Thanks Chuck! Still just spectating unfortunately. Autocross season starts this weekend though Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Good luck at the Auto-x. I'm sure we will be seeing some great pictures from there. Looking forward to them.
I have a personal affinity for car #69 and, no... not for for that reason. That's a Porsche 914, a mid-mount, air-cooled car that was surprisingly affordable when I was in grad school (early 90's). My roommate bought one and it was the first car that I actually got my hands dirty on. Trunk up front... trunk in the back... engine hiding right behind the 2 seats. It was cranky, rusty and had an electrical system that must have been built by the candidates rejected by Lucas' HR department. It was also fun as hell to drive, especially in the winter! The bottom was covered in skid / aero plates and my roommate would ski into parking lots over the snow cast off by plows. He'd get a good run at the entrance of the parking lot and the 4 wheels would lift off of the ground as we shot over the top of the snow bank like a toboggan. Once we cleared the pile of snow at the entrance, the wheels would reconnect to pavement and we'd be fine.
My wife and I go to estate sales and antique stores. I have started collecting cameras. This was not intensional. I would just buy one if I found it interesting and now I have a collection. I found this one Sunday. It has all the manuals and attachments, all of it is like new. I usually pass on Polaroid cameras but I liked this one. My oldest camera was made in 1919 it’s a No.2 Folding Autographic. brownie. It’s called an autographic because it has a stylist that after you take a picture you open a flap and can sight your name. It was sometimes used for legal work.
Funny. I've got some nostalgia from the dark room I used when in grad school. I was in cell biology, so we had all sorts of x-ray radiograms and luminescent experiments where we needed a dark room, plus we did all of the film development, enlargement and printing ourselves. Our dark room had a light-proof revolving door and common practice was to walk in and, if you didn't mind company, you would rotate the door back so that the opening faced out. If you saw the door rotated towards the inside, you would knock first... way too many horny 20-somethings in the building spending way too many hours in the lab and a dark, quiet room was hard to resist! (Someone stuck a label over the revolving door, dubbing it the 'Orgazmatron.')
yah...the darkroom in my high school was kind of like that too. But there was a light above the door to tell those outside if the safelight was on. I still have all my film gear, but I hardly use it anymore.
I usually don't post any of my photos here, since most of the things around the Minis are usually taken with my old smartphone. I do have another personality when it comes to taken photos of cars - goes back to the 1970s I guess, but got real serious in the 90s. Recently I got back into it, but time is limited and I don't want to work my ass off for free (motorsports doesn't pay well even if you know what you're doing and have connections). 2 places to see some of my stuff: http://www.speedcenter.com https://www.flickr.com/people/speedcenter/ some random shots from these sites above Brendon Hartley's final stop at the Petit Hot pit Benetton B198 Regarding gear used - depends. I use vintage gear from the 1980s in some cases (the F1 car above is manual focus, 1980s Nikon lens), in other cases like the IMSA shot on top, the lens costs more than any of my Minis, so I guess there's little reason to share the details. The shot in the middle was on film in July 2000 at Cleveland. I also shoot landscape, so there's maybe more to share, as it can be done with much more affordable gear - below a panorama stitch taken with a 1980s manual focus 20mm f/3.5 Nikon I picked up on eBay for $90 or so many years ago. It is a shot that could be printed 10 feet wide without going soft The Final Act
Are you kidding! These are great! Thanks for sharing the pages too! I also followed you on flicker, hope you don't mind.
Very nice. I like the ergonomics of their cameras. I have never got to use one but from every thing I have read people say they great cameras.
I love my Fuji cameras. I know they are digital, but they handle like analog ones. For an old guy like me who grew up spinning dials it just feels right. Some of the young guns who are used to modern digital from NikCanon/Sony have a hard time with the old school form factor. Prices of the XT-2 are coming down. With a new Fuji just released & anther one soon to be prices are plummeting. I'm OK with what was best 2 years ago.
No problem - join the other 800 odd strangers Just to do some gear talk - here is what I have on the shelf. Most if it gets regular use. I also rent lenses for the bigger motorsports events, as I have little use for things like a 70-200mm f/2.8 or 105mm f/1.4 beyond a weekend per year. Right now I am contemplating if I should rent a Zeiss lens for my summer hiking trip, to kick it up a notch from that old 20mm f/3.5 that isn't up to the sensor resolution of the D810. Nikon D810 Nikon D600 Nikon D500 Nikon F3HP Canon EOS 1n - don't have any Canon lenses but a Nikon adapter for it AF Lenses 24-85mm VR, 70-300mm ED VR Nikon 400mm f/2.8 G VR TC-14e-II TC-20e III Nikon manual focus lenses, all of which work fine with the above bodies 16mm Nikkor Fisheye f3.5 AI 20mm f3.5 AI 24mm f2.8 AIS 50mm f1.8 AIS Nikkor-S 55mm f1.2 AI-d 105mm f2.5 AI-d Nikkor-Q 135 f2.8 AI-d 180mm f/2.8 ED AIS 300mm f4.5 AI EDIF 600mm f4 EDIF AIS Nikon Series E 75-150mm f/3.5 TC-16a Non-Nikon glass: Rokinon 14mm f2.8 Rokinon 85mm f1.4 I have no use for mirrorless, as there is no system that actually has glass that does what I need to do on the long end. DSLR does the job for me and a camera like the D500 or a rented D5 on the 400mm f.2.8G is in a league Sony can only dream of ever reaching with their stuff. None of that matters when you go below 300mm focal, but at the long end DSLRs are still king. I shoot 400mm+ a lot. The F1 car up there is 960mm (600 + 1.6x TC) on full frame body, for example and since each post here needs a picture - here's the late 1980s 600mm f/4.0 manual focus super tele on D500 crop body, so 900mm, slight crop of the image, too. Where the dark side begins And that's the bad boy that took the image, with period correct Nikon F3HP and motor drive, TC-16a mounted. Half the lens is lens shade, though (the front two steps) 600mm f4.0 on tripod fully dressed up From the front, only one lens shade mounted and retracted Nikon 600mm f/4.0 EDIF AI-S Since I got the modern 400mm f/2.8 AF lens, I have not used this lens very much. The lens coat is a DIY job, as they don't make any that fit the lens, plus it's really not that hard to make these things.
I saw a review on that camera, Ted Forbes I believe, anyway thats what I liked about it, the the old school controls. Edit It was Ted. I have been watching him for a long time. Heres a link to the video I saw. You may like it.
I sold all of my film cameras back when they were still worth something. Man, am I glad I sold my Hasselblad stuff when I did. I sold it for around 12-grand. Today, I'd be lucky to get 2-grand for it. I'm not much of a gear junky anymore. I have just what I need to do my job, 90-percent of the time. I also have an outstanding camera store in Dallas that has a huge rental inventory. If I need a special lens for a job, I rent it from Competitive Cameras. I buy most of my gear from them, too. CD
Most of my stuff is Canon. All my glass is old Canon FD lenses. Its been about a year and half ago that my wife got me Canon 5D MKII with a 24-70 lens. I have an adapter for my FD lenses but when I use it with my 100-300mm I get some vignette. I need to invest in some lenses. I know its not that different then what I was using but I am still learning how to use it.