GrahamNfk

A beautiful shot, a well deserved POTW

Great fun

Wow, I didn't know that! Useful

Thought it might be an interesting little nostalgia trip to talk about your oldest piece of photographic kit still in use Mine is a c.1961-69 Tamron 910P T-mount zoom lens (my first ever). It's a 95-205mm f/6.3. It was bought second-hand for me as a birthday pressie in about 1976. It went into regular use until the 1990s when I replaced it with a c.1981-87 Tamron 103A 80-210mm f/3.8 with Adaptall-2 mount. The original came back into use in the digital age because the preset aperture is entirely suited to manual focussing and metering on a dSLR and mirrorless. While the 103A is a truly awesome lens at any price, I'm still amazed that the 910P can give a bloody good show of itself some circa fifty years later. It's still my favourite and I shall die owning it. Tamron 910P Tamron 103A 910P and 103A for comparison

My memory barely stretches back that far, but I can just remember what a lady cave is...

Installed it last year so I can use the man cave year round I virtually live out there these days. With the local brewery having a shop just a bike ride away, I don't even need a fridge

Ok, if only for the sake of anthropology... Sitting by the fire out in the man cave

I can't see any Clangers (or a Soup Monster come to that)

Awesome John, you have just gone to the top of my list of Diamond Geezers

Agreed, but the fine probably came from the inadequately-trained CCTV operator Surrey Council once slapped a parking fine on my car - they stuck the envelope wossname over the top of the pay-and-display sticker inside my windscreen, which still had one and a half hours left on it. I expect this kind if behaviour from Civil Servants. Unfortunately we have interfered with Mother Nature to the extent that natural selection no longer whittles these people out of society.

I'd wager he got off with it. There are lots of exceptions in law for doing ordinarily-illegal things to avoid accident etc. No magistrate in his right mind will have upheld the fine.

You're right! Didn't see it at all until you mentioned it. How fabulous!

Interesting thread. I think this might be the answer to my Kodak's tendency to blow the sky out. Going to seek out a grad or two and have a play.

soot

Soon you'll have our spiders. Watch out for the 'stripy sheep eater' (try saying that after a few bottles of the good stuff). Good luck

As a formerly married man, I can say that nothing scares me now

TIPF

Welcome Ian They're a good bunch here, and they make it a very unique forum. I look forward to seeing your pics in the future!

Ooh it's nice to have the ability to isolate subjects from the background again Examples later in the week. Started building a flat-field macro lens today, just need to pop up the local tame engineering company for a bit of metalwork to be done and I'm there.

Mafia

Way to go

That works better, IMHO.

Doesn't work for me, although I am fascinated by "then and now" image sets. I find it hard to discern what is old and what is new on amalgamated images. That said, I look at them from a historic rather than artistic standpoint, which is probably why I'm not keen.

Key for me is remembering to tag the pics every time I import them from a card. I have the software set to embed the tags in the jpgs so if they are searchable in almost any photo software. Then I use a simple search to find things. I generally use Shotwell for that process (Linux software that's similar to the old iPhoto (I think it was called)) as it's quick and easy. Old pre-exif stuff in the archives is something I attack now and then when I have an hour to spare. I generally tag camera and lens (if not done by default) location, subject matter and anything relevant, and they're stored in /year/year-mo/ directories.

wax