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  1. Brian

    News Digital Cameras: A 2024 "status symbol"? 🤔

    Writing to the internal SCSI disk was faster, once it spun up. The trick was to spin up the disk and take a second shot. The spinning disk acted like a gyroscope. In Camera Stabilization, 1992. My Kodak DC50 and Nikon E3 use PCMCIA cards. The later DC120 moved to CF.
  2. Brian

    News Digital Cameras: A 2024 "status symbol"? 🤔

    I had a Nikon Coolpix 950 that I converted to full-spectrum myself. Gave it away to a student intern for his studies.
  3. Brian

    News Digital Cameras: A 2024 "status symbol"? 🤔

    The high-voltage power supply on many of these are blowing out, and electronics fail. My Pentium Pro still boots up. The IBM Professional Graphics Controller display- smoked. My Xerox 820-II power supply blew-out, but the Fergasun Big-Board-II and floppy drives booted up. I have two or 3 PGC...
  4. Brian

    News Digital Cameras: A 2024 "status symbol"? 🤔

    Twenty years ago at a restaurant in Old Town Alexandria our waiter brought out much of the staff to show them my Leica M3 with the Summicron on it. I let him take a picture with it. My Leica M8- couple of years ago, taking a walk in the neighborhood, a young woman in a red convertible stopped to...
  5. Brian

    News Digital Cameras: A 2024 "status symbol"? 🤔

    Next time try Smellivision, as seen on Bugs Bunny.
  6. Brian

    News Digital Cameras: A 2024 "status symbol"? 🤔

    I mean, who would want to be seen with one of these? The trend is set.
  7. Brian

    News Digital Cameras: A 2024 "status symbol"? 🤔

    Digital is so last year.
  8. Brian

    News Digital Cameras: A 2024 "status symbol"? 🤔

    They missed the mark. Polaroid, baby, Polaroid.
  9. Brian

    What keeps you using your current camera brand?

    Nikon mirrorless- the Z5 was under $1K for a full-frame mirrorless camera with a 3.6MDot VF. Easy to use with Manual Focus lenses. I do not have any AF lenses for it. Nikon Df- uses all of my Nikon F mount lenses, manual focus and autofocus. Leica Rangefinders- use RF coupled lenses that I own...
  10. Brian

    Advice Wanted Back-up photos during extended holliday

    I tested the SD duplicator using the card from my Nikon Z5: doing a file copy - second card could not be used in my Nikon Z5. Using block-by-block duplication: the card worked perfectly in the Z5, usable and pictures available for playback.
  11. Brian

    Advice Wanted Back-up photos during extended holliday

    This is the unit I have: https://www.amazon.com/BestDuplicator-Target-MicroSD-Portable-Duplicator/dp/B00ERNK498/ Note the formats it supports for copying data, additionally it supports block-by-block duplication. The latter: I use for Bootable systems for embedded controllers. It also works...
  12. Brian

    Advice Wanted Back-up photos during extended holliday

    I bought an SD to SD duplicator that is fairly small and easy to use, runs on AA batteries and AC power. About the same size as a cellphone. If this is a possibility, I'll post more on it.
  13. Brian

    iPhone creates fascinating photo

    I do not want to be second guessed by a camera, even a camera in a phone. In this case- storing the original images and having post-processing software in-camera to allow the photographer to choose the desired stitched image should be an option. Otherwise- the software engineer that designed the...
  14. Brian

    Why isn't there more 100-150mm primes

    The diagonal of a 35mm frame is "about" 45mm, 135mm is 3x that. Much like an 85mm or 90mm is about 2x. When my Daughter was little, I often carries a 135 to mitigate the "Daddy Factor"- meaning being far enough away as not to change her expression. Kind of like the Heisenberg Uncertainty...
  15. Brian

    Why isn't there more 100-150mm primes

    In the 70s, working through college at a camera store- The Nikkor 80~200/4.5 was ~$700 and the Nikkor 135/3.5 was about $80. I sold a lot of the latter. It's small and light. The 135/2.8 is not much bigger. Much Smaller than my 135/2.8 Tele-Elmarit.
  16. Brian

    Why isn't there more 100-150mm primes

    I have the sharpest Zoom lens in F-Mount that Nikon ever made, 70~180 Micro-Nikkor-Zoom. I grab the 135/2.8 more often.
  17. Brian

    Why isn't there more 100-150mm primes

    A modern design lens will use aspheric optics, special glass, telecentric design, and will be big and costly. The Zeiss 135/2.8 is in the $1,700 range. The closest you will get to something affordable are the Chinese lenses from DJ Optical, 7artisans has revived some old designs.
  18. Brian

