**This week with your Z camera, Mar 15-21 2025**

TheSoaringSprite said:

We got some fresh snow in the last couple of days and now it's about to disappear. I had to get out there early to get some shots, before it turns to mush. Shot with my favorite walk-around lenses, the Voigtländer 35mm f/2 APO and 65mm f/2 Macro APO. They are incredibly sharp and produce very pleasing colors & contrast to my eyes.

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All are great images. As usual because you have a really good eye for composition. In particular I enjoy these two. Just the winter fighting time and the march to spring in the first and the out of focus and the treatment of the B&W in the second. Thanks for this set and the others you share.

I know everyone shot the lunar eclipse this week, I was on call and working so didn't have the time, though I still have some 900 shots from last Mays still....

Instead early yesterday morning I finally got the shot I have tried to catch for two years! I finally got a good image of the ISS transiting the moon! It took four hours of driving and set up for 0.64 seconds of photography! Had I checked and had my setting on HEF+ instead of actual RAW the images would have been more evenly space, but I can live with that!

This was shot with a Z9, Z800 f6.3 and 2x TC ISO 500, f13, 1/2000th. I combined ten images first for noise reduction then masked in the individual images of the ISS.

KennyT said:

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Are yiu sure that's ISS?

To me it looks suspiciously much like a squadron of Imperial TIE fighters circling Tatooine...

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A Highland Cow with an itch in his nose...



Nikon Z6III with Tamron 35-150mm f/2-2.8 Di III VXD

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The 29er is a youth sailing skiff that is the precursor to the olympic 49er class. This training day was in about 12 knots of wind (not that much), but the waves were huge rollers (maybe 2 meters high) in Valencia, Spain.

I was in an exposed RHIB (about a 15 foot rigid hull inflatable boat) in the rain, and had an Op/Tech rain sleeve to give the Z8 and 180-600mm lens a little bit of protection from the rain, salt spray, and waves. My boat is moving, their boat is moving, and good autofocus with continuous shooting is an absolute necessity. The Z8 is really good at this; I use auto-area AF with face detect, and keep 3D tracking on the lens Fn button for when I get close. Very happy with how the Z8 performs.

DVF Photography said:

KennyT said:

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Are yiu sure that's ISS?

To me it looks suspiciously much like a squadron of Imperial TIE fighters circling Tatooine...

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I the they were defeated a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away!

ZF +S 105mm 2.8









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Hi!

I just recently noticed something a little different in this hummingbird image that I had taken a few months ago..



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KennyT said:

I know everyone shot the lunar eclipse this week, I was on call and working so didn't have the time, though I still have some 900 shots from last Mays still....

Instead early yesterday morning I finally got the shot I have tried to catch for two years! I finally got a good image of the ISS transiting the moon! It took four hours of driving and set up for 0.64 seconds of photography! Had I checked and had my setting on HEF+ instead of actual RAW the images would have been more evenly space, but I can live with that!

This was shot with a Z9, Z800 f6.3 and 2x TC ISO 500, f13, 1/2000th. I combined ten images first for noise reduction then masked in the individual images of the ISS.

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Hi!



That's a terrific Image

Well done.

Best Regards,

RB

KennyT said:

DVF Photography said:

KennyT said:

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Are yiu sure that's ISS?

To me it looks suspiciously much like a squadron of Imperial TIE fighters circling Tatooine...

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I the they were defeated a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away!

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:-D :-D :-D

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Used two cameras: Z6iii + 24-120/4 and Z8 + 70-200/2.8

Nicely done! The exif seems to have been stripped, could you elaborate on which image was with which camera?

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Kazmarov said:

Nicely done! The exif seems to have been stripped, could you elaborate on which image was with which camera?

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Since I used two lenses: 24-120 and 70-200, and there is plenty of overlap in the focal length.

The two group images captured in front of the staircase were captured with the Z6iii because I needed to shoot wide. The first image of the Korean ladies was shot @ 24mm and it was crowded. If I stayed farther away, I would have been blocked, so that even though 24mm is usually too wide for group shots, I had no choice. But it looks like the ladies on the two edges are ok.

3 of the 4 performance images on stage were captured with the 70-200 as I was farther away. The very last image of the Venezuelan dancers, in their white dress and the colors of their national flag: yellow, blue and red, was captured with the 24-120 @ 96mm. I suppose I could have used either lens to get to 96mm.

I also captured a lot of video with the Z6iii.

BTW, I had one CFexpress and one SD card inside each camera, in the backup mode. Suddenly the Z8 gave a warning that it could not write onto the card, but didn't specify which one. It turned out that my old SanDisk SD from probably 2016 or so was malfunctioning. I brought extra EN-EL15c batteries and spare CFx cards, but no extra SD. I just went with one card on that Z8 for the rest of the event. I suppose it is time for me to replace some of my old SD cards.

Very colourful event! Thank you for the additional information.

Hi,

Taken with Nikon ZF and Voigtlander 40 1.2
Converted with NIK silver FX. My favorite BW convertor.



Ruud

The river dyed green:




St. Patrick's day was Celebrated already on Saturday 3/15/2025



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Kicking off the Airshow season - at the El Centro , California NAF


she is as pretty as it gets


forgot to slow my SS....


Pretty Polly - I know I need to shlow my shutter speed


Trio of WWII Planes


standard Heritage Flight withthe P-51 and the F16....

and for the F18 taking off



of course the Blue Angels are the star of the show







The Z8 (same with Z9 and even ,y new Z50II) makes catching these shots is so much easier like "cheating"...



Here is my last shot of the show:




z50II with the 16-50mm kit lens

Great start of the airshow season!

GoBucks said:

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Like your dreamy landscapes!

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