* The Weekly Image Thread 25 09 15 #995 *

A lovely walk along the river WN and I'd rather like to sit at the point where you took the first and watch the world go by.

No! I can never get bored of Iceland pics and these are terrific.

The red Cadillac looks terrific.

I admire your dedication to this cause Andrew and these look good. The organisers seem to have sorted out a better background this time around.

Love the pic of the lifeguard on the doorstep.

I would really miss this community here if it disappeared. I feel comfortable and amongst like-minded friends.

I registered at dprevived when they started up but don't think I ever posted as I hated it with a passion.

On my phone and can not tell what is in the baskets Charlotte. Mushrooms per chance? I am feeling really rather depressed now. .



Our internet provider went down today for at least 6 h and the county road crew cleaning up the brush chewed the landline to our house into a huge mess The freezer has decided not to stay shut, an upright, and if I can not correct that a replacement may be required, or lean something heavy against the door!

My AV processor is behaving erratically but I might be able to live with that.



And DPR is pulling the rug out from under us, AGAIN!

Throw in The Donald and I think I need to get a new life that has more fun and joie de vivre Somehow that does not seem right, the expression, but I am too bummed to look it up

As to your lens, you already have more than I use! I don’t like lenses that don’t have auto focus. I did not mind on film cameras because they had focusing aids by screen choice Magnified view and peaking do not provide that same experience, at least for me. At times peaking has given poor focusing for me. At least wide angle lenses are more forgiving in that regard.



You will be able to decide when you try the lens on your camera if you like it!

You could get the 8 mm to 25 mm OM f/4! Then you would have exif and any focal length in that range you want!

I am happy with the 12 - 40 f:2.8 and 40 - 150 f/2.8 I carry the Panasonic 20 f/1.7 and Laowa 7.5 f/2 in my bag all the time but very rarely use either. I have other lenses that are rarely used.



At this point I would rather get a new camera than another lens.

Good luck with your choice and make sure to use it if you get it.

Andrew

DickyAus said:

DickyAus said:

What thread is locked?

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The TSHHTF tread on "News & Rumors talk" forum

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OK, thanks. I hadn't even seen that, only the one in Open Talk. Off to read.

DickyAus said:

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I used to read at Cambrige in Colour, but never posted. There was also a mod/admin/whatever there that sat on a too high horse, always criticizing images people uploaded in an "I know best how things should be" tone.

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Yes the mod/admin was a bit over the top - but I have a thick skin. :-D

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Seemed a bit slow too. But that has probably varied over the years.

Cloudforest said:

I would really miss this community here if it disappeared. I feel comfortable and amongst like-minded friends.

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Indeed. Not all of dpr is that friendly though.

Cloudforest said:

I registered at dprevived when they started up but don't think I ever posted as I hated it with a passion.

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I hated how it evolved. It seems much better now, but the threat of it becoming horrible again is there.

If the threaded view goes we need to start to create individual threads for the images we want to share, or it becomes too hard to follow the discussion. It is in the C&C thread at dprevived, hopeless. I've tried to follow occasionally, but I lose track and it's time consuming. Here it's so easy to check if there are new comments for an image I'm interested in. Creating a thread just for one image is more, well, pretentious. I like how we have it here. Just sharing, no need to upload a masterpiece every time. It's just fun.

The problem isn't only to find another forum one likes, even if that's hard enough, but starting to socialize with a new group feels cumbersome and it won't be the same. We know each other here now and I would miss everyone. I miss those that fell off the wagon at the last scare.

Yeah, life in general sucks. Putin violated both Poland's and Estonia's airspace yesterday. Nothing that can be dismissed as a mistake, a clear provocation. What country will be next on his list? This situation with lunatics in power everywhere could be the end of us all. In light of that, our dpr problems are quite small. But we need our water hole!

But I love manual lenses! Much more fun. Problem is I can't try the 9mm and the 10mm side by side. And it will be for ever before I find any of them used at a good price again. MPB and the like charge way too much. And I don't think I have more lenses than you have. That's slander! ;-)

P.S. I definitely have fewer cameras.

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Never let the cost be an overriding factor in decision making. You're not going to live forever - enjoy what you can while you can!

PS. I won't be buying the 50-200mm (AU$5,000) I would if I had a need for it, but What I have already got covers 99% of my needs. I'm still tempted by the macro lens with IS being the big attraction; but I haven't been motivated enough with macro shots of late. Perhaps Santa might deliver this year if the Xmas discounts are generous and the 60mm trade-in price is good.

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And I hardly use the camera these days. But like a squirrel I hoard for the future when I find and unusually juicy hazenut. :-D

Afraid cost is an issue. I would buy neither of them new ATM, and used are scarce and more expensive at MPB and the like.

