[quote=farwest]I have a 4GB external G-drive that just started showing this screen. "The volume does not contain a recognized file system.

After you've finished resolving this issue, you might want to consider the following:
1. Clone your drive to a second identical drive so that when one drive breaks down, you lose no data.
2. Subscribe to a cloud service such as backblaze which costs about $10/month. It's always on, even if you don't click on it, and it loads from your computer's HD and from one of your external HDs. The cost is the same no matter how much data you're uploading. If you ever need to recover everything from BB, they send you your data on an external HD which you can either keep and pay them for it, or just return it, for which you pay nothing at all for the data recovery.

Which scanner are you using? Thanks.

One of the best examples of photostacking I've ever seen. This could be marketable to any number of publishing companies that market anything between optical technologies to insect anatomy. Amazing to know exactly what it is we're swatting into oblivion.

Thanks, Bill

In Queens College, New York City in the library. Walked around the reading room, and then the campus, kind of dazed. It didn’t matter how many people were there; I just felt so alone.

Thank you, Jay. I appreciate that you stopped to look them over.

Thank you. Tom.
That last wide-angle shot is a merge of 4 overlapping images.

Thank you, Curm. Much appreciated.

Thank you, Curm. Much appreciated.

Twice each year, I watch the sun rise between the towers of The El Dorado Towers, a building at the opposite end of my block. I watch it as the sun tracks gradually toward the south, and then, a few weeks later as it tracks back to the north. My apartment is on the top floor of a 27-story building and I am fortunate that my windows face the east toward New York's Central Park and the Towers.

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The NEF output for most of my images from the D850 is at least 50meg
The NEF outuput for most of my images from the D5 is around 25meg.

If the D5 is a better camera and far more expensive than the D850, why is the NEF output resolution apparently so much higher on the D850 than it is on the D5? Is there a major difference in the pixel size? Thank you.

I wonder about the spotty, mottled look of the reflections in the water. They appear to be artifacts of small erasures from photoshop's clone stamp tool. If one looks at the photograph for any period of time, those irregularities do mar the effect a bit. Aside from that, I still love the total image. The new perspective is a key feature that gives it so much value.

All the above, AND I love the ripple-free puddle. The perspective is grand and that reflection is stunning.
Just wondering how much processing was involved. I understand the bleaching effect of direct light from the sky, and it seems to me that the sepia tone of the reflection could well be natural, because the light bouncing up from the water's surface is far less brilliant and doesn't lose its color. But that's just me wondering aloud.

I agree with you about #2. However, a polarizing filter would have reduced or eliminated the glare on the water reflections. Aside from that, really interesting images. Could you come in closer with a telephoto lens to show more detail on those amazing shapes? Brings those Easter Island statues back to mind just thinking about the inventiveness of those ancient peoples. Thanks.

A perfect, gorgeously balanced image. Almost other worldly. Just plain stunning.