Edwin Barkdoll

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I donated a Nikon film body and lenses a few years ago to a local high school. They seemed appreciative. Maybe they we just being polite, tho! At around the same time, however, I was talking to a friend of my son who loves photography. I asked him if he ever shot film, intending to offer him my old Nikon N90s. He responded that he would like to but didn't have the equipment. Later in the conversation it became clear that for him "shooting film" meant "shooting video". He politely declined the N90s.

Thanks, John.

Inside caboose before renovation. Inexplicably shot as a tiff. Must have just gotten the D300.<div></div>

Nikon D300, f/2.8 200mm VR shot from canoe and cropped<div></div>

<p>1 of 58 US National Parks - Acadia</p><div></div>

<p>Perhaps photo.net has become self aware like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28Terminator%29">Skynet</a>. The algorithm has become inscrutable.</p>

<p>Yes, in part because I can't bear to get rid of my Hasselblad XPan and if I have it I have to use it.<br> Unfortunately, unlike JDM, I only have one roll of Ektachrome Infrared EIR color slide film in the freezer, so I;m waiting (and waiting...) for the perfect moment. I figure with bracketing ive got all of 12 shots.</p>

<p>I've noticed, as I come back to the photo.net site over the course of a week or more using different computers and different browsers, that the photos in the home page banner representing a "Daily Photo Sampling From Our Members' Work" have a high number of repeats. That is, I see the same photos over and over again.</p> <p>Don't get me wrong - I've never submitted a photo so I don't really have a pony in the race, rather, I'm simply curious how the photos are selected. Today, for example, there were over 180 photos on the "See all sample images" page yet several images keep showing up as the photo.net page loads even using different browsers or simply reloading the page.</p>

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Elsie in her element - in the woods with a deer's cannon bone on her mouth<div></div>

Driving home from the airport shot through windshield<div></div>

<p>Fred, I've used the lens quite a bit primarily on a D300 and more recently on a D600. I love the lens for its macro capability (micro) and its versatility. I've never been terribly impressed with its non-micro performance, however, and therefore do not use it as much in a non-micro situation unless I have to. As as been mentioned above, f/11 is not going to achieve great depth of field particularly at the longer focal length (I didn't see what focal length was used).</p> <p>Metadata have been stripped from the file so I cannot tell where the focus point was but this may also have some bearing.<br> Looking at some images of planar objects I've taken with this lens I do not see field curvature as a significant enough problem to cause the effect you are seeing i your photo<br> Finally, as Steven says, a more rigorous test is in order before you send it in for repair - use a level and make sure the focal plane is actually parallel to the object plane.</p>

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<p>Small tree stump island in a bog.</p><div></div>

<p>Vase</p><div></div>