GerrySiegel

Scare passers by and at the grocery by smiling at them. It is hard to ignore someone who has a warm smile. I have been working on a library assistant at the check out desk for a year or so....she is a tough sell. Maybe it is a remnant of the aloha thing here. We are a bedroom community, but there is a sense of community. People do have this bubble thing. It is all about "excuse me, oops, pardon me" if one brushed against someone. I think that is not an African thing at all. In Kenya everybody wants to be as close as possible...it gets to be a cultural thing and I am not sure what it implies. Watch people in an elevator for example. Funny sort of. And yet, at the hospital elevator, a kind hi wlll always get a nice return hi. Maybe it is situational after all..interesting kind of..

Fly be wire means do not fly by wire. Cables break and lose tension. Aircraft could not run their rudders and aelerons safely with cables. Once the fly by wire gets the tactical feel of focus by helicoid it will be accepted. As it is. Mechanical backup systems hav some charm and I still wind my ships bell clocks weekly. But they lose about 2 minutes whereas my electrically powered quartz model is spot on. We need our comfort feeling until we enter the brave new world. Who really needs columns in their homes or corniches. I think that brakes do have a backup linkeage to the rear drums or discs on cars. But once we have independently powered electric wheels, who knows? Gelded is a little strong for the march of automation don't you think? I will bet that old machine shops missed the belts and pulleys that they used to know and used poles to shift to different gears back in the turn of the 20th I century.. I never much used those depth of field scales, used the old seamans eye anyway. AE did not disturb my sense of control. Once I learned how to diddle with it.

Melicope Denham ii

Presumably first century CE Judaic, On reverse two trumpets. Doubtless worth a few olives. glass of wine. smaller than a dime 1:1.

Puts a lot of things in perspective. Every place is a crap shoot it seems. Pacific gets many strong hurricanes and some areas are as low as the FL coast. We pay a very large premium for hurricane insurance and I am glad they offer it. Lot of homes are single wall. light frame. We are 800 feet in central valley. most of Oahu living is close to beach. We do not have any place to evacuate to naturally. Our only factor is that it is a big ocean and the archipelago is " a small target." Not so the Atlanctic seabord where I grew up. I keep getting these ads in AARP about coastal retirement in Naples and Boynton Beach and so on. Sorry for the elder and disabled mostly. And send my best to Rush Limbaugh he should keep his feet dry ..(snark).

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When the agony of the feet was my style

macro of small gem

Mellicope Denham II an imported species native to Bornea and the Phillipines. Does well in my little outdoor planter. No insects care for it. Hardy plant. Never saw any other around here. I call it mock willow. Variety of citrus family. interesting since I started looking into it after lo many years

Started looking at my manual for the GX 8 and the stacking feature did not pop up. Google shows some ambiguity about in camera merging. I am not inclined to buy additional software for my MAC. I have PS C6 and I will look into that one....I have a tingly feeling I am missing something, but no worries. It will come to me with a light bulb flash, likely an eletronic one ....unless someone has a great reference...for MAC and late model Lumix camera...these cameras seem to do all kinds of tricks per the ads. I have one of the lates, the GX 8 but have not upgraded any software. Now that is a thought. Happy trails.

Home made is the thing in table top. The set up above has only one axis. I have an AS plate and a very small clamp on the mini tripod. All RRS stuff except the Novoflex. I wish I could afford more RRS gear...they are indeed well machined. But out of reach on my budget except for the plates and clamps. Been with them since 1990 and Geyer days. Loyal I am and love neat machining.

I am sluggish enough to still not having tried the stacking function. But I am pretty well set for a stable (ish) platform I think. Having a focus rail for a small object in 1to 1 is very very comforting. Such rails allow fixed magnification and measured movment of the subject for as many shots as needed. Only thing I did not include here is a wired cable release on my GX 7 camera. Screen is easy to see the focal plane as one moves in and out. I was super lucky to get the rail at a give away price many years ago and the new lab quality ones are getting to be lab prices if you know what I mean...for flowers, it seems that indoors is sine qua non for stacked images...any thoughts? I love amethysts but big dark ones are out of my price range these days....I do not have any Brasilian smugglers around,,just kidding just kidding. I will follow the PS people and learn the focus stacking. My GX 8 should do it maybe in camera, I have to check the 400 page manual...aloha nui loa and happy holiday here.

