Canon Thursday Pic 2010: #19

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<p>Well its Thursday again and I am glad to say I'm back after going AWOL last week. Thanks to Josh and Lupo, the thread continued on with only a minor hicup. So for those of you that need structure and consistency, it is back once again.</p>

<p>Since this is the last Thursday of 2010, I thought I'd link to the first Canon Thursday Pic thread of the year so we could glance back at our work then and now and see how we've improved. Of course the first thread was only a couple months ago so the improvement may not be too drastic. Ideally, we'd like to look back and see how we've change over the course of a year, so maybe a year from now we'll get the full effect when we look at a year old thread.<br>

<a href="../canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00X9iF">Canon Thursday Pic 2010: #1</a></p>

<p>For my photo this week, its another one from the high school basketball tournament last week. I haven't shot anything since, so this is all I got for ya.</p><div></div>

<p>Well, I am ready this week. The holidays are here and the amaryllises are in bloom, fortunate for me because it is still wet and muddy outside.</p><div></div>

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5D2, Canon 50/2.5 Macro, f2.5, 1/200, ISO 1600<P>

<center><img src="http://mikedixonphotography.net/ahryeon08.jpg"></center>

<p>Bought a bunch of cheap m42 lens, so here is one with the S-M-C Takumar.</p><div></div>

Here's mine. In my other life, I work for an airline :)<div></div>

<p><strong>Birdwatching at Mukai Pond</strong><br>

My wife watching birds from the fringes of a local pond. I just like the textures and colors. Pretty typical winter day in Puget Sound.</p>

<p><img src="http://www.smugmug.com/photos/1141249120_9wWvc-L.jpg" alt="" /><br>

7D, Tokina 12-14mm @ 24mm, f6.7 @ 1/125, ISO 800</p>

<p>ME</p>

<p>I grabbed a nice snapshot of my wife while we were out shooting eagles in the frozen marshes of northern Missouri. <br>

300D, EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5 IS, ISO 200</p><div></div>

<p>Well... I enjoy both photography and also woodwork.</p>

<p>Around 15 years ago, as an incentive to give up smoking, I persuaded my wife to let me purchase a brand new router (a handheld woodworking machine for those that don't know). I chose the Elu MOF96e. This workhorse has served me well ever since.</p>

<p>I moved from Europe to USA 3 years ago and (with the aid of a voltage transformer) have been using it over here without problem (Note.. European voltage/frequency is 240v/50Hz and US is 110v/60Hz) so with a step-down transformer the voltage is OK, but electric motors run a bit faster (think about 17% from memory). Fortunately the 96E is variable speed so not really an issue.</p>

<p>Until tonight.</p>

<p>Was using it in router table mode as I was cutting some cornices for a pair of bookshelves I'm making. Switching router bits: the collet locked up and would not budge. Realised the shaft had seized up.</p>

<p>Eventually I plucked up courage and stripped the whole thing down. I found the problem, which was a broken collet lock. Thought it would be a good thing to document, so wiped wiped the grease and sawdust from my hands and pulled the 5D plus 105 macro from the kit bag. Took various shots, aided by the MR-14EX ring-flash.</p>

<p>During the shots I noticed that the top of the armature had a spherical wheel attached and there was a crack in it. Managed to manually focus and take a shot of it. That's my submission below (for this shot I used natural light, and just rested camera on work bench).</p>

<p>I have subsequently ordered new bearings, collet lock, pole piece (that's I believe the cracked piece I photographed) plus a couple of new fence rods that got a bit bent over years of mis-use.</p>

<p>So hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll have a re-engergised machine ready to face the next tens years.</p>

<p>The fact this piece of equipment is still alive is a testament to it's sturdy manufacture, and a good lesson to us all - buy the best you can afford and treat them them well - they should serve you for many years - but don't be afraid to take things apart and see how they work. It is invariably an interesting exercise, providing you are careful.</p>

<p>regards,<br /> james</p><div></div>

<p>Still can't quite get into the 10mm (EF-S) mind-set. Ended up cropping this to almost 70mm (35mm equivalent) to find the picture.</p><div></div>

<p>Merry Christmas one and all! Missed last weeks which is the only one i have not contributed to so far did have a look though and some great pics.<br>

