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Images => Themes, Portfolio Series, PaW, or PaM => Topic started by: Akira on October 17, 2025, 16:58:11
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Our NG friend Bruno (Schroder) posted interesting images he shot by ignoring a couple of rules to use the phone camera in panorama mode...:
https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=11348.0;topicseen
..., which inspired me to start this thread.
These two images are also shot with a phone camera in panorama mode. I stood still and swept the camera from left to right, which heeds the rule. However, the images on this cylindrical display changed while I was shooting pano, which resulted in these images whose anomalies looks similar to the images shot by Bruno, but through a different mechanism.
And here I'd like to encourage you folks to post images "marred" by any possible anomalies, glitches or malfunctions of the camera or the software and enjoy!
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Chaos can arise from many sources, be they anomalies or not. Sometimes it can even be a new lens that behaved in an unexpected fashion :D
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Malfunctions can create their own visual expression ... This is my favourite zebra photo, which resulted from a bit transfer error that corrupted a single file. This occurred only once, next time I downloaded RAW files from the same card everything went smoothly and no glitch. However, I had the files downloaded the first time on a spare hard drive and quickly found the corrupted file was much more interesting. After a few attempts, Bibble, my RAW converter at that time, managed to read the NEF and the result is here.
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Zf, common distortion
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Brilliant images, folks, and an as brilliant theme idea, Akira.
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Malfunctions can create their own visual expression ... This is my favourite zebra photo, which resulted from a bit transfer error that corrupted a single file. This occurred only once, next time I downloaded RAW files from the same card everything went smoothly and no glitch. However, I had the files downloaded the first time on a spare hard drive and quickly found the corrupted file was much more interesting. After a few attempts, Bibble, my RAW converter at that time, managed to read the NEF and the result is here.
I remember this image clearly. It impacted me in a few ways and it is also a favorite of mine
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Cool idea for a thread Akira! I have one in mind but will need a deep dive into the drives.
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Birna and Fons, thank you for the contributions so far. These are exactly what I'm hoping for!
Bruno and Paco, thank you for your countenances. Am looking forward to your contributions here!
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This happened by stacking images in photoshop,
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Sony A6000 pana mode chopping up the ripples.
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I assume most users of either focus stacking or panorama stitching have experiences instances in which the method(s) fail -- often miserably. However, sometimes the flaws become an additional dimension of the outcome itself.
PTGui sometimes have real difficulties stitching my 'imperfect' Rodenstock Heligon images.
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Some years ago, I shot an HD video in UV with the Coastal 60mm f/4 APO on my full-spectrum modified Panasonic GH2. Till this day I have no idea what happened, except a section of the video came out garbled.
I kept a screenshot :)
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Some years ago, I shot an HD video in UV with the Coastal 60mm f/4 APO on my full-spectrum modified Panasonic GH2. Till this day I have no idea what happened, except a section of the video came out garbled.
I kept a screenshot :)
Bizarre
And visually pleasing Birna :)
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This is a social malfunction, not really a sw or hw, and may not meet the requirements but isn't this about rules being broken :) ?
I was shooting groups of friends at the party of my niece's wedding. Everyone in this group was well lined up and ready. Then the bride showed up, a fraction of a second before I clicked, and everyone disbanded.
Low res only, I need to dig the archive to find the original raw file.
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Funny one, Birna.
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Sometimes the third-party lenses struggle with proper functionality on a given Nikon camera. Or perhaps it's the other way around? We will never know for sure.
I have purchased a handful of Viltrox lenses for my Z cameras and they tend to work flawlessly, except when Nikon has done a firmware upgrade. By default, I detect these anomalies when I'm far away from home and there is no opportunity of upgrading firmware of the lens(es) (Viltrox tends to publish firmware updates only days after Nikon has done their best to make the Viltrox lens unusable).
