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Photo taken February 5, 2021 on Fujifilm Superia Xtra 400 film with a Nikkormat FT2 camera, Nikkor 43-86mm lens focused at 4.3 feet, Nikon magnifier viewfinder, Cokin A series filter holder, 80B filter, lens shade and two five inch Smith Victor photoflood lamps bounced off silver lined umbrellas. Exposure was 1/8s @f11 as measured off gray card with Shephard DM170 reflective light meter. Image was desaturated and further post processed with Adobe Elements to add a texture titled "Old Painting" created by Renee found here: www.flickr.com/photos/playingwithpsp/3285332590/ with Creative Commons license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ .
This negative is grim but it is a very rare location.
Peter is at track level at Bournville Station Junction. Bournville Loco shed is the large building on the right. To the left is the line down to Lifford Canal Wharf and Lifford Goods. The signal box stands in front of a lower aspect Midland signal.
The locomotive appears to be 45726 "Vindictive", Peter didn't note the number but using a powerful magnifier that is what the number appears to be.
Today the site of Bournville shed is a housing estate, Lifford goods yard and canal wharf are road connected multi use buildings ranging from car repairers to a gym. The towpath from where Peter took this has 2 metre high fencing and a bank of trees, the line is obviously part of the cross city line and is very busy indeed.
Peter Shoesmith 23/03/1957
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse; all rights reserved
This freezing soap bubble is one of my absolute favourites, and I’m delighted to say that it was taken with the Panasonic GX9, announced a few days ago. I’ve got my hands on this little mirrorless camera and wow it handles itself well. Read on!
For those that know the kind of gear I usually use, it might come as a surprise that I shot this on a micro four thirds-sized camera. My “regular” camera is a Canon 1DX mark II, but I’ve been looking for a second, smaller camera for travel and for behind-the-scenes work. After testing the Panasonic GH5 last year, it had a great “feel” and the quality was fantastic, but I was hopeful for something even smaller. Enter the GX9.
I should state that I’m NOT sponsored by Panasonic – I have just been given some early access to this camera. It’s not perfect – there is no weather sealing, the 4K video feature isn’t up the bitrates of the GH5, and I still prefer an optical viewfinder… though I know I wouldn’t get one with a camera this small unless it’s a true rangefinder. The camera has a lot going for it, however. Excellent results have been had at lower ISO settings (I haven’t tested beyond ISO 1600), and the lack of a low-pass filter means that you get as much detail as would be possible from a 20MP sensor. It’s too bad that the pixel-shift technology found in cameras like the G9 are not found here, but that shouldn’t stop someone from considering it.
I don’t enjoy writing camera reviews that dive too deeply into the specs, comparing every minor detail to other cameras on a technical level. I much prefer to discuss how the camera operates, and how easy it is to get good results from it. This lovely little camera is the first small mirrorless camera that I am actually considering owning. It has enough dials and knobs to keep me easily in control of critical camera functions, it’s very responsive, and in no way does it hold me back from creating great photos. I won’t be able to push to the same technical extremes as I do with my flagship Canon camera, but this little gem is more than I could have asked for in a tiny but flexible package.
The lens here is the Panasonic Leica 45mm F/2.8 macro lens, which I’ve found to be incredibly sharp. Stopped down to F/10 for this image to get a greater depth of field across the front of the actively-growing frost, I was a little worried that I might start to see the effects of diffraction that would limit the resolution of the image. I didn’t notice any issues at all, though the excellent diffraction limit calculator at Cambridge in Colour (www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/diffraction-photograp... ) suggests that diffraction would begin to be an issue around F/16. I’m fine with that.
The freezing bubble is backlit by a bright LED flashlight, probably overkill for the image: the NiteCore TM36: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1059974-REG/nitecore_tm36_... - at 1800 lumens with a narrow beam and a single LED, I use it for all my bubble photos. Something like the SRT7GT would probably do just as good at a fraction of the price, but the TM “Tiny Monster” flashlights have tripod screw mounts. Positioned so that the light is just out of the frame above the bubble, the backlighting really brings it to life. I also use a cheap $5 “sheet magnifier” easily found on Amazon, which is a plastic Fresnel lens, to refocus the light right over the bubble.
