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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
04-03-2024, 02:08 AM
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I had started to assemble the 200mm dept. on the floor ( 40 something of them!) but then drifted off to playing with them instead checking out the capabilities of some that hadn't had much camera time with me.
They are like the 135mms in that they tend to render depressingly similar. And the really cheap few ones with just a doublet up front perform much the same.
And the bokeh wide open tends to be so smooth that individual character of the lenses is diminished.
Even the cat got bored!
I will get around to a roll call and a photo one day.
Then it is the 135s turn - a glance at the list and there seems to be over 70 of them!
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-26-2024, 05:53 PM
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-25-2024, 08:49 PM
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How does this go? there are a bunch of budget hanimex/ hanimar generics that are unlabelled but in the list - take too long to sort out which is which. The Olympus Shumar in the list is missing in the back of a cupboard somewhere!.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-25-2024, 03:53 PM
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A quick roll call on the kitchen table while the missus is out! The over 350s!
Except for a Canon mount Tokina mirror, all are M42 , Kmount or T mount so are compatible with the K-1.
A Tamron has lamination problems otherwise all are in working order.
All are capable of quite respectable images except for the modern mirrors which are hard to love! (Samyang , Optica and the Soligor CD) .
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-25-2024, 12:52 PM
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No doubt but I have a flippy phone that doesn't do that stuff well if at all. And it is contracted in to not use as a hotspot.
I have a smart phone without sim card to facilitate the occasional app I must use ( Cattle tag info transferring ). But it is dependant on the data system.
The main issue is the Spark system makes an exception (without data) to access the front of their site but not into the paying area. Morons.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-21-2024, 04:43 AM
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Here it was noticeable how much clearer it was during lockdown. We are on quite a major flightpath and it is nothing to see 7 or 8 trails above us at a time. At certain times of the year they hang around for a long time and certainly affect the albedo locally.
On another topic - I have been out of data all day (4G broadband). A fair go classic! Despite having no other internet, spark obligingly gives access to it's own site. That is - to the new phones and plans area. But no access to the sign-in area where you buy more data!.
It has happened to me several times and mostly solved by using my wife's phone data via a hotspot. This time she was out of data. And just for the heck of it they have dropped my usage warnings. Starlink here I come.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-18-2024, 01:17 AM
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But there were diversions!
Aerial shot with the FA400 -- cameo with a Tamron mirror!
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-18-2024, 01:04 AM
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Went to Womad for the afternoon yesterday - very pleasant but not that rewarding for photography. The seating areas were too far away from the stage to get some attitude into the shots and the one time I went closer to the stage I got hassled for being unregistered with a "professional" camera.
FA 400mm on the K-1
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-16-2024, 03:43 AM
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Even more inexperienced in aerial photog than you Ross!!
The last one I went to was at Ohakea in the film days.
The neg is now colour shifted, fungused and scratched.
Weirdly it still has appeal!
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-10-2024, 01:45 AM
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It was nice to get out on Ruapehu again. It has been a very busy summer and with tricky knees trekking has been on the back burner. 3 -4 shot stitches on the K-1 with a 40mm pancake.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-07-2024, 01:57 AM
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Yeah I know what you mean but I think he had two "fonts". One for precise mapping and one for communication.
Sounds weird but here is another example (needs editing).
His "subordinates" were bushmen. But there seemed to be some co-operation in the office. According to his diaries a lot of tracing was done. Enough so that it seemed to be the thing you did whenever there was spare time in the office. I think we underestimate how much copying was needed.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-06-2024, 03:25 PM
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Alas - we could same the same about photography.
But the value of a snapshot into the past can't be emphasised enough in this world of twisted narratives.
Here is a complete for and agin argument on the same sheet of paper.
One spelling for the place and one for the river - or just my GG's shite spelling?
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-03-2024, 04:15 PM
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Found an interesting piece of history on Saturday.
Bertrand rd bridge across the Waitara. 60metre span.
Restricted to 4 tonne - the bollards allowed a Falcon ute through.
Bollards shot K-1 with a Revuenon 55mm 1.2 taken @ f1.2 - hoping for a bit more blur!.
The other top shot @ f8 showing what the lens is capable of.
Underneath shot with a Pentax M 20mm f4 stopped down a bit. Still plenty of ca against the sky.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
03-03-2024, 02:55 PM
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Well I guess there have always been those that can read maps and those that can't.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
02-29-2024, 12:51 AM
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Here is that Rotokohu lake from the above maps taken about 20 years ago. A 5 or 6 shot stitch from a 4mp finepix. It has atrophied from the original - it was originally almost forest to forest when surveyed. In fact the entire flats in this image is lake floor except perhaps for the extreme back right. Such a beautiful area!
There is some disagreement whether it belongs to the farm on the right or the Rotokohu SR on the left. A quite extraordinary wetland badly modified by farming. And DoC their usual apathetic selves.
In Te papa there is 7 pio pio (native Thrush) specimens attributed to JR Annabell and according to his diary he shot 5 here and another 6 within a days walk. Such were the times!!
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
02-29-2024, 12:36 AM
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Beautiful shots - love the toning into the distance. I was commenting just last night to some friends about how some people apply dehaze and kill this 3d.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
02-28-2024, 05:03 PM
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Sorry yes that was one I got online (indirectly). It was an example of J R Annabell work.