In this case I was shooting with the excellent Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 on my Z9. The 75mm is DX, but handles extremely well on the Z9, and the combination yields approx. 19MPix files, which suffice most requirements anyway. However, that day the lens wouldn't do AF at all. So I get a very blurred shot. Annoyed by this I fooled around with camera & lens, and thought I had sorted the issue. I might have had, but forgot the camera accidentally had been set to multiple exposures :( After uttering a few well-chosen words culled from various Nordic languages, I returned home and did the Viltrox firmware update. No more problems.
Funny though I ended up keeping the two frames that had irked me so much. They are shown below.
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A classic anomaly.
Also known as 'Catch 22'
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PTGui is usually rock steady and reliable software --however, humans made the program, thus once in a while strange things happen. The image below is a 6-frame stitch taken on a recent visit to Paco in Spain. Somehow, PTGui bombed out and made a mess. I kept the result :)
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Arturo, Hans and Bruno, thank you for your contributuins! Anomalies are good tool to employ the randomness to the image.
Birna, thank you not only for further contributions but also various inspiration!
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My Epson V350 (and its co-conspirator Epson Scan) sometimes go off-script when converting B&W negatives. :o
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My Epson V350 (and its co-conspirator Epson Scan) sometimes go off-script when converting B&W negatives. :o
Wow, you should cherish your genius scanner! :D
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Sauteing onions, garlic, ginger steam comes up fogging the lens.
z fc -- z dx 16-50mm f/3,5-6,3 vr
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I want one, Hans :)
Great astronomy shot, Fons. Solar eruptions ...
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I want one, Hans :)
Great astronomy shot, Fons. Solar eruptions ...
With banding to boot ;)
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long shutter summer 2010
D700, 24-70mm f/2.8 @f22
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long shutter summer 2010
D700, 24-70mm f/2.8 @f22
This certainly fits the theme!
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Anthony thank you.
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Wow, you should cherish your genius scanner! :D
It's been relegated to flat-bed use only!
I want one, Hans :)
It's yours ;D ;D
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At age 85 Herbie still puts in some quick moves...
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People has been complaining the ommission of the mechanical shutter on SIGMA fp, and the electronic shutter suffers from the notorious and annoying rolling shutter artefact.
Yes, they are right, but Jacques-Henri Lartigue will offer some food for thoughts.
These images are processed in the new free version of Affinity.
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Warp speed :D
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Wonderfully useful information. Even if uncalled for.
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Warp speed :D
Birna, which direction is the train going in?
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Probably left to right? No sure, actually. I have to check to recorded file time and compare to the train schedule.
EDIT: just checked, and left>right seems correct.
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Probably left to right? No sure, actually. I have to check to recorded file time and compare to the train schedule.
EDIT: just checked, and left>right seems correct.
Thank you. That is "normal" jello effect. I used the camera upside down for the Lartigue effect. :)
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banding is back
zf voigtländer 40mm f/1.2
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banding is back
zf voigtländer 40mm f/1.2
A result of super-precisely synched LED room lights?
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A result of super-precisely synched LED room lights?
Think so as well Keith.
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An 24mm f2.8 AI catches aerial jellyfish.
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Nice catch. Would you propose a name for this new species ?
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Panning on a window reflection
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An 24mm f2.8 AI catches aerial jellyfish.
Oh, yes, that's a nice one!
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Nice catch. Would you propose a name for this new species ?
Bruno, I suspect the upper one may be a "UFOium Immaturum". The lower one is a "Coatingii Inadequatus", a common species often captured by old glass. ;)
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Oh, yes, that's a nice one!
Thank you Akira. Some further attempts may be worthwhile. :)
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Bruno, I suspect the upper one may be a "UFOium Immaturum". The lower one is a "Coatingii Inadequatus", a common species often captured by old glass. ;)
;D
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Corrupt file via D800, Sandisk, Adobe, Apple or some combination thereof.
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People do have the most creative cameras :D
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People do have the most creative cameras :D
;D ;D ;D
Excellent anomaly!
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People do have the most creative cameras :D
Quite envious. :o :o :o
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A Nikola Tesla moment :o