These bubbles freeze solid in a matter of seconds, so working quickly is always important. I find them to be their most beautiful when they are more than 50% frozen but not completely solid, allowing for areas of high contrast to grab my attention.
I’ll have to give this GX9 camera back to Panasonic soon. I don’t want to. I’m pretty sure I’ll be buying one as soon as they become available. If I can work with it in semi-chaotic environments as well as studio work (waiting to edit some UV fluorescence images – would rather work from the RAW files but need Adobe’s support), I’m pretty sure it’ll do well in any scenario that doesn’t require the “big guns”.
If you want to read more about this new camera, all the specs can be found here: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Panasonic_GX9/Ntt/Panasonic%2B...
HSS?- experimenting this week
Continuing with the experimentation: while it seems as though I’m not able to save the exact version of the magnifier’s picture, I can take a screenshot. This one is with the filter that reversed the colors. Wonder if it will come through with the EXIF info— need to go check that right now!!
(A little later)- nope no EXIF data
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Specie [plant]: Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
Common name: New England Aster
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Locale: A small, highly vegetated retaining pond feed by a seasonal stream (originating at the Lake Park waterfall). The pond is located along the north shore of the Milwaukee lakefront - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Year & Season: 2017 ; Late summer
Time of Day: Late afternoon
Global Ambient: Mid overcast
Illumination Aids: (none)
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Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II Mirrorless
Sensor: Micro 4/3
IBIS: OFF ; OIS: n/a
Support: Tripod
Lens: Voigtlander Nokton 42.5mm f/0.95 for Micro 4/3
Filters: (none)
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Exposure Program: Aperture priority
Metering Mode: (n/a)
Drive/Focus Mode: Single-shot/Manual focus
Focus Region: Focus magnifier
Exposure Quality: Raw (Lightroom DNG)
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Processing: Lightroom 6.12 (CR 9.12)
Lightroom Presets: (none) ; Processing Plug-Ins: (none)
Original File Aspect & Size: 4:3 ; 15.9MP (4608 x 3456)
Cropped Aspect & **Size: 1:1 ; 11.9MP (3456 x 3456)
**Size is prior to downsizing and JPG conversion using Lightroom.
JPG Size: 4.19MP (2048 x 2048)
File ID: Flower4c Pstl(Clr)V01R00 Milw.Lakfrnt.N.20170919-01-01a LowShrp.jpg
Kind of cool viewing with the magnifier.
Another one in the series: If It is Broke, Take Pictures of It, For Heaven's Sake!
For a better look I would say, use the flick-magnifier or check this one ... Or .... press L! Enjoy!
f4.0 - 1/200 - ISO200 - No Flash
So nice what you can do in 30 seconds ;-)
Specie [plant]: Eupatorium Purpureum
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Locale: Schlitz Audubon Nature Center ("SANC")
- Bayside, Wisconsin, USA
Year & Season: 2015 ; Mid summer
Time of Day: Mid afternoon
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Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mirrorless
Sensor: Micro 4/3
IBIS: ON ; OIS: n/a
Support: Hand-held
Lens: Voigtlander Nokton 17.5mm f/0.95 for Micro 4/3
Aperture setting (this image): f/0.95
Filters: (none)
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Exposure Program: Aperture priority
Metering Mode: Average
Drive/Focus Mode: Single-shot/Auto focus
Focus Region: Focus magnifier
Exposure Quality: Raw (Lightroom DNG)
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Processing: Lightroom 6.12 (CR 9.12)
Lightroom Presets: (none) ; Processing Plug-Ins: (none)
Original File Aspect & Size: 4:3 ; 15.9MP (4608 x 3456)
Cropped Aspect & **Size: 4:3 ; 15.5MP (4554 x 3408)
**Size is prior to downsizing and JPG conversion using Lightroom.
JPG Size: 3.14MP (2048 x 1533)
File ID: Flower6 Nom(2Tne)V01R00 Milw.SANC.20150813-01-02 StdShrp.jpg
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Note: Soft-focus largely achieved through setting lens aperture to its maximum value of f/0.95.
