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The gimbal arrived 3 days ago on Wednesday. That was 2 days of ground shipping from Atlanta to Madison, WI. Instead of paying the full $250 for the SK-100 Wimberly Sidekick at Amazon, I just checked for any used ones around. KEH of course typically has the best inventory of used gear and came in...

Now that I have an extra-beefy tripod and ball-head, I am thinking once again about picking up a gimbal head. I think I last visited the idea seriously in 2018 when I decided on the big ball-head instead. Instead of the full swing-arm Wimberly-type, I think my Sirui K-40 ball-head can easily...

Also 2 weeks ago, a village park at Blanchardville, Wisconsin. I should have kicked that trash bin over a bit for more symmetry.

From 2 weeks ago at a county park by Mount Vernon, Wisconsin.

Starting this with a series taken near Darlington, WI. A storm front had recently moved through and I had dramatic clouds with sunshine.

At Port Washington, WI

Ordered on Saturday, arrived yesterday. A Chinese brand carbon fiber tripod that finally should live up to the stability standard of my Sirui K-40 ball-head. Massively large diameter legs and stands above my eye level with the legs fully extended. Had the leveling-bowl mount included as well as...

I reserve the right to take a better one this week. :D At the harbor in Port Washington, WI Instead I just fixed the color profile I saved with. It was a bland day, but not nearly as bland as the first photo was. :p

Just read an article at Nikon Rumors about Nikon's own projected earnings in the coming 4 years. The pie-chart graph clearly indicates they plan to be out of the F-mount business before 2025. I think I will still be holding my D750 then as I agree it is easier to track birds in flight with the...

Port Washington, WI

I get the gist of what everyone is suggesting. And I continue to welcome ideas to try. I used the 15mm lens partly because I already have been here before and tried at 28mm and longer. I wanted to see if this is really a negative-space image like I sometimes will see done for prairie and arctic...

From my lunch spot today. I had the storm clouds I was hoping for later but I was running late for a medical appointment, so no time to stop.

Had the IR D600 along with me today and was hoping for some stormy clouds. Instead I just took photos at the park where I ate lunch.

Park shelter in infrared.

This is a scene looking from the front parking area of a client location for me. I keep coming here and thinking I see a photo to take, but I just lose it in the viewfinder. Today I tried with my 15mm Zeiss lens. It was cloudy and sort of bland color today. I might be on to something with...

Sigma makes their own 1.4x and 2.0x teleconverters that are compatible with the lens in F-mount. No experience with either the teleconverter or D3400 personally. But I do have a story of owning a Tamron 1.4x autofocus teleconverter years ago. Was perfectly happy with it on the D80 I was using...

The old city hall of Sun Prairie, WI after being reconstructed. How it looked in 2006 How it looked in 2018 after the bar across the street exploded.

Stacked about 55 images in SIRIL. Taken from tripod with Z5, Sigma 150-600mm C, various exposure settings in the individual images.

No prize on this one other than first to post. A jpeg nearly as it was saved on my Z5. No tracking telescope mount and kind of slow exposure with the ISO cranked up high. I could not get a spot where Polaris was visible and a tree not blocking my view of the moon.

I use a simple tilt-head for my monopod. It can either screw on to the standard head fitting or clamp into a Arca-Swiss mount. Solid aluminum mostly, I think. You can easily pan side-side with a monopod by turning the entire stick (unless you are using one of those kind with the feet on them)...