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I stumbled into this video on Wisconsin Public Television about 2012, and never was able to find it again. Until today that is, looks like it was uploaded 6 months ago. I have to admit that I had never heard of Art Sinsabaugh before that, and discovering his large-format photos of places I am...

Last year I wanted to take new photos of the wind turbines in southwest Wisconsin, but this time put some motion into them. I failed entirely due to it being too light out and I could not slow down exposure enough. I needed and ND filter, and the ones I had were hopelessly wrong for my current...

The price was reduced to $79 for Amazon Days, so I bought. I have been using a cheap pancake style lens as a body cap for the past year, and the concept has been working for me. So I decided to upgrade to autofocus and AI chip on board. My blurry, handheld photo of the Viltrox Z 28mm f/4.5...

EN-EL15 battery packs. We use them for 15 or so years now. There have been 3 versions, currently on C. Nikon created the MH-25 battery charger and generously provided one with new cameras that used the EN-EL15. That is until recent years. The European Union is mandating that E-waste be...

I cannot possibly have an in-depth review after so little time, but here are my early impressions and observations. Last weekend was a "Cash 4 Cameras" event locally. A buyer for an Indianapolis-based used camera dealer usually tours through my town and partners-up with the local camera shop...

First to share from the new camera. It has been gray and ugly outside interrupted by a blizzard 2 days ago. So let's just start with B&W mode on the Zf and turn on the firmware 3.0 simulated film grain. JPEG right from card, resized smaller, and watermark pasted on.

As I sit home with some flu this weekend, I got to looking at what kind of lens adapters Fotodiox has for Z bodies. I found 2 that are interesting to adapt F-mount lenses to Z. Keep in mind, these are dumb adapters with no AF or electronic contacts for the lens. So no aperture control from the...

I am seeing conflicting data here, but what I cannot deny is that there is a flood of aurora photos being posted from Europe in the past couple of hours on my AuroraReach app. I have 1 aurora web site telling me the KP index is at 9 right now and a G4 geomagnetic storm. The Geophysical Institute...

I found this today. It is a command-line open-source utility that will convert an image file like a JPEG or other into a Nikon NEF lossless compressed 14 bit file. Documentation shows me it it not very user-friendly, but it's a beginning. Documentation Github download

Get outside immediately! KP level is showing at 9 in Wisconsin right now. That is insanely high. I however have a medical appointment at 6am and can't risk missing this one. :(

Once again, for reasons, I had to drive off from a photo without trying to take the picture. We all have done this many times I would assume. I usually feel down for a while because of it. Today it was a rustic log cabin near a pond that caught my eye as I drove down a back-road on my work...

I'm am currently evaluating Fotoo app for Android on 3 tablet devices that I am not actually using anymore. But I can see this app is also on Amazon for FireTV devices. So we have the potential to convert an old smart TV also for a photo display. Or an old Android smart phone...

In January 2022 Tim was the 3rd of my 3 older brothers to pass on. A 17 year long endurance with emphysema that ended with a cancer. Yes, he liked smoking a lot. All my brothers did. Tim did like to play with photography. He took photos at biker parties and rallies. He did several nude sessions...

Really you have opportunity to rise early on August 10th through the 13th and do this, but Jupiter and Venus will be at their closest on the 11th and 12th. Looking with Stellarium, I see the best time to take photos from 4:15 to 4:45am. Kind of low in the east sky, but then the sunrise ruins it...

This actually is old news by now, but we are in the midst of a solar storm since Thursday. The forecasts are for another strong chance of aurora tonight (June 1) and possible the next night also. I have seen many photos come out of New Zealand and Australia from last night, and Thursday night...

I am taking a minute so your job is not entirely thankless. :) (y)

I'm not pleased by this, but I have been preparing for it. The Nikon Rumors site announced that the D6 was removed from the Nikon Japan site. I had out of some morbid curiosity checked the Nikon USA site in the past month, and there was only 4 active DSLR models listed, the rest are all in an...

This won't be an in-depth review, but let's dive in and see some actual real-world photos and try to compare to a baseline Nikon lens. 7Artisans 35mm f/5.6 full-frame lens for mirrorless. This is a full manual pancake-style lens with a fixed f/5.6 aperture. No AI, manual focus and an integrated...

I really have been watching the rumors of this product for a while. However there is a "gotcha" with the initial version. So you would still have need for an actual Nikon FTZ adapter for any AF-S, AF-P, G, VR type lenses...

There were some comments and questions when I shared last week that I had bought it. I decided it was fair to show the size of the lens compared to some others I have. Personally I think Nikon did a remarkable job keeping the lens as compact as they did. In a line, MC Z105mm f/2.8, Z14-24mm...