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  1. Jan Steinman

    Show "Remarkable Car(s)"

    OUCH! There's a lot of cut limbs… was this a felling gone wrong, or did it come down in bad weather? Or were the limbs removed after the fall? I've placed a lot of felled trees right where I wanted them, but also had a few near-disaters.
  2. Jan Steinman

    "People" photography is not for me

    I was in a crowded ferry terminal (public place), and there was this cute little girl with her mother. EVERYONE was taking cell phone pictures of her! I pulled out my discrete PEN F with the pancake zoom and took a photo. "Don't you dare take pictures of my children!" she scolded, "I want...
  3. Jan Steinman

    EXIF "management"

    Interesting perspective… perhaps I'm missing something, but I view command line tools as having the ultimate in "finesse." Not only that, but they can be easily saved, edited, and re-run, unlike GUI tools. What am I missing?
  4. Jan Steinman

    EXIF "management"

    Windows-only.
  5. Jan Steinman

    EXIF "management"

    I'm fairly happy with Excire Foto, from Germany. It does a nice job of using AI to automagically set keywords. Their keywords are in their own name-space, and don't interfere with yours. Their keywords live in their database, and don't get embedded in images unless you tell it to. http://excire.com
  6. Jan Steinman

    Show - Fisheye photos

    Perseid meteors! Oly 8mm ƒ/1.8 on an OM-1. About 120 each ten-second exposures, using Live Composite.
  7. Jan Steinman

    How do you manage your photographs???

    Have you tried Excire Foto? It does automagic, AI-based keywording. (You can also add your own.) It is fantastic to have a regular keyword system imposed on me. I don't have enough discipline to organize my own in a consistent manner.
  8. Jan Steinman

    Architecture Our House, a Very Fine House.

    Ouch! That was my first job. My dad was a house painter and decorator/remodeller. I wanted to be a musician, so he insisted I learn to paint so I'd have a "day job" while trying to make music. But after painting with him for a summer, I decided anything was better, and went into engineering...
  9. Jan Steinman

    Architecture Our House, a Very Fine House.

    We don't have a CoO yet. Haven't even scheduled final inspection. It will need a railing to pass final inspection!
  10. Jan Steinman

    Architecture Our House, a Very Fine House.

    If you mean, are they doing "finishing work," then yes! It's going to be lovely… if we ever get in it. The best and worst thing is that the builder is an "artiste," and he loves to work with found materials. Right now, he's putting up solid copper sheeting backsplash around the kitchen counter...
  11. Jan Steinman

    Show - Fisheye photos

    I don't believe the EXIF info. What lens was it really shot with?
  12. Jan Steinman

    Show your panoramas

    Thanks! The "execution" would have been better if I hadn't lost the last shot, though.
  13. Jan Steinman

    Show your panoramas

    This was in the top of the old silo on our family farm. My brother (in yellow) built a platform near the top. I set the tripod in the centre, and had family sit around about a quarter of the circumference. Then I'd take a shot and rotate, and those who were no longer in the frame moved to the...
  14. Jan Steinman

    Architecture Our House, a Very Fine House.

    I'm envious. We're in my step-daughter's sewing room, while the schedule on our tiny house slips by… was supposed to be done by July, then October, then "in the new year," then "end of the month…" (last month)
  15. Jan Steinman

    Adapted Adapted lenses, any make, for any camera

    I managed to get a transit of Mercury with a Celestron C90, but you can't see it without pixel-peeping at 100%. No where near as impressive as yours! Plus, it was cloudy that day.
  16. Jan Steinman

    Adapted Adapted lenses, any make, for any camera

    Here's a couple wierdos, Scheimpflüg examples. Olympus OM Zuiko 28mm ƒ/2 on a Fotodiox ROKR tilt-shift adapter, with full tilt toward the subject, and full tilt away from the subject. A huge problem with this adapter (compared to a view camera) is that the shift is at right-angles to the tilt...
  17. Jan Steinman

    Adapted Adapted lenses, any make, for any camera

    Thanks! Not much post. I think all I did was down-size it.
  18. Jan Steinman

    Adapted Adapted lenses, any make, for any camera

    OM Zuiko 100mm ƒ/2, at night, by the light of a single 25 watt bulb. This is about my favourite adapted lens, although the OM 90/2, 50/1.2 on a speed booster, 135/4.5 macro on a Telescoping Extension Tube, and the mighty 350/2.8 all come close. Hard to pick a favourite when there are so many to...
  19. Jan Steinman

    Adapted Adapted lenses, any make, for any camera

    I haven't used mine in years, although it won me a couple magazine covers fifteen years ago. It's one of those that, when you look at the paltry resale value, you hate to part with.
  20. Jan Steinman

    Lens WIDE-OPEN, Any Lens, Any focal Length, Any Mount, Any Camera

    What lens? Don't really think it was a 1mm ƒ/1!
  21. Jan Steinman

    GAS Dear Giary!

    Don't really want to start an argument that no one can win, but my impression is that the edges and corners are considerably sharper, too. I think focal reducers provide better telecentricity, too, as a number of my wide vintage lenses that show CA and vignetting in the edges are cleaned up...
  22. Jan Steinman

    GAS Dear Giary!

    Perhaps I just drunk the Caldwell Kool Aid, but I seriously find that I get better results with a vintage lens on a quality focal reducer than I do without. When I crop the focal-reduced image to match the one made with a straight adapter, the focal-reduced image appears better in all areas...
  23. Jan Steinman

    GAS Dear Giary!

    But when I do come home with something…
  24. Jan Steinman

    GAS Dear Giary!

