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woodrim ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 19 October 2009 Country: United States Location: Charleston, SC Status: Offline Posts: 1975 |
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I have an old man story for you. I'm not sure how long it would have taken me to catch on if I were younger, so I just blame it on aging.
The little blue heron (little is part of its name, not just a size reference) above is the same one that was there a week ago when I took many shots, all failures. It was an overcast day not like the usual sunny and bright sky we often have here. I saw the little blue and quickly changed my lens to the Vectis mirror. I had been shooting with a fast 50, so adjusted the ISO much higher. When looking through the viewfinder, I saw that my shutter speed was only 1/30. I quickly raised the ISO and found it only improved to 1/50. I looked up to the sky and commented to my shooting mate that it sure is a dim day. I upped the iso again to a level I don't like using and started trying to focus. I was having an unusually difficult time focusing and my images showed it. Then it finally occurred to me to look at the front of the lens. A square Zeiss lens wipe packet that was at the bottom of my bag had been wedged into the front of the mirror lens. With any other type of lens it would have been like a lens cap but mirrors will still show images with only 20% of the mirror unobstructed. Foolish, I felt. Glad the heron showed up again this past weekend. |
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Snegren ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 11 November 2011 Country: Netherlands Location: Zuid Holland Status: Offline Posts: 6157 |
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Bird friendly climate you have Mike! Another great set with the Vectis!
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” Søren Kierkegaard
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woodrim ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 19 October 2009 Country: United States Location: Charleston, SC Status: Offline Posts: 1975 |
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Lovely landscape, Michael.
Paul: I'll have an update soon to the report I gave you on the Nikon orange ring. These from Vectis 8/400 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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woodrim ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 19 October 2009 Country: United States Location: Charleston, SC Status: Offline Posts: 1975 |
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The big gulp.
The anhinga underwater spearfisher is the most talented of them all. Nikon orange ring 8/500 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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woodrim ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 19 October 2009 Country: United States Location: Charleston, SC Status: Offline Posts: 1975 |
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That's when I started paying attention. ![]() |
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Miranda F ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 11 January 2014 Country: United Kingdom Location: Bristol Status: Offline Posts: 4073 |
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Interesting. I have a f5.6 300mm Paragon mirror lens which is quite sharp. |
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Miranda F & Sensorex, Sony A7Rii, A58, Nex-6, Dynax 4, 5, 60, 500si/600si/700si/800si, various Sony & Minolta lenses, several Tamrons, lots of MF primes and *far* too many old film cameras ...
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Howard_S ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 20 March 2008 Country: United Kingdom Location: Oxford Status: Offline Posts: 4893 |
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Well, I did say 'look away now'!
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neilt3 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 13 September 2010 Country: United Kingdom Location: Manchester.U.K Status: Offline Posts: 3186 |
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Do we really need to have a conversation on you being more gentle when your sticking your finger in a hole ?! ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Howard_S ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 20 March 2008 Country: United Kingdom Location: Oxford Status: Offline Posts: 4893 |
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Thanks for the earlier remarks about dealing with the baffle on the Vectis 400. I had asked because I had looked at the rear of my lens and inspected the baffle, (look away now) put my finger in and the baffle came out with the smallest of tugs. I put it back in but now the manual focus appears not to work, with the lens apparently fixed on infinity.
I'll study the link Woodrim posted, but I'm not confident about making the contacts connect again. Good while it lasted, but I was planning using it with my S1 at one point. Ho hum; back to the AF 500. |
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pegelli ![]() Admin Group ![]() Dyxum Administrator Joined: 02 June 2007 Country: Belgium Location: Schilde Status: Offline Posts: 36510 |
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And the black lines people talk about with the silent shutter you only get with electric lamp light when you see the effect of the 50 cycles alternating current. Sunlight is continuous enough not to see this effect ![]() Edited by pegelli - 11 January 2022 at 21:25 |
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