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Category Archives: Technical Stuff

Technical and home made photography stuff!

Day 034

Friday, February 2, 2018

A few from the past!  I was sorting through an old bunch of CD Archives… Three Grandkids, circa 1997? Dailylife Daughter #1, Dailylife Pooch Rascal, and Dailylife Daughter #2 in the back of Oma’s truck. Oma had game! It says Bowman Lake, 1968, and that is me in the red shirt…beyond that I have no […]

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Day 024

Thursday, January 25, 2018

This is looking straight up.  Notice the horizon is all around the outside edge of the photo. Just a fun photo.  With this lens I can set the aperture to f4.0, focus at three feet and everything from one foot to infinity is in focus.  And this little fisheye at $150 is sharper than quite […]

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Day 023

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Another Fisheye Day! I don’t recall any of the reviews of this lens mentioning that it was so easy to light up the inside of the lens barrel…might be something specific to this kind of a lens… Part of the problem seems to be a very brightly lit scene…or over exposure.  Here is the same […]

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Day 010! Wow…ten days into 2018 already!

Friday, January 12, 2018

One of the Camera Club members was enthralled with my new fisheye and took our photo… Toots and me! Did I mention there was cake? (6.5mm Meike, f4.0, 1/15s, ISO 400, cropped, color corrected, and just a touch of sharpening.  You have to be careful with this 190 degree lens…note the camera strap and toes […]

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Day 009

Friday, January 12, 2018

At the Camera Club meeting last night it was slightly sad.  Here Friends Norman and Robyn talk to MSGT X who is relocating to a Far East assignment with his family for the next three years.  If only there was some world wide media for instantly sharing text and photographs that we could use to […]

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Day 003

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

The Dailylife Wife in the Desert, 16 April, 2003.  One of the first photos on my brand spankin’ new Canon Powershot A70 digital Camera! She liked the blooms on the cactus. ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 002

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

So early in the year…for photos from about 15 years ago: 15 April, 2003! This is a seven photo panorama taken on my first digital camera, a Kodak DC3200!  This is Chihulli(?) glass flowers on the ceiling of the Bellagio on the Strip in Las Vegas. More glass flowers in the Arboretum. And the Dailylife […]

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Day 001, 2018!

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Happy New Year! Here is a New Year’s Full Moon. Here is the Moon shortly after it rose tonight. The edges look a bit rough because they are: when it is near the horizon you are shooting through literally a thousand miles or more of unstable air. Once it is over head you are down […]

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Day 360

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Wow!  Only five more days and it will have been 9! years of a photo a day! I played with my new 6.5mm fisheye some today.  First, lunch prep with the Dailylife Daughter #2. A view through the back door. It was 14 below zero at a bit before 11pm.  This is the front of […]

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Day 359 – Merry Christmas!

Monday, December 25, 2017

I got a new lens from the Dailylife Wife!  A Meike 6.5mm f2.0!   Did I mention it is a fisheye? ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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