Hamster on his wheel?
tardigrade with volvox algae pic.twitter.com/ULkMXQ8Wqi
— microscopic images. (@microscopicture) September 23, 2023
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Hamster on his wheel?
tardigrade with volvox algae pic.twitter.com/ULkMXQ8Wqi
— microscopic images. (@microscopicture) September 23, 2023
Nice shot.
The American mind cannot comprehend this. pic.twitter.com/baMTChzRrq
— Culture Critic (@Culture_Crit) September 8, 2023
I’m way out of the way this time on the Panhandle. But we get our share.
Ivan in 2004 was a class 5 as it was approaching but hit as a 4. Damn near destroyed the area. A 20 something foot storm surge, It destroyed the multi-mile long I-10 bridge over Pensacola Bay and around 70% of the remaining buildings had blue tarp roofs for years.
I had a fishing boat that I kept on base at NAS Pensacola. I was over a month later before anyone could get on base. Going over the bridge to the base, we saw 100’s of boats just everywhere, beached, capsized, holed, sunken, I was pretty sure it insurance time. Got to the marina, which was also an RV storage yard, all junked at this point. I found my boat in the RV area still sorta attached to the trailer. It hadn’t drifted off to join the boat graveyard in the bay because the lower unit on one of the motors had jammed through and wedged in the wall of a big RV that had somehow stayed in place.
Another big one hit the following year but there was nothing other than the odd tropical storm until 2020 when one came through and destroyed a good portion of the Pensacola to Gulf Breeze bay bridge. Believe me, that was a BIG deal cutting the metro area in half for 1-1/2 years until they got a couple of lanes. Every one had to do a almost 40 mile detour.
Down here, it doesn’t have to be a hurricane or tropical storm. Spring 2014, we had 25 inches of rain in an 8 hour period. It was the freaking apocalypse. Damage was still being repaired in 2020.
Geometric.
surface of a diamond seen through a microscope pic.twitter.com/zIgV1wdVH8
— microscopic images. (@microscopicture) August 22, 2023
What a cool monster face.
female fungus weevil portrait pic.twitter.com/cOoC4kQUCV
— microscopic images. (@microscopicture) August 7, 2023
I think I’d say that bone is fractal. Just as the skeleton is scaffolding for the body it looks like there is a scaffold of harder material supporting what we see as bone. Very interesting.
human bone seen through an electron microscope pic.twitter.com/TvLfegNE48
— microscopic images. (@microscopicture) July 29, 2023
I find myself gravitating to nature photography. My “long” lens used to be a Sony G 70-300, A mount that worked (via adapter) with all my previous E mount Sony cameras.A supurb lens. Until I got to the A7IV series, that is, same camera as yours.
I tried to replace it with a Tamron 70-300 but the image is missing something. The Tamron does workman like images, see image below, but it is missing the “pop”, I don’t know how to describe it, the something special that I got with the Sony. I go back through my photos and am really surprised at how many of my very best came from that lens.
I’m now lusting for the very new, now really released yet but heavily reviewed Sony 70-200 F4 GII lens. Apparently it also takes incredible images through a 2x converter or I could also shoot it through my ASP-C sensor A6400, which would change it to a 105-350 mm in case I need something taller. It seems to have the same, how do you say, ‘glow” as my 10-year-old lens does/did.
In the meantime, my Tamron is sitting dejected over in the corner saying, “What am I, chopped liver?” No, actually pretty damned good for the price but when you’re reaching for the stars—–
Tamron Shots below
Pretty good lenses don’t have to cost a lot. Here’s a 30mm f2.8 Sigma on my Sony A6400.
Another Tamron
Recently I was watching the Alien movies so this one struck a cord. Look out Ripley!
electron microscope view of a fruit fly emerging from a puparium after undergoing metamorphosis inside pic.twitter.com/MCrA8xHFdI
— microscopic images. (@microscopicture) July 14, 2023
All that’s needed is a tiny submarine with Rachel Welch aboard to complete this image. Very cool indeed.
electron microscope image of a liver capillary with red and white blood cells pic.twitter.com/cx8vwrmm3C
— microscopic images. (@microscopicture) July 13, 2023
We’ve both use the same camera body but your lens collection tends to the telephoto side compared to mine. I was left totally without anything longer that 105 mm when I moved to the A7IV and found that my old A mount 70-300 would become pure manual focus, even with the latest Sony adapter.
I grew up with manual focus but, back them, cameras had a split image focusing system to tell you when you were in focus. That consisted of twisting the focus ring while looking through the viewfinder until the upper and lower parts of the image perfectly aligned. Looking thorough the old Sony lens in the new body gave me no focusing information at all. So, bleah to that.
I thought about getting a new e mount version of the same lens but I thought $1300 a bit much for as little as I use long telephoto. But, I concluded, paying 40% of that figure for the Tamron version, which had good ratings, to be an acceptable bet.
Below is a shot of a female Cardinal that I photoed in my yard this AM at a range of around 70 feet. Even at 300 mm, this is a big crop.
Quick aside: The split image focus system is a spinoff originally derived from the Dreadnought era Naval gunnery optical rangefinders that prevailed in all the worlds navys in the until the advent of radar ranging during WWII.