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If you ever get down to Maggie Valley, NC, be sure to visit Dale Walksler’s Wheels Through Time Museum. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen – a large space filled with vintage motorcycles and cars (mostly American origin). They’re not pristine restorations but rather working machines. Dale’s not a stickler for cosmetics and is more…
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The teeny Pentax Q hangs around my neck when I ride, the lens protected by a vented lens hood. When I find myself staring at something like this, with one hand I am able to turn on the camera and grab a shot. And then I look down and realize that I’m really low on…
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It’s such a little thing, but this is the first rear cap that I’ve seen with a physical alignment marker. While others make do with little raised dots or triangles, this one is much beefier and truly tactile. I can now install and remove body caps in complete dark and with my eyes closed. It’s…
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Seriously, if you had a tail like that, wouldn’t you stare at it too? While I spent _most_ of the day shooting the Nikon 1 V1 with the 30-110 zoom, I did play with the Panasonic GH2 paired with the 100-300 zoom. Looking at the pictures now, it’s obvious that the Panasonic is doing much…
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Seriously, if you had a tail like that, wouldn’t you stare at it too? While I spent _most_ of the day shooting the Nikon 1 V1 with the 30-110 zoom, I did play with the Panasonic GH2 paired with the 100-300 zoom. Looking at the pictures now, it’s obvious that the Panasonic is doing much…
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Big land. Even bigger sky. A horizon that stretches for miles. Mountains in the distance that seem so far away, but eventually you get there and you find yourself riding in a chromatic alien landscape of rock and sandstone and scrub and things that are hard to put into words to tell your friends back…
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Taken with the Pentax K-5 with the DA 70mm F2.4 Limited @ 1/350s, f/8.0, ISO80.
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Taken with the Nikon 1 V1 with the 1 Nikkor VR 30-110mm f/3.8-5.6 @ 35mm, 1/60s, f/9.0, ISO360. Consistent with the Photozone reports (www.photozone.de/nikon1/700-1nikon301103856v1), this longer zoom is a bit soft at the long end but quite nice at intermediate focal lengths. It’s still kit-zoomish in its overall quality; there no apparent magic pixie dust in…
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Nikon 1 V1 took 784 shots on a single battery., originally uploaded by john m flores. This is the very last one, in Manhattan at 9:08PM. About 15 minutes earlier a warning popped on the screen saying that the battery was dead, but while waiting in line for the movie I tried one more time…
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Red Ruffed Lemur Contemplates, originally uploaded by john m flores. He’s probably thinking, "I wish someone would come over and groom me, as this black fur is a PITA to keep clean." Taken with the Panasonic GH2 mated to the Lumix G Vario 100-300/F4.0-5.6 @ 300mm, 1/40s, f7.1, ISO1600. The in-lens image stabilization is earning…