    Why isn't there more 100-150mm primes

    Improvements in Zoom lenses. Modern Autofocus lenses tend to be bigger due to motors and electronics. With modern digital cameras with High-ISO, lots of megapixels- large aperture, distortion-free lenses are not required. Firmware can take care of distortion, and Auto-ISO makes up for large...
  19. Brian

    Advice Wanted Post processing - too much - getting tired of it? You can't hurt my feelings. :)

    If I had a slide or negative that looked like that, I'd probably try to clean the fungus off it. I've had a few slides that got wet in the basement, that did that. Not a good thing! I do not mind a film simulation performed using digital images. But not introducing artifacts that most people...
  20. Brian

    Advice Wanted Which combination for photographing small things (birds, wildlife) at long distances

    I meant the 300/4 with a 1.4x teleconverter is equivalent to a 420mm F5.6 lens. Same magnification as a 840mm on a full-frame, Magnification defined here as focal length of the lens used over the "normal" focal length of the sensor. 1000/50= 20x; 420/ 25= 16.8x.
  21. Brian

    With AI here - do I really need a camera?

    It was a different Earth in the Multi-Verse.
  22. Brian

    Advice Wanted Which combination for photographing small things (birds, wildlife) at long distances

    For small subjects at distance, mu-43, The 300/4 with the 1.4x Teleconverter would be my choice. That gives a 420/5.6 equivalent. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1082049-REG/olympus_v321210bu000_mc_14_1_4x_teleconverter_for.html/?cnxclid=16992792064070465134417881172008005 No direct...
  23. Brian

    Do you keep your boxes?

    I kept the box my CP/m computer came in. Xerox 820-II. The 820-II CRT smoked, kept the motherboard and box. The box- has lots of old computer stuff in in. I do have an emulator for it. I have more computers than emulators, finally retired the Pentium Pro to the basement.
  24. Brian

    Do you keep your boxes?

    I should rename my home office the "C&C room". Cameras and Computers. Lots of each.
  25. Brian

    With AI here - do I really need a camera?

    https://cameraderie.org/threads/experiments-in-leica-m8-and-m9-conversions.38737/page-2#post-263134 These are the types of values stored in a raw file- many pertain to the individual sensor used.
  26. Brian

    With AI here - do I really need a camera?

    I'm sure there is software to do this, and probably a number of ways to implement it. Most of the photographs posted here are from digital cameras, and have some level of EXIF data included as to camera type and even lens used. JPEGs are provided, not "RAW" files. Much more information about...
  27. Brian

    Do you keep your boxes?

    I have the original box for my Nikon F2a, Nikkormat FT2, and several lenses bought with them. 45+ years now. I've used all the gear, still own most of it. When swapping some of the gear- offered with boxes, no interest. SO- I need a lens to go with that box, the lens easy to find.- another box not.
  28. Brian

    The oldest camera you actually have a reason for using?

    Ricoh Caplio 500SE for a P&S Digital. $40 off Ebay, new-old-stock. I can wade into the Gulf of Mexico with it, waterproof. If it dies- out $40.
  29. Brian

    Do you keep your boxes?

    Yeah- but that one has Cloth shutter curtains. My Black SP has titanium foil curtains.... I compared my original with the SP-2005, the viewfinder on mine matched the much newer one. Mine is from ~1959. I had Shintaro paint it after removing a dent in the faceplate. It looks new now. But- no...
  30. Brian

    Do you keep your boxes?

    If you have the original box for my 1932 pre-production Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm F1.5, I will gladly pay you $100 for it.
  31. Brian

    Do you keep your boxes?

    https://cameraderie.org/threads/minolta-himatic-9-flood-cleaning-shutter-and-cleaning-viewfinder-also-applies-to-the-7-7s-and-11.50150/#post-372167 I'm looking at the Box right now- way better shape than the camera was when received. I fixed the camera. I lost the box from the Hi-Matic 9 that I...
  32. Brian

    Do you keep your boxes?

    I have them going back to the 1970s. That means a stack of boxes. I keep lenses in cases, one time had Styrofoam outgas and haze up a Nikkor 105/2.5. Learned my lesson- do not keep them long term in Styrofoam.
  33. Brian

    Should I suck it up a pay for Lightroom Creative Cloud?

    GIMP is a good substitute for Photoshop- and has both Windows and MAC versions. I downloaded and installed it about a year ago. ART and Raw Therapee are good substitutes for Lightroom. I favor ART as it is easier to navigate compared with Raw Therapee.
  34. Brian

    Should I suck it up a pay for Lightroom Creative Cloud?

