Yes I got an email from them. I think it's fantastic of them to give Brian his full due.
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Now the question is who will take the plunge and get a Bertele from Skyllaney? I need one like a hog needs roller skates. But the photos Brian has posted taken with it alongside his Zeiss seem to me to show the Skyllaney Bertele the better lens. I have two lovely J8's, a '51 determined to be a 5cm 50, i.e., made by Jupiter with Zeiss parts, and a '57 that is just a honey. How many 50mm Sonnars does a guy need? The other voice is saying, "WTF, do you always have to be prudent and rational?" I suspect that I am not the only member here with that struggle.
I will be testing the Amotal, '51 J8 and '57 J8 on an M9 and then again on the X2D. The Jupiter's image circle covers the X2D sensor, the Amotal not quite. But it would be interesting to me to see how they compare. I will post the results.
I will be testing the Amotal, '51 J8 and '57 J8 on an M9 and then again on the X2D. The Jupiter's image circle covers the X2D sensor, the Amotal not quite. But it would be interesting to me to see how they compare. I will post the results.
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Well the email advised to let them know if I was interested once it becomes available. I certainly did that even though I’m honest enough to admit I have too many 50s at the moment including a number of Sonnars. But what was I supposed to say, no I’m not interested!?
Been on the lookout for multi-SD card readers for a while in NZ without much luck. In the end I picked up a combo CF/SD card reader and a CF/SD adaptor - so now I can read 2 (or 3 if I use my Mini slot) cards at once without swapping in/out (and I can finally read the D700 CF cards without using an ancient USB mini lead.
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Thanks mate, I try to keep it somewhat light, airy and hopefully entertaining.
Most of the stuff is seriously low-balled from the sellers, and I haven't bought many items over a €100, lately, and most of it has been more or less scavenged.
For the most part, I somewhat luck out, but a couple of the later purchases has been iffy, such as the 10-30 lens on the V1 having the slow dying syndrom, and a mucky eye sensor, leaving me scratching my head and wondering if I had been taken for a ride with a defectice screen. The LVF problem was solved via cleaning the sensor, the lens can be forced to work somewhat with but are clearly going to need a trip to Taiwan for the metal gear mod, costing me more than the whole camera bundle did originally.
The Canon S3IS behaving somewhat odd. The latter was more or less bought due to me owning one when it was new, and I knew I wasn't going to use it much from the outset, so I can live with the oddities, it will never be brought out as a only camera on an outing anyway.
The second hand camera market up here is somewhat odd, with bits of old gear having low, but not unreasonable prices, but then again other stuff are priced so that a fellow may believe that the seller has promised the better half a cull of the camera gear but not really. One of the latter optimists is a fellow selling a Oly E-30 with a couple of standard kit zooms and an asking price of €600ish, which also seems to be in the ballpark of what people are asking for well used E-M5 MkIIs, at most with a kit zoom. I fancy getting one of the latter, but not to anywhere near that price.
I also tend to buy bundles and flip what I dont need or fancy, so quite a lot of the hoard has been self-financing or leaving me somewhat in the black, when all is said and done.
So, what I "need" now is to someone to put up their Pentax K-3 with or without MkII behind it for a very reasonable price. There is a silver K-3 up in what I consider to be a rather decent price, but for that model, its gotta be black.
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- Miguel Tejada-Flores
Thanks mate, I try to keep it somewhat light, airy and hopefully entertaining.
Most of the stuff is seriously low-balled from the sellers, and I haven't bought many items over a €100, lately, and most of it has been more or less scavenged.
For the most part, I somewhat luck out, but a couple of the later purchases has been iffy, such as the 10-30 lens on the V1 having the slow dying syndrom, and a mucky eye sensor, leaving me scratching my head and wondering if I had been taken for a ride with a defectice screen. The LVF problem was solved via cleaning the sensor, the lens can be forced to work somewhat with but are clearly going to need a trip to Taiwan for the metal gear mod, costing me more than the whole camera bundle did originally.
