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The speed limit drops to 55 well over a mile before the toll plaza...
The tolled portion of Interstate 376 (Beaver Valley Expressway) between New Castle and Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. This section is ran by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. The tolls on this road seemed to be fairly high, but the road was well maintained. Also, the road still hadn't been changed to a speed limit of 70 mph as of March. However, since I took these pictures, the road has been converted to all electronic tolling on April 30, 2017. Another thing I did notice is that this highway (and a couple other PTC highways) use a dirt barrier between opposing lanes rather than a wire or jersey barrier.
Interstate 376 - Between New Castle and Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
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Great timing and superb maneuvering, Sir Celeritas moved out of his opponents slip stream, taking the final speed boost, finishing first at the 2307 annual Heavy Hover Race.
Permanent speed restriction signs above three mainline tracks are hung in the catenary at Halethorpe MD along Amtrak's' P&W Line.
Rollei Retro 80S, Rolleicord lll
Another speeder to add to the grid. It came together during last weekend's 24 hours of Spa-Francorchamps, a GTWC race that I rather enjoyed. So that's the name.
Engines were the first thing to get built, there's a little breakdown of them at the end of the photostream but it's nothing hugely complex. After that it was the front stabilisers and then I realised I needed to connect those parts to some kind of cockpit.
I ended up with quite an industrial-looking cockpit, using my favourite part again, but inverted this time and with the 4-wide speed champions windscreen on top, which was good to use. I have lots of them.
I'll obtain a couple of 2x2 semicircle tiles and switch them out with the round ones at the front, but aside from that this was just a fun little build that I'm happy enough with. Got a decent amount of Star-Warsy greebling in, so hopefully the racing bulls graphics on the wedges can be excused as Fambaas from Naboo, or some other creature from the lore!
There's a couple of pictures with this and the junkyard speeder too, so keep scrolling.
I meant to upload this earlier in the day, the reason I didn't is because I'm already working through speeder number three. This next one is red and certainly not a Ferrari...
This sign tickled my funny bone as it warns pedestrians to slow down as they approach the men at work.
I asked the traffic ontroller on duty how many steps I was allowed to take each minute. He smiled and gave me the thumbs up.
3x4 Anniversary Speed Graphic (1940-47) with 127mm f:4.7 Linhof Scneider Xenar lens in Synchro-Compur shutter.
Bonus - self-portrait of NoJuan in the flash reflector!
The Sun 0810 1V48 Leeds - Plymouth is pictured on the Barnsley - Sheffield line approaching Meadowhall , diverted due to engineering work at Aldwarke Junction.
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The Starting Line, December 17th 2021, Franklin Music Hall. Philadelphia PA.
This was the first concert I got to shoot with the Nikon Z9. The lighting at this venue is not very good, as you can see, there was not a lot of front light. Without a front "white wash" or "spot lights", your images will be all over the place.
Without the spot or white wash, you have to bump your ISO higher than normal, and work the files a lot more in post.
With all of that being said, I still love the files I get from a Nikon. The cameras SUPER QUICK when it comes to taking photos. I shot it only in 20 FPS mode as you can't get RAW files at 30 FPS. Plus, you don't exactly need 30 FPS in this situation. (i wont be using 30 because it's JPEG).
In therms of Auto Focus, the focusing boxes were all over the dam place due to the lack of light in the face. It might find the eye in some situations, then jump to something else because there wasn't a lot of light.
Stephen was at the show shooting with the Canon R3 and ran into the same problem with the face detect and eye af bouncing all over the place.
What I can say, is the Nikon glass all the way around is slower focusing then Canon and Sony. Especially the 1.8 lenses, they are not as quick as I would like. The 70-200 is better, but in my experience using all flagship systems, the Nikon lags behind with focus speed. With that being said, it's lightyears ahead of the Z6 and Z7 and I could use it without an issue. I think I would on occasion miss some images that the Sony or Canon wouldn't miss, but it would be fine.
