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  1. BF Hammer

    200mm f/4 lens focusing distance and blurry image at 1:1 magnification ratio

    Here is an example of manipulating Depth Of Field with your f-stop. At f/2.8 with a 90mm lens first. And shrinking the Aperture to f/16 and rotating the subject for a flatter plane to the camera sensor. The physics of the lenses means that my 90mm lens in the example will give a wider DOF...
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    200mm f/4 lens focusing distance and blurry image at 1:1 magnification ratio

    You write in a lot of detail in your question, but we are missing some information still. A sample of one of your photos will help so we can see the exif data and understand your exposure settings. At 1:1 distance for a macro lens, your focal plane can be quite narrow. That means your gem in 3D...
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    Turning e-waste into a digital photo frame

    Some updates on the project. The old tablet with Android 4.1 required to have Fotoo side-loaded after I downloaded a many versions from many sites until I found 1 that worked. Discovered it was the premium (paid) version that was installed. It does work perfectly, but cannot log in to Google at...
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    2025 Imaged BF Hammer style

    Some of my expired film photos I took from the last week of June into the 2nd week of August.
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    Legacy project for my brother Tim

    I reconfirmed this, no diopter adjuster. No DOF preview available either. You either trust the autofocus or make sure your eyeglasses prescription is up to date.
  6. BF Hammer

    Post Your Black and Whites Photos!!

    It was like that when I found it.
  7. BF Hammer

    Zoom detail fell short

    @Clovishound I do see exif on the image. 1/500s at f/7.1 (135mm). If a tripod was used, VR should be turned off. Focus might be off. Shutter speed by all recommendations at 135mm is fine. But I will add that I never have had an exceptionally good example of a 70-300mm lens. There are many...
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    Zoom detail fell short

    Bright white bird against dark background. The crane is overexposed and that is where the detail is mostly lost. This is where we would use spot-metering rather than matrix-metering. Even then you likely would be darkening the exposure. Shooting raw to get the extra dynamic range to recover, I...
  9. BF Hammer

    Tripod and Adapter Advice?

    As I searched tripods for you, this one popped up kind of unexpectedly. It looks very suspiciously like the Three-Legged-Thing Billy tripod. I am linking to a version that includes a cellphone mount. It looks like it is just heavy-duty enough to support a D4S and a lens that is not too large...
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    2025 Imaged BF Hammer style

    This is along the Ice Age Trail on a segment near Cross Plains, WI. Shot some photos after lunch here on the way out to a job. Then on return later in the afternoon I stopped again to switch lenses and also use the later afternoon light.
  11. BF Hammer

    EVF Delay and a maxed out Z 180-600mm lens

    Sometimes you just need to practice with the gear. Glad you are sorting it all out.
  12. BF Hammer

    Silver Zf Announced

    Z8 is my next upgrade. But if I was to get one, the brown is my choice in black or bare metal. But you have to buy direct from Nikon to get the alternate colors, for an extra $100 premium.
  13. BF Hammer

    ND & NDGRAD Filters, what you use and pics

    Is anyone using square filters and adapters? I know from some past experience that there is more fiddling around with them. I actually need to buy larger filters as the 52mm sets I have don't cut it now. I could go giant round magnetic with step down adapters or giant square holder with step...
  14. BF Hammer

    Post your favorite August 2025 shot

    August 10, 2025. Nikon N70, 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5, Aperture Priority, Kodak 400 T-Max B/W film (expired 2006)
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    Turning e-waste into a digital photo frame

    I'm am currently evaluating Fotoo app for Android on 3 tablet devices that I am not actually using anymore. But I can see this app is also on Amazon for FireTV devices. So we have the potential to convert an old smart TV also for a photo display. Or an old Android smart phone...
  16. BF Hammer

    Posting Photos to weekly Challenge

    I routinely post photos as 1280 pixels on the long side. I resize the images as part of my post-processing workflow with RawTherapee. For a quick resizing option in Windows without tedious loading and saving in a photo editor, just install Windows Powertoys and use the Image Resizer shell...
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    New Nikon 850 Timelapse problem - solved

    Sometimes the silly answer works. What I haven't learned from YouTube about astrophotography I had to beat into my head with a rock. :)
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    New Nikon 850 Timelapse problem - solved

    If it can take single photo that you can later view, then the time lapse series should be visible. The obvious thing to ask is what were the exposure settings you used? The description makes my think you had the shutter speed set way too slow, like multi-seconds. Better still, post a sample...
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    Legacy project for my brother Tim

    Thank-you everyone, this project has been therapeutic. @hark The Zeiss lens likely has the focal markings, but of course you have to be kind of accurate on distance estimate. I think the shutter release button on the N70 is not right. I tried to hold at half-press many times and it just does...
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    Legacy project for my brother Tim

    I resized all of the film scans before posting here, and I'm afraid some fine detail was lost. Some of the Jurustic Park photos did not make it into the post...
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