September 2019

[Frank Fremerey]

Managed to ruin the xqd cardreader and damage an xqd card.
Meh.

creative reading?

[Fons Baerken]

Thank you, Bent hope your cars is all set to go again.
Thank you Frank the sony reader is broke the cards get stuck inside, damaged my one card on trying to get it out.
Need to leave my cards inside the cameras and use the sd's as backup.

[John Geerts]

Thank you John.
I see the Z6 is in heavy use. A lot of fine pictures. Both from the library and this.

Thanks Bent

Managed to ruin the xqd cardreader and damage an xqd card.
Meh.

Nice Graphics.

How did you manage that?  Which Sony reader you have?

[Fons Baerken]

Sony MRWE90 XQD/SD Card USB 3.0 Reader
i took it with me on holidays all i can think i may have become damaged in the bag
the cards get stuck inside the reader and dont pop out
so i had to pry it out where one card plastic frame got damaged
still usable but best left in the cam i think
these 64gh xqd cards are pricey

[John Geerts]

Thanks for the warning, Fons.  Indeed, these cards are too expensive. 

I was under the impression the XQD system was more robust than the SD cards (I never had a failure). Apparantly it's not...  Or is it just the writer which can be vulnerable?

[John Geerts]

It's not easy to focus the 35/1.4 in the wide open position. It's hard to determine the exact point were the focus is. A better focus-screen does hardly help. Shoot and check the image afterwards was regularly necessary.

How different the situation with the Nikon Z6 were the zoom in the viewfinder is a big help.


Nikon Z6  35/1.4 Ai-S           ISO 100  f/1.4  1/25 Sec

[Fons Baerken]

September 6



3 images stitched and edited

D850, 24-70mm f/2.8

[John Geerts]

The main square behind Central Station

Z6  35/1.4 Ai-S

[Frank Fremerey]

I did cook again...

Lamb, Safranreis, grilled veggies, 2015 organic Bordeaux

[Fons Baerken]

I did cook again...

Lamb, Safranreis, grilled veggies, 2015 organic Bordeaux

Fine looking dish

[Bent Hjarbo]

September 6



3 images stitched and edited

D850, 24-70mm f/2.8

Very nice and dramatic 

[Fons Baerken]

Thank you Bent

[Birna Rørslett]

Something that I actually hadn't seen before, a duckweed (Lemna turionifera) with fruit. During the last couple of years I have examined thousands of those tiny duckweed fronds. Typically the entire floating frond is 1.5-3mm, and 5-6 times I observed and photographed flowering plants. Of course these species have the most efficient vegetative propagation imaginable, yet genetic recombination through sexual means might become useful in a changeable climate.

Shot with Z7 and the Laowa 25mm f/2.8 Ultra-Macro lens at 5X magnification, some 20 frames stacked with Zerene. The frond is approx. 1.7mm on the major axis, to indicate what scale we are at.

[Bent Hjarbo]

Something that I actually hadn't seen before, a duckweed (Lemna turionifera) with fruit. During the last couple of years I have examined thousands of those tiny duckweed fronds. Typically the entire floating frond is 1.5-3mm, and 5-6 times I observed and photographed flowering plants. Of course these species have the most efficient vegetative propagation imaginable, yet genetic recombination through sexual means might become useful in a changeable climate.

Shot with Z7 and the Laowa 25mm f/2.8 Ultra-Macro lens at 5X magnification, some 20 frames stacked with Zerene. The frond is approx. 1.7mm on the major axis, to indicate what scale we are at.

Very impressive, I wonder why it is called Red Duckweed in Danish? Is it because of the red tint on the fruit? The leaves are green, right?

[Birna Rørslett]

The fronds can be suffused with red in the autumn. However, other duckweeds can attain the same colours, so I don't think the Danish name is very apt.

A duckweed is morphologically highly reduced and specialised thus there do not exist leaves in the ordinary sense.