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I think this is the only forum here interest in the Z cameras is so muted. I got a loaner for a week as the first one a store got in last month but since that time the supply has been good, with weekly additions reaching their warehouse. It appears that they sell a Z7 very 3 days as a kit($4300...

Daria's girlfriend was not bad either, a waitress in the restaurant Daria suggested. This is Julia, they attended the art academy together. Julia is very athletic and into yoga and tennis and moved away from the arts. I suspect she is more of a party animal but she was really pretty also. The...

I guess I am just lucky but I run into the most interesting people.Here is Daria, a school teacher who is also an artist who I met at a gallery in the afternoon and our conversation was so interesting hours melted away until we decided to continue it over dinner....at 3am! This is a single shot...

Sometimes a portrait is a more practical item. My GF needed a passport style photo for her new visa so I took one with 1 softbox and white wall, straight out of camera then cropped to 600x600.Not bad for 37yo and only lipstick as makeup;>)

Went out last night to a club/restaurant/pub, not usually a hot dance scene but always a social group of people, and took a few candid shots and a few from a couple of girls who asked for photos. The first one was just a quiet sweet looking girl waiting for someone alone at a table. After 40...

Another cafe shot, this one is of one of our tour guides. Svet is a long retired ballerina who has traveled the world when with the St Petersburg Ballet Company(formerly called the Kirov Ballet) one of the most highly regarded and historic ballet groups in the world. She went back to university...

Another casual shot inside a restaurant of a tourist client I took out to dinner. Camila and her 19 year old daughter (who is a real beauty but too shy to pose for a photo) were visiting from Columbia. This was their last night of a week long first visit to St Petersburg. The restaurant was...

Here is one taken in the summer of my actor/singer friend, before going on stage for a charity event

Friday night was typical, headed out for whatever I could find of interest, with a camera in my backpack and ended up in a little bar/cafe/dance club. Being such a social environment, going out to random places usually means meeting strangers who turn out to become friends. That was to be...

Thank you for the comment. I enjoy meeting strangers when I have my camera, it is a very social activity. I doubt I have gone to an event, club or park here and not met someone very interesting in many years. The girl, Marina, just got off the phone and we made plans to do a studio play day with...

Fall is here so I took the D800 with new 15-30 2.8 and a few other lenses for a walk in one of the 320 parks in this city while taking foliage photos in the afternoon a girl asked me to take a photo with her phone and I said it was too complicated (so many phones and shutter activation methods)...

Thousands of Z7's out in owners hands so a new forum for Z mount cameras would be nice.

Here are a couple more from the same late afternoon photos as above, with the direct sun just 10 degrees or so above the horizon so shadows were hard.

I have not been posting much lately, busy tourist season in my incoming tour company[s] but went for a walk in a park with my friend while we were waiting for her young friend to join us I took a few photos of her and then of her friend. Both are actors on stage and movies here. The younger...

Here are 2 older photos taken with a D90 when I first got it in 2008. Every night there are fireworks unless it is very windy. They are really beautiful in the snow. These were taken from the English Embankment of the Neva River in St Petersburg so the foreground buildings and art academy and...

Here is one I took of Brazilian, originally from South Africa, who asked for a photo in a pub where I was having a bite to eat. The same sort of thing, as discussed above, getting enough under-exposure to give realistic skin tones with darker skin. This was easier since my flash was 80% of the...

Here is one I took of a young couple who asked me to take their photo with their phone which I did after telling them the harsh direct sun would make their eyes very dark and under expose them because the background was brighter than they were. Sure enough, their faces were too dark to...

I walked about 15 miles around the city Saturday and found many festivals and events from dog shows to beauty pageants to a biker convention and restored older buses, trams, and 30s-70s Soviet cars. Beautiful day for cityscapes shots and architecture, sailing etc. At the old car event on the...

This is St Isaac Cathedral, the second largest church in the world and is located in the city center of my adopted home of St Petersburg Russia. It can accommodate 12,000 in services. I am not religious but I like churches and visit them in every new country I visit, 90 countries so far...

You will need to experiment to find the real light level and the real depth of field. What distance are you shooting from? Did you calculate the DOF for that distance and aperture? If the bird is still shooting with the lowest shutter speed appropriate for the distance and bird size will allow...