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camera toss plus processing = fun
my initial foray into programmatic sources for camera toss, see this photo for a better description.
The effort (previous picture) paid off for this Red Tailed Hawk with a vole as a prize. As the juvenile Red Tailed Hawk took off with the vole it briefly landed on this fire hydrant marker across from where I was standing. Moments later he flew off to a tall tree nearby to finish off his dinner. Downsview Park, Toronto.
So, I had kind of forgotten about this contest until Robot reminded me, so here are the results!
In first we have Wavy Films with his SINnoman Bun from Adventure Time. I really love this figure. It's very original and creative, and the paintwork is really clean.
In second, we have Comic Customs with his Owlman from that animated Juicy League movie. The paintwork is very clean, and I've never seen this figure made before.
In third, we have Ancient Robot Customs with his Toon Lonk. The whole figure is very accurate to Lonk, and the sculpting and paintwork are great.
So, y'all can just DM me on insta to tell me what you want.
I was honestly disappointed in quite a few of the entries that didn't at all fit under the rules of the contest. Y'all gotta read the rules that I put in place.
This time the Caspian Tern managed to catch a Catfish after diving into the pond. This is one of the series of shots that I took of it diving and taking off of water with the fish in its mouth. Good to see them back in our shores. It was a cloudy afternoon; however, a nice break from three days of continuous rain. Burlington, Ontario.
Doppelbelichtung mit einer selbst fotografierten Textur - bearbeitet mit overlay / 2 Bilder + digital Overlay
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Double exposure with a self-photographed texture - edited with overlay / 2 images + digital overlay
== in Explore 12.9.2020 ( picture 79 ) ==
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After watching the storm clouds build for hours, it ended in this rain storm which also brought lightning and thunder.
Net Results group of fishing nets stuck in a barrel just made an interesting arrangement, some vivid colors from the netting, found in North Carolina.
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I really enjoyed my day out in my white socks that I didn't want to take them off after getting back to the hotel.
A pleasant day spent in the company of Dave McDigital was rounded off with this final shot of 1Z30 skirting Tanyard Bay below the cliffs of Bransty.
A little wordy here, sorry:
First: The Scherer article and my experiments of 2023 are WRONG. There is no fixed shim or extension that will match a Contax lens to a Nikon or vice versa. It was an interesting idea but it didn’t pan out.
Second: in my tests, the Contax and Nikon are exactly matched at infinity. The error only occurs as you focus closer.
The Nikon lens rotates farther than the Zeiss lens to reach a given focus distance. To go from infinity to its minimum focus of 5 feet, the Sonnar focus ring rotates 154.4 degrees; to get to the same point the Nikkor rotates 169.4 degrees, a difference of 15 degrees. This is not enough to be obvious just looking at the lenses, but it’s beyond the depth of field limit at f/32 with the 135mm telephoto - a very significant error.
On the other hand, since the lenses match at infinity, the error is very small at longer distances. Beyond 10-12 feet, the difference is within the wide open depth of field at f/3.5, and from 15 feet it’s less than I’m able to measure repeatably. The situation deteriorates rapidly as you go closer: at 8 feet you’ll need to be at f/8; f/16 at 7 feet, f/22 at 6 feet, and the smallest aperture of f/32 won’t be enough at five feet. The quick, easy, and frankly the only answer is to consider the 135 as having a minimum focus limit of 10-12 feet.
The actual distance error is very small, only about 4 inches at the five foot limit - but the depth of field is so small at that distance that it can’t cover anywhere near that amount.
Enough of the 135. What about wide angles?
The news here is actually very good. The 35mm wide angle will have the same 15 degree error at five feet on the focusing scale - but on the 35, the depth of field is enough to cover 21 degrees, even wide open at f/2.8. I wasn’t able to measure closer than five feet since that’s the minimum limit of the lenses I have to test, but this is a very promising situation. Shooting between 3 and 5 feet, stopping down to f/4, certainly f/5.6 ought to be plenty to keep you within the depth of field.
So, okay for wide and tele. What about the normal lens?
As close as I’m able to measure, the extension of the camera body focus helical is exactly the same between the Contax and the Nikon bodies - 3.55mm to three feet. The difference is just that the Nikon mount turns farther than the Contax to get there. This suggests that there is no difference between the actual 50mm normal lenses from Zeiss and Nikon. Since the focus mount for the normal lens is part of the body and not the lens, it’s correctly matched to the rangefinder regardless of which lens you have plugged into it. So for the 50, there should be no problem at all using a Sonnar on your Nikon or a Nikkor on your Contax.
All this tends to confirm the old conventional wisdom that the problem only affects tele lenses, something I was skeptical of until I went through this exercise. It does NOT confirm the idea that the Nikon normal lens was a different focal length from the Sonnar, leading to all this kerfuffle … the difference appears to be entirely due to a very slightly different thread pitch in the focus helical in the camera body. As for WHY Nikon would have done that, I have no idea. Maybe it was just a mistake that wasn’t discovered before they already had committed to their version of the mount.
So there it is. Have I verified all this on film? No, this is all based on measurements, and on the assumption that the engraved distance markings on the Zeiss and Nikon lens barrels are accurate. Frankly I doubt that my photography is precise enough to prove much at the very small distance differences involved here… I have more faith in the measurements than I would have in my negatives. But I will be doing some shooting, to see if the results correlate to these measurements.
Thinking of ordering PhenQ – wait till you have read this!
Trying to lose weight huh? Tell me about it. I have struggled with it for a really long time. After the birth of Evan, my second child – my body weight was all over the place.
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This image from near Wapanocca NWR in eastern Arkansas shows the flock of snow geese after they came up out of the field. I regret my lens could only get a small portion of them. Hundreds can be seen here but thousands were flying. The noise of all the honking was very audibly impressive; a real attention getter.
Lightning strikes Glenwick Ln, Irving TX at Oakdale Rd when early dusk storms inveloped neighborhood.
because my writing is disgusting at best...
"you must discern the result in the cause, and discern the cause in the result."
another use of ink and quill on cardstock.
"paint canvas texture" by irisb477
Recently got a cheap Opteka 500mm mirror lens. This is not what I expected it's first nice image to be, but it seems like it is quite good for that.
After noting the hummer "attacks" I moved up above the waterfall and arrived to witness this rather gruesome (but unique for me) scene. I also witnessed the heron capture a second hummer by the tail - luckily it managed to escape before being swallowed !! A pretty amazing sight !!
I made an onion and pepper relish and pico de gallo. Family already went thru one jar of pico! These jars are to be refrigerated for upcoming recipes.