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Part of getting through life is accepting, and dealing with, our weaknesses. Which doesn't mean they aren't still a pain in the butt.
Me, I'm over-sensitive to all kinds of sensory input - and input affecting my sensors. For instance, even in August in our constant ocean breezes, I daren't go outside without my ears covered.
This is, of course, a huuuge pain. When everyone else is out in shorts and bathing suits, I'm sweating with a big fleecy band around my head. It sucks, but the alternative (excruciating ear aches) sucks a whole lot worse.
I'm also overly sensitive to noise. And bright light. Especially bright flashing light that hits my eyes unexpectedly. So... imagine how much fun I am as a companion at a rawk show. Normally I take along ear plugs. Last night I forgot.
I guess I was lulled into complacency by the fact that the show was at a theatre. A play house. A place I last attended in my teens, when I saw some Shakespearean production there. So yeah... I went in plugless. And immediately regretted it. Still... I was up for enjoying myself... until the %$(*&$%(&ing light show started.
I can't imagine whose idea it was to flash big spotlights directly into the audience's eyes repeatedly throughout the night. Probably the same wise person who decided a super-bright sign behind the band... illuminated by 10,000 1,000 watt bulbs... was also a very good thing to flash repeatedly in the audience's eyes.
What really amazed me was that no one else seemed bothered. Whereas I was in several sorts of agony all night.
The bright flashing lights. Fuck, man. I thought I was gonna have a seizure or something. I ended up spending most of the night doubled over with my head in my lap, eyes closed, hands clamped over my face. Every time I tried to enjoy actually watching the band... zappo! Unexpected blasts of super-bright white light set off pinball explosions in my brain.
So today is pretty much a write-off. Migraine city, man.
And I HATE HATE HATE that my body is so delicate.
I'm from sturdy peasant stock. Why am I so fragile? Why do things that normal people take in stride disable me?
Sorry for the whining self-pity. Kee-rist. At least I know, without a doubt, that I am now too old for rawk shows. Goodbye youth. Your time has come and gone. From now on I'll just satisfy myself by listening to records at home.
Speckled bush cricket (a young larva) after a walk through the flower of a evening primrose. Then she cleaned the feelers of the pollen. These are pulled several times with the help of the forefoot through the "mouth".
Punktierte Zartschrecke (eine junge Larve) nach einer Wanderung durch die Blüte einer Nachtkerze. Danach hat sie die Fühler vom Blütenstaub gereinigt. Dabei werden diese mehrfach mit Hilfe der Vorderfüße durch den "Mund" gezogen.
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Finally, the temps feel like Spring as 2016's first Honey Bee (for me) visits an awakening Grecian Wildflower in my garden.
The praying mantis cleaned her antennae while taking pictures.
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Herning, Denmark
The red light here comes from the bowling sign as seen on the previous photo. I wanted to take a photo of the red sign from a different angle, but it was not possible because the area was fenced in. Anyway I turned the camera and took this one. It was complete dark but if I moved a little bit, a sensor would register it and a lamp would turn on and the area would be flooded in white light.
I'm pleased with the result. It has a certain mood. And I'm glad it is in focus.
My camera's sensor doesn't seem to be able to achieve this colour. I can see the spiderwort flowers from my window, so I used photo editing software to restore the colour to what it ought to be, the colour attained by the chip was more like blue.
Gawdy Sensor Ship
Plenty of sensors on this one including those ostentatious radars, a spinny round thing and a non-spinny round thing. All a little overblown?
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For example, I said that I was shooting in RAW mainly. True. However, I am just about to reserve one of my cameras for JPEG shots only. This is a JPEG shot done with the old X-Pro1 and a fast Fuji lens. The camera I am preparing for this will be the Fuji X-E2, also an 'old' (second hand) camera, but one with interesting features I am wishing to exploit. In fact, the equally old 16MP sensor is, in my view, one of the best ones Fuji has ever made. We'll see.
Dati: 58 x 300 sec ( 4,83 ore) gain 5 @ -15° c + 55 dark + 30 flat e darkflat
Filtro: Astronomik UV/IR Block L2
Montatura: EQ6 pro
Ottica: Takahashi FSQ106
Sensore: QHY168C
Cam guida e tele: asi120mm su Scopos 62/520
Software acquisizione: nina e phd2
Software sviluppo: AstroPixelProcessor e Photoshop
Temperatura esterna: -1 ° C - Umidità 65%
The incredible combination of a modern small smartphone sensor from a 3x camera module (Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra) in combination with Lightrooms AI denoise feature (or the one from Camera RAW in Photoshop or Bridge)
Just look at the parasols in the background
No Sensor Ship
No sensors or modern equipment showing on this one
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De stipjes op de foto dat is geen stof op de sensor van mijn camera maar hagel. Het was weer prachtig vanavond met deze lichtval.
The dots in the photo are not dust on the sensor of my camera, but hail. It was beautiful again tonight with this light.
For the Macro Mondays Theme: "Photography Gear"
WARNING: Don't try this at home!!!
