Nov 26, 2015, 10:53
Thought I would start a wee thread for myself, where I can relate what I am doing, photowise, but not about images. If it is not what fits, then Barbara is free to delete it and slap my wrists.
Today I got a couple of toys. First of was a cable release. It is years since I owned one of these. I have a remote control doodah for the Nikon D80's, but the Fuji FinePix S9500 is threaded for a release and now I have one. The second "toy" was a filter holder and lens cover for my Cokin collection. I say collection, but it is a collection of hardware, not filters.
Back in the 1970's, when I bought my Nikon EM, I also bought some Cokin Filters. To accommodate the filters I had an A - series lens hood/filter holder and an adaptor ring.
I didn't get along with the filters, finding the effects too difficult to judge through the viewfinder, so I gave them away, retaining only the Polarising filter and the hardware to use it. After using the E series lens,with the polarising filter, on the D80 a few weeks back I thought, I could use this filter on my S9500 too, as I can get an A series adaptor ring to fit it. The ring was duly ordered and arrived. It worked great, but with the 28 mm to 300 mm lens the S9500 has, I found that the lens hood clipped the image at the 28 mm setting. I managed to get an A - series filter holder, sans lens hood, on Ebay for a couple of pounds, so that is me all set. All I need is some reasonable weather to get out and play with it all!!
Today I got a couple of toys. First of was a cable release. It is years since I owned one of these. I have a remote control doodah for the Nikon D80's, but the Fuji FinePix S9500 is threaded for a release and now I have one. The second "toy" was a filter holder and lens cover for my Cokin collection. I say collection, but it is a collection of hardware, not filters.
Back in the 1970's, when I bought my Nikon EM, I also bought some Cokin Filters. To accommodate the filters I had an A - series lens hood/filter holder and an adaptor ring.
I didn't get along with the filters, finding the effects too difficult to judge through the viewfinder, so I gave them away, retaining only the Polarising filter and the hardware to use it. After using the E series lens,with the polarising filter, on the D80 a few weeks back I thought, I could use this filter on my S9500 too, as I can get an A series adaptor ring to fit it. The ring was duly ordered and arrived. It worked great, but with the 28 mm to 300 mm lens the S9500 has, I found that the lens hood clipped the image at the 28 mm setting. I managed to get an A - series filter holder, sans lens hood, on Ebay for a couple of pounds, so that is me all set. All I need is some reasonable weather to get out and play with it all!!
Ask yourself, "What's most important for the final image?".