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Tag: Nikon

Posted on February 6, 2022March 7, 2022

The Pergear 10mm Pancake Fisheye Lens

First, I have to say: I love the phrase “pancake fisheye”. It sounds like something at a lunch buffet in a Minnesota church basement.

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Posted on October 25, 2021February 23, 2022

As Good As A Phone…?

The other day, on a photography forum, a guy asked if there was a point-and-shoot camera he could buy that would take pictures as good as his smartphone. Yes. We have reached that point.

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Posted on January 21, 2020February 24, 2022

See it in B&W with “Picture Control”

Recently I found out about a camera feature that’s making a big difference for me: “Monochrome Picture Control”. I’m probably not the only one who didn’t know about it.

Photography, black and white, monochrome, Nikon, Picture Control, EVF, viewfinder, composition, histogram
How it looked in the camera.
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Posted on December 7, 2019February 24, 2022

Z6 IBIS with manual lenses

Maybe, like me, you bought a Nikon Z6 in part because it has IBIS, and you had a couple of manual, non-stablilzed lenses to use with it.

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  • The Great Blue Herons Are Back
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  • Street and Sky
  • Young Owls
  • Cardinals
  • The Perfect POD
  • Capture One and Lightroom: why I don’t like catalogs
  • SmugMug SEO and Google – An Epitaph
  • Birds In Winter
  • The Pergear 10mm Pancake Fisheye Lens
  • Why Is Facebook So Bad?
  • SmugMug: Where Photography Goes To Hide
  • Tuning Dials and Channel Knobs: Retro Tech
  • Why Does Duotoning Work?
  • ICC printer profiles: how does that work, exactly?
  • As Good As A Phone…?
  • Make Even More
  • An old Ford rusts peacefully in a farmer's field.A Ford’s Journey
  • Hummingbird Photography for Dummies
  • Smugmug and Google: The Taste of Failure
  • Downtown In The Rain
  • Protect your photos with an AIR GAP
  • Google Indexing: My Balloon Loses Air
  • Windows 10 Ransomware protection
  • Nicollet Island Railroad Bridge
  • Our Photo Bandwidth Is Declining
  • Just The Street
  • The Nautilus Spiral
  • I Gained Ground against Google – Or Did I?
  • Sky Replacement: Go Big or Go Home
  • My 1x.com Experience
  • Eternity, in Google Limbo
  • Photograph of the Old Cedar Bridge in Bloomington, Minnesota.Start by giving up.
  • Photograph of the Ford Parkway bridge in MinneapolisThe Fence
  • What Chuck Close said…
  • Color Spaces and POD sites: a gamut of confusion
  • DPI: a concept you should forget.
  • Blue Tracks on Vinyl
  • Carhenge, and car keys
  • A Train to Nowhere
  • OneDrive photo backup: keywords vanish in the cloud…
  • A Megamall Parking Ramp
  • IDS Center, MinneapolisThe “Shift” of a Tilt-Shift Adapter
  • Referrer spam: with friends like these…
  • Power on the Mississippi
  • Minneapolis, darker

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