Film Lives

This was taking with my F3 and what was called the kit lens back in the day the 50mm F2.0 AI. The biggest issue I had is my 54 year old eyes focusing.

Purple Flowers

I am not good at identifying flowers so I have no clue on what type of flower are in the picture. It was taking Memorial Day weekend with a Nikon D5000 and the kit lens. Not much artistry more af a record shot but I like it.

Camden Yards

Went to a Red Sox and Orioles game on vacation

Devils Hp Yard Sate park in East Haddam CT. This was taken with the D5000 and the kit lens.

The Nikon f4 with Kodak Ektar. I am really liking this combo.

Cape Cod

So I was wrong the F4 did take a few good pictures. This is Provincetown right at the tip of the cape. This is the Ken Rockwell digital camera and F4 scanned at the 1 hour photo shop.

Cape Cod

I dragged my F4 and an assortment of lenses along for a weekend on the Cape. My wife and I went to Provincetown and I shouldered the F4 with a 35-70 F2.8 AF. I thought the perfect walk around set up however I couldn't get it to focus so I lugged a big paperweight around. later after we were back at the car I dragged out my D5000 and kit lens and banged off a few shots at Marconi Beach

Manual Focus

Threw the 20mm F3.5 AI on the D5000 and dragged it along to work today. I had a chance to stop at a park in Easthampton Ma. These were manual focused and the exposure was a guesstimate. I didn't even check the histogram it was a run and gun. I think they came out great nice color and sharp.

HOF

Morning like this is why photography is a great hobby. Get outside and play with the cameras, it doesn't get any better that this.

Morning at the Basketball Hall of Fame

The city of Springfield Ma had these 6 foot fiberglass sneakers decorated by local artists. They were displayed around the city in conjunction with the Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. It was a beautiful late summer morning so I headed up to the HOF. I brought along my Nikon D5000 and a Nikon F4 with 3 lenses. These pics are all from the D5000. I was struck the huge difference in the apparent size of the image in the viewfinders. When you go from the F4 to the D5000 it looks like you are composing on a postage stamp. That being said I am having a tough time focusing my 28mm F3.5 AI manually. I have tried it on the F3 and the F4 without much luck. It looks like these old eyes are going to have to go auto focus full time. These pictures are right out of the camera no crop no manipulation I downloaded and posted them. That is the beauty of digital the sense of immediacy.

I dropped the old Vivitar Series 1 28 -90 zoom on the D5000. It was very old school. I metered manually with with my Gossen Luna Pro. I focused manually and took several shots of the bleeding hearts in my backyard. Several were out of focus as it is not easy to manually focus on a D5000. This is a crop of the best shot. As I don't have a macro lens I used cropping to pull me in tighter.