One photo hand held with a zoom: two photos using a tripod and a wide angle prime. The connection is working with harsh light.
Processing in Darktable.
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Light on the Harbour
Quarantine Island
No, we did not go there, but we went to Portobello a few weeks ado. I was using the d800 with a Nikkor 75 -300 Ais lens. Hence the boat.
Processed Darktable
Ducks and Bokeh, Leith Valley
These were taken ten days ago, on a walk through a park in Leith Valley.
Sun is gone
Duck
Duck
Bokeh
Water tower
Random dog
Worn house Leith Valley
Nikon d800, Voightlander 20mm f4.5, Nikkor 85 mm f1.8.
Sunday at the inlet.
I packed lightish: D800, 85 mm f 1.8 Nikkor, and 20 mm Voightlander f 4.5. I regretted bringing a longer zoom, as there was considerable bird life. These are the shots from a one hour walk.
Sun going down
Inlet
Oyster Catcher
Oyster Catcher
Late afternoon
Stream end
Processed in Darktable.
Seals, beach, fog.
In autumn the seals spend a fair amount of time on the Peninsula Beach.
Seal 1
To the beach I
To the beach II
Two seals
Two seals again
Seal 2
Sea Fog
Seaweed
Seal 3
Nikon D800, Darktable
On the usefulness of a CX sensor.
Yes, one of htese shots is the same as yesterday, same size… but instead of being taken with a D800 and a 0 mm lons, the other with a 10-100 CX lens that gives the equivalent of 300 mm reach.
Prime
300 mm equi
30 mm equi
A CX camera can shoot raw, you can use the same workflow, and it can, within likits produce good photos. But it is much lighter. The advantage of using the Nikon one series over the alternative (such as the Sony RX 100 camera) is that you can use a prime lens (there are fast ones) and a superzoom: you don’t have as many compromises with glass. And the glass, now that the V series is not being promoted, is becoming cheap. The system is smaller than the similar options for a micro 4/3 and as a little more pixels.
THis is my current travel solution: the previous one was a Ricoh GXR.
Pohutukawa and other flowers (and a cat)
We are in the process of unpacking, including pulling out the cameras. The Pro Photographer is thinking of when to upgrade her cameras. I am not. I’m still using a D800 as the main camera. Today I put on a second hand, ugly zoom (that was bought off a press photographer, with the hood held together by duct tape) and took it out into the rain, and shot all the photos but the one of the cat.
I was trying to get shots of the Pohutukawa flowers. This “The New Zealand Christmas Tree” normally flowers around Christmas. It is flowering a month late, even in the South: we are having a miserable summer, with snow on the hills in what should be the warmest time of the year. But the roses like it.
Agapantus
Neighbour’s Pohutukawa I
Neighbour’s Pohutukawa II
Rose
Berries
Slightly different processing: photos were imported using rapid photo downloader, which is lighter and faster, and then processed in Darktable. D800, F2.8 70 – 200 zoom.
A mamiya 7, Dunedin Harbour.
I’m moving and all the darkoom stuff is in storage. So these are downloaded from the Darkroom site: one roll of 120, shot with a Mamiya 7ii, no processing.
Outer harbour
Wharf
Broad Bay
Blossoms.
Dunedin, Spring: there are corners where the blossoms are
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Fuji X Pro one, generally wide open. Not many keepers as anything not in focus in front blurred.
On my birthday.
I turned 56 yesterday, and after church we planned a walk. We did not expect that the temperature would drop from the teens to below freezing if the windhcill was taken into account. I can fit a nikon one under the jacket, and was able to take a few shots, while the pro photographer ran back to the car before she became hypothermic.
wharf
Towards the ocean
To Portobello
Nikon One V3 with 18 mm 1.8 lens, processed darktable.