In your collection of “old dead tractors”, this shot : 20240527-P5270049 of a Farmall … In the 1950-51 era, my dairy farmer grandfather bought his first (used) tractor, transitioning from work horses and eventually freeing up room in his barn for an additional three milking stations. The tractor was my first experience driving a motorized vehicle. He would never have allowed his tractor to get to the stage of disrepair as the one in your photo! Thanks for a trip down memory lane!
Stan Sent from my iPad > On May 31, 2024, at 2:18 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > I decided that since the OM-5 works OK for carrying on my bike, I was better > off getting the K-3III repaired while I'm in a photographic lull, lest I find > something else critical that is wrong when I absolutely need it, and then > find out that it'll take weeks or months to get it repaired. So, I sent it to > Precision, their estimate is now up to $683, and it turns out that the parts > are on back order for a week or two. So, yeah. > > I've had a few chances to go on bike rides and am becoming more familiar with > the OM-5. It really does make me appreciate the Pentax UI. A few years back > I commented that when processing photos, comparing my APS Pentax with a > friend's full frame Nikon, I could get similar quality with the Pentax, but > that the files "felt more brittle". I'm running into the same thing with the > OM-5, only more so, it feels like I have very little extra dynamic range to > work with. > > On my bike ride Monday, I found a place of Reche canyon where someone has > collected a bunch of old dead tractors and just has them sitting around, and > rather than a No Trespassing sign, his signs simply say that if you get hurt, > you can't blame him. I had just photographed this yellow tractor when a > bright pink "honey bucket" truck was driving past, so I had to grab another > shot: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/53755809787/in/album-72177720317430356/ > > In other news, I needed to upgrade my local storage and a friend offered me a > QNAP 435A 4-bay NAS. I bought it, and some refurb/returned 16T drives off > Amazon. With RAID 5 it gives me almost 43 TB, which is nice, about twice my > current photo library. I'm trying to point my Lightroom Library at it, and I > dunno if it is the QNAP, my trashcan mac, or whether using a NAS over a 1G > net but while things seem to work, they aren't, as yet, working well. > > > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com. sent from Mirkwood > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > 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 pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
