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2nd attempt at getting the zeiss 135/2. Guess I am just not meant to have it. ;(

Id love to take it off your hands but I'm not local to MD

Stay warm and safe everyone.

Going to try the same preparation with salmon tomorrow. Hoping it will turn out equally well.

Dry aged NY Strip, Lemon Garlic Roasted Asparagus and Red Skin Potatoes. It was really excellent

I don't mind searching. I don't know what to search for class ab is fine by me.

Anyone else wish Carl had met the same plight as Laurie? The show seems to be running out of steam. At least when they were all in the prison there weren't that many story lines to follow. Now there are going to be too many.

Jacob. https://email.adoramapix.com/pub/sf/ResponseForm?_ri_=X0Gzc2X%3DWQpglLjHJlYQGm69zavUzctIqlUqzdb393EarzgrzauiAiKhjGRVXMtX%3DWQpglLjHJlYQGtzgc7LBLTzgfzeJrh92oeUyoJ0zffXzezazdH6FO&_ei_=EiR1wKWpS-A0FLyNHGbi8Yo

Todd, Jack, I'd like to stay away from any potential known buzzing. My chair is maybe 8 feet from the speakers so the buzzing gets annoying real fast. Nate, I don't see Meeester Breadman's post anywhere that I have access to - casino and the FS area. I'll send him a PM perhaps. Would heat be a cause for concern with the simplese? It has them shiny toobes.

With the new tubes, the Rogue has been singing without any noise or static. I don't know what the age of the old tubes was or how many hours they have on them but don't care as it was probably one of them. The speakers and the amp were originally in my parent's home in a 15x21 room so heat was never really a concern. Currently my bedroom is 11x13 and having the amp on most of the day is starting to make the room quite warm. I am probably going to eat the cost of the new tubes and stick the amp on audiogon - as much as I love it, I can't stand the room getting that warm anymore. Any suggestions for a similar amp perhaps that doