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Hi all, It's been a long time since I've posted. Hello again and Happy New Year and all that! I haven't been shooting really at all lately, other than family stuff. I sold my RX1 II and a couple of bicycles to help finance some guitar upgrades - another long dormant hobby coming back to life...

There's a great ultra wide (I assume) shot from the Comey hearings in front of the Senate Intel Committee on Thursday. It went viral within minutes. Here's a cool little article where the photographer tells how he got it. And how it went viral almost immediately within minutes of him snapping...

In this thread (Zone focus with RX1 - neat little trick...) I discussed a way of using the RX1 for zone focus street shooting using the macro ring as essentially a "mechanical" focus ring. And incorporated Bruce's suggestion to override the manual focus settings using a back button auto-focus...

This will probably be of interest to almost nobody, but it's bigly (big league?) of interest to me, so I'll share it just on the off-chance anyone else is interested... First, the "problem". This isn't a huge problem - I've worked around it without much trouble on both the original RX1 I owned...

It's been quite a while since I just hit the streets in Philadelphia for the better part of a day. But yesterday was the day to take the RX1R II for it's maiden voyage of the sort I expect it'll take quite a few of. I don't seem to have the need to do this type of shooting ALL THE TIME anymore -...

I spent a couple days in Savannah, GA last week and it quickly revealed itself as one of the handful (maybe two hands full) of most beautiful cities I've seen. It was my first time there but I'll be back. Next, since we're spending time in the South this winter, I'll have to check out...

I recently came to the conclusion that as much as I love my Nikon DF, and I love it a LOT, I have a handful of pretty damn nice lenses that I don't use. Particularly some of my nice longer AF primes, 58mm and up. I started thinking that if I sell these and a few lesser used MF lenses, I could...

I haven't been shooting much lately, thus haven't been around here much lately. But my wife and I spent a week in Maine over the holiday, renting an Air B&B house on a lake ("pond" in Maine parlance) and having a nice Thanksgiving with our harried first year medical resident daughter and her...

I haven't posted many photos lately. I seem to have lost my jones for photography, so I'm mostly shooting when I happen to be somewhere interesting or scenic, rather than just going out and looking for stuff to shoot. We spent most of last week at (and traveling back and forth to) my wife's aunt...

My daughter was finishing up her final medical school rotation in Brooklyn this last week (with graduation and the start of her residency in June) and I went up for a few days to get in my NYC fix and to make sure she had someone around to celebrate with when she finished up what has been a...

I ordered an X70 from B&H yesterday afternoon and due to the miracle of living within one UPS day of NYC I picked up the X70 at the local UPS depot this morning at 8:30. By mid-afternoon I've already clearly determined it's going back to B&H. Not because it's a bad camera in ANY way, or even a...

Millie was our dog - she died yesterday at about age 17, 13 of them spent with us. She brought more joy to our family than I can possibly explain. It was her time - her quality of life was reduced down way too close to zero for us to selfishly hold on to her any longer. She'd really been in...

If anyone had suggested to me when I first got back into photography again about 5 1/2 years ago that I'd turn into a bokeh snob, I wouldn't have believed them. Hell, I wouldn't have known what they were talking about. I knew all about the relationship between aperture and DOF and how to isolate...

I'm happy to follow up on Bart's fine recent Salon Challenge. The theme of this one will be... Hair. It can be real hair, fake hair, lack of hair where it would have been, something that looks like hair but isn't. Human, non-human, whatever you want to do with it as long as there's some...

Just got back from a week long cruise of the southern portion of Alaska, from Ketchikan in the South to Skagway farther north. I don’t generally enjoy cruises as a mode of travel, but this is one I always thought would be nice to do for the easy access to some of the scenery. And indeed the...

We're having a few quick days in Seattle before starting a week long Alaska cruise this weekend. I managed to shoot a lot yesterday, a tiny bit this morning, and I'm probably done until the Alaska part of the trip. Seattle is near and dear to my heart, though, having lived here for many years...

I used to be a really hard core cyclist, but health problems mostly forced me off the bike from about Autumn 2012 until this past Spring. I hadn't ridden with a camera since I started riding again, but this morning I decided to grab my Coolpix A before I went out on a pretty typical 30 mile...

