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  1. Bob Blaylock

    Monthly Assignment Timing Issue…

    Shouldn't we have the entire month in which to take pictures to be entered in the Monthly Assignment? I guess, technically, we do—any picture taken within the specified month, and meeting the specified theme, would be eligible; but lately, there has been a consistent failure to announce what...
  2. Bob Blaylock

    Bomb

  3. Bob Blaylock

    Drip, drip, drip...

    Apparently, the problem with the other thread had to do with how it was named. Let's see if avoiding any non-ASCII characters in the name works around the bug in the forum software that caused it.
  4. Bob Blaylock

    An OP full of broken pictures…

    See http://nikonites.com/learning-photography/24694-drip%E2%80%A6drip%E2%80%A6drip%E2%80%A6drip%E2%80%A6drip%E2%80%A6.html A baker's dozen of pictures in the OP, were visible while I was previewing before I saved the post. After I saved it, the pictures wouldn't display. The forum produces...
  5. Bob Blaylock

    Nifty Fifty Assignment Lens Discussion

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    Rainbow around the Sun…

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    Sunpak auto 2000 DZ and Nikon D3200

    A few days ago, I happened to spot a Sunpak auto 2000 DZ at a thrift store, and figured I ought to be able to use it with my D3200. Alas, I found it rather cryptic, and so did I find the manual I was able to download for it; though the one most enigmatic feature seemed to be well explained —...
  8. Bob Blaylock

    Bokeh — A different way of treating it…

    Some time ago, I came up with the idea of making a disk to stick on the front of my old ƒ1.4 50mm lens, with a heart-shaped cutout, in order to get the bokeh to take on a heart shape. (The main reason for using this lens was its large maximum aperture. A smaller aperture would mean I'd have...
  9. Bob Blaylock

    Odd Distortion in 18-55mm “Kit Lens” on D3200 — Is This Normal?

    Nikon D3200, with the stock 18-55mm ƒ3.5-5.6 “kit lens”. A short time ago, I took this picture of a dandelion seed head. I was rather alarmed to see the way it came out distorted. I was able to fix it in PhotoShop: A few attempts, just now, to reproduce this distortion by taking a...
  10. Bob Blaylock

    Post your panoramic shots.

    Night, and most of the outside lights are out tonight. Panorama stitched using Microsoft ICE from six (6) individual photographs; each one a thirty(30) second exposure at ƒ16, ISO 6400. Nikon D3200, on a tripod, turned in portrait-orientation, with the stock 18-55mm (approximately equivalent...
  11. Bob Blaylock

    Let's see some anaglyph 3D…

    Break out your red/blue glasses, and let's see some 3D pictures. I made this one with two pictures taken with my D3200, and processed using Anaglyph Workshop. The object pictured here is a magnetron, out of an old microwave oven. I have some older anaglyphs, that I made on my cell...
  12. Bob Blaylock

    Any way to turn off the “Thread automatically updated every 5 second(s)” feature?

    I really do not need nor want a page to keep reloading every few seconds while I am trying to read it, nor do I want other tabs doing the same and bogging down my browser while I'm not reading them. I've tried searching through the settings for anything about “automatically updating” pages...
  13. Bob Blaylock

    DSLR to Microscope — Is This Possible?

    Some years ago, when my father passed away, I inherited, among other things, his microscope. I soon discovered that by pointing a cheap digital camera into the eyepiece, I could take much, much, much better pictures than I previously imagined would be possible by such a crude method. But...
  14. Bob Blaylock

    Page 169 of the owners' manual, says non-AI lenses cannot be used with the D3200…

    Page 169 of the owners' manual says non-AI lenses cannot be used with the D3200… I beg to differ. 50mm ƒ1.4 non-AI Nikkor lens—the stock lens from my ancient Nikon F2 Photomic. 28mm ƒ3.5 non-AI Nikkor lens. 85-205mm ƒ3.8 non-AI Vivitar zoom lens. My early 1970s-vintage non-AI Vivitar...
  15. Bob Blaylock

    Any Good, Cheap/Free Panorama-Stitching Software for MacOS X 10.4?

    My primary computer is a ten-year-old Power Macintosh G4 (single processor, 1 GHz) running MacOS X 10.4.11 “Tiger”. Yesterday, I was prowling the web, looking for usable panorama-stitching software. I want to be able to stitch full-sized panoramas from the 24MP pictures taken by my D3200...
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