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Wednesday, February 26. 2020

Nikon P950

Our pal in Colorado sends these: "The landscape shot shows my view from where I am standing. Look closely at a tree in the middle of the scene.  Now look at the image with my lens zoomed way out into the tele range. Not bad, eh?"



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This is wonderful.

Does anyone here at MF have a suggestion about the best way to get rid of old film cameras mostly single lens, but some double lens?
#1 Apple Pie on 2020-02-26 20:02 (Reply)
Goodwill.
#1.1 Anon on 2020-02-27 09:28 (Reply)
KEH Camera. They trade in used gear and offer fair pricing based on condition.

www.keh.com

Or yes, Goodwill if you don't need to sell.
#1.2 Nonna Mouse on 2020-02-27 11:30 (Reply)
Send them to me.
#2 Richard Cohn on 2020-02-26 20:49 (Reply)
I'll still stick with my Grumman F6F, thank you very much.
#3 guinspen on 2020-02-26 21:46 (Reply)
Should we try to sell on eBay? Last time we tried to sell something on eBay we got a bunch of whackos!
#4 Apple Pie on 2020-02-26 21:52 (Reply)
I'm pretty sure that photo was taken at Standley Lake/Jefferson County Open Space in Arvada, CO. Eagles have been nesting there for decades
#5 rocdoctom on 2020-02-26 22:19 (Reply)
The Baldies have nested even longer at Barr Lake near Brighton CO, as well as foraging at landfills over by Marshall Lake.

I even saw one flying near my old farmstead near Valmont Lakes, east of Boulder.

All giving lie to the claims that big raptors were" too sensitive" to live near human populations in growing suburban subdivisions in the Denver area!
#5.1 Turret Gunner on 2020-02-26 23:11 (Reply)
Go up to Juneau Alaska and you have to shoo them away to throw a garbage bag into the dumpster. I've got a picture somewhere of about 20 of them sitting around an open dumpster, with the same worthless beady-eyed expression as a bunch of seagulls.
#5.1.1 Aggie on 2020-02-27 19:22 (Reply)
Not to be contrary, but I believe this is a stand of trees in the Platte River open space near the intersection of 120th Avenue and highway 85. Eagles have been nesting in that stand for years. Huge prairie dog colonies out there make for easy hunting for the eagles.
#5.2 Guest on 2020-02-27 09:42 (Reply)
The enlargement marks it as digital. The edges are sharp in a digital way.

A regular arrangement of pixels, unlike the random arrangement of film grains, responds to a periodic image like a chain link fence or house siding with a moire pattern. To suppress that, digital cameras use "anti-aliasing" filters, to blur all light over more than one pixel. This also defocuses the image a little, so they follow it with an edge-sharpening step, where edges are reconstructed as sharp. That's the digital effect that shows up on digital images. It's something weird in the contrast at the edge.

Most photo software has a sharpen command, where you can see it at work applied again. The image gets sharper and weirder each time you do it.
#6 rhhardin on 2020-02-27 05:55 (Reply)
rhhardin: Thank you for your comments--my DH, the photographer, enjoyed your post.
#6.1 Apple Pie on 2020-02-27 13:03 (Reply)

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