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Balance From Days Gone By You gave us a choice of two different themes, so I chose both. Here is a Balance which is an Item From Days Gone By. Actually, two Items From Days Gone By. The lens being weighed (at 12 ounces) on this balance dates to 1972. I'm less certain of the dating on the...

So new that it doesn't even exist yet. Probably won't be built until several months from now. Ordered in October 2021; my dealer estimated, at the time, that I'd probably have it around June 2022.

Attention, everyone! This is not a drill! OK, so it is a drill. I lied in the Title line. And this is actually focus-stacked from 17 pictures, each taken at close range, with my ancient 50mm ƒ/1.4 lens, wide open, on a 12mm extension ring. Depth of field on the original component pictures...

The results will probably vary considerably from one lens to another, but the defining characteristic of a DX lens would be that it is not designed to cover the entire frame a on FX camera. Some years ago, I ran a roll of TRI-X through my F2, and one shot, I took, using the 18-55mm DX lens...

Entry #3.* The same Stetson hat as in #2.

Entry #2. Detail of a Stetson Open Road Straw hat that I got at a thrift store for only $3.49.

Entry #1

Put my ancient 85-205mm ƒ/3.8 Vivitar zoom on a 36mm macro extension tube, and took random shots at clover blossoms. This was with the lens zoomed in to 205mm, and the aperture fully open to ƒ/3.8, invoking the odd effects that this lens produces at wide aperture settings.

Her name is Misty.

Entry #1.* My dove, Misty.

♫ All You Need Is a Dove ♫ Entry #2 During much of the latest Year of Hell, my wife and I have been without the comfort and peace that a dove had added to our home for almost seventeen years. Our previous dove passed away last October, about five weeks after I broke my leg, and when we...

♫ All You Need Is a Dove ♫ Entry #1 For me, the bad year of 2020 started a few months early, when I broke my leg in early September of 2019. About five weeks later, in October, my pet dove passed away. I had never before been inclined to have a bird as a pet, until one very cold night in...