Posts for: Lance Pearson
Jun 2, 2018 17:25:48 #
Jun 2, 2018 07:11:00 #
NIce shot. I have one something like that on the other side of the Rockies out of Loveland. I am going to be staying in Rifle for a week in September while fly fishing with a guide and drift boat on the Colorado and Roaring fork rivers. Lance Pearson
Jun 2, 2018 07:07:48 #
Where is this jungle shot with my bridge Sony dsc-rx10II camera a couple days ago. ten points to the winner who can identify the flora and the country of location of these two shots into the deep and dark.........
Just learning to use the new to me RX10II. Sony does not seem to be putting its foot in its mouth very much at all as it moves up the quality camera ladder even with this in between high level well respected set of bridge camera models. I like mine and will travel with just it and a charger and a couple extra batteries and sd cards this fall.
Just learning to use the new to me RX10II. Sony does not seem to be putting its foot in its mouth very much at all as it moves up the quality camera ladder even with this in between high level well respected set of bridge camera models. I like mine and will travel with just it and a charger and a couple extra batteries and sd cards this fall.
Jun 2, 2018 06:58:23 #
I too have a sony a7 setup, a nikon d4 professional level setup with pro lense, a canon m3 that I have other trips carried for travel and all are 18 mp or higher and the first two full frame. Are they technically better? Yes. Are they practically better when you consider ease of use, ease of carrying for travel and wide functional use where the f 2.8 is constant through the zoom range? You bet your sweet, well you get it, they are. It is amazing with some limits but those limits have not bothered me since I'm not shooting for National geographic or Vogue magazine. Good enough at a high enough level it is a merger of some very good technologies in one package. I paid a whopping $375 for this year old camera after a camera shop got it back from the sony repair function to replace the rear led screen which had broken and the first owner had lightly used it and just traded it in broken for next to nothing and watched $1100 or $1200 walk away. to me it is already the bargain functionally and economically of my camera collection. I am well pleased even tho I know couple things it does not do as well as the 7.7 pound nikon d4....but then it does not have to. Glad those with experience feel like I do for the most part.
I suspect that if I had started with this camera I never would have bought the others at all! Sony is slowly forcing Canon and Nikon to stop harvesting their big investment in dslrs....and they probably don't like it tho canon is further ahead in rangefinders. rumor is Nikon has a full frame rangefinder coming in 2019
I suspect that if I had started with this camera I never would have bought the others at all! Sony is slowly forcing Canon and Nikon to stop harvesting their big investment in dslrs....and they probably don't like it tho canon is further ahead in rangefinders. rumor is Nikon has a full frame rangefinder coming in 2019
Jun 1, 2018 09:09:10 #
I have a fly fishing trip to Colorado coming up and don't want to lug a lot of lenses through airports so looked and bought a sony dsc-rx10ii "bridge" camera with an f 2.8 24-200mm zoom condenser lens, stacked 1" more modern sensor. It takes sd cards, good video and stills and shares the same battery type as my A7 with all the canon fd lenses shot manually. It has stabilization, fairly good autofocus and can be shot on auto or any of several manual modes. Bridge because they are not the full frame top end rangefinder cameras or the top end dslr cameras but an amalgamation somewhere in the middle for both. I bought on ebay a used one for not much that had come back from factory refurbish of the rear led screen and was new in june 2017. It came yesterday and I shot on one of the auto settings a few shots yesterday with just stuffing a card in and a fresh battery. They are right...it is a terrific bridge camera for travel.
Here are a couple of those shots as examples. Would I shoot it for National Geographic, Vogue? No. Would I take it with me on my carryon in the plane and shoot the heck out of it in the fall in Colorado? You bet your sweet....the zeiss condenser lens so handles the light that it is f 2.8 all the way through the zoom range and that also limits the sensor size tho it is 20.2 mp...stacked in that there is less wiring blocking light to the actual sensors from the sensor pixel lenses with the dram right behind the sensor and the copper wiring behind that and back lit. Much faster and cleaner images tho not as good as a top end full frame camera but decent especially when considering size of the sensor. Surprising little thing. The sensor elements are the reverse order of how the lesser expensive ones are built and has benefit. The first image is just lawn grass shot while sitting on a yard bench....not the jungle! The steaks are sirloin strips about to be grilled then done....
