, 2023 17:26:01 #
russraman wrote:
For me it’s the Nikon Df whose retro design revived my passion for photography when I discovered it in 2015?
I knew at the late 2013 and I instantly ordered it and never looked back! Before that I have been using the D200!
Dec 3, 2023 09:12:55 #
BebuLamar wrote:
The 43-86mm f/3.5 was quite popular back in the days but I didn't have one. Now I heard that some say it's the worst Nikon lens ever.
Let me respond to the original thread first, Nikon Df is my favorite for 10 years since 2013 and it still keeps me going!
Yes, I have this 43-86mm f3.5 Nikkor since 1972/1973 with my Nikon FTn and Nikkormat FTn SLRs, but it is a non-AI lens. It has a problem when shooting towards bright light sources such as Sun light, it creates ghosts in the image. It is a bit soft in the image. I modified it to AI to fit my DF. On that time I got it as my standard lens to my two Nikons instead getting a 50mm.
Nov 25, 2023 14:02:22 #
Bohica wrote:
I'm 76, memory seems to decrease each day. 20 yrs ... (show quote)
Yes it sucks! Every part of your body is going down hill fast! This is life, we can't live forever and it is fact and we need to accept that. I am nearly 80 and still enjoy what I love most, the photography. I have been enjoying it for more than 40 years and Nikons are my main camera brand. I still have a wish before I kick the bucket, I wish I am going to get my last camera, a Leica DSLR, It maybe a SL/SL2. that was my life long dream.
Nov 16, 2023 14:42:35 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
This otherworldy place is perfect for IR
Great one, I love it! Thanks for sharing!
Nov 9, 2023 11:56:57 #
Oct 30, 2023 13:08:24 #
I have been preparing selling my house and moving to another state the pass few months, I took the advantage of the nice weather recently and went out for a few shot! I can relax a little bit!
Sep 18, 2023 16:25:11 #
Tote1940 wrote:
We have an annular solar eclipse coming up so star... (show quote)
Very nice Sun image with Sun Spots. Thanks for sharing!
I have some images of last Sun eclipse on 8/21/2017, I used three different cameras that were all mount on a tripod. My cameras are Nikon Df with a 35mm lens; Nikon D200 with a 75-200mm lens and Panasonic super-zoom FZ-50.
Here are the images:
All of them were taken with multiple images and then pasted together in one single image. I used thousand oak filter, the third one was intentional converted to B&W. All the images were not as clear as I expected because of the appearance of the light-cloud that moved in and out of view during the time lap of several minutes each!
Sep 15, 2023 15:12:27 #
Retired CPO wrote:
Not like Yellowstone! You can find scenery anywhere!! 
How about Alaska Denali& Tundra Wilderness, I have been there a couple times, I saw more wildlife than Yellow Stone, Especially bears, including Grizzly bear; brown bear and black bear! The others like Caribou; Wolves; Dall Sheep and more. I love both places, they are two different environments.
Sep 14, 2023 16:27:16 #
AlisonT wrote:
I am excited to be traveling to Yellowstone in Sep... (show quote)
I have be there several years ago, I only carried a 24-50mm for land scaping, and a 300mm prime and a 1.4x converter for wild life, plus a pair binoculars that was enough! Any thing between was not much different, I were very happy about the images taken home. You take either wide land scape or long distant wild life photo, You can't or you don't want to stay too close to the wild animals especial the bison and bear. By the way, I with my family rented a SUV that we can travel where we want to by following the map of Yellow-Stone!
Good Luck and have plenty of fun!
Aug 21, 2023 11:42:57 #
Alyn Wolf wrote:
A question...... I am not a wedding photographer, but I like shooting with a quiet camera. I have a mirrorless that does just that. I heard it mentioned that there is a DSLR that operates quietly. I would be interested in such a camera. My problem is that I do not enjoy looking through an electronic viewfinder. I would enjoy looking through a quiet optical viewfinder. Tell me more.
MY Nikon Df! I used it for my daughter's wedding! It is a ten year old DSLR already! I would like to have a mirror-less , that is a Leica range-finder camera, I am waiting when the time is right!
Aug 16, 2023 09:01:30 #
I bought this lens from Adorama in 2018 for my daughter's wedding to use on my Nikon Df, of course it was used. It is a great lens for every day using and I love it so much! Good Luck! Hope it will land into a good hand!
May 8, 2023 10:44:08 #
May 8, 2023 10:39:42 #
MT Shooter wrote:
Digital "teleconverter" is a misnomer, it is simply cropping the image and discarding pixels.
Same as digital zoom function in some early digital bridge cameras, it corps the frame to make it seems closer/larger!
May 5, 2023 11:48:54 #