In terms of Banding, I did run into some issues caused by flickering LED lights. This is normal for all stacked sensor cameras from the a9 to a1 to Z9 and R3. The Canon and Sony's offer you variable shutter speeds to try and match the flickering. The issue there, when you have multiple types of LED lights, there's no way to match all of them. As a last resort the a1 and R3 also have a shutter and the Z9 does not. Stephen switched the shutter on and if he was above 1/400th of a second, even with the mechanical shutter, he still saw some banding. I felt the Z9 with Flickr mode on and off (it does not have variable shutter speed) did a very nice job. There's only so much you can do with these LED lights and I think the Nikon handled it really well. This was just a crap lighting situation that really pushes all cameras to the extreme.
This is just one concert setting, I shot with MUCH BETTER lighting the next night and got some great images, I will share those another time.
Another issue I ran in to, it's hard to know when you're taking photos when you can't hear the digital shutter noise. Theres white lines that show up around the outsides of the frames, but it's mostly out of my field of view. So it's hard to know when you're shooting unless you take your eyes away from the subjects, which I don't want to do. In fact, I handed the camera to my friend Richie to give it a shot, he took 350 images in 3 minutes because he said "there's no indication i'm taking photos". Canon puts a box more in the middle of the frame so you know when you're shooting.
It's been a while since i've uploaded all the FULL RES edited jpegs for people to see, but it was time to do it again.
I will have a lot more to say about the Z9 as I continue to use it. The good news is, i've shot two concerts, birds flying and a basketball game so far. Is it perfect....no, is it horrible, far from it. It has it's quirks, it needs some tweaks and I will pass my findings back to Nikon and everyone else who's interested.
After making a speeder for my Alien I just had to make one for my other space figure. So I present my third speeder for the speeder bike contest.
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We were watching 3 male cheetahs resting under a tree. Although it is thrilling to see predators, they can be very boring to watch, because they are resting or sleeping for the best part of the day. We were not expecting any action, but then a small group of wildebeast was passing by. Suddenly the cheetahs became alert and within a split second they seemed to decide to go in for the kill. They started running and all I could do was start clicking away... This was my best attempt. The young wildebeast did not stand a chance. It all happened so fast, the next shot in my photostream was taken within the same minute as the first shot of the chase!
A wooden ball going fast hits a raw egg.
My garage doesn't smell very good at this point.
Have to get another hobby.
A point of minor note is to look at how amazingly similar the egg breakage is. The eggs are also sitting on a PVC pipe stand. After each shot I cleaned out a perfect little cookie cutter round of egg shell punched out by my high speed hydrostatic press.
I also have to try this shot again as neither is quite in focus. My little "focus predictor" gadget was not designed for these larger targets.
Too much enbiggening going on.
Cheers.
Did not have much skill tonight. I did,however, get rid of a bunch of ceramic figurines that were to big to shoot with an air rifle and too small to blow up.
He would have been perfect with a little more delay, which was pretty much the story of tonight. I guess the marbles slows down faster than the pellet. Probably by the square of the diameter.
I also relearned my old lesson that flowing water hit by fast objects just turns to spray.
Oh well.
Cheers.
Speed blur? On a 101? On this autumn afternoon in 1977, the Grindleford signalman decided to shunt the BOC tanks instead of letting them run to the loop at Edale - something about getting more 'points' for the box. The 40 took about ten minutes to back in, and just tucked his toes in. By this time the dmu was trying to recover lost time.
My wife and I visited Myrtle Beach this week. On Monday we spent some time visiting Broadway at the Beach. The Speed XXL is at the Pavilion Amusement Park Central.
Ok these are for sale or trade. Mainly looking for freeks or kolats. You will add and I will add accordingly will sell for the right price
for Abdul Qaleem who sells Haule:- translucent wheat-starch noodles in the holy month of Ramzan ..
shot with Nikon D90 @ Carl Zeiss Normal 50mm f/1.4 ZE Planar T* Manual Focus Lens
Camera Nikon D90
Exposure 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture f/11.0
Focal Length 50 mm
ISO Speed 3200
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