We had our first street fairs of the summer this past weekend - our town has all sorts of these things from now into October. I did some street shooting with my Coolpix A, but I blew it and accidentally set the aperture to f22 and there were only a few shots even worth thinking about processing...

Sad sad day today. I first saw BB in 1977 (which is frighteningly close to 40 years ago - good Lord) in a small club in Seattle and saw him a few times over the next 20 years or so. Hadn't seen him in a long time and every time he came around I'd think "I should go see him - I'm not gonna...

Just replaced the focus screen in my DF... I've been using mostly manual focus lenses on my DF, MUCH to my surprise - I wouldn't have guessed I'd be doing this when I bought it. But I've got two Zeiss and three Voigtlander MF lenses at the wide end and a couple of Nikon telephotos in the...

I'd like to share some of the shots I got today on a walk in a beautiful rural area under perfect blue skies with gorgeous white puffy clouds, newly green grass, and trees just sprouting their leaves for the start of the season. I'd like to, but I can't. Because I spaced out putting the SD card...

I've been in NYC since last Thursday, staying until this coming Saturday. My wife was here for the first 5 days - the weather was beautiful for much of that and we had a great time but photography wasn't real priority. I'm solo since Monday afternoon but the weather hasn't been great and I'm not...

A new video from Kai on Nikon's new D5. It's a one day only offer, and it's gotta be THIS day... -Ray

One of the last times I was in Philadelphia, last year sometime, I walked out on the Ben Franklin Bridge and took some sunrise shots of both Camden and Philly from that vantage point. In one of the photos I took from up there, I noticed a pier right below the bridge that had evidently been...

My younger daughter lives in the Wilmington, North Carolina area and seems to be settling in here somewhat, so we're becoming occasional visitors to the area. We spent a week here last New Years and liked it enough that we've spent the same week here this year. Summer beach condos are available...

Buy & Sell Listing - Want to SellSelling Sony RX1 w/ accessories Prices $1600 OBO for everything Location USA Ships to US/Canada Description Sony RX1 with EVF, Fotodiox grip, three extra batteries (1 Sony, 2 aftermarket), and two charging plates for use with any Watson...

Hi all, I bought a used Zeiss 21mm f2.8 for the Df a while back from B&H, but well within the return period, Nikon announced it's 20mm f1.8 which seemed like a better fit for me for a number of reasons, despite the Zeiss' AMAZING clarity and IQ. So I returned the Zeiss and bought the Nikon...

I'm in the Big Apple and all I brought was the G7X and the RX1. I'm gonna try to stick to just shooting the G7X as much as possible, although I'll probably bring the RX1 out at night... Anyway, I'm sick of talking about this camera, and defending it from the Sony-loving hoards (of which I am one...

OK, as an early adopter, I may as well start this one off. Here's a bunch of stuff from Philly yesterday. A mix of river scenes (the City just opened a "boardwalk" over a stretch of the Schuylkill Riverfront last week, so I spent some time there), streetscapes, architecture, and a bit of my...

With all of the rumors that have been floating over the past months of the “serious compacts” that were anticipated at Photokina, and with all of the excitement over the “LX8” (which became the LX100), the camera I absolutely didn’t see coming AT ALL and wouldn’t have expected to be of any...

We had the annual Restaurant Festival in our town yesterday. They've been running this event for 35 years - we've been here for 22 of 'em and in that time it's grown from a pleasant but sleepy little event to an absolutely huge regional event. You can't park or drive in town because of the...

As long as we're free associating potential names for the forum, may as well do the same with thread titles... When I first started contemplated selling off my Fuji gear and getting into Nikon, the one serious negative I saw with the whole thing was losing out on Fuji's excellent 14mm lens...

So I'm hanging out a bit too much on the Nikon Forum on DPR lately, learning all I can about this DSLR gear. And among the usual squabbling (Nikon shooters eat their own - they don't bother hating Canon, being too busy hating on the Nikon DSLRs they didn't choose!) and occasionally educational...

http://www.dslrbodies.com/newsviews/the-photokina-prognosis.html No idea how legit, and sounds more like speculation than rumor, but I hope there's something to it. And Thom's reasonably connected, so maybe there's something here. The only thing that would make the RX1 better to me would be a...