The Canon S3IS behaving somewhat odd. The latter was more or less bought due to me owning one when it was new, and I knew I wasn't going to use it much from the outset, so I can live with the oddities, it will never be brought out as a only camera on an outing anyway.
The second hand camera market up here is somewhat odd, with bits of old gear having low, but not unreasonable prices, but then again other stuff are priced so that a fellow may believe that the seller has promised the better half a cull of the camera gear but not really. One of the latter optimists is a fellow selling a Oly E-30 with a couple of standard kit zooms and an asking price of €600ish, which also seems to be in the ballpark of what people are asking for well used E-M5 MkIIs, at most with a kit zoom. I fancy getting one of the latter, but not to anywhere near that price.
I also tend to buy bundles and flip what I dont need or fancy, so quite a lot of the hoard has been self-financing or leaving me somewhat in the black, when all is said and done.
So, what I "need" now is to someone to put up their Pentax K-3 with or without MkII behind it for a very reasonable price. There is a silver K-3 up in what I consider to be a rather decent price, but for that model, its gotta be black.
Just a quick note about the silver Pentax K-3 you are considering - if I'm not mistaken, the vast majority of all K-3's came in what Pentax called the "standard black" colour, while the silver ones were produced in limited quantities, and (often) called a "Premium edition". Obviously both colours of the camera were and are identical - but to my way of thinking, the silver ones seem definitely more unusual - and thus, in my twisted Pentaxian's logic, more desirable - than the standard black ones.
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- Central California Sierra Foothills
I go a few steps less and simply process lossless compressed RAW images in camera, and may resize for the web. Simply don't want to spend any more time messing with images on my PC.
There is actually two silver K-3 on offer, one is a limited edition thingy with a silver battery grip and what looks to be a rather nice leather sling as well, it comes bundled with a couple or three lenses at €500. But then again, I am, when it comes to cameras, in the solid black category.
I think it may have something to do with the €50 premium that was on the black bodies when I bought my first camera as a kid. Those €50 bucks was spent on five three packs of Fujichrome, after a lustful fingeroogling of the black body, followed by a deep sigh, then ordering a silver one to get the films...
There is probably some deep psychological scarring going on here, but I did swap out two silver bodies with black ones last year, both the GF2 and the GM1 was upgraded to luscious black.
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- Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, UK.
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- Richard
Oh dear. I've started researching tilt/shift lenses.
Oh, go on. Spoil yourself, you know you deserve it. It is such a nice contraption to have in the toolbox
Best regards Enablerman...
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- Tanagra
Man, wouldn’t we make a lousy support group?Oh, go on. Spoil yourself, you know you deserve it. It is such a nice contraption to have in the toolbox
Best regards Enablerman...
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- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
Cameras Unanimous?Man, wouldn’t we make a lousy support group?
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- Location
- Finland
Well, he was asking the proverbial bunch of drunkards whether to have a drink or not. What do you expect? "Go on, have a pint, mate! You're not too drunk yet, who says it's mandatory to stay upright anyway?"Man, wouldn’t we make a lousy support group?
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- Central Ohio, USA
- Name
- Andrew
My wife struggles almost daily with some chronic autoimmune maladies. I would desire nothing more than to have her not having to struggle through each day in pain.
Doctors seem to have nothing more than wanting to throw drugs at it to manage symptoms and very little in terms of preemptive measures to try and counter the flair ups.
I’ve learned many years ago(at least my experience has shone out) when I was first diagnosed with diabetes that modern medicine is all about getting people in and out of the primary care doctors office quickly and there is a cookie cutter approach to just treat symptoms.
It took me taking over my own treatment to get myself off all the drugs that had worse side effects than the disease.
I believe my wife’s situation will be much of the same. Just more difficult as her ailments are more modern in diagnosis and less is known about their root cause than diabetes.
I’m confident we can overcome! The struggle will/is hard and real, but we can get there!
Doctors seem to have nothing more than wanting to throw drugs at it to manage symptoms and very little in terms of preemptive measures to try and counter the flair ups.