Note: No real harm was done and the sensor and camera survived the (photoshop) experiment without any scratch or (water)damage 😉 Thanks for your concerns...
Thank you very much for your time, faves and comments. It's much appreciated.
Happy Macro Mondays
This may have been a supercell. I don't remember whether it was rotating. Perhaps it was just a cumulonimbus. What I do remember is that not long afterwards, all hell broke loose.
The S5Pro was the apex of Fujifilm's CCD sensor-equipped cameras. The camera body is a Nikon D200, but with a Fujifilm-developed sensor and firmware. The Super-CCD sensor is special in having two superimposed sets of photosites with different light sensitivities, supposedly enhancing the dynamic range.
The Horse Head Nebula from my backyard!
I used a program many astrophotographers use called PixInsight. There we can manipulate and stretch the data to tease out details that have been recovered by the sensor. This was my first time using Generalised Hyperbolic Stretching a free program in PixInsight that specifically target areas of data that you want bring out.
The next three images are Red channel, Blue, and Green. Enjoy! ✨
Telescope: Askar 500
Camera: ASI2600MC
Filter: LeNhance
Mount: CEM70EC
The dogs are dueling over the fence, causing the motion sensor lights to come on. Mooky and Kona need to chill. 100 Days of Darkness 8/100.
When out for a walk today, instead of an X100V, I took my Olympus E-P5 from 2015. It has a 16MP Micro 4/3 sensor, which is supposedly outdated in 2023. Smaller-sensor cameras can still produce good results -- even for prints. A friend of mine has a 20x30 print from a 12MP M43 on his wall, and it looks amazing.
Of course, if someone wants to gift me with a full-frame camera, I am open to the idea. My birthday is in December.
We were koming back from a wonderful day out in the kar...and I was trying differents settings on the kamera and shooting to a "there's no words to describe it" sunset... and well .. when i get home... and downloaded the piks.. he or she.. this presence was there.. I never saw it when I took the pik...
;)
The 1/2.5" sensor of the Canon PowerShot SD630 I am trying to repair. The gears look ok and I got the lens retracted. I'll try putting it back together tomorrow and see if it works. Wish me luck.
"Naturalmente" mancano il 25 e il 200, troppo cari e praticamente introvabili...
Il mio preferito è il Distagon 2,8/32, con il quale ho scattato la maggioranza dei paesaggi nel sud-est della Francia, a cavallo del mio Quaddino (il surrogato delle mie gambe); segue il Sonnar 2,8/85, una vera perla, e per ultimi, il Tessar 2,8/45, il Tele-Tessar 4/135, fino al Color-Pantar 2,8/45, comunque più che dignitoso.
Tutto quanto sarebbe inutilizzabile, se non potessi montarli, con un doppio raccordo 126-L39 e L39- E (Alpha) prodotto dalla cinese YI NENG (Yeenon), di eccellente qualità (che raccomando a chi ha obiettivi x formato 126, per ridare loro nuova vita), su Sony A7 (quindi switchando sul digitale: è vero che le lenti sono progettate x il 28x28, ma non hanno problemi sul FullFormat 24x36, perché sono praticamente gli stessi x la Ikarex, appunto formato 135, con un altra, ennesima, baionetta...)
Come dice l'esimio Michele Vacchiano nei suoi tutorial su YouTube e sulle sue pubblicazioni, montare obiettivi vecchi (progettati 50 anni fa per le fotocamere a pellicola) su fotocamere digitali, corrisponde più o meno a montare "gomme vecchie su auto nuove"... con risultati perlopiù deludenti. Ma, precisa anche, il gioco vale comunque la candela, finché si rimane in un range compreso entro i 24 megapixel, non oltre...
Aggiungo io, che comunque il fotoamatore che si trova ottiche di buona qualità (come appunto questi Carl Zeiss) e non vuole buttarli nella spazzatura (vedi: "rivenderli, rinunciarvi") perché inutilizzabili e non all'altezza dei moderni sensori digitali, può tranquillamente "accontentarsi" dei risultati che si ottengono
Diverso è il discorso del professionista, che non può e non deve accontentarsi, dovendo produrre immagini in grado di ottenere ingrandimenti idonei a "stampare" un immagine sulla facciata di un palazzo :-)
E poi il budget di un appassionato non può essere messo a paragone con quello di chi della fotografia ne fa un lavoro.
Insomma, chi si accontenta, gode...
p.s. Se solo avessi potuto permettermi una reflex Contaflex 126 a 19 anni con tutto sto po-po' di obiettivi al rally di Sanremo 1979 dove forografai la Stratos vincitrice di Tony-Carello della scuderia Concessionari Lancia, con una fotocamera (è esagerato considerarla tale) a cassetta - a fuoco fisso - Kodak Instamatic 33 di qualità scadente... avrei potuto fare un ingrandimento 40x40 invece che una stampetta 10x10 sfocata: io avevo le pellicole con cartucce 126 ma dovevo accontentarmi di metterle dentro l'Instamatic: come si dice, chi ha il pane non ha i denti...
Thanks to donnat for taking my camera to have it fixed. It works better than ever and no unexpected spots in view. Yay!
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