DM: Dyxum London Meet April 2018

This was a UK Dyxum meeting but with a slight 'International' flavour - Very kindly organised and arranged by bonneville (you were good at this!) we also had in attendance pegell; Bob J; Howard S and Miranda F as well as my good self. Thought I would be 'first off the block' with a suitable image - more to come from everyone I hope!

NEO_1 - Waiting For The Train on the Big Day



Let's fill this up!

Well, six of us turned up for the London Dyxum Meet, though we lost a few toward the end when BobJ, Pegelli and I hung around for a meal and some night shots. In the photo below, I'm the one on the far left in the dark blue shirt. You can also see Bonneville, Howard, and Neil.

A58 + Sigma 10-20mm on the very secure Cullman mini-tripod:


We visited the Natural History Museum, the Science museum, and the V&A as well as a long walk through some of London's parks. I took over three hundred pictures on my A58 (Relax - I'm not going to post them all ) but while we're on the subject of people, are some more. I'll post some pics from the museums later.

A58 + DT 50mm f1.8 @ f2.8, ISO 800 fixed indoors for the amazing Epstein bust of Einstein.


A58+ 18-250mm at the useful full stretch


Not an obvious portrait lens, but the 18-250mm does a good job here at 55mm, f5. No eye-AF on this camera, but the eyelashes are sharp on the full-size image.

And the A58 made a good exposure choice without any particular help form me (A mode, multi-segment, DRO auto, no flash) BTW, all shots are jpegs straight out of camera, cropped a little.

Anyway, we all had a lovely time and as this was my first Dyxum meet, it was great to be able to put faces to some names!

Edited by Miranda F - 19 April 2018 at 09:49

Apologies if I derailed the flow of things!

Great day thank you, and really good to meet Neil, Anthony, Pieter and Bob and Howard again. Sorry I had to depart earlier than I would have liked due to the pressures of travel and dog sitters. Nevertheless, thoroughly enjoyable, great company and did I fix good weather or what?!

Processing my snaps today and tomorrow and, as Bob and Pieter are doing Brands today, there is bound to be a bit of delay before their masterpieces go public so I'll hang on for the dedicated photo thread when I should have a couple worthy of posting.

owenn01 wrote: Hmmm... And here was me starting another specific link here to capture the images? I'll leave it to the Admins to think about where the best location/thread is for a set of themed images..

All sorted out again

Thanks for the company gentlemen, I had a wonderful day in London and again met three more members I had not met before. It's always good to put names to faces and meet people in real life, makes the forum just so much more "personal".

More pictures will come as I have time to sort and PP, but here's the "making of" the group shot

Anthony setting it up on a small but sturdy tripod


A7ii + LA-EA4 + Min 16/2.8 FE (cropped and de-fished)

Bob, also thanks for the lodging and another wonderful day visiting Brands Hatch and Greenwich. We indeed walked a lot, but it was certainly worth it.

My version of that same setup...

b1

a7ii * Sigma 19 * f2.8 * 1/3200 * ISO 100

(taken with the little APS-C Sigma 19 with the rear baffle removed - I've processed these with the black corners showing, but they look like they should crop down at the long ends reasonably well..)

And now, adding a bit more of a linear-time thingie to my contribution...


b2 In the underpass from the tube station...

a7ii * Vivitar S1 28 * f/1.9 * 1/60 * ISO 250

b3 The gang is almost all here - (Still waiting on Howard) - Pieter, Neil, Brian and Anthony...

a711 * Zenitar 16 * f/5.6 * 1/500 * ISO 100

b4 One of many stairs in the Natural History Museum

a7ii * Zenitar 16 * f5.6 * 1/60 * ISO 640

b5 Yet another stair...

a7ii * Zenitar 16 * f5.6 * 1/60 * ISO 640

b6 A view of the hall

a7ii * Zenitar 16 * f5.6 * 1/60 * ISO 640

b7 Brian shooting the ceiling

a7ii * Zenitar 16 * f5.6 * 1/60 * ISO 640

b8 Escher-esque

a7ii * Vivitar S1 28 * f/8.0 (from memory) * 1/60 * ISO 400