It's hard to imagine what difference 1mm makes at those focal length. Or if 1.5mm is worth it if compared to the 7.5mm. There are no gizmos that show you the field of view for that short lenses. Laowa ought to make one.

Are you aware of the changes coming to DPR?

Check the following thread on the Sony Alpha FF forum.


Every DPR forum user needs to be following this.

They enjoyed it Charlotte! Permission was given!

I loved the dog in the side car as well Charlotte. It seemed quite content sitting there taking it all in.

Andrew

There are tourists there a few times a year Pete, but mostly just relatively locals. There is no beach in Port Rowan but it is a few minutes drive from Long Point which has spectacular beaches which are immensely popular in hot sunny weather. Port Rowan has a smallish marina area which has mostly boathouses rented out. There is a nice little park on the water there (partly seen in the image) along with a restaurant called The Boathouse, can not imagine where they got that name! The food there is ok, mostly fish n' chips. Local pickerel and perch is served. Perch is excellent pan fried but it is expensive now with quotas placed on fishing as a result of over fishing. You can catch it if you have a boat and find the right spots. Pickerel as well. The Long Point Bay area off the shore in Port Rowan is a premier sports fishing area, perhaps one of the finest in the world. Most of the boaters have their boats at marinas on the bay side of Long Point.

Andrew

The background was indeed better Pete! I wish that I could get a practice run in before the even so that I could dial in the right settings. It is a crap shoot every year as the background changes and the lighting has as well. It does not help that the people running the show have no clue about how the lights on the stage work so they throw a switch somewhere and some lights come on, but not necessarily the same ones from year to year.

Andrew

Unfortunately for my mood Mike, I am aware! Not sure what this will mean for me but I may just quit it all! The Olympus SLR forum here is slow enough that we could just post new pictures in a single post and have 'our community from the Weekly Thread' respond to the individual posts. All comments on those images would be contained in a single post. I tried this approach on DPRevived in the early days and it worked well enough for me that I could handle it but others felt differently and stuck with DPR so I went back. It seems the trouble maker from your thread at The Photo has left but the participation level there is shrinking. My issue with posting to a thread I don't run is it triggers a need in my mind that if I respond to one I should respond to all. I don't have the patience to do that in any thread that is not threaded view. It is just too hard to follow.

I do not get there insane move to a platform that is not threaded! I have no idea why the source code needs to be 'tinkered with' constantly. If it is not broken what is the need? Keep using the same code until the end of time!

With non threaded view I might as well start my own blog! I better stop typing before my level of depression gets even higher!

Andrew

so you may want to wait, or not! Your choice!

Andrew

taken at the local Delhi annual car show in 2017. It is tomorrow. We may be going to a celebration of life about 3 h away and if so I will miss it yet again! It has been eight years since I was last in attendance.

Ford Model A Pickup Truck of the 1927 to 1929 year range, same as the unknown car in Chris's image in a post above. This one is a 1928 but has been extensively modified!

I have the chipped version of this lens. I am not critical of lens sharpness or other lens characteristics. If I like lens and it provides decent focus then I adapt to its characteristics.... I do like this lens and the chip makes it possible to critically focus when need, as I have the camera set to go into magnified view whenever the focus ring is adjusted. That said Andrew's concerns about focusing are not a problem for me for while this has a FOV of a 20mm lens it does have DOF of a 10mm lens and that makes zone focusing easy. At anything above F4 any setting near 4 feet ( a tad above the marked 3.5feet or the 1m mark on the lens) will have everything in focus -- not critically if you choose to enlarge greatly and then hold the picture 6 inches from your eye but generally, good enough for internet posts) ... I haven't used this lens for while and may not now but I did enjoy using it whenever it was on the camera ...

WhyNot

WhyNot said:

I have the chipped version of this lens. I am not critical of lens sharpness or other lens characteristics. If I like lens and it provides decent focus then I adapt to its characteristics.... I do like this lens and the chip makes it possible to critically focus when need, as I have the camera set to go into magnified view whenever the focus ring is adjusted. That said Andrew's concerns about focusing are not a problem for me for while this has a FOV of a 20mm lens it does have DOF of a 10mm lens and that makes zone focusing easy. At anything above F4 any setting near 4 feet ( a tad above the marked 3.5feet or the 1m mark on the lens) will have everything in focus -- not critically if you choose to enlarge greatly and then hold the picture 6 inches from your eye but generally, good enough for internet posts) ... I haven't used this lens for while and may not now but I did enjoy using it whenever it was on the camera ...

WhyNot

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You mean the 10mm? I don't think there is a chipped version of the 9mm. My concern is mainly if 9mm is to short (since I have the 7.5) and the declicked aperture ring.

Well, the guy still hasn't contacted me. Maybe because the problems at Heathrow.

I think I mentioned 10mm! It is the lens I was writing about .....

WhyNot