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Hadn't thought of that. I'm not familiar enough with Yoshica cameras to pick if it's an antique

definitely a film camera. at 0:06 you can see her winding the film to the next frame.

Though I agree with you in principal, I've been reading Rask's blog for a while and he normally states upfront that he's an X-photographer. I would say that if there was an omission of that fact ...

handedness and eyedness are not connected...wiki was right about that.

I think welding glass #11 is 14 stops, if memory serves.

must be Acros in the air ;)

Taken with Nikon 50mm 1.8D @f/4 + Mitakon Lens Turbo II (properties for combo 36mm @f/2.9) DOH! forgot to set lens focal length to 36mm on the camera Processed with Nik Silver Efex

Adapted lens: Nikon 50mm 1.8D @f/4 + LensTurboII

also sun is low in the sky when I take shots of it so that makes a big difference

Think of how long it takes a magnifying glass to start burning a piece of paper. The glass in the lens is doing the same thing, telephoto especially.
Having said that, I've taken shots of the sun...

I think it's preferable to look away BEFORE the "dimond ring" ends totality...other than that, I agree with your comments :)

Which is exactly what the lens elements are doing

I guess that would depend on whether you scored each image set 1,2,3. If you didn't like any of them you could score all 1 or not give them a score at all.

I've always thought that Canon had warmer skin tones (which I prefer) and Nikon had cooler skin tones...but the colours were the opposite way around in this test. Nikon was the winner for me.

this is not a dpr video. Read the description

@ PeteQuad...I have to stand on chairs to look eye to eye with 10 year olds so you might have a point there ;-)

Great work Rishi.
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Partial eclipse would be more accurate rather than "not really an eclipse".
I've seen some amazing images of partial eclipses when terrestrial features are included in the image (eg mountains,...

love calsky.com - it's a great resource