    I just downloaded the newest version of ART. Copied the DCP files to it for my cameras that were not in it already. Up and running. Still free, and Source Code available. I see no reason to pay for Lightroom.
  35. Brian

    Should I suck it up a pay for Lightroom Creative Cloud?

    I was recently given a Leica M240. Noted the colors from "ART" were muddy compared to those from Lightroom. I moved the ".DCP" file from Lightroom to ART. What I found: the DCP profile has options, including a "Tone Curve", Lookup Table, and Base Table. Lightroom selects Tone Curve as the...
  36. Brian

    With AI here - do I really need a camera?

    AI versus NS. Natural Stupidity wins every time. I told that to an AI developer in 1982. They actually believed their own "statements". A HAL-9000 I could deal with. We'd have great conversations and I'm sure HAL would have seen the errors of his ways. On my first full-time job as a...
  37. Brian

    With AI here - do I really need a camera?

    AI is so overhyped these days, almost as bad as it was 40 years ago. And- The DaVinci Ai got the wrong answer. To borrow from Harry, "An Ai has got to know its Limitation". But they do not. Some idiot is out there right now basing important decisions on an Ai that does not understand when...
  38. Brian

    With AI here - do I really need a camera?

    I know the people that designed the wavelet based JPEG-2000 algorithm. Also remember the discrete Cosine based algorithms with Huffman code. At maximum quality both are spatially lossless. There are JPEG standards for more than 8-bits per color, but few use it. I worked on compression schemes...
  39. Brian

    With AI here - do I really need a camera?

    We've had computers for a long time, but we still need our brain. Don't let the computer do your thinking for you, don't let the computer limit the images that you make.
  40. Brian

    Bokeh is overrated...

    Optical Engineers have been designing lenses to give pleasing effects in the out of focus areas since the beginning of photography. "Bokeh of a Lens" describes their design trade-offs quite well. Or- provide measurements of spherical aberration, astigmatism, vignetting, and all other optical...
  41. Brian

    Bokeh is overrated...

    Bokeh is now a well understood term in photography. It sums up the out-of-focus areas as rendered by a particular lens. It is a primarily a function of residual aberrations of a lens. From the 1940s. The book discusses aberrations that are purposely introduced to the design to gain desired effects.
  42. Brian

    Sensors

    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9063095 State-of-the-art random sample above, do not know how long it will be before getting into a camera.
  43. Brian

    The oldest camera you actually have a reason for using?

    Polaroid SLR680. When taking a camera to my daughter's youth group, get surrounded by young people wanting their pictures with friends with My camera. Only drawback- always give the pictures away. I also bring a boring digital camera, Nikon Df, Nikon Z5, or a Leica.
  44. Brian

    mu-43 sensor for film cameras.... I want one.

    Nikon SP for Me. I also have a Yashica Rangefinder, a YF.
  45. Brian

    mu-43 sensor for film cameras.... I want one.

    https://petapixel.com/2023/10/06/a-20mp-sensor-in-a-film-canister-reinvigorates-vintage-analog-cameras/ This concept goes back more than 20 years. I hope this one pulls it off.
  46. Brian

    Metering over exposes Z-system with vintage lens

    This is the damage that Irene and I are discussing- it is not on an outer glass surface, and member @Coksic showed us how cooking in oil fixed his! https://cameraderie.org/threads/lens-haze.53041/ If mine gets worse- or I get way-curious, I might "Boil it in Oil!". I would use index...
  47. Brian

    Metering over exposes Z-system with vintage lens

    Irene- those look fine to me. I do not believe the lens has Fungus- but the problem is with the Cement Used to hold the rear elements together in a group. It gets "Milky", acts like light haze. This seems to affect the AF-D version of the lens more than the older AF version. Fungus will look...
  48. Brian

    Metering over exposes Z-system with vintage lens

    I understand. If I have success, will post the steps used to fix the lens. Maybe someone around you could repeat it. These newer lenses are not as easy to work on. This lens- getting the rear group is simple, I used needle nosed pliers to get to the spanner slots. Getting into the rear group- I...
  49. Brian

    Metering over exposes Z-system with vintage lens

    I just unscrewed the rear group from mine- the haze is internal to that fixture- I will need more time to Try to take it apart. I much prefer older Rangefinder lenses to work on and use- much easier to disassemble. Either haze has built up internal to the rear group- OR the cement that holds the...
  50. Brian

    Metering over exposes Z-system with vintage lens

    Take both caps off, shine a flashlight through the front of the lens- and inspect the rear elements. Chances are- haze has built up on the rear elements. Which would also explain why my almost 60 year old Nikkor-UD did better on the Z5.
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