*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.06.15***

Who does not like birds? Bee-eater shot is colourful, you caught it while munching 😂

I am afraid getting old is not fun! I must say that your light kit is enough to give back/wrist pain !

The artefacts are interesting. But scenery is more interesting...

I read about this place after I read your post. Thanks for bringing it to my attention; otherwise, I would not have known about it.

This is a stitched panorama, using Photoshop Elements, featuring the Black Rock Yacht Club located on the eastern side of Port Philip Bay, Victoria, Australia.

The HMVS Cerberus is located about 100m or so to the right of this scene.

I've also had my share of back problems in the past :-(
When you are feeling that pain you think it will never get better again, but it (usually) does in the end :-)
And then it all works great again.
The right sort of gentle exercise definitely helps. The physiotherapy clinics know all the tricks!

Yep, the exercise out in the countryside is amazingly good for the mind and soul too, it feels so good to get out again after such fitness problems

The detail in this shot really comes out when looking at full res.
very nice!

That's really quite interesting, would be interested if you can find out more about that

Your landscape shots here are good as usual, I think I like the shot from heapey moor best :-)

I read the article, quite interesting!
Many years ago a physics professor showed us, and described the caustic curve you get in a coffee cup.
I didn't realise there is a whole world of different effects called caustics out there :-)
I love these reflections in and under water, almost as if the water is alive. You can see them in many places if you keep your eyes open. I'm quite drawn to them :-)

Indeed it is not. I seem to have suddenly gone from no ailments to completely falling apart in just a handful of years.

Yeah, you're not wrong there either. The Z8 is still a heavy lump, particularly if I want to use it with the nice lenses such as the 24-70 f/2.8S, which of course I do.

But I've just taken delivery of something that will help out on longer hikes or when I just don't feel carrying a heavy camera. Meet my ultra lightweight kit - the X-T50, here alongside the larger members of my fleet.

I took it for a test run last night where it performed rather well. Even the controversial film sim dial turned out to be useful, persuading me to shoot some black and white for a change (everything I shot was raw, so, technically it's all colour, but it was shot in the B&W mode which seemed to make judging how well the image would work in B&W much easier). Here's a full res example...

Note, the EXIF will show X-T5 as I had to hack the raw files with EXIFTool to get my version of Capture One Pro to recognise them. It means I can't use Reala Ace for now, but that's not much of an issue.

I read somewhere that it reads the entire sensor around 280 times per second, so I guess it must still be doing this during a long exposure and summing the results in order to create artifacts like this. It seems odd that it would do that, because the viewfinder is blacked out during a long exposure, so it doesn't need the live feed, but maybe it helps to simplify the sensor design a little? More testing is needed I think.