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[Merco_61]

Sometime before midnight (whatever time zone you are in) this Sunday, September 4 2022, post the best photo you have taken this week.
Any subject, any style and any equipment—just give us your best shot.
If you can, list your EXIF info and any special lighting setups you may have used.

[g4aaw pete]

 

D800E

AF-s 24-85@ 42mm

1/1000

f8

ISO 400

[Dogbytes]

 

Tinka

iPhone SE3

Too far away and cropped too much!

28mm f/1.8

1/172sec

iso40

 

[Merco_61]

My best work this week is a set of three monochromes meant to be framed together as a triptych.

They are all shot on a bridge that spans the Fyris river, the viewpoints are within a meter from each other.

Shot with the Leica D-Lux 7 and processed with Silver Efex PRO. The landscape with a yellow filter emulation and the other two with a blue one. The film emulation is Panatomic X for all three.

 

Lens (mm): 15.9 (35 mm equivalent)
ISO: 200
Aperture: 5.6
Shutter: 1/1000
Exp. Comp.: -0.3

 

Lens (mm): 34 (75 mm equivalent)
ISO: 200
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/1300
Exp. Comp.: 0.0

 

Lens (mm): 34 (75 mm equivalent)
ISO: 200
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/800
Exp. Comp.: 0.0

[krag96]

Great to see you back, Dogbytes!

[Ron]

 

Tinka

iPhone SE3

Too far away and cropped too much!

28mm f/1.8

1/172sec

iso40

 

 

How do you like the SE3? I'm still using my original SE, although with a new battery which makes it almost seem like a new phone. But I know I'm going to have to replace it soon, and I'm not real crazy about big phones, so I'm considering an SE3. I also prefer touch ID to face ID because... well, face ID just seems creepy to me. LOL.

 

--Ron

[krag96]

Flower box on my shooting table

 

Nikon D700  Nikkor 50mm f1.8 pre-D

 

1/30 f9  M 400

 

[Merco_61]

Flower box on my shooting table

 

Nikon D700  Nikkor 50mm f1.8 pre-D

 

1/30 f9  M 400

 

Nice photo, but I wonder if you aren’t a bit past the diffraction threshold. I avoid closing the aperture down more than f/7.1 and prefer f/6.3 or wider open unless I want something of a soft-focus effect or diffraction stars on my D version that is optically identical to your lens. 

[krag96]

Nice photo, but I wonder if you aren’t a bit past the diffraction threshold. I avoid closing the aperture down more than f/7.1 and prefer f/6.3 or wider open unless I want something of a soft-focus effect or diffraction stars on my D version that is optically identical to your lens. 

I would refer to the apeture that gives the sharpest photos a sweet spot rather than a threshold simply because diffraction is going to happen at any apeture, it's just a law of physics.  True, the smaller apeture, the more diffraction by law of physics.  But no, I haven't taken the time to find the ''sweet spot'' with this lens and you're right, it's probably closer to f6.3 than f9. Lets enlarge it and take a closer look.  It won't let me, I''l have to do a crop.

 

[Merco_61]

The sweet spot occurs even earlier, more like f/4.5 or so. What I mean with threshold is the degree of diffraction where the low-pass filter on the sensor starts interacting with the natural filtering of the lens, making the loss of acuity much more prominent. The strong OLPF in the D700 makes this occur earlier

[Dogbytes]

How do you like the SE3? I'm still using my original SE, although with a new battery which makes it almost seem like a new phone. But I know I'm going to have to replace it soon, and I'm not real crazy about big phones, so I'm considering an SE3. I also prefer touch ID to face ID because... well, face ID just seems creepy to me. LOL.

 

--Ron

It’s a good phone and I’d happily recommend it. I had an iPhone 8 for the previous three years, so the SE3 is very familiar in terms of size, screen, etc. All the tech specs and reviews say it has the same camera as the iPhone 8 and it may well do, for all I know, but it certainly works better. Could be firmware or the much better processor but the camera has a few new tricks (Portrait mode, etc.) and it is far better at not blowing out highlights. 
In truth, I’d rather have had an iPhone 13 Mini but they’re too expensive for me. I’m very pleased with the SE3.

[bluzman]

2022-09-04 14:04:34

D500, Nikon AF-P FX 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E ED VR
1/1000 sec, f/20, ISO 2500, 0 EV, 300 mm (35mm equivalent: 450 mm)
 

[Merco_61]

2022-09-04 14:04:34

D500, Nikon AF-P FX 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E ED VR
1/1000 sec, f/20, ISO 2500, 0 EV, 300 mm (35mm equivalent: 450 mm)
 

What kind of whirly-bird is this? Hughes 369 or something completely different?

[Ron]

It’s a good phone and I’d happily recommend it. I had an iPhone 8 for the previous three years, so the SE3 is very familiar in terms of size, screen, etc. All the tech specs and reviews say it has the same camera as the iPhone 8 and it may well do, for all I know, but it certainly works better. Could be firmware or the much better processor but the camera has a few new tricks (Portrait mode, etc.) and it is far better at not blowing out highlights. 
In truth, I’d rather have had an iPhone 13 Mini but they’re too expensive for me. I’m very pleased with the SE3.

Okay, thanks... that's what I was hoping to read. I too would prefer an iPhone 13 Mini but, as you said, they aren't cheap.

 

--Ron

[bluzman]

What kind of whirly-bird is this? Hughes 369 or something completely different?

I'm clueless when it comes to anything that isn't a US Navy helo.

[Dogbytes]

What kind of whirly-bird is this? Hughes 369 or something completely different?

Looks like a Hughes 500C. The modern equivalent is the MD500 series. Very nice little single gas turbine helicopter. A friend of mine had one very similar, back in the 90s and I also got to ride on a 160th SOAR Little Bird, which, at the time, was a highly modified MD500D. If I can find a pic, I’ll post it. 
 

[Merco_61]

The registration says it is a 369HS, which is a 500C. I tend to think of Hughes helicopters using the chassis codes as they were sold under different names in different markets. This means that we are both right in our guesses.

[fallout666]

tested out nikon Z 28-75mm at volleyball game in poor lighting gym and did great but people made little bit of challenge. 

 

nikon Z6 Z 28-75mm at 75mm F/2.8 1/1600 ISO 4000 did edit in lightroom to crop and pop enjoy 

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