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    Post your sign post pictures

    Grand Canyon (not a selfie)
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    Post your sign post pictures

    Sin city
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    Post your sign post pictures

    Old Mission in San Juan Bautista, CA
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    Post Your Deer/Moose/Elk Shots

    Elks in Grand Canyon:
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    Post your Insect shots

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    Post your statue

    American Graffiti Sculpture, Modesto, CA
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    Post your statue

    Locke, CA
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    Rokinon Samyang 14mm f2.8 vs 12mm f2.8 vs 8mm f3.5

    I have decided to keep one of the two Rokinon 12mm f2.8 fisheye lenses I received for the reasons: super-wide angle of field (horizontal and verticle); pretty sharp images; easy to focus; great for various shooting scenes including close-up (haven't tried moving objects scene though) etc. Here...
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    Post your statue

    Mexico
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    Post your statue

    Mexico
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    Re: Branding on The Brazos S.f.
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    Lens evaluation

    Hi, I am about 80% deciding to acquire a new Rokinon 12mm f2.8 fisheye (FF) for my D3500. I have two of them on hand (can return one or both) to evaluate and compare with my kit lens (18-55mm f3.5) for the final pick or dump. First, I like to see how sharp they can focus comparing with each...
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    Input needed

    Thanks, Jake. I know light pollution in the city can kill much of your sighting and imaging at nature objects. That's one point of impossible mission to overcome in this environment, I guess. Here is the PP image (Darktable) from RAW: (not much better... )
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    Input needed

    Hi, I scrapped a camping trip to Joshua Tree NP for this year's last chance of shooting the MW photos due to the pandemic and the wildfire disaster. But still can't stop taking the MW shots... So I checked up PhotoPills and Stellarium and saw the image at my place at a time within a narrower...
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    Help! New lens incompatible

    Thanks for so many responses. I tried M mode with Live View (set to f22 on lens aperture ring); can't adjust aperture on either D3500 body or lens aperture ring (info show closed aperture with no f number); but no err message of "incompatible lens"; focus and shoot -- it fires! for outside far...
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    Help! New lens incompatible

    Hi, My new Rokinon 12mm f2.8 fisheye lens has arrived... visual inspection is ok, but after installing on D3500, set Aperture ring to f22 and turn on my camera to set aperture: all I see in the info panel shows "closed" aperture, no way to set or change f numbers, and there is the warning...
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    Post your birds (2)

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    Q's about Rokinon 12mm f2.8 fisheye lens

    Thanks, Sparky. 1. I entered 12mm (real) and 18mm (35mm equivalent) in the calculater and it came out the same hyperfocal distance: 2.61m. So this one resolved. 2. So how do I set aperture for my shot? Just set it from D3500 and forget about the aperture adj ring on the lens? 3. How do you...
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