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Miguel, is it OK to comment on your shot?

@L0n3Gr3yW0lf Ovi, my Chinese made and shipped set of three studio strobes cost me a lot less than AUD 500, delivered by DHL. They included 3x stands, light heads and triggers, 2x double layer soft boxes, 3x white shoot through umbrellas, and a very solid, well made carrying case that holds it...

It's a Vervet monkey, Cederic. One of this bloke's friends:

Through filthy thick glass.

Herman, the first change I would suggest would be to remove the term "standard model" from the title. It assumes that: 1) mathematical cosmologists know anything much about the Universe; and 2) we can accurately estimate the amount of baryonic matter in the Universe; and 3) that the Universe is...

A friend of mine, Dr Grant Gartrel, first postulated the theoretical basis for tachyons in South Australia many decades ago.

I far prefer a pragmatic approach. Theories should explain the facts as observed. If the facts disagree with the theory, the theory should be discarded. Fundamentals of hypothesis formulation and testing.

I think Professor Brian Cox has a far better grasp of these things. He is also starting to question the whole concept of the big bang theory, something that I have personally disputed for well over 40 years.

Even if a photon (or neutrino) has a mass below our limit of measurement, there are so many of both, that we must change our entire view of the Universe in order to account for their combined mass ...

Yes.

While I agree with you, Bobby, the "quote" you chose from my post is totally removed from its context ... That context is a very important modifier to the short portion that you chose to quote. It tends towards a misinterpretation of what I said, which was: "3) Heavy handed moderation can be...

I totally agree with you, Irene. I count you among the pen friends whom I have made through this forum. I've also strongly encouraged quite a few others to come here, because this forum is almost invariably polite, even if some of us occasionally and/or inadvertently post things in the "wrong"...

Hope that you can get the retaining wall stabilised quickly, Irene.

I've taken a leaf from your book, Walter, and used my 75-300 MkII at MFD last weekend. It's certainly very usable like that, thank you.

When I was born (1947) there were just over 2 billion people on the planet. By the 1970s, there were about 4 billion. Today, there are over 8 billion. Us humans are wrecking the planet, Brian. And I very believe that this down to: 1) the sheer weight of numbers 2) our over-use of finite...

Irene, when we are about six years old, we are told that there are 24 hours in a day, and 365.25 days in a year. That only holds true when we are 6 y.o. ... At my age, there are around 10 hours in a day, and about 200 days in a year. I hope this explains time contraction theory. Teachers...

Tony, how does your grass know that it's supposed to be mown today? IOW, forget it until a more suitable day ... ;) .

Come on, Matt. A Hasselblad X2D does very well too. I certainly didn't read anything more than that into Ian's post.

Bugger, mate! BTW, a tropical cyclone picks up around 1,000,000 tons of water a second when moving over the ocean. (Source: Stephens "The Age of Power").

@Irene McC and @Panolyman Irene and Brian, we hope that everyone is OK around where you are.

Very few moving parts these days, Irene? I think I know how she feels!

@Brian Brian, the phrase "Can you just xxxx ?" should be banned from the English language, IMHO.

Hmmmm. A one-off artifact caused by the cat fur, perhaps? Cat fur is tricky at the best of times.

I spend $7,000 on a pair of orthopaedic lounge chairs, then get all ikey about spending $3 on an app on Google Play School ... So I do understand your dilemma.

Other details please Cederic? Any PP? e.g. Adobe defaults, etc

Lovely shot, Mel.

Very nice photo, Billy. And a warm :Welcome: to this friendly forum, mate.

Glad that it worked for you, Daniel. I use a Kingston Fury X 1 TB as my boot/system NVME.2 drive.

Our house at Marengo was just too far from the sort of hospitals I need to live near, Matt. Otherwise, just spectacularly beautiful ...

Maybe it's just a very poorly designed lens, AoA?

Prospective Darwin award winner, Ron?

Wonderful, Irene. I just love the dolphins ...

Check the DoF using DoFMaster, or similar, to see just how much you need to stop down, AoA.

I actually agree with Tim. This is far more likely attributable to diffraction softening than coatings, or a specific lens. Nikon published a paper on the D800/D810 recommending that one shouldn't use f-stops smaller than f/8 due to diffraction softening.

Using 1/3 stop setting for ISO can lead to some unexpected and unpleasant results with Olympus cameras. The full stop settings are processed directly by the ADC, whereas the intermediate stops are processed digitally, after the ADC stage. This leads to the unexpected result of the...

I just checked, and yes, Ultrafin is still available. I found a succinct description that resonates with my remembered experience from about 60 years ago in this post: Ultrafin results "first rolls (neopan 400) developed in ULTRAFIN. first impression from seeing the negatives on lighttable...

@L0n3Gr3yW0lf Ovi, life is what happens while we are planning other things! IOW, do not feel guilty about any of these things. We have little to no control over any of it. It's not as if you deliberately did, or failed to do, anything whatsoever that caused any of these unfortunate events. Be...

Juanita certainly outlived George by a goodly margin, Andrew!

Ditto. I do not like cars that try to do the thinking for me. Even the ABS braking system in my 2006 Subaru Forester tried to kill me once, on a 30° muddy downhill track. Fortunately, my knowledge of impulse braking allowed me to fool it into not working. :rofl: And above Forester lives...

I hope the tortoise was still in residence, Jeroen. Lovely shot.

Mike, I have a Gossen Lunasix meter that still works as well as the day I bought it in the 1960s. I still use it periodically, and it's good for checking the light exposure of prints to bright light, as it does incident metering as well.

Jan, what is in my mind is that I have e.g. multiple lenses capable of shooting at 50mm - several different 40-150s, 50 macro, 12-50 macro, 12-100, 50-200, etc. Identifying these by eye, selecting them, then applying the correct lens and putting it into the "Lens model" field is far faster to do...

It depends ... As Ovi has already explained. For any given format, film is well behind digital, IMO. This is more to do with the exposure/amount of light gathered by any given format than it is to do with film vs. digital, per se. There are many other variables, about which, trolls on DPR can...

Nice thread with some nice photos, Andrew. I still have all my old darkroom equipment, including enlargers and developing trays, but I just can't be bothered with it. Is Ultrafin still available? I preferred it to Rodinal, back in the day.

Nice shot, Mike, but I really like the cat. Is it a veterinary surgery?

I mostly shoot in aperture priority mode, Nicola. Next I will play with manual, full stop ISO, lastly with SS. My object is always to get as much exposure (aperture * SS) on the sensor. While I fully understand situations where one should let aperture and ISO float, they are rare for what I...

Nicola, did you have any reason for using such high ISOs? They're all good photos, but dynamic range suffers dreadfully at such high ISOs, particularly with our smaller surface area sensors in FTs/mFTs cameras. e.g. see the graphs at PhotonsToPhotos: OMDS OM-1 dynamic range vs ISO

Totally different cultures, Steve. In Japan, both individual and corporate honour are paramount, for just one thing.

Beauty, mate ... :) .

I was tossing up between daughter and grand daughter, Scott. Lovely photo anyway, mate.