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Rvw: 20180212
A former neighbor gave me a handfull of rings that she said she didn't want anymore. This one is stamped 10K and features a small, faceted amethyst heart; I can barely make out a couple of tiny diamonds with a 10X magnifier. The next day I told her one of the rings was a 10K white gold band. She said, "I'd better have that one back. It's my wedding band."
There are two large brown coloured cave spiders found in the U.K.; Meta menardi and Meta bourneti. The two can only be distinguished by examining them with a strong magnifier.
They are amongst the largest spiders found in the U.K. Both species live in total darkness, so although they are not rare, they often go unnoticed. The female cave spiders produce teardrop-shaped eggsacs, which hang suspended on a silk thread from the roof of their dwelling. When the spiderlings first emerge they are attracted to light. This helps the spiderlings find new areas to colonise.
This setup is the reason that I first decided to buy a mirrorless camera. When I learned that I could buy adapters to mount my old Canon FD lenses to a modern digital camera I was sold. One of the first things I did with that camera ( Sony A7 ) was mount it to this bellows set and digitize some old slides. More often now I am digging up old black and white negatives in order to make copies. The trick to using this setup is to use the focus magnifier to focus on the film grain as opposed to any feature of the image.
Captured w/o any tripod with the LAOWA macro lens 15mm/f4, adapted to an Olympus OM-D E-M-1.1 (MFT) camera and manually focussed supported by the camera's 10x focus magnifier.
A WA2000 with extra features:
-S/1/F fire modes
-50 round drum mag
-7.62x51mm
-6 optics (Mini RDS, 2x RDS, XPS3, 3x magnifier, 6-24x scope, 1x IR/NV scope)
-Massive muzzle break
-Handguard w/folding bipod/foregrip
for some reason I feel I could fall into the heart of this one. . .;))))
taken with : www.flickr.com/photos/33202652@N04/3770377090/
tends to give a lens baby kinda blur effect. . .;)))
Mamiya 645 ProTL
Mamiya 120 mm/f4 macro lens
Mamiya WG401 Motor Winder Grip
Mamiya RS401 Wireless Remote Control
Mamiya Flip-up Magnifier with Variable Diopter
July Tiger Lily - iPhone 13 Mini, craft store dome magnifier.
Click here to see how I made this: youtu.be/WN2OYI5f2JY
finally i got to take picture without crashing client!
*plays victory music*
(sorry this is no edited XD so dont look so closely with that magnifier)
lolsauce, I'm bored again.
This started as a fuck about and turned into a serious build.
So yeah, enjoy or what everz.
Credit to Shock for the SCAR-L mag, ACS stock and foregrip!
Feel free to use the rail, spawns at 150, without Shocks stuff and without the T1 and magnifier.
And this is the third iteration on the original (in first comment box below) between Beth and myself. It is a bit more organic, in the sense that it actually involves a small oil painting I've been working on. The "cosmic" part comes from a version created in Round Two where Beth saw a similarity between the developing image and the recent photos being beamed back by the New Horizons spacecraft of Ultima Thule. All in all, a lot of fun!
This is Beth's upload of the second creation of the triumvirate: Through the Looking Glass .
Pretty cool with the magnifier.
Spent a little over an hour on this. I'm very happy with how this turned out.
EclipseGrafx used:
-Tan tactical baclava head
-"Hunter" in the Flesh torso
-DSF Legs
Minifig.Cat used:
-Dk tan IBH helmet
Tiny Tactical used:
-Black TS TM4A1-RIS
-Black 3x Magnifier
-Black TXPS Optic
-Black smooth knee pads
-Dk tan Tiny Crane AR stock
-Dk tan TinyP w/Pull
-Dk tan cargo pocket
-Black belt with dk tan belt loops
Quite excited to get back my first results from the Mamiya C220 on colour. This is an image of visitors in the paddock area during Isle Of Man TT. The paddock is just an open public space on non race days, with a great atmosphere.
