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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...

All I know is that it's a BF Camera to play with. :D :D

It happened to me again today. It happens a lot. Automatic sink faucets and towel dispensers rarely are able to see me. I just spent a minute trying to wave my hands frantically under 2 different restroom faucets to get water to flow. Then I could not get a paper towel to dispense at 2...

I will be having a go at some Orion images I shot in 2021 at 90mm. I did a stack of them back then and stretched as much as I thought I could. But I did not have the star-removal tools at the time for separating the nebula background from the stars. Trevor here is working at some old images...

Started right away on New Years Day. Not greatness, but we can build to that as the year progresses. It was very cloudy, the Wisconsin River is not frozen over, very few eagles about. What I captured was all happening pretty far away and I had to crop in a lot. I believe these 2 eagles were...

I was driving by on a foggy day and this scene caught my eye. Only had a Lumix DMC-ZS6 with me to take the photos. But this is one of the older Panasonic cameras with the Leica-designed lenses. Stitched panorama was my best plan.

A small story, could be in progress. I watched a TV news story last week prior to Thanksgiving of a peregrine falcon that had spent the past 2 months being rehabilitated in a special pen and was released into the wild at a local Audubon Society bird sanctuary. Easy drive to try to photograph. I...

I was looking over some scans of negatives I started 18 years ago. I still have all of my high school photography class projects from 1982. Now I am not really proud of any of it. I pretty much was slapped down by my teacher who did not really like my work. Forty years later, yeah it was mostly...

The indicators are pretty good for aurora tonight. They are already getting photos in Europe and sharing on my aurora app. Odds are with the moon out tonight also you would not see anything with your bare eyes (until the moon sets anyhow). You can use night mode on a cellphone to confirm if...

Some shots from a park I stopped at for lunch. I'm always looking out for neat places like this when I drive around for my job.

Shot shortly after midnight in southern Wisconsin: May 11, 2024

Looks like it's all about wifi connection security. Meh.

Before we get the forum littered with everyone's eclipse photos, how about we get a thread for them all? I have 2 to start with. However I only have begun going through my photos. I made mistakes, but I also did some stuff right. I was in Benton, Illinois for this one. Northeast of Carbondale...

After ending 2023 on a high note, let's drop the expectations down a bit to begin 2024. Unable to get a view of eagles in the fog at a new spot. Tried a landscape shot instead.

Looks like you want to update before it's too late. • Fixed an issue that in rare circumstances resulted in the camera failing to turn on if it had not been used for an extended period.