Matthew Currie

A little late for this, but my go-to adhesive for many repairs such as this, or the replacement of fake-leather pieces on old cameras and the like, is Aleene's Tacky Glue, which can be found at craft and fabric stores. It's a white glue which holds a little better initially than others, dries clear, and remains slightly elastic after it dries, Thus you can stick something down and not have to clamp it, It holds well, but if you do ever have to take it off again, it can be done without leaving damage and residue.

sorry, double post, forum acting up, but now it canceled, I think, so this is sunset next day in Galilee....

The fishing is good on the Weekapaug breachway.

Taking a little excursion to Rhode Island, enjoying the last of the season's ocean... The sun goes down in Weekapaug...

I'd participate in this but it's been a hard week and I'm sapped.

And a little barn from the archives, some time around 18 years ago, Nikon F and Velvia 100F:

The barber has retired. D7100, 35/2.8 "k"

I seem to have lost a day, thought it was Tuesday. Oh well. Some trees seem kind of precarious, but some are very up front about where they want to stay. D7100, 10-20DX

Contributing to the zombie thread, I still use the 1.3 crop factor on my D7100 occasionally when I know I'm going to crop anyway, since it is a little faster, and increases the frame rate by a puny one frame per second, and the puny buffer by a tiny bit as well. These days with cheap cards the file size is immaterial, but on a D7100 every little bit of speed helps.

And lingering on the computer, one that didn't make it last week, from around 2004, this with Nikon F, Velvia 100F, 400/5.6 lens with a short extension tube:

While waiting for bees, distracted by a columbine...

A bit busy so nothing too new this week. Earlier this spring I was out looking for insects. D7100, 105/2.8D

A lot of people complained about Velvia 100F because its greens weren't the best, but I kind of liked it, and I've seen worse greens, when it comes to that. I don't remember the lens here, but it was the trusty old Nikon F again.

Here's another from 2004, a vulture at the VINS nature center. Nikon F, 80-200/4 and Velvia 100F again.

I turned on the wayback machine to find some old slide scans. Nikon F, Velvia 100F, 80-200/4 lens, 2006 (Lincoln Falls, Vermont)

I need a big juicy bug, NOW! All D7100, first 105/2.8D, second 10-20 DX, third 200-500

The bees are busy busy busy

It's summer all right. The black eyed susans are doing their thing.

Kind of busy this week, but here's an episode in the ongoing attempt to grab a dragonfly in flight....one of these days!

Interesting frontal sunset the other night (no jets involved)....

I'm pretty sure I posted here at some point but some pages come out blank. My first choice is, as always, the original Nikon F. No pix handy, but one of mine is a somewhat brassed old black body, plain prism F, and I don't think it gets much better. But I would also add that in the 1980's several manufacturers came out with relatively compact, black, highly capable cameras that I think sort of represented the pinnacle of clean, "I want to hold it in my hands," kind of design, and it's hard to choose between them except for function. Think of the Nikon F3, the Minolta X700, and the Canon A-1.

That 70-300 at KEH is the pre-VR version, said to be quite inferior to the later one, and often cheaper than even the previous D version. To get a "bargain" grade VR without a bent front ring you'll have to pony up 200 bucks. Still a big difference, but not as big.

I don't have any experience of the 28-300. For myself, I'd base it partly on what other lenses I have around, and on testing them against each other. I've used the 70-300 AFS-VR, and it's reasonably sharp and fast focusing. The newer AFP version is better on both fronts but not hugely. The few reviews I've seen vary. Ken Rockwell loved the 28-300 and thought it should replace everything. Nasim Mansurov (Photography Life) was a good bit cooler, and found the 70-300 to focus faster, and also noted that the 28-300 has serious focus breathing which means that at closer distances it's not nearly all of 300 mm. You might want to look at that review: https://photographylife.com/reviews/nikon-28-300mm-vr Of course you also, I'm sure, realize that there is another solution to the problem: a bigger closet.

Just got back from a little trip to North Dakota for family visit. Only one real photographic object to speak of.... Esmé, only grandchild, is four. D3200, 16-85 DX

The d3200 and its ilk have no mirror options, and there is no visible evidence that there is a delay between mirror up and shutter open either with remote or self timer.. In all modes they work together.