On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 08:34:15PM -0500, ann sanfedele wrote: > Your phone did well.. at least in the eye of someone looking at the shots on > a nice sized modem. > I'm thinking the red leaved tree is an import.. but the yellow is native.. > but I have a feeling you > won't know the answer :-) > > ann
My guess is that the yellow trees are Fremont Cottonwoods, in which case they probably are native (there's a place named Fremont about 30 miles away from me, and both the town and the tree are named after the same person). I'm not sure what the red tree is, but there are quite a few around here. The phone pictures look pretty good on my 2560x1440 27" monitors, too. A few months ago the battery in my wife's phone went on a growth spurt, which forced the phone apart. As we were going to have to buy at least one new phone we took the opportunity to switch to a different carrier as well at a much better rate than we were paying before. I decided to update my phone, too; we've both got not-quite-the-latest Google Pixel phones (she's got a Pixel 6 because she wanted wireless charging - I've got a Pixel 6a). The phone in her camera is supposedly a bit better than the one in mine, but to be honest I'd be hard put to spot that. For just walking around grab shots that phone camera is probably as good as anything I own except possibly my M1X, and has the advantage that I almost always have it with me. But there are, of course, still situations where a DSLR wins out. The most common one in my case is when I'm photographing race cars - a 300mm lens on a u4/3 sensor gives me the same field of view as a 600mm did on my old film bodies. This lets me stay at a safe distance from the cars (and is a great deal easier to carry around). The one area where neither my phone nor my M1X match my old Pentax K5 is when I'm doing things like cat portrait photography. You may recall this shot I posted to the PDML back in 2018 when I bought Bill Robb's old FA50mm/f1.4 - there's no way my phone can replicate that. In fact I can't even replicate that with my M1X - the best I have at the same FOV as a 50mm on a K5 is only a f4. <http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/alex.jpg> But at least I got that shot, which turns out to be the last picture I ever took of Alex. Shortly after that lens test shot his kidneys started to fail, and we eventually lost him earlier this year. > > On 11/16/2022 11:50 PM, John Francis wrote: > > The foliage on the trees in my neighbourhood is looking pretty spectacular > > at this time of year, so a few days ago I took a walk around with a camera. > > This is the view I liked best: > > > > <http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/LocalColour/LocalColour1.jpg> > > > > (I grew up in the UK, so I'm not used to seeing leaves like that). > > A day or so later I was out running errands, and saw this ahead of me: > > > > <http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/LocalColour/LocalColour2.jpg> > > > > > > Of course there are times when these colours aren't quite so welcome. > > This is an example I found just a few blocks away: > > > > <http://www.panix.com/~johnf/PDML/LocalColour/LocalColour3.jpg> > > > > > > if you look at the top of the pole to the left of the tree trunk you > > might just be able to make out an red octagonal sign. This is the "STOP" > > sign that is supposed to warn drivers about the upcoming intersection! > > > > P.S. I didn't have my camera with me for the 2nd and 3rd shots, but > > I did have my phone ... > > -- > > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > -- > ann sanfedele photography > https://annsan.smugmug.com > https://www.cafepress.com/+ann-sanfedele+gifts > https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan > https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Shop/annsanfedelecalendarsandbooks > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
