April 2022 - change of rules

[Akira]

April the 4thh is the international day of dance.We had today many activities. This image was taken coming back from one of those.

  D5, 24-70 2.8 vi

Superb shot!  Perfect timing!

[John Geerts]

john, that´s it fully open?

Thanks Nasos, Paco

Yes this is fully open at f/2.8   Pretty nice, not?

[John Geerts]

  April the 4thh is the international day of dance.We had today many activities. This image was taken coming back from one of those.

  D5, 24-70 2.8 vi

Great timing and joi the vivre.

[Bent Hjarbo]

john, that´s it fully open?

  Nasos, cool shot with that plane on the center
 


  April the 4thh is the international day of dance.We had today many activities. This image was taken coming back from one of those.

  D5, 24-70 2.8 vi

Perfect timimg

[golunvolo]

Thanks Nasos, Paco

Yes this is fully open at f/2.8   Pretty nice, not?

 I'll say more than that, yes. Liking the perceived sharpness and bokeh. I know handling is very good to excellent from giving it a go at a local shop in Madrid. It just that the 24_70 vr can work with all my camera bodies that stopped me from making the exchange on the spot (the offer a sweet deal too)

[golunvolo]

Thank you all for the nice comments. I'm lucky to have a group of young people very passionate about what they do.
 Definetly joi the vivre 

[Akira]

Thank you all for the nice comments. I'm lucky to have a group of young people very passionate about what they do.
 Definetly joi the vivre 

Just noticed that the shadows cast on the road work as effective compositional elements.

[Frank Fremerey]

Finally I did take some photos & I even met Martine Henry!

But then Covid put me down into bed and of all my beautiful shots in April you get to see only one and it is a sad one:

[Frank Fremerey]

As the Z9 blows everyone away, what shall come afterwards?

The Z9 ist definitely too much for me. I would rather buy me more time to shoot at all. My friend at Ford has the camera and I can use it whenever I want to use it. It is a very complicated tool that needs a lot of thinking and configuration to get it exactly to the point where you want to have it. Fine grain super complex configuration. My friend loves it. My current shooting frequency is kind of once or twice per moth plus holidays, down from daily shooting for nearly 40 years.

What is your day to day experience, John?

Not much sun today.

In the garden

Z9 Z 24-70/2.8S

[Frank Fremerey]

X100V

The door is a very strage design

[Frank Fremerey]

Caged Tulips

Z6 28/1.4E

Just: Wow!

[Frank Fremerey]

Shadow/Light

Nikon Z6 + Nikkor Z 24-50mm f4-6.3

Z6_DSC9176 by Luc de Schepper, on Flickr

great shadow/light, but something went wrong with the geometry. The house seems to fall away from us?

[Frank Fremerey]

April 22

street

Z fc, 23mm f/1.4

Oh , these boys ... so current!

[Frank Fremerey]

6 years ago I sold my FM2 to Frank. And now this April I bought it back.
Great for Nikongear to join like-minded people around the globe.
The FM2 and X100V have place in a tiny 6L bag by PeakDesign.
I'm a happy camper - many thanks Frank

A pity I could not get the FM2 to work with my eyes. I even employed a master optician to custom make a lens for me to adapt to the FM-2 (used to be my favourite camera, mine fell nearly apart when I sold it in 2004 after 16 years and many tens of thousands of shots ...)

... happy it does work for you.

Sorry for the current lens cap. You historical FM-2 cap is somewhere in my photo equipment storage

[Akira]

Welcome back, Frank.  Hope you get well soon!