BEFORE MOVING ON TO KANSAS
You may have heard our interstates were closed, they got 14" snow in town, travellers were stranded east and north of Albuquerque and it was one big mess.
The snow quit here overnight. My groggy self put up the coffee, opened a can of "treat" for the cats and then the kitchen blinds.
12/20 @ 8:00 am MST
This snow curl was hanging down at least 4 feet. The last of the dripping water before the freeze made bonus stalactites.
12/20 8:15 am MST
Scenes from yesterday...
12/19 4:00 pm MST
12/19 12:00 pm MST
Heads up, Wichita.
It's been about two years since I shopped for a pro-style camera. Had a good old Minolta 35mm for years. These days, the high end cameras do so much for you that you might not ever have to explore the photographer's craft yet still arrive at satisfying shots. Recent models can shoot bursts of video and let you select the frame worthy of becoming a still.
I leaned the other way toward one with exposure priority modes, fully manual capability and only a limited number of fully automatic modes. For the cost of a Sony DSLR (digital single lens reflex) body and lens I was able to continue using lenses from our Minolta SLR film camera. Now I have a trio of go to lenses: short and medium-long focal length zooms and a 50mm portrait lens. Someday I hope to add a nice telephoto.
The exif data for the above shots follows.
(1) 18mm f 3.5 1/40 sec. iso 200
(2) 50mm f 10 1/80 sec. iso 250
(3) 50mm f 10 1/400 sec. iso 200
(4) 50mm f 22 1/80 sec. iso 400
I'm currently working on a post about my wife's art glass and studio process. This was a pleasant diversion for me. Hope it was the same for you.
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Comments
phyllis45 - I hadn't even contemplated the hand-held viewer. Nice to have your feedback.
Chicago Guy - funny you should mention that. We abandoned our trip to town about three or four serious drifts down the road.
Susan - nice to hear from you. New computers are fun. We may be socked in for a while. At least we're not separated like that last time.
Be well everybody. And thanks.
Stacey, these are just lovely photos and I'm glad you made the superb decision to be able to use all your old beautiful glass, it really helps that you don't have to reinvest in all new lenses when many of the older ones were so well made by todays standards.
Beautiful work friend.
Barry - you're the greatest. Thank you, friend.
Wonderful images
~R~
diana ani - I think you fall into the group of Minolta owners who would have been disappointed with newer Minoltas before they sold their whole digital camera business to Sony. The way I understand it, your lenses have a different mount than the Minolta AF series. There are adaptors out there, but they come with a steep exposure learning curve and limited functionality. A cursory Google search does not make me an expert though. I really appreciate your comment. Thank you.
Thanks for stopping by - now it's back to the "darkroom."
And Stacey, you're right, I don't know of any cam company that can compare to Nikon on how far back usable lenses go that will work on current DSLR bodies--long before they thought to add a D in front of SLR. They may not have AF, but some of that early glass, like the 50mm f/1.2, is still optically perfect. You just have to rotate your wrist a bit to get things in focus.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/compatibility-lens.htm
I thank you guys for all your support. The honor is mine.
Okay Stacey, I am off to visit your wife's beautiful glass work!
That stiull cracks me up. Thanx.