Couple of dust flecks so I need to improve my film camera cleaning regime, but happy with the results on Kodak Gold 200. Also happy that focusing the camera seems to be a little less of an issue than I thought it might be. It was back in the 1980s when I was last using a waist level finder on a Bronica and my eye sight isn't exactly what it was then. I find I can't use the finder with my glasses (only really use them for driving), but so far I think I am managing with the magnifier on the finder. The camera will focus very close indeed, but the parallax is wild at very close range... need to work on solutions for that too. All in all, it is a simply lovely thing to use, utterly manual, no batteries, no frills at all, not even a cold shoe, but lovely satisfying mechanical sounds. Its light too, on this occasion, I traveled on my own motorcycle to the grandstand, the Mamiya went happily in a small camera bag and in the top box... wandering around in bike gear in this location makes you less conspicuous not more.
Stone "S" and Lichen - iPhone 13 Mini, craft store dome magnifier. Color manipulated in post.
Here's how I created this image: youtu.be/WN2OYI5f2JY
I took a photo of my ring on a small magnifier mirror. I saw that it was badly scratched, so post editing worked well.
I turned it to B&W, then added a dandelion overlay which helped hide the scratches.
Mirror border added - using Ribbet editor.
Valkyrie has just revealed it's brand new Customworks rifle at the 2012 SHOT show,
the Mk14E.
This belt-fed beast is likely to replace the Mk.46 and Mk.48 in recon teams, since the Mk14E is lighter and more compact.
It's features are:
-Heavily modified Mk14 lower receiver;
The lower has been enhanced, with a smooth handguard and a feeding tray.
-VCW Custom Mk14E RIS;
For mounting optics and electronics, or spoons.
and neat parts such as the
-EOLAD
-Surefire MB762MG
-Vortex VMX3 3x Magnifier
-ACS Stock
-VCW Custom Magpul-cheekrest
-SPR Battle Grip
Credit to:
-Shockwave: Sling mount, rail covers, ACS stock, Magnifier, pistol frip and compensator
-Warpig: Inspiration
-Braydenmaine: EOTech and EOLad
-Miko: Sling
-Matt: AK grip adapter
-The VRW team for the workspace.
Feel free to comment and add notes!
Full Sized: i.imgur.com/tbwrX.png
For a better look I would say, use the flick-magnifier or check this one ... Or .... press L! Enjoy!
f8.0 - 1/200 - ISO200 - No Flash
If you use the Flickr magnifier, the poem can be read on the stone.
'The Beck Stone'
It is all one chase.
Trace it back: the source
might be nothing more
than a teardrop
squeezed from a curlew’s eye,
then follow it down
to the full-throated roar
at its mouth:
a dipper strolls the river
dressed for dinner
in a white bib.
The unbroken thread
of the beck
with its nose for the sea,
all flux and flex,
soft-soaping a pebble
for thousands of years
or here
after hard rain
sawing the hillside in half
with its chain.
Or here,
where water unbinds
and hangs
at the waterfall’s face,
and just for that one
stretched white moment
becomes lace.
- By Simon Armitage (2010)
From the Stanza Stones poetry collection (as carved on stones/rocks from Ilkley Moor to Lancashire).
ジャッキー・カルティさんの「エレクトロニック・シアター」という作品の一つ。いまスライドフィルムは見なくなったなー。
@Ichinomiya City Central College of Nursing, Ichinomiya city, Aichi pref. （愛知県一宮市 旧一宮市立中央看護専門学校）
For a better look I would say, use the flick-magnifier or check this one ... Or .... press L! Enjoy!
f5.6 - 1/100 - ISO200 - No Flash
For a better look I would say, use the flick-magnifier or check this one ... Or .... press L! Enjoy!
f5.0 - 1/500 - ISO400 - No Flash
Had a busy week - catching up later friends! :-)
The DW-20 is a classic waist level finder (gives you a reversed image!) with a flip-up 5x magnifier inside.
Standard DP-20 finder beside the camera. Lens attached is an AF 50mm/1.8 with a 3rd party metal hood. JMHO that lens performs better than the more expensive f/1.4...
Also the huge MB-23 power pack is off the camera in this shot, attached is just the small MB-20 grip.
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