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This photo was made with my old Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.4 lens. It was made in 1972 or 1973. It is quite scratched, dusty and maybe even has a little fungus growing, along with damaged coatings.
Nonetheless, it is fun to play with. I performed a crude AI-modification to the aperture ring (I used a file). The lens now works perfectly with my Nikon D600 (full metering and focus confirmation).
Battle Arms Development employee Tyler Schlappi does a function test on a short-barreled rifle at Green Valley Range in Henderson, Nev., Nov. 14, 2016. (Photo by Jason Ogulnik)
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
Yes, there was a very small number of pro-gun rights activists on the streets in DC today.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and actively harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.
Take out a Lincoln penny, and have a look at the "LIBERTY" mark to the left of Lincoln's bust. What you see here are the first three letters of that word, photographed in macro. I used a 10X microscope lens mounted to my old Nikon D50 DSLR via a series of adapters.
This is the full frame as shot, not a cropped portion of the image.
As you'll notice, depth of field at 10X is VERY shallow. This is an unavoidable law of physics, so better equipment can't do much. I calculated the DOF with my setup to be around 16.8 micrometers. A micrometer is 1/1,000 of a millimeter, so that's only .0168 millimeters, or 0.00066 inches! (less than a thousandth of an inch).
There is a process called "focus stacking" that can combine images taken at several subject distances into one seamless image with much greater depth of field. That will have to come later for me, as stacking at 10X requires a VERY demanding studio setup and close attention to detail. For example, I would need a way to accurately and consistently move my subject less than a thousandth of an inch for each exposure, and do this perhaps dozens or even HUNDREDS of times for ONE final photograph.
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
I decided to try my hand at "free range" bird photography. I used my Samyang 500mm F/8 "preset" lens, on my Nikon D50 DSLR.
I've done very little bird photography, with the exception of one afternoon in Little Valley, California last year. That day was a comparitive dawdle, because although I was using a lens with "only" 300mm of focal length, it did have autofocus, auto exposure, auto diaphragm and a maximum aperture a full stop faster than the Samyang.
Couple the inferior Samyang lens with a shaky photographer requiring high ISO (noisy), and my results were mediocre, at best. Despite the Samyang's 750mm equiv. focal length, I had to heavily crop all of the following bird photos. That, and lots of other processing to make them presentable.
I'll do better next time. Though I may not resort to the "cheat" of shooting near a bird feeder.
I have a new found admiration for expert birders who have the skill, patience and equipment to do justice to this very challenging endeavor. Some of their gear, though, is rather pricy.
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and actively harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
This is the side of the PCB with the flash memory chip, which is part number FBNL63A59K3PG
The datasheets for this part indicate an actual capacity of 4GB, just as the H2testw program reported.
I've had no luck yet reprogramming this drive back to 4GB, as I can't find software that has this flash memory chip listed in it's database.
There are two more photos in this set.
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UPDATE (02/03/10):
I actually managed to fix it a few days ago, using UD Tools 1.2.0.8.
It's now a functional 4GB drive, albeit with a few bad blocks mapped out during the low-level formatting. The bad blocks are no doubt due to the low-grade flash chip used.
This image was made from seven exposures, ranging from 1/1000 sec to 4 seconds long. The exposures were combined using Photomatix's Exposure Fusion function.
2014 Burning Man participants on the way to Black Rock City, Nevada
Shot on Gould Street in Reno.
This is what remains of a 1976 Cadillac Sedan deVille. 1976 was the Bicentennial year of the USA, and surely one of the low points in American automotive production. The fact that the 500 cubic inch (8.2 Liter) V-8 engine still runs at all is nothing short of miraculous...
This was my first time shooting fire dancers/spinners at night. Some post processing was required to get the results seen here.
I used my Nikon D600 with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "APO" macro lens with internal focus motor ($100 used on eBay).
I have a bunch of other shots of the firedancers in this set- check 'em out if'n ya like this sort of thang.
I opened up this pack to inspect it before use, as the flash it came from is quite old. Some charge / discharge cycles on my Accucel-6 charger showed that it retains about 1,300mAh discharge capacity.
10 Sub-C NiCd cells in series (12 Volts).
Thermal probe for over-temperature protection while charging.
Norman part number B4126 or 811926
Gun show extravaganza at The Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA. Three huge rooms with over 2000 tables of guns, ammo and shooting accessories! My kind of place to spend a cloudy, rainy afternoon. :-)
This is a wonderful example of what one can expect when out and about in Lewis County, New York.
Photo taken in the Hamlet of Brantingham.
This photo was made with my old Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.4 lens. It was made in 1972 or 1973. It is quite scratched, dusty and maybe even has a little fungus growing, along with damaged coatings.
Nonetheless, it is fun to play with. I performed a crude AI-modification to the aperture ring (I used a file). The lens now works perfectly with my Nikon D600 (full metering and focus confirmation).
This was my first time shooting fire dancers/spinners at night. Some post processing was required to get the results seen here.
I used my Nikon D600 with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "APO" macro lens with internal focus motor ($100 used on eBay).
I have a bunch of other shots of the firedancers in this set- check 'em out if'n ya like this sort of thang.
Here's a view with the aluminum cover slid off.
The MW6208E USB controller chip is visible. Knowing the part numbers of the ICs inside a flash drive can help you to Google up the correct software to reprogram the drive back to actual capacity.
You don't want to leave the drive as-is, because any data written to it beyond the actual capacity will corrupt the drive.
There are two more photos in this set.
Please click on the following link to go to an alert page on SOSFakeFlash.com about fraudulent eBay seller garysin2008:
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This is my Kearney & Trecker horizontal milling machine. It was made during World War II, and was presumably used to produce parts for the war effort.
It has been sitting in my yard for quite a few years, and is missing some parts, some of which were sold to bring new life to other old K&T mills.
It will soon be scrapped, unless some intrepid parts scroungers save at least some relics from the aging derelict.
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
Yes, there was a very small number of pro-gun rights activists on the streets in DC today.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and actively harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.