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So I have upgraded my PC and will have to wait about 10-15 days for delivery on that. I just planned for continuing to use the same display, which is a 23-inch 1080P display, a bit wider than 16:9 ratio. Really it is a common HP LCD monitor from 18 years ago with a generic badge. Today also on...

I finally paid off my car loan 10 days ago, and I have my home equity line of credit down to where I will pay off in days. But I came very close to extending that loan out 2-3 more months. For the holiday weekend, my local camera store was having big promotions and another "Cash 4 Cameras"...

Somebody in China decided that some F-mount lenses look too ugly with the FTZ adapter. The part I notice is that the lens release slide might be hard to use. And this kind of rubberized sleeve might be a big dust-magnet.

I got the announcement email this morning and confirmed on the web site. [Important: Notice Regarding the Termination of NIKON IMAGE SPACE Service] Thank you for using NIKON IMAGE SPACE. Due to changes in the market environment, the NIKON IMAGE SPACE service will be terminated on October 15...

All the talk of straps is about 1 decade old or more. I bought in to the Peak Design system about 7 years ago with a Slide and a matching Cuff. Then I purchased their Anchor Links to use on a legacy strap I rather liked to use since about 2010. Then I inherited some gear from my brother and...

I am going to be under rain clouds most of the weekend. But there have been significant corona mass ejections happening this week and it could be beneficial to be ready to go to a darker sky location and photograph aurora. Even when you cannot see anything with the bare eye, camera sensors do...

I watched this video last weekend. It is from the perspective of photographing auto racing, but I think the basic ideas can apply to other situations. A zoo comes to mind.

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...