Here are a couple of those shots as examples. Would I shoot it for National Geographic, Vogue? No. Would I take it with me on my carryon in the plane and shoot the heck out of it in the fall in Colorado? You bet your sweet....the zeiss condenser lens so handles the light that it is f 2.8 all the way through the zoom range and that also limits the sensor size tho it is 20.2 mp...stacked in that there is less wiring blocking light to the actual sensors from the sensor pixel lenses with the dram right behind the sensor and the copper wiring behind that and back lit. Much faster and cleaner images tho not as good as a top end full frame camera but decent especially when considering size of the sensor. Surprising little thing. The sensor elements are the reverse order of how the lesser expensive ones are built and has benefit. The first image is just lawn grass shot while sitting on a yard bench....not the jungle! The steaks are sirloin strips about to be grilled then done....
May 27, 2018 06:57:48 #
I have a nikon D4 with pro lenses, a sony a7 with a suite of canon fd lenses and love them both but am taking a fly fishing trip again this fall but to colorado this time and I shoot the sony a7 manually all the way with the adapted lenses and want one camera that is easy and fairly good so am buying a sony dsc-rx10II just for this trip. I did something similar with a canon m3 two years ago on a trip out to fly fish the yakima river canyon and area with guide in washington and got some terrific photos with it...small enough to take in the drift boat while we fished and while not fast focus, enough to take good photos and used a 28mm prime lens on it. the sony bridge camera offers more lens options in its fixed lense and nearly the same sensor capability with slightly faster auto focus and stabilization so I am traveling with it when it comes. I always buy extra batteries for any digital camera...always, any camera. The sample images in galleries that people have taken with these cameras are more than adequate for my needs for this trip and travel in the suv locally where I always carry a camera. I'm getting to be more of a sony fan than a nikon fan though I still reserve the best image shoots for the Nikon D4...full frame as is the sony a7. Just look at the sample rx10 images others took online...fairly adequate for high level amateur use.
May 18, 2018 13:27:15 #
This is located in Chester, virginia just north of route ten and e. of old stage road. It is located between the Henricus park and the dutch gap power plant of Dominin Energy on the james river off osborne road. Look up Henricus park and follow those directions to get to it. The james river here used to be a series of undulating s bends that were 7 miles long but when the cut was made through dutch gap it straightened it and shortened it. the original s bends are now through the nature area. It is bounded on the south by a large coal slag pile mountain, the wetlands to the N. and further N. the actual power plant. they are converting to a dry coal slag process and draining their one time coal ponds so there is construction activity but in another year it will be done. the old containment unlined ponds are being drained, filtered and released into the river under deq permit and testing. when done the old ponds will be filled and covered with impermeable barriers, two feet of earth and planted. It will go from 800 acres to practically a thousand. there is a mile walking trail around the old wetlands river bed on one side and a road with access to watch places on the north and henricus at the tip. We see deer there all the time, geese raising goslings, last summer a family of wood ducks and seasonally all kinds of waterfowl. when the construction settles down even more will show up as it is undisturbed naturally save this big construction project next door right now. In time when the earth is covering all this one time coal slag and plants are on it the animals will have fabulous habitat. There are in the river river otters, blue heron, waterfowl of all sorts and in the summer 7-8' long sturgeon plus catfish and bass. It is quite surprising and many photographers and bird watchers regularly frequent the area.
May 17, 2018 07:23:31 #
Not far from home there is an 800 acre nature reserve with wetlands from the James River. these are a couple photos of it with volunteer yellow iris which often grow in the shallow water of the edges and some of the honeysuckle vines flowering right now...shot with sony a7 and adapter and old canon fd manual focus lenses. the honeysuckle smells wonderful as well. all of the low green leaved plants were 2' deep water two months ago. the plants are, spelling optional, arrow arum plants which grow up rapidly in spring in the shallow water...at least I think that's what they are tho I am hardly a botanist.
May 15, 2018 08:21:09 #
thank you one and all. the flowers are such a nice small setting of color right now...