Hi Ed, yes for 1 to 1 or even 1 to 2 I find that the focus rail is an essential gadget. Trouble is that the RRS and good Novoflex rails are costly. I borrowed a cheaper one and of course the rack and pinion were a little coarse for pleasing functionality. But if I did a lot of super closeups I would tend to gulp and spring for the RRS which has a very fine adjustment or lead screw that is a lab instrument build. Microscopists also use small jacks under their items to raise and lower...., but even these can be pricey if lab quality. I came across this Novoflex rail at a local auction some 15 years ago. It has a fine enough rack and pinion for my use...but then I had to add a top and bottom Arca Swiss clamp and plate which jumped the price but not all that much.... I would also guess that focus stacking which I look forward to would profit from the use of the rail...note that the setup below is a little off balance and I could use a clamp to add weight to the opposite side. For the jewelry I could use my old slide sorter box with an AC adapter.. I am sure those who market jewelry on eBay and on line have a rig and a tent all ready....Oh yes, I paid twenty bucks for the Novofles circa '50s rail...can you believe it. In a box and all.... photo attached.. I love amethysts, wish I had a big beautiful one from Brazil for a ring or pendant for the missus.

I would venture to say that you absolutely need the owner's manual especially since I see that this folding design is relatively new. Center columns on my older aluminum traveler model has collets or rubber rings that lock down really tight. So maybe there is a method or direction to re insert the center column that we do not know about. Where to get the manual if it did not come in the box? Contact the Manfrotto company by any means and see if they can e mail you a PDF. I see some user groups provide what purport to be manuals. Better to go after the company and while it is under warranty. I found this item on line : GITZO User manual | PDF-MANUALS.com I would prefer get the CD or PDF direct from Manfrotto. Something does not jell right if the column will not hold really tight with the collett rings just as with the legs. Good solid company, Try the contact approach.

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I might add, for the close up brigade, that I used to use my two EL Nikkor lenses that I bought for enlarging. The El Nikkor 100mm was used for medium format 6X6 enlarger in the days of chemistry, but on a micro ft it would do a juicy job in getting close ups. Someone cleaned it and screwed it up for me but good....I think it has an M Leica/ Contax (?)screw in mount not sure but the adapters for that mount are simple enough plates and cheap to make and I expect will do a fine job to any mirrorless camera. Click stops too....PS: Canon made a lot of interesting close up gear for FD system too like reverse mount with helicoid which I have and a gadget that keep the lens from reverting to its lowest stop...all good stuff. I have tried much of it over the years and got decent results back then. But time marches on and we want it all just like our beloved kids and grandkids, nay? Now, on the used market there is a cornucopia of lenses that can do close up and equal the modern glass in resolution. Not always convenience though. I am now officially member of the Age of Convenience. (. I never did buy that Miata I threatened to get 10 years ago...) And I am not a long long lens shooter of birds in flight. My longest optic is the ED Zuiko 50-200. Heavy but good on a tripod. And it will take the EC 14. I think the portrait length that is close but not too close is an equivalent FOV of 100-150. But I do not sweat it for whatever happens to be on the camera at hand. We can still crop.

Loose amethyst.

Hebrew coin with grape cluster and trumpets among many such coins. All those sunken ships with clay amphoras now discovered. Moses was not against a little nip nor was any of those early dynasties I recall . Was a big trade item in a day when water was iffy. Wine was also a preservative and solvent. And a medicine if nothing else except herbs. Germs eat sugar and yield ethanol,. a great accomodation to us homo sapiens. NGC Ancients: The Coinage of Bar Kokhba | NGC

In the philosophy department, and off topic, it is interesting to observe that at some students of the Maccabean revolt and later essentially "anti Hellnistic: revolts against Rome in Judea were not such great accomplishments in terms of cultural progress. Return to a purified version of the Torah and its strictures....They argue It was that old time religion that kept some of the Hellenistic progress in sculpure, art and science at bay in favor of the Book. I personally am not sure, we get what we got. But the Greeks do have my admiration in the pantheon of civilization. The Hasmonian Dynasty , well I am not so sure about progress vs regress. Still reading. Interesting stuff. I would argue, as to the relevance of this observation just this little bit. Photography whether of historical or botanical or landscape of structure leads to delving into the subject and is a refreshment of the senses beginning with the visual and opening the doors to what graven images leave us within our life span--- life long learning. The aesthetic as a link to the wider doorways. But I still do snaps of the family and selfies :-)

I had been satisfied enough with the 2004 ED Zuiko withe the MMF adapter for some time, and I just did the same object with that lens. Now I see the improvements in the last ten years. The focus is internal in the micro lens and does not trombone way way out and trombone way back in ( that also take battery power). The focus on the older macro makes a hearty swooesh so we know the motors are doing their work. The micro four thirds 60mm shows improvment int he motor efficiency and is Intrnal Focus. What a nice improvement that alone is. Here is a photo with the f 2 lens. It goes about as close but the front element goes way way close to the object almost obscuring my LED flash side light. So, if you can pony the bucks and want a nice macro lens to round out your ensemble,buy the Olympus. It works. Photo below is the older four thirds lens with about same aspect ratio. it will do the job. But is not as delicato or as cool. The slight softness is due to the photographer holding the gear and in a hurry for one shot capture. Not perfushunal that is...

I am betting that our classical scholar JDM will be familiar with the script. And the significance of grapes and trumpets. Anyway this is smaller than a ten cent piece in US coinage.