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  1. BF Hammer

    Post your favorite October 2025 shot

    Has to be this one.
  2. BF Hammer

    2025 Imaged BF Hammer style

    Been having a tough time being at a good location for fall color this year. Just a lunchtime photo at a neighborhood park while I was in MIlwaukee. I gave very long consideration to dropping by the Basilica of St. Josephat for trying the weekly challenge, but logistically it was impractical...
  3. BF Hammer

    2025 Imaged BF Hammer style

    Well I'm a day too early for the weekly challenge. Shame to waste the photos of this historic Church of Christ in downtown New Glarus, WI. Yes, same community where Spotted Cow is made.
  4. BF Hammer

    Weekly Photo Challenge Oct 29th - Nov 4th "B&W Seasonal image or Church"

    Nuts, the site was down so I couldn't check if we were live on this. Just took my pic a day early. 😖
  5. BF Hammer

    Z6iii, Nikon EN-EL15C-Series Batteries, Nikon MB-N14 Battery Issue

    Nikon has a rather picky algorithm for communicating with the controller chip on the battery pack for Z series. I have only had that message with the non-OEM cells I had been using without problems on my D750-D7000-D600 bodies. I still use them the in a D600. I suspect there is a flakey...
  6. BF Hammer

    The New Nikon Lenses For Mirrorless Nikons

    I don't have personal experience with the Z24-50mm. But in my mind as a stills photographer, my reaction to that lens was that it is basically a useless zoom range. I avoided buying my Z5 as a kit bundle with it and bought a separate body and a used Z24-70mm f/4 instead. Similar money spent...
  7. BF Hammer

    Z5 ii Battery Consumption

    Mirrorless (all brands) consumes more power. For that matter, using Liveview on a DSLR consumes large amounts of power also. It is why Nikon upgraded the EN-EL15 with more capacity to the C revision. It is recommended to buy a backup.
  8. BF Hammer

    Looking for comments

    Asking for forgiveness instead of permission here. I had to try my layer masking.
  9. BF Hammer

    Looking for comments

    It's how you want it to look that's important. But if I took it, I work with the color because you lose the neon interest in BW. I believe I would mask out the neon and put that on a separate layer on top so I can have it bright and a bit over-saturated. Then I process the rest of the image...
  10. BF Hammer

    New Old man with software problems

    Instead of a double-click to start the install file, perhaps try right-click and select "run as administrator" from the menu pop-up.
  11. BF Hammer

    Godox X3 and SB-910 with Z6III

    Does the SB-910 have radio-trigger built in? Quick search says no, so the SB-910 should be mounted on the hotshoe of an appropriate Godox receiver to be used this way. SB-910 is Nikon CLS compatible which depends on transmitting power information and triggering by a pre-flash of the strobe...
  12. BF Hammer

    I'm new to D200 and D300...

    Just an addendum to @Needa he is referring to the old style Compact Flash (CF) cards. There is a new standard card for current cameras called CFExpress and that is a very different thing. Something to remember while shopping.
  13. BF Hammer

    D600 fault

    Thanks for that. I was having a difficult time imagining that kind of failure. If it was my camera and I was confident nobody else handled it, I might be investigating who dropped something on top of the camera.
  14. BF Hammer

    D600 fault

    Welcome @bryce and good hunting for that D700. I am kind of curious to see a photo of what broke on the D600 mount. I use a D600 (it is modified for infrared photography) and this kind of interests me. I do store for months at a time with a lightweight 28-105mm lens attached. Take cellphone...
  15. BF Hammer

    Autofocus Button for MB-N14

    Even if there is 0% chance of getting a quick resolution, this needs to be reported to Nikon so they document it and perhaps address this in future firmware. https://www.nikonproductsupport.com/s/contactsupport?language=en_US
  16. BF Hammer

    Happy Birthday John (jdeg)! 2025

    Happy birthday and keep up the fine work! I have so little to complain about. 🎂
  17. BF Hammer

    The new MonsterAdapter F to Z adapter has officially been announced.

    Now Matt Granger has this adapter in his paws and gave it a tryout at home. Keep in mind it is still very limited and can only be considered as a supplement to the Nikon FTZ adapter to take the screw-focus lenses it cannot. And yes, at $439 you would have to be wanting to use a lot of old...
  18. BF Hammer

    Post your favorite September 2025 shot

    That plane needs to fly at altitude for real before termites get it. You want scale, just picture each one of those engines on the wings as a Corsair F4U attached there.
  19. BF Hammer

    Metering setting

    Film has a more forgiving dynamic range. Too dark is better than too light so you can boost the shadows processing a Raw image. Straight jpg, you would loose that shadow detail in the image compression. Not that I would push this as the answer, but I can see where a Z5 or Z5-II would help. You...
  20. BF Hammer

    Metering setting

    I have already watched it and thought it was quite the coincidence he dropped that while there was discussion about my heron photo yesterday. :D I did remember that was a metering option on Z bodies (oops, it's there on my D750 also) and always believed it was a spot mode. But Steve says it is...
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