May 9, 2018 19:04:59 #
I have a raised planter area with Lariope, siberian bearded iris and three water reservoir containers I garden some spring and summer flowers in. Last year I had big industrial gutters and downspouts put just around my porch which is a heavy rain flow area to collect the rain and get it away from the porch. I bought two 55 gallon food barrels and kits to hook them to the gutter and each other and spigots for the bottom. I fill the sprinkler can from the hoses. when the first barrel is full it overflows to the second and when both are the gutter and downspout act like regular downspouts. Best $1300 I have spent on a contractor in a while. It takes about half an inch of rain fall to fill them completely and lesser amounts tops them up all summer if we have regular rain. The rain water has phospherous and other advantageous chemicals house water does not. You can see that it is working pretty well so far. Those two barrels when full weigh 800 pounds approx. shot with sony a7 and canon fd lens 70-210mm f 3.5 that is 30+ years old this evening. Iris, daisies, wolf's bane, a blue perennial whose name I can never remember, lariope and sedum in the corner
Small selection and volume but natural and good colors I think.
Small selection and volume but natural and good colors I think.
May 8, 2018 20:45:03 #
thank you one and all. the purple flowers are Siberian bearded iris. i just planted 8 new salmon colored iris in the front from holland to grow for added iris beds. you divide every three years and get lots over time..trade with friends, etc the beard is the tongue-like marking
May 6, 2018 18:07:05 #
My back yard has a raised bed and three planters and this time of year I put annuals in them, a couple of sweet basil herb plants and the iris bulbs, siberian bearded, transplanted there come out to flower. I shot a few quickly with a tripod on my sony a7 and 30 year old canon fd 70-210mm f 3.5 used lens manually today. They are so pretty. Not intended as nat geo shot quality but they are to me easy to look at and savor...gerber jaguar daisies, african daisies, iris, blue perennials and some other daisies..nothing fancy but bright colors to enjoy when I am out there with the dogs. I try and savor at least one thing every day. Makes for a happier Pearson. I think the blue perennial is called wolf's bane but don't hold me to that.
I do have a fall trip planned, booked, paid for with plane tickets and rental paid for where I am fly fishing catch and release rainbow and brown trout with guide from drift boat on the Colorado and Roaring Fork rivers out of Glenwood Springs not far downstream from where the Colorado headwaters are in Rocky mountain national park. I live for trips like this and have done Montana, wyoming, washington state and now Colorado doing just this. Not much prettier than watching a beautiful rainbow trout slip back into the river when he's given me his or her all. I will have cameras as I did out fishing the Yakima River Canyon fall 2016.
I do have a fall trip planned, booked, paid for with plane tickets and rental paid for where I am fly fishing catch and release rainbow and brown trout with guide from drift boat on the Colorado and Roaring Fork rivers out of Glenwood Springs not far downstream from where the Colorado headwaters are in Rocky mountain national park. I live for trips like this and have done Montana, wyoming, washington state and now Colorado doing just this. Not much prettier than watching a beautiful rainbow trout slip back into the river when he's given me his or her all. I will have cameras as I did out fishing the Yakima River Canyon fall 2016.
Apr 18, 2018 08:31:00 #
thank you one and all for the nice comments. I do like these images. Yes, I have about 7 or 8 FD canon old lenses which I shoot manually on the A7 which tend to give me art quality images...there is little automation in taking sensor data and processing it on the way to storing it that way so you get out of the averaging averages business and can let things that are exceptional with light happen naturally in my view. It is more work to take a good photo especially manually focusing but occasionally you get pictures that are very good. I think the pink dogwood image is one of my favorites I've taken in a long time with any of my cameras. The fd lenses were full frame film lenses and most of mine are 35 years old but work well. I am taking this setup to Colorado in the fall for a week's fly fishing with guide in a drift boat on the colorado and roaring fork rivers and hope to get both landscape and trout shots. Not much is more colorful than a rainbow trout being released......this one was shot with a canon m3 camera in the Yakima River in fall of 2016 doing the same thing as an example and it was not a full frame a7 camera.
Apr 18, 2018 08:28:10 #
Apr 15, 2018 20:04:59 #
dogwoods, the state flower. In this case pink instead of white...these trees are so pretty this time of year here.
Shot with sony a7 and 35 year old canon fd zoom lens manually set.
Shot with sony a7 and 35 year old canon fd zoom lens manually set.
