Recent content by BF Hammer

Since disassembling and cleaning my 500mm reflex Nikkor last winter, I had it in mind to try more astrophotography with it. It used to be somewhat fuzzy for moon photos. This is tonight: Zf, FTZ-II, 500mm f/8 Reflex Nikkor (from about 1981) + 2X teleconverter (of the cheapest full-manual kind)...

There is some market value to expired film if you are not going to shoot it. I only have my grandmother's Agfa brownie-clone for 120 though. Don't forget I shot 2 rolls of 20-year-old T-Max 35mm last year. I did nothing special with exposure, just showed the expiration date on the box to the...

I have my CoolPix 995 (the swivel-body style camera) still. I did charge my batteries and test it when I attempted to add it in to my box of gear for trade-in credit to get my Zf. It was instantly rejected. I had the camera converted to infrared about 10 or 11 years ago and it got a short 2nd...

8-20: First quarter phase moon. Only 1 clear shot before the clouds spoiled the further photo attempts.

8-21 Fennimore, WI railroad museum: I watched a Youtube video this last week showing short lines on the 1970's Milwaukee Road network in Iowa and Wisconsin. I watched footage of a train driving past this site which was the depot then. Railroad since torn up, and a model railroad-centric museum...

Ten weeks ago was all about the Big Boy. Today I present, The Dinky. 😁

Feed it coal and water it, should grow to be big and strong. ;)

Entry #2: First quarter is not the worst quarter. Got 1 mostly clear shot before the clouds obscured. Clouds also ruined my attempt at Earthshine last weekend.

You may want to start looking at the exif data of @bryanpereira photos to get a base line. He uses a Z9 but your Z8 is nearly it's equal. I would favor the Z8 because of the animal eye AF. It truly works. As for a lens to get your desired whiskers-on-muzzle sharp results, that often involves a...

Unfortunate, but the public needs to know about your experience.

The stacked sensor of the Z5-II has a base ISO of 100 where it performs best, but a "second base level" ISO 800 where the noise level dips again on a graph. So you would do better to run ISO 800 than 400 from a noise reduction perspective. I know the learning curve gets steeper if you change to...

Keep bringing in reports on this adapter. Tourist posters do drop in to ask about it every few months. I am down to just 2 screw-drive AF lenses, and 1 of those is the 35-70mm (normally for my N70).

I have the same problem. Ergonomics of controlling a phone and on moving after jabbing the screen to start focus. Then you can count to 5 before my photo actually is captured on my Motorola sometimes. Trying to do a mobile deposit is a comedy show for me.

Oddly enough, each time I unclipped then reattached this National Geographic strap, I always put the logo side on the right. It worked equally well either way. From this thread last week.

Don't care, some of my lens caps have no logo.