    Not me! You talking to a mouse in your pocket? :) I started out at about five, on a Kodak Brownie. Rather than sending it in after each exposure, my Dad pried open the case, developed the film in our darkroom, then cut film (from 4"x5" sheets) and re-loaded it! So with that background, I...
  25. Jan Steinman

    GAS Dear Giary!

    I've purposely dodged that bullet! The way I see it, any camera maker that has survived a while† has got to be doing something good. So I made a choice in my early 20s, and I've pretty much stuck with it since. Rather than being enticed by the latest whiz-bang trick from Canikony (et. al.), I...
  26. Jan Steinman

    GAS Dear Giary!

    Oder Frau… :)
  27. Jan Steinman

    Lens WIDE-OPEN, Any Lens, Any focal Length, Any Mount, Any Camera

    I love it when full-frame-fanatics say, "You can't do that with a postage-stamp-sized sensor!" Yea, given identical shooting location, focal length, and focal ratio, full-frame has more subject isolation than µ4/3rds. But that's not what we do as photographers, is it? The goal should be to...
  28. Jan Steinman

    Lens WIDE-OPEN, Any Lens, Any focal Length, Any Mount, Any Camera

    Sorry I got carried away… in looking through some of my favourite images from favourite lenses, I now realize that there are very few that I do not shoot wide open!
  29. Jan Steinman

    Lens WIDE-OPEN, Any Lens, Any focal Length, Any Mount, Any Camera

    Olympus OM Zuiko 55mm ƒ/1.2 on a Metabones Speedbooster Ultra, for 38.5mm ƒ/0.84:
  30. Jan Steinman

    Lens WIDE-OPEN, Any Lens, Any focal Length, Any Mount, Any Camera

    Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 35-100mm ƒ/2:
  31. Jan Steinman

    Lens WIDE-OPEN, Any Lens, Any focal Length, Any Mount, Any Camera

    Olympus OM Zuiko 350mm ƒ/2.8 with OM 14-XA teleconverter, effective 500mm ƒ/4:
  32. Jan Steinman

    Lens WIDE-OPEN, Any Lens, Any focal Length, Any Mount, Any Camera

    Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 150mm ƒ/2:
  33. Jan Steinman

    Lens WIDE-OPEN, Any Lens, Any focal Length, Any Mount, Any Camera

    Olympus OM Zuiko 21mm ƒ/2 on a Metabones Speedbooster Ultra, effective 15mm ƒ/1.4:
  34. Jan Steinman

    Lens WIDE-OPEN, Any Lens, Any focal Length, Any Mount, Any Camera

    Olympus OM Zuiko 500mm ƒ/8 Reflex, on a Viltrox Mount Adapter EF-M2, effective 350mm ƒ/5.6:
  35. Jan Steinman

    Lens WIDE-OPEN, Any Lens, Any focal Length, Any Mount, Any Camera

    Olympus OM Zuiko 55mm ƒ/1.2 on a Metabones Speedbooster Ultra, effective 38mm ƒ/0.84:
  36. Jan Steinman

    Lens WIDE-OPEN, Any Lens, Any focal Length, Any Mount, Any Camera

    Olympus OM Zuiko 100mm ƒ/2, by the light of a single 25-watt bulb:
  37. Jan Steinman

    Show - Fisheye photos

    How did you get the sky like that? Post-processing magic? Or did it really look like that? Very dramatic!
  38. Jan Steinman

    Adapted Adapted lenses, any make, for any camera

    Ah, "dark slide shutter." At ƒ/1.2. Looks like a job for a wet plate, which has an ISO of about 1. Start off with a raven in a coal mine. :-)
  39. Jan Steinman

    Show "Signs"

    We were in an 18-passenger bus that didn't like to go Interstate speeds. So we took the "blue roads."
  40. Jan Steinman

    Show - Fisheye photos

    A hobbit house! Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, with Laowa 4mm ƒ/2.8 circular fisheye.
  41. Jan Steinman

    Adapted Adapted lenses, any make, for any camera

    So, when do we see some results? Your local dip-n-dunk can't take more than a few days, no? :-)
  42. Jan Steinman

    Scenic Show: Clouds

    Been stitching old spherical panoramas lately, and found one with clouds. Six shots, 60° apart, and zenith and nadir, made a 256 megapixel image. Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, M.Zuiko 7-14mm ƒ/2.8, at ƒ/5.6, ISO 200. (EXIF data didn't survive stitching, apparently…)
  43. Jan Steinman

    Show "Signs"

    Yea, I think so! It was on a rushed coast-to-coast trip, a paid move on a new job, so I didn't get to see much. All I know for sure from my photos is that it was on this side of the Continental Divide, 'cause the photo just before it was of the sign at the top!
  44. Jan Steinman

    Bernie Meme

    Okay, I'm cheating. I didn't take this photo. But I know this guy who works at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), and he said he could save Bernie the cost of a dental x-ray. They found a black hole in one of his molars.
  45. Jan Steinman

    Bernie Meme

    Bernie photo-bombed a family picture:
  46. Jan Steinman

    Bernie Meme

    The plane was full, so Bernie took overflow seating, a thousand feet over Dallas-Ft. Worth.
  47. Jan Steinman

    Bernie Meme

    In that same market, Bernie was helping us sell carrot cake.
  48. Jan Steinman

    Bernie Meme

    Cuddle Puddle! They were in a red market tent, so I had to make Bernie blush a bit to make the colour temperature work…
  49. Jan Steinman

    Bernie Meme

    Okay, this meme has sorta burned itself out, but I always loved it, so I'm reviving it here. To make things easier for would-be meme artists, I went to some trouble to mask Bernie, which I'm including here, in a PNG with alpha. So, your job, should you accept it, is to download masked Bernie...
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