Recent content by BF Hammer

UV (and IR) filtering is done by a filter that already exists in front of the image sensor. It is only needed if a camera is modified to full-spectrum by removing that sensor filter, as some people will have done for astrophotography use. But double-filtering UV will cause no harm or degrade...

What I can estimate is that the 1 car that is running on the 2 mile loop on any day might return in as little as 20 minutes or as long as 50 minutes. If it ever exceeds 10mph, I'm surprised.

Think like you did 20 years ago. ISO noise got unacceptable above 400 so of course you would choose slower shutter. ;)

Also July 29: Kenosha streetcar

July 29: Back to the harbor on Lake Michigan at Kenosha, WI

July 21: Burlington, WI Canadian National rail yard.

How about some more PCC car from Kenosha?

Only an original Nikon battery is guaranteed to work fully. An aftermarket only might work. It gets worse on Z bodies. Most aftermarket batteries get rejected with a message on screen. Even if they work without complaints on an F-mount body.

I read the firmware change notes. There is no mention of battery level indication. I also reviewed the D7500 online user manual. There is no option I see in the custom settings menu or the photo shooting menu to turn the battery level off in viewfinder. Like pretty much all of the display in...

Candian National depot building at Burlington, WI. And the grain towers. And the rails and road parts stored all over the place. I missed the freight train while I was eating lunch at the park across the river. But I now know the rough schedule for another day. I expect @Sandpatch can bring...

A All memory and hard disk storage are skyrocketing in price this year. AI datacenters have bought up all the product capacity of all the manufacturers for 2026 as early as April this year.

Maybe change the recording to Raw in primary slot, jpg in secondary. If you set the secondary slot to backup the primary, your limit in capacity (and write speed) is that 16GB SD card. Since jpg files are much smaller in size than Raw, splitting the file types to write on the 2 different cards...

7-15: Owen Conservation Park, Madison, WI - Lunch spot. It was hot, humid, and the forest fire smoke was just beginning to roll in. Low effort this day. Used the vintage film Picture Profile again.

7-14: Mount Horeb, WI - downtown on/near the Trollway. Using a vintage 50mm f/2 AIS lens and "vintage film" Picture Profile as well as a B/W. The Trollway just isn't what it used to be in years past. I drove through and I believe I could only see about 5 trolls lurking. Yes, that is the...

Pictures from 3 days this past week, wish I could say something special among them. 7-13: Keyser, WI - everything but the Lutheran church on a 3rd corner. ;)