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Last sunday of scheduled steam traffic. From 16.12.2012 regular trains will be powered by steam only on working days.
And the 2023 Spring Track Season is On!
I found myself standing right next to the woman with the starting gun, so I figured I would get a few shots (pun intended). It is not nearly as loud when the gun is facing away from you!
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ODC-Start
This is how we start our day throughout spring, summer and fall. Shizandra gets her exercise, Stu examines the garden and I take photos.
August 7, 2021. I left today on my bike packing challenge. This is my bike fully loaded 10km in (1 percent complete!). I'm at a campground near Manotick, forgot a few things, but am otherwise off to a good start
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.
WZFO Start
Fotopan NB04 200 at 25, expired in 1982
Something went wrong and the film curled up improperly, I got only 6 of 12 frames. I'm guessing that the film has detached from the backing paper.
Develpoed in Divided D23 7+4min at 22C
This is the start of a new album: Dunwich Dynamo 2015.
Here we are making our way to Leicester's Train Station to catch the 17:00 to London's St Pancras International.
My riding partner is my Brother in Law.
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The Dunwich Dynamo is a turn-up-and-go challenging free-entry overnight 120 mile bicycle ride on-tarmac from London Fields in Hackney, London to the lovely, lonely Suffolk beach at Dunwich.
The event is usually abbreviated to "Dun Run" or "DD".
It’s not a race. It’s unsupported. There’s no van following. It’s a long way. This year It starts at around 20:30 on Saturday 4 July. Yes, that's through the night people!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunwich_Dynamo
The last time I completed the Dynamo was in 2012, circumstance has prevented me completing it since.
Software:
- Windows 7 Start Button Changer
- Rainmeter 2.1 beta
- Omnimo UI
Resources:
- Windows modern Wallpaper by djeric from deviantART
- Rainmeter "Elegance 2" by lilshizzy from deviantART
- Eclipse 2 Icon Pack by chrfb from deviantART
- Trans Token Style Start Orb by my99 from deviantART
On a day trip to Algonquin Park Ontario Canada with my son. Oct 18, 2018. We started off just before dawn. It had snowed a little the night before and was really cold.
Algonquin Provincial Park is a provincial park located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River in Ontario, Canada, mostly within the Unorganized South Part of Nipissing District. Established in 1893, it is the oldest provincial park in Canada. Additions since its creation have increased the park to its current size of about 7,653 square kilometres (2,955 sq mi). For comparison purposes, this is about one and a half times the size of Prince Edward Island or about a quarter of the size of Belgium. The park is contiguous with several smaller, administratively separate provincial parks that protect important rivers in the area, resulting in a larger total protected area.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Provincial_Park
ICE 6408 gets started up by the engineer of today’s B02 the Belle to Rapid turn that will run down the DM&E Black Hills Sub.
We didn't expected it but when returning from North Ronaldsay the ferry didn't go between the islands but around Sanday so tried to take a few shots as the sea was wild at that time.
Старт (=Старт = Start) (logo stamped as Italics) means Start
Manufactured by KMZ ( Krasnogorsky Mekhanichesky Zavod = Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk), near Moscov, USSR
Model: 1963 Type 4c, ( produced between 1962-64)
All Start produced between 1958-64. Quantity: 76.503 units. There are 10 types
as to Alexandr Komarov
35 mm film SLR camera
Lens: KMZ Helios-44 (ГЕЛИОС) 58mm f//2, special bayonet mount, interchangeable; Serial no.0139286
Aperture: f/2-f/16, automatic diaphragm, DOF preview is possible by rotating the shutter release plunger on the lens
Focus range: 0.7- 20m +inf.
Focusing: by Fresnel matte glass screen with split-image rangefinder, focus ring and scale on the lens, w/DOF scale
Shutter: focal-plane shutter, horizontally run double rubberized silk curtain,
speeds: 1 - 1/1000 +B
Shutter release: knob on the right front of the camera, w/cable release socket
**Shutter can be released by a plunger on the lens also
Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, on the right of the top plate
Frame counter: additive type, manual reset, on the winding lever knob
Viewfinder: SLR pentaprism, matte glass with split-image rangefinder in the central focusing area, 100% frame coverage, finder and screen are interchangeable, there is a waist level finder
Viewfinder release: by a small knob on the back of the top plate
Mirror: note instant return
Re-wind knob: on the left of the top plate, also used for multiple exposures
Re-wind release: small knob near the winding lever
Memory dial: on the rewind knob
Self timer: activates by a small silver knob over the self timer lever
Flash PC sockets: two, for X and M, on the left front of the top plate, synch: 1/30s, separate on the speeds dial
Back cover: detachable with the bottom plate, with a film pressure plate made of black glass,
opens by two pop-up levers on the bottom plate
Film loading: removable take-up spool, there is also a special receiving cartridge
Film-cutting knife: handle on the left of the top plate
Strap lugs
Tripod socket: old type 3/8''
Serial no. 6300258 (first two digits of the serial number indicate the production year)
As with other Soviet-era rangefinders, the shutter speed selector rotates when the shutter is released, and should not be changed until after the shutter has been cocked. If you change the shutter speed without cocking the shutter first, the setting pin can be broken when you advance the film and cock the shutter.
The Start is a very well made and interesting system SLR camera, and entirely mechanical. It was aimed at the professional market. At its era there is no other system camera in the Soviet Union.
It was often referred to as the "Russian Exakta". At that time Start was the only competition to the Exakta available within the Soviet Union and the Soviet-dominated part of Europe. It was at least in principle, the only other system camera, providing not only interchangeable lenses, but also finders and viewing screens.
Helios-44 58 mm f/2 is similar to the Zeiss Biotar. But unfortunately this is the Start system's only manufactured lens. There is an adapter for M39 screw mount Zenith lenses, but this was not an attractive option, as such lenses did not have automatic aperture system.
more info:
Fotoua by Alexandr Komarov, SovietCams, Wrotniaknet by Andrzej Wrotniak, Communist Cameras by Nathan Dayton, Cameras by Alfred Klomp, Btinternet by Stephen Rotery
We tore down a condemned building one day and started early the next morning Cleaning up the rubble.
Start the Riot by Kim Leutwyler. Oil on canvas.
The subject, Ollie Henderson, is a feminist of the LGBTQI community.
2015 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, Australia (Friday 24 July 2015)