{"id":5958,"date":"2019-01-26T14:37:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=5958"},"modified":"2019-01-26T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T19:37:12","slug":"26jan2019-ocf-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/26\/26jan2019-ocf-update\/","title":{"rendered":"26JAN2019 &#8211; OCF Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few notes on what I see as the interesting topics coming up.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Shutdown &#8211; Caved or Maneuvering?\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see soon whether this is over or just beginning.\u00a0 A two week funding is very little time.\u00a0 This will &#8220;evolve&#8221; in the next couple of weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Barr&#8217;s approval &#8211; Judicial committee meeting on Tuesday.\u00a0 Figure two weeks to get him approved.<\/li>\n<li>Sony e-mount lens review &#8211; Over the last few years options for the FE cameras have been proliferating.\u00a0 I did some posts:https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/08\/what-am-i-missing-in-the-sony-e-mount-lens-line-up\/<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"WIoMcvwnuk\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/28\/lenses-for-sony-part-2-wide-angle-lenses-for-full-frame-cameras\/\">Lenses for Sony \u2013 Part 2 \u2013 Wide Angle Lenses for Full Frame Cameras<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/28\/lenses-for-sony-part-2-wide-angle-lenses-for-full-frame-cameras\/embed\/#?secret=WIoMcvwnuk\" data-secret=\"WIoMcvwnuk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Lenses for Sony \u2013 Part 2 \u2013 Wide Angle Lenses for Full Frame Cameras&#8221; &#8212; Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"5BkpYcfwdd\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/19\/lenses-for-sony-part-1-introduction\/\">Lenses for Sony \u2013 Part 1 \u2013 Introduction<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/19\/lenses-for-sony-part-1-introduction\/embed\/#?secret=5BkpYcfwdd\" data-secret=\"5BkpYcfwdd\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Lenses for Sony \u2013 Part 1 \u2013 Introduction&#8221; &#8212; Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s time to not only re-evaluate what I should do with my lens situation but I think it&#8217;s time for a thorough series of rating the options for the different kinds of photography (e.g., landscape, wildlife, portrait, event, sports, macro).\u00a0 That&#8217;s going to be a multi-post series and will require quite a bit of research so I&#8217;ll break it down into small bites in my own inestimable fashion.\u00a0 There are a lot of good resources for lens reviews (including LensRentals blog entries by owner\u00a0Roger Cicala who does thorough evaluations and ratings including MTF measurements).\u00a0 Should be highly useful for me and maybe some of our other readers.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll keep plowing through the Twilight Zone series.\u00a0 It&#8217;s actually proven to be more fun than I thought it would, both because some of the bad ones are fun to mock and because there are actually more good ones than I remembered.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few notes on what I see as the interesting topics coming up. 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