Member Al Tanabe

Mark,
Looks like the auto focus picked the 8 as the area with the most contrast and thus looks like it is back focusing. Does this happen at close distances with a flat target? One way to do this is to get parallel with a flat target, let auto focus choose the focus point and then ever so slightly tweak the focus back and forward, each time…[Read more]

Spoken like a true retailer 😮 Don't you just miss the days of film and processing revenue?

Not a bad analogy by the way. Instead I take the cost of film and processing and make up for the depreciation on my gear.

David,
Wasn't that an issue with the read/write tab on the card?

My Sandisk 8gb Extreme class 10 SD card died in camera. I think the process was – review image, zoom image (red light flashing), then accidentally hit the shutter button – not acquiring an image. Then the card was dead – I could take another image but it would not record. The card could not be read in either Mac or PC. Could not even format…[Read more]

ka7197;436 wrote: You're pretending the only possible reason for losing digital images was card failure. Maybe I'm just too clumsy but in my experience, other kinds of reasons are much more prevalent in real life.

In six years of shooting digitally, it happened three times that I lost images on a memory card before I could download them to…

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David Farkas;433 wrote: Wow. From 100 shots to 6 (although you would get around 13 with lossless compressed DNG). Quite a change. And I remember when those 512MB cards cost $300. 😮
I still have some old Micro Drives that cost $$$$

Just to play devil's advocate, with smaller cards and more CF card changes, you are putting more…

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A company called Photo Equip that makes a grip called MD-Grip which attaches to the bottom plate rather than replacing it. The grip is covered with neoprene and triangular in shape – much better to hold than the Leica round grip. Also the Megaperls 1.35 magnifier, it has a built in diopter! Artist and Artisan Silk strap, great to wrap around…[Read more]

KA7197, welcome to the forum. Small vs large cards are relative to the number of images stored or lost. Yes, those “big” cards of yesteryear are small by today's comparison but did store a good number of images, a 512 mb card would store 93 5.47 mb images from my D1X but only 6 from my S2. So in relative terms, I would have to use a 8 gb card…[Read more]

Stuart,
I have the adapter that David produced and can attest that it can handle the 350 FE lens that you have. I briefly had a 350 FE but did not end up keeping the lens as it had some separating elements and returned it to the seller. In difference to the 350 CF f5.6 and the 350 FE, the fact that the lens has a tripod mount really helps…[Read more]

Marc,
I agree with your observations that the S series of lenses are by far the best out there. The ability to use other brands of lenses opens up the possibilities for specialty lenses and lower cost alternatives till one can save up the funds to purchase one of those gems. While the Hassey 120 is not as crisp as the 120 S, it does put up a…[Read more]

Doug,
Pike Place Market is my backyard so to speak, I enjoy going there mainly to do my grocery shopping and doing some people work. I am working on a project shooting the flowers in the market through the seasons.

If you are planning a trip to Seattle drop me a line and we can get together.

Al

Mark,
Converting to B&W is a subjective thing and it really depends on what your final statement will be. I have used most of the different techniques, LR, PS, and now Silver effects 2 and found that to be the closest B&W conversion tool.

When I am doing a B&W conversion, I want it to look like a B&W print in both tonality and texture.…[Read more]

We had over 100 visitors celebrating the opening of the exhibit on Saturday. One visitor came all the way from Texas to see the work. Overall, a fun time was had by all.

+1 on the noise reduction!

How about focus confirmation with the “dot” I know the are linked to the lens but at least a confirmation with non Leica lenses.

Your back up of images to two drives is a good one. My point of the posting was when cards die, how many images are lost and how much impact will it be? I choose to use smaller cards, ones that would store a quarter day's shooting for me so that if it did fail I would not be out a lot of images. This is at the expense of having to carry four…[Read more]

Albert,
No, the images were not viewable in the camera and as noted, the card was not even formatable in either a MAC or PC platform.

If you shoot a lot of images covering a subject say 400 + images per subject then losing one 32 gb card means that you only lost one subject. But if it is what you shoot in one day, then you have lost…[Read more]

Thank you from the colder part of the world!

Jack,
I like #2, the flower stems look like fireworks with the flowers bursting through.

Kurt, love the lighting! The 120 really does render nicely with a beautiful falloff.

You can use off brand flash for basic flash fill that allow A or aperture auto setting. It is like a manual setting that uses the sensor on the flash to determine the amount of light for proper exposure. This is different than the TTL offerings that measure off if the film plane forproper exposure. Advanced TTL systems even go as far as using…[Read more]