I spent a day and an evening in Atlantic City on Thursday. This city is dying again, as gambling is allowed in more and more neighboring states and new casinos are cannibalizing the old (and in some cases, themselves). I've seen a distinct change in the last 3-4 years. Nonetheless, the place is...

Buy & Sell Listing - Want to SellSelling Fuji XT1, 10-24, 14, 60, & 50-230 Prices Fuji XT1 body - SOLD 10-24 f4 - SOLD 14mm - SOLD 60mm - SOLD 50-230 - $250 (or free if you buy the whole bundle) Location USA Ships to US/Canada Description This gear is all essentially...

Buy & Sell Listing - Want to SellSelling XT1, 10-24, 14, 60, 50-230 Prices Fuji XT1 body - SOLD 10-24 f4 - SOLD 14mm - SOLD 60mm - SOLD 50-230 - SOLD Location USA Ships to US/Canada Description This gear is all essentially new, bought since February. The XT1 is almost...

There are few things I find more enjoyable with photography than taking an ultra-wide to some interesting (or potentially interesting) architecture. The local University just graduated and I headed down there this morning. I rarely did much photography down there when the main school year is in...

Buy & Sell Listing - Want to SellSelling Fuji XE-2, 23mm, 18mm, 35mm Prices XE2 (Silver) body - SOLD 23mm f1.4 - SOLD 18mm f2.0 - $300 obo 35mm f1.4 - SOLD Location USA Ships to USA Description All this stuff is nearly new and in perfect condition. The XE2...

REDUCED - Fuji 18mm | Location: USA | Ships: USA Buy & Sell Listing - Want to SellSelling XE-2, 23mm, 18mm, 35mm Prices XE2 (Silver) body - SOLD 23mm f1.4 - Sold 18mm f2.0 - $300 obo 35mm f1.4 - Sold Location USA Ships to USA Description All this stuff is...

First off, I'm not sure if the Watering Hole is the place to raise this question, but I didn't see a more appropriate place - so if this isn't the place and there's a better one, any moderator should please feel free to move this to the apporpriate location... So a friend of mine who runs our...

My wife and I spent a long weekend in New York over the past few days. Stayed in the heart of the Village near Washington Square Park. Didn't do a lot of shooting but managed a few sessions. I thought I was just going to take the Nikon A, but grabbed the Fuji XE2 at the last minute as well as a...

A few images from a day trip to the beach. I used the 14 and 60mm on the XE2. To my surprise, I got a couple of relatively close BIF shots with the 60 and was able to follow and nail focus pretty easily, depsite the RELATIVELY slow AF of that lens. Not that slow at all with the new PDAF bodies...

No release candidate for this one - Adobe released 5.4 this morning. Support for the X-T1 added and Fuji film emulations added as color profiles. Initially the color profiles look good - Velvia looks like Velvia! http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates.html Also added LR mobile as noted in...

A few of the Rokinion lenses that have been discussed appear ready to hit the shelves (and probably identical versions from Samyang and Bower...). I saw this on DPR earlier and all of the links to B&H show availability on or around March 25. New Samyang/Rokinon line of lenses for Fuji X...

I'm spending a week in the Bay Area. After a brutal winter (still going strong) in the Philly area, a bit of sunshine and warmth is what the doctor ordered. I've got the XT1 with the 14, 18, 23, and I grabbed a 55-200 at the last minute so I could get some reach without having to bring m43 gear...

I've been playing around with a Nikon Df loaner for a few weeks and a guy on one of the Nikon forums had a firmware idea for the Df that I thought was brilliant. And, looking at the X-T1, it occurred to me it would work almost as well with this body. The pre-requisite is really having both...

Buy & Sell Listing - Want to SellSelling Sony RX1 and Accessories Prices $1950 OBO Location USA Ships to USA Description Sony RX1 - a bit less than one year old. I'm the original owner. I can't find a shutter count. I've used the camera a fair amount, very heavily for...

There's a GX7 image thread but not one for the EM1? May mean there's not enough demand, but I'll start one and see if anyone else wants to post to it. If not, I'll let it die and just post on MU-43.com. -Ray

I'm a bag junkie. Women who buy lots of shoes and purses have nothing on me. I may be the Imelda Marcos of camera bags. I think I've tried nearly everything. I've had about 173.4 different Domke's at one time or another - there's something about their aesthetic I really like. I've had Tamrons...