Recent content by BF Hammer

Looks like the sub-frames are 1/80s. Here is a sample single image. The Lumix is JPG only, no Raw files to play with. I think I had recently watched a video on the subject by Tony Northrup. Not that I really take his advice normally, but I thought the idea of exposure-stacking for a...

It was 4 years ago when I shot this man-made waterfall during a lunch stop. I only had my Panasonic Lumix compact digicam. But I set to manual mode to underexpose a bit. I set on top of a post, and used the self-timer to add delay on the shutter release. Then I took 30 photos and...

I have the lens on hand, but only a Z5 to try to test with. AF systems between the 2 bodies have significant differences so I don't have a guess right now.

One month stored under the tree could add 5 years onto your life. :D

What lens? Is it an AI lens? Non AI lens data set correct?

The way to take a long exposure handheld without a ND filter is to take multiple short exposures and stack them. This is what the app is doing. I have attempted this once with my Lumix compact camera when it was my only camera in car. It works, but not ideal.

Take a chance, you win sometimes, you lose sometimes. Somebody else digging inside the body was not the top of my list of guesses. Things do happen to old gear. The D80 I bought in 2007 I used very hard on geocaching hikes for several years. I bought a 2nd D80 used when I saw how beat-up the...

You're gonna need a bigger tree. ;)

Same as my earlier reply, I use the Sigma 150-600mm C lens with a Z5. Focus is about as good with the Z5 as when mounted on the D750 I used previously. Nikon F-mount version of the 150-600mm C lens does not have newer firmware (but there are many revisions for Canon mount). I would verify your...

Yeah, Picasa is dead software. It was very nice to use back in the day.

The author offers a couple of possible applications to use this in the documentation link. It is more about exploiting some features in camera bodies that can use a computer-generated image instead of an image from in the camera.

I found this today. It is a command-line open-source utility that will convert an image file like a JPEG or other into a Nikon NEF lossless compressed 14 bit file. Documentation shows me it it not very user-friendly, but it's a beginning. Documentation Github download

Get outside immediately! KP level is showing at 9 in Wisconsin right now. That is insanely high. I however have a medical appointment at 6am and can't risk missing this one. :(

You can have a crop-frame mirrorless also if you prefer that (Z50 or Z50II). Personally I cannot recommend picking up any F-mount cameras unless you have a specific need for an optical viewfinder. The support from Nikon is ending and all the improvements in features that have gone into 7 years...