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  1. BF Hammer

    Help me Please with my camera

    Oh yeah, it's an infrared conversion. Looks like a 720nm IR filter used. So selling to an individual is really going to be a right person, right time sort of thing. May take months as this sort of photography is done more in the summer. Your quickest option to sell the camera is to use a...
  2. BF Hammer

    F Mount Lenses on Z Camera

    The Z 70-180 f/2.8 is supposed to be the budget model. Really it's a rebranded Tamron lens.
  3. BF Hammer

    F Mount Lenses on Z Camera

    No real issues other than the published limitations of the FTZ adapter. I did have a Tamron 90mm that had a documented problem with AF. But that apparently is a rare kind of thing and Tamron can replace a circuit board in their lens to address it. I decided to upgrade to a 105mm Nikon Z lens...
  4. BF Hammer

    Help me Please with my camera

    No real need to post the Raw file, but what I want to see is how green leaves will look in the photo. That is the big characteristic of infrared, green leaves and grass turn white when the white balance is properly adjusted. I have a thread of infrared photos that I really should bring up to...
  5. BF Hammer

    Help me Please with my camera

    I did a bit of WB adjustment. I cannot do an extreme adjustment on a JPG like I can on a Raw image. But I substituted in the WB color temperature from one of my infrared photos on to your's. This has me thinking more that it is an IR conversion. Short answer, it is not worth trying to convert...
  6. BF Hammer

    Help me Please with my camera

    Take it outside and photograph something with green leaves or some kind of evergreen tree or shrub. That will be what tells me if the visible-spectrum filter on the camera sensor was removed and either replaced with an infrared-pass sensor or a clear sensor for full-spectrum. People pay $300+ to...
  7. BF Hammer

    Help me Please with my camera

    Here is an image from my own infrared-converted camera set as Auto White-Balance. Then if you take a White Balance preset reading off of green grass it will make an image like this.
  8. BF Hammer

    Help me Please with my camera

    We cannot view your photos in the link unless you share them to everyone. Red pink description has me wondering if it has been infrared modified. You would not know that looking on the exterior of the camera, but the photos will make it evident.
  9. BF Hammer

    What did I get?

    From a personal perspective, a focus point for this style of photography is irrelevant to taking the photos. Metering exposure is manual and focus is also. I do make use of a focus point to zoom in the live view on a star when I do the focusing. I also center the focus point and use that as my...
  10. BF Hammer

    What did I get?

    Now I'm confused. What function does BBF or SBF have when you manually set focus with your eyes? Wait, do you have that shutter release on focus feature turned on? For the record I plug in a remote shutter release. I have 2, a plain remote and a programmable intervalometer kind. Or I tether to...
  11. BF Hammer

    What did I get?

    Switch off AF as soon as you have it where you want. Infinity focus is good for the entire night sky. My focus process is to pick a bright star, zoom the display in as far as it goes and manually adjust until the star is as tight of a point as can be. That is infinity focus. Then aim on target...
  12. BF Hammer

    What did I get?

    The lost focus may really be fogging in the lens. It's very common and addressed with an inexpensive USB powered lens heater wrap.
  13. BF Hammer

    D2X and MacBook tethering being told not possible , somebody is somehow , looking for help

    Well there we go, a misunderstanding about what tethering is. The classic meaning of tethered photography is where you control functions of the camera remotely from a computer, and you may or may not preview the photos on screen. I tend to do astrophotography by reviewing the test photos on...
  14. BF Hammer

    Post your dragonflies and bees/wasps

    Forgot I took this infrared last year. And from 2 years ago, another infrared.
  15. BF Hammer

    Regarding copying files from computer to my Nikon Z8

    Use the USB cable to write the files to your card in the Z8. I believe it is a normal USB-C connector.
  16. BF Hammer

    D2X and MacBook tethering being told not possible , somebody is somehow , looking for help

    You better get a name of who is tethering the D2X because all that I find online is that it is impossible with a model that old. NX Tether can only use Z models, D780, and D6. DigiCamControl will work with multiple brands and models, but even that can only go back to the D3X. Only with a wire...
  17. BF Hammer

    Working with a long exposure image

    The color version with the sun above horizon finally speaks to me. I see where you are going with the BW versions, but just not quite getting there. When you take away the color you almost need turbulence in the water to add contrast to the more tranquil tree.
  18. BF Hammer

    Post your favorite October 2024 shot

    Comet over Madison, WI. A very over-exposed Wisconsin state capitol dome there.
  19. BF Hammer

    Extremely small scale macro photography

    A follow-up, here is the Laowa lens I mentioned in the previous post, and it comes in F-mount...
  20. BF Hammer

    Extremely small scale macro photography

    I have to say it. That is comically ridiculous! 2 or 3 extension tubes is reasonable. There are other ways for even closer work. First is to use a 200-300mm lens with 2 or 3 extension tubes. I have seen a super-macro lens out there by a Chinese brand. I think it is for mirrorless bodies, not...
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