Family, Photography and other misc news
St Helen’s church Boutham Park. Taken with a Nikon Zf and Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 S lens.
I often visit parks around Lincoln to photography the flowers and fauna. Next to Boutham Park in Lincoln is the old St Helen’s.
Taken with a Nikon Zf and Leica Elmar-M 24mm f/3.8
It’s a very small old church that now sees weekly use. The main church is a very modern brick building so I imagine evening song here is much more impactful.
Today the Artemis II crew return to earth. I wish them a safe re-entry into earths dense atmosphere.
Once home safe I am looking forward to more high resolution images from the lunar flyby.
You can see some of them here that they have already sent back to Earth.
https://images.nasa.gov/search?page=1&media=image&yearStart=2026&yearEnd=2026&keywords=Lunar%20Flyby
The head of OM Systems, what was the Olympus Camera Division; has made a significant investment in OM.
They’re also talking about new compacts and a new Pen, let’s see what comes. Would love a high quality 14mm f/2.8.
It’s been a long time since we have been back to the moon.
The fashions on show from our local vintage market were likely new.
In that time NASA has moved from film Hasselblads on the moon to professional Nikon D5’s well proven to stand up to the temperature range and radiation of space.
I believe there testing mirrorless cameras but for now the trusty Nikon D5 professional camera is NASA’s main stay and is currently heading back to earth with the crew of the Artemis II mission.
I was in Lincoln again this week visiting a couple of data centres to resolve hardware faults. As always I had a camera with me and in my lunch break went for a walk through the centre of town.
I grabbed a few shots before heading into an independent coffee shop for a coffee and sandwich.
With my transport needs met by several different modes, the main one for work being a motorcycle to cut through traffic quickly, I again started down the rabbit hole of what small camera would fill a particular every day carry niche when my Leica or Nikon ZF were a little to big.
As always my heart leads me towards a Ricoh GR or Fuji X100. The Fuji is not really any smaller and the Ricoh is expensive for a compact. For that money one can get something a little more flexible and fun. So I have been looking at the Olympus Pen line up. I came close to pulling the trigger on the original micro four thirds Pen when it was first released and it’s still a fun little camera. I started to look around and one can pick one up for about £80 in the local camera store.
Lens choice would be tough. The 17mm would be a start but would also like something a little wider.
Nikon Zf
Nikkor Z 50mm f/1.2 S
50mm, 1/200 Sec at f/11, Â ISO100
Post Processed in Adobe Lightroom Classic V15.2.1
As I was redoing my desk, I wanted a new mouse. For light editing on the laptop, the touchpad is fine, but for more detailed editing then I reach for a mouse on the desktop. If its going to be a long detailed editing session then nothing beats a pen and tablet, so I also have my trust Wacom.
For a mouse, comfort, a few extra buttons one can configure for extra functionality in Lightroom and Photoshop, and a way of customising the scroll wheel. MAC OS still has not implemented a way of setting different scrolling preferences between touch pad and mouse, so it set the track pad how I want it in the OS settings and set the scroll wheel how I want it in the Logitech software.
A change of monitors means a change around on the desk. I am still working on the best places for everything but I have taken the opportunity to change the cabling. One additional thing I will be doing is upgrading my work mouse, I want something better then this old Dell mouse that I can configure for ‘no natural scrolling’ while still having the touch pad set to natural. You would think Apple would allow you to set them independently in the OS but no.
The sound source is also changing for my music and this bit has proven the most difficult. Finding a high quality USB-B to USB-C cable. Its proving harder then you expect unless you want a cheap £2.00 printer cable from Amazon.
Under EU law warranty is generally two years. For other locations it can be a little as six months.
Now Nikon have announced an extended five year warranty on new Nikkor lens, for a number of locations. Check the Nikon website and see if your area is covered.
Now that spring is here events are shall we say springing up all over.
Last Saturday one of the local villages had a spring fair.
Selections of local craft, a raffle and all the usual village events.
I was travelling light with a Leica M10 body and a 35mm ASPH f/2 Summicon. All that was needed for a few snaps like these.