Just had a look at that link and navigated to my farm. What documentation am I looking for to find the original deposited plan? Will it come under the "historical title"
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
02-28-2024, 04:54 PM
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Here is another example definitely a tracing dated 1888. The stations on the western side are on another tracing with their coordinates as they are the boundary of the Kaitangiwhenua block surveyed by another surveyor. The Kaitangiwhenua block has it's own history - the intermediary ran off with the Gov money!
This is very very remote country - The southern end has the lake of the previous map in it. This area is farmed but no one was ever silly enough to buy up the central block.
I feel you have to think of these in the context of the time - you needed a copy for future work and the only option was to trace it.
Dropbox - Rawhitiroa - Simplify your life |
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
02-28-2024, 04:37 PM
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My guess is it is a tracing of another map with the settlers names over-written (looks like his handwriting) Thinking it may be a field work with a final deposited with the gov with the formation of the NP in mind. But yes it may be the only copy in existence.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
02-28-2024, 04:34 PM
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It is a pity those old plans aren't a bit more available. I must chase up one for the farm here. Here is a crop of one of J R Annabell's big jobs - laying out the Mangapapa block in the top of the Waitotara valley. A thing of beauty. Original in drop box here
Dropbox - Rotokohu - Simplify your life |
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
02-28-2024, 01:09 PM
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I have had a challenge recently in the copying department. A trove of old hand drawn maps by my great Grandfather turned up in a box in the back of a shed. I can remember them sitting in a backroom of my Grandparent's home when I was a kid. My Grandfather died in 1969 so these have been sitting there undiscovered for 55 years and through a property sale. They are terribly damaged but a miracle they survived at all. My GG was a pioneer surveyor in the Wanganui area and in particular worked on a vast area in the southern end of the Wanganui National Park / Waitotara conservation area. Most of these maps are tracings of existing maps and roughs - stuff needed for in the field work. I presume the finals are resting in an appropriate place in our surveying archives. Many, including this one are on a fine linen coated by a hard waxy substance that renders them a little transparent. They are badly creased water damaged (Possum urine) and silver fish infested but the spirit of the maps remain. This example is an interesting deviation from simply surveying. It is a list of Maori land claimants in the Waimarino. Dated 1886, that is the year Tongariro NP was established so a highly topical map. The writing looks like JR Annabell's and it is dated and signed by him. I am guessing it is information gathered for Govermental use in the formation of the park.
Notes on the map - The place "Waimarino" on the map (not the title) is where National Park village is or perhaps just a little south nearer Erua.
Raetihi village is not on the map. Raetihi hill is the plateau beside Ohakune. There is occasional name variations (Ongaruhe for the Ongarue top centre.) but it is surprising how the stream names have survived to the present day. There appears to be some guesswork in the midreaches of the Manganuioteao river and Rotoaire seems poorly placed. This is a 2 image stitch and note the ruler on the left giving a scale to the physical map (and distortion at the stitch line. It will have been moved when I moved the map)
I did these with a K 50mmf4 macro on the K-1 @ f8 on my enlarger stand. Two flashes mounted at the top of the stand so their distance didn't change when the camera moved up of down for different sized maps.
I unfolded and stored the maps flat for some time before photographing. They are obviously still heavily creased but I decided to not further tamper with them for historical reasons. There is a hundred odd maps with possession being to the finder. I intend to encourage her to take them to the museum to see if they are interested and my photos roughly catalogue them. The museum already have his diarys of this era. Unfortunately not the 1886 one.
Link to full image.
Dropbox - Waimarino - Simplify your life |
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
02-04-2024, 10:53 PM
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When I had a run of them a while ago the hot (stuck) pixels repeated in each shot.
I think that is the second time I have run the mapping and probably for a total of 50 pixels.
It seems to work.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
02-04-2024, 08:52 PM
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Yes there is little difference iso 100 to iso 200 - my point was there is little difference between LV and OVF shots noise wise.
With iso 200 you theoretically lose a stop of dynamic range but I doubt whetther that is relevant with film scanning.
What I like about LV is the focus is the focus and not subject to lens design variation as with the OVF.
Have you run pixel mapping to try and heal the pixels. Losing 50 odd pixels to extrapolation is a bit of a nothingburger when you have 20 - 30 million of them. And is a damn sight less than what is lost to sensor sites by design in mirrorless
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
02-04-2024, 01:56 AM
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Hot pants are more worthy of discussion!!
Aaaaahh those were the days.
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Forum: Travel, Events, and Groups
02-04-2024, 01:22 AM
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I had a bit of a run with hot pixels a while back. So that set me thinking.
Checked out a run of images I took today that spanned 7 minutes. Compared them for noise and looked for hot pixels. Couldn't see any difference. And no hot pixels since I ran the sensor scan.
I had a bit of a look online to research this and found no reference to this issue. Probably because mirrorless is the flavour of the month and inferior sensor performance wouldn't fit the narrative.
I have heard it in the past but I think from memory it was night sky high iso stuff.
I put it to you that having iso at 200 rather than 100 is more detrimental to the image than using liveview.
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