I’ve learned many years ago(at least my experience has shone out) when I was first diagnosed with diabetes that modern medicine is all about getting people in and out of the primary care doctors office quickly and there is a cookie cutter approach to just treat symptoms.
It took me taking over my own treatment to get myself off all the drugs that had worse side effects than the disease.
I believe my wife’s situation will be much of the same. Just more difficult as her ailments are more modern in diagnosis and less is known about their root cause than diabetes.
I’m confident we can overcome! The struggle will/is hard and real, but we can get there!
I am very sorry to read of our wife's discomfort and illness. There are a lot of kinks in our healthcare system. I am fortunate to get excellent treatment, monitoring, medication and close-on care from my primary care and associated specialists and all at a very low cost. My fondest wish is that the whole country had medical care as good as mine. I express this often to my healthcare providers and they all always agree. These healthcare providers are dealing with a sizable list of my ailments and have been keeping me going well past my sell-by date.
And who provides this wonderful healthcare? The much-maligned VA. I have been in the VA since '99. I have always been treated like royalty - I am not - and gotten care and medication my private healthcare friends cannot get because it is too expensive. My simple conclusion is that making a profit on healthcare does not make it better. I wish you luck in your struggles. There is excellent healthcare out there. I just hope you find some and get connected really soon.
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- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
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- John ...
Andrew, I take 15 or 16 medications a day. Some of them multiple times a day. I know exactly what I'm taking, and why. These keep me alive, and my chronic back pain and other skeletal pain mostly tolerable.
I would like nothing better than to chuck them all in the bin. However, without them, I would be dead in around 6 weeks.
I would strongly advise your wife not to do this. Diabetes is a very nasty, dangerous condition. It's more subtle and deadly than asthma.
I have had five (5) general medical practitioners in the 56 years of my adult life. I trust them, and they trust me. That relationship is the most important medical relationship that I have. When I tell my current one (13 years) that the pain management specialist he sent me to is full of bullshit, or that my cardiologist of 20 years has lost the plot, or that I am not prepared to experiment with a pain control drug that my rheumatologist suggested, my GP both trusts my judgement, and in the case of the senior cardiologist at Epworth hospital, immediately referred me to another specialist, with whom I have had an excellent relationship for the last 5 years. The new one immediately correctly diagnosed what was wrong with my heart's electrics, performed an emergency ablation. Followed up by a pacemaker shortly afterwards (early 2019). Further emergency ablation for atrial flutter in 2021.
In short, I have to trust my medicos, and if I don't, they get the flick, and my GP knows exactly why.
Complex medical conditions like mine are not to be toyed with. You find out what works and adhere to it meticulously. "Doctor shopping" is a sure way to end up dead ...
I wish both you and your wife all the best in this.
Without the medical care I have had, including medications, I would have died in 2001, at the latest.
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- Central Ohio, USA
- Name
- Andrew
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for modern medicine and all that entails. I just cant take the lazy ones that follow the 80/20 rule of treating all the patients the same because 80% won’t follow the guidance given.
Glad you are getting the treatment you need.
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- FT Worth, TX
My wife also has an autoimune condition that leaves doctors dumb founded. We have been to the best there is in the US and we get blank stares. We are told that what she is exper is impossible, well, no it’s not, it’s right in front of them. If a condition doesn’t fit inside their nice little box, well, good luck to you. I fully understand your situation. We just have to keep trying to find a resolution.
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- Seattle
- Name
- Andrew
I'm sorry to hear it, and -- you're right. Health care is so often a cookie-cutter approach and there are many maladies which don't respond well to this strategy. Especially autoimmune issues, because these often seem to be inflammation reactions to specific triggers based on personal history. Picking an anti-inflammatory diet, searching for and avoiding triggers, and pushing for general good health in other areas, seem to have the best effects for many people. I have a theory that the western way of living really unsettles the immune system, such that it targets the wrong things in an effort to try and correct the base unhealthiness of our diet and food additives, our sterile living environment, and the chemicals we regularly surround ourselves with.
