The 'What I'm Seeing Today' thread. (Page 10/51)
williegoat AUG 26, 11:58 PM
Very nice!
spark1 AUG 27, 12:12 AM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

Very nice!




Thanks! Meant to ask if that was the Agua Fria, New or Gila River in your pic. The Gila is the only one I recall having water in it this time of year.
williegoat AUG 27, 12:14 AM

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Originally posted by spark1:
Thanks! Meant to ask if that was the Agua Fria, New or Gila River in your pic. The Gila is the only one I recall having water in it this time of year.


That is New River just above its confluence with the Agua Fria, right next to the Glendale Airport. That bike path has benches looking west so that you can sit and watch the runway. The view is more or less to the south, so those are the Estrellas in the background.

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spark1 SEP 03, 12:40 AM
A Fiero "mud-car" seen in a storage lot today:
williegoat SEP 29, 01:20 PM
I just got back from my bicycle ride and I saw l lady walking a little pug dog who was wearing a raincoat! I mean, this little dog could have been on a box of fish sticks. I should have stopped to take a picture.
spark1 OCT 03, 01:05 AM
At a pillow jump in Seattle, my eleven year old grandson:
E.Furgal OCT 03, 01:59 AM
maryjane OCT 03, 11:02 PM
3rd one in the last 3 weeks...takes a couple days for the gases to go to work and up they float.

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2.5 OCT 04, 12:41 PM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

3rd one in the last 3 weeks...takes a couple days for the gases to go to work and up they float.





Lead poisoning?

Heh.. if you took that pic up here in a few months, I would have thought he dived and landed on ice

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jonrev OCT 05, 01:31 AM
Slow day at work, so today I ran a test on one of my Polaroid cameras.

The model I'm using is a 195 Land Camera, which was made from 1974-76 and was one of very-few models built for professional use (it has full-manual controls and a glass lens that stops all the way down to f/3.8 - a consumer-grade Polaroid camera is usually in the f/8 range). The lens has threads for some proprietary filters and close-up kits - the latter was merely a set of goggles to go over the viewfinder, and a diopter filter that screws-on. The OEM filter size for this guy is 46mm, so I bought a step-up ring to accept more common (and cheaper) 49mm lenses and filters.

I picked-up a fisheye for $10.change on eBay and wanted to see what the image quality was like. It fits 49mm lenses and is largely meant for screwing onto camcorders.
Polaroid never made a fisheye for these, nor have I really seen anyone experiment with one until now.


First the control shot, without the lens. Focus was on the pins.


Then with the same settings and fisheye. I had the camera on a tripod and did not change position.
I'm happy with the results, it's not distortion-crazy like the 8mm I have for my DSLR, but it will help when I want to shoot with this camera in a tight spot.


I then needed to test if adding filters, which further push the lens (already sitting on a step-up ring) away from the main glass, was going to cause vignetting or focusing issues. I saw neither of those, here.
I used an ND32 filter in this scenario, and changed the shutter speed to compensate. The ND32 is so I can meter this film at an iso of 100 instead of 3200, allowing me to crank the aperture wide-open for a shallow depth of field. For color film (which is iso 100), I also use a warming filter to counter that film's otherwise-cold tones.


Now to shoot with it in the field.

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