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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Beautiful Igor!! What is a "6D"? |
It's the Canon 6D DSLR, Ken.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-6d
The 6D is the poor mans 5D. It has less features but none of these are important to a landscape photographer as far as I can see because every shot
you take is a slow measured process where every parameter is measured and planned out and retried if it doesn't come out right.
My 'kit' came with the 24-105mm zoom lens. This is not the sharpest lens in the world but it's very versatile. Buying a group of $1000 lenses is not
in my budget.
I am so looking forward to shooting in baja.
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Ken,
The biggest difference between the Canon 6D and the 5D, which is almost twice as much in cost, is Auto Focus. There is a lot of technology these days
in making it easier to focus quickly, even a moving subject. The 6D has fewer focusing points and therefore more limited in points to choose from
during AF.
For my needs I am shooting long exposures at small apertures to get everything in focus. The old manual focus mode is all I intend to use and all
these new expensive improvements are not necessary. Those were my considerations when choosing this camera.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
I just had to see what it could do. It was sooo nice to have a real viewfinder again. Some of these pictures are taken by myself and others by Alex.
You can really tell the stylistic difference. The pictures of buildings were taken at Bodie.
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I first saw that 1936 five window Ford coupe in Bodie in 1965. I wanted it then and I still do. Here's another one that's for sale for $35,000.
Bob Durrell
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Nice. I like the front grill and the contours of that vehicle.
There was a lot of money in Bodie during the 30's. I believe the gold ran out at around that time and the mining operations shut down. Now the area is
used mostly for sheep grazing as far as I can make out. Peruvian sheep herders are hired for 6-month stints to watch them.
[Edited on 10-10-2013 by Skipjack Joe]
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Skipjack---The Sierra Juniper in your pic almost looks like it was split by a lightning strike. Young trees, anyway, have normal bark...they kind of
look like Italian Cypress. Most of the older trees I've seen seem to have bark still. The most beautiful trees I've seen were in Desolation
Wilderness---gnarled, lightning struck, krummholz, covered in lichen....gorgeous!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
.....gnarled, lightning struck, krummholz, covered in lichen....
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That's how I feel these days.
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LOL, I'm getting kind of gnarled myself!
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Actually, I was looking at google images of the junipers and a lot of the really old ones have the characteristics you were talking about---sinewy new
growth over older dead trunks. A lot like the Bristlecones.
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Yes, I'm questioning the notion that it's caused by lightning. Because
(a) they look like that below the timber line
and
(b) pine trees above the timber line don't look like that (I'm thinking about that one on Sentinel Dome in Yosemite on which we all had our photos
taken in the old days).
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Might be wind/ice that kills one side of the tree, old age, don't really know---I was up on top of Mount Abel in the Tehachapis and a disproportionate
number of the Ponderosa Pines were all contorted like this one...not sure what does that either. But the tops of those mountains are violent places
in winter!
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