I was just sitting on my rear porch playing with my 2yr old Sony NEX-5 camera. I had put a lens adapter on it and connected my Minolta 100-200mm telephoto lens.1:4.5 (22) lens. On the Nex-5 it is equivalent to a 150-300 lens on a 35mm camera. Nothing special as far as subject, just the usual Egret, Mallards, and Russian Geese. The lens is manual focus in this situation. Far side of lake is about...
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I may be paranoid, but I have a suspicion. Probably because I can see doing this myself, strictly as a matter of a business decision. The decision is to not make a software product as good as it could possibly be because I want to protect a more expensive and higher quality and higher profit product that I produce. I am thinking about the consumer market photographic camera business. All the major camera makers have...
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Best or Cheapest I just made an investment in a USA made quality product. It is a Dazor (brand) task lighting fixture which is a heavy base desktop fluorescent lamp swing arm type. I am not writing about the desk light per say, but a reflection on why I made this purchase. My cost for this fixture is a little over $250.00. At first I thought, “Wow! That’s a lot of money. That’s not cheap”…...
Continue reading...The Art of Photography
I enjoy photography immensely. Somehow my passion rubbed off on my daughter who made it her profession about 16-17 years ago. I am not a pro like her but I know how to hold my own in creating good photographs. For example, I created all the photos that are shown in the header of Ramblin’ Dan. There are some basic things the camera tool must provide repeatedly and predictably, and that is to cleanly manage...
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