My daughter insists i take her pic everytime i set up the studio so i have a few to choose from but this one sums up her cheeky character pretty well and she definitely isn't camera shy. </p><div></div>

<p>My first time posting in this thread, excited to do so!<img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/affliction9/5297915039/" alt="" /><br>

7D 15-85 f/3.5-5.6 1/200 f/6.3 55mm ISO 100</p>

<p>Can anyone else see my picture? All I see is a blue box with a question mark in it.</p>

<p>Greetings all. Trust all had a wonderful time with family the 25th. I have to say while I love the general standard of submissions, what I really do enjoy are those that show a small slice of life. Those with a story behind them. Like sharing between friends. From me this is my brother and his newest son on Christmas day. My gran was confused as to why it's in black and white. To her only very old photos are black and white.<br>

Well, wishing all a wonderful new year.</p><div></div>

<p>We visited historic Williamsburg, VA this week. For our return trip, we decided to take the Jamestown Ferry which crosses the James River. It was late in the day and the sky was beginning to fill with orangey pink, yellow and dark purple hues. I spotted these cormorants gathered at the ferry slip. I waited until the ferry was moving in order to frame a silhouette shot against the beautiful colors in the sky.</p><div></div>

<p>A Christmas Day visitor to our garden.<br />Shot at iso-800 through 3 layers of glass. <br /><a title="Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus by Peter Meade, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5286/5290474620_8e1a9d1702_o.jpg" alt="Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus" width="533" height="800" /></a></p>

<p>Not much going on here in Brazil during the holidays. Most people have headed off to the beach. I'm just not big on over-crowded beaches, so here's a hibiscus from my back yard.</p><div></div>

<p>Winter is beginning here in KS so I picked out a shot from a summer family fish fry. Here's little Charlie known to us all by dinosaur Charlie. He's a little too smart for his age. My wife convinced him that liverwurst was dino meat and he ate it up. Happy New Year and see you all next year.</p><div></div>

<p>Here in CT we had our FIRST snowfall of the season and it was a doozy (to some). It was a minor delay in my day but was out and about by afternoon getting things done! Other then playing the role of photographer (suckered in) at our family christmas eve gathering, this was the only time I was out shooting this week. </p>

<p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/KerrBear219/wonderland.jpg" alt="" /></p>

road letter<div></div>

<p>Nothing much happened here. So just a shot of my current foster cat.<br>

f/2.2, 1/60, ISO 400</p><div></div>

<p>Hello everyone, Some very nice shots this week and I enjoyed looking back at the first Canon Thursday Pic thread. Very nice. I picked up a (1x) adapter in order to mount a few of my old FD lenses to my new Rebel XS and I must say that I am very pleased with the results. I set my old "Kiron 28-70 mm f/3.5-4.5 MACRO 1:4 MC", with a Canon FD Mount and the 1x's adapter to macro and started looking for something around the house to shoot. Not all that interesting of a shot but I thought the quality of the photo turned out fairly well...<br /><strong><img src="http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u281/LeonsPhotos/PN/IMG_2764_1.jpg" alt="" /></strong><br /><strong>Canon REBEL XS, Kiron 28-70 mm f/3.5-4.5 MACRO 1:4 MC / Canon FD & 1X Adapter, 1/50sec @ F4.5, ISO=100</strong></p>

<p>Well folks, I'm excited to contribute this week. My family and I were in Paris Monday through Wednesday, with cloudy and foggy weather, so it was not so good for photography. On Tuesday night, crossing one of the bridges near the Musee D'Orsay, we encountered this view of the Grand Palais - it was built originally for the World's Fair of 1900. Time has done nothing to diminish her beauty. </p><div></div>

<p>All I have is a Christmas day image. Sorry. Haven't really touched my camera since last weekend.</p>

<p><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_YnKXlWOhGOE/TRyD5KUXnuI/AAAAAAAA-Xk/gW11BzJIYco/s600/IMG_8492.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>5D @1600 ISO Sigma 50mm @F1.8</p>

 

<p>I like making dioramas. The background is a photo I took and I used a green screen to show it. The foreground is bits of things and a Schleich figurine. I used white lights and an XSi. I made this a couple of days ago. This is my first time posting on the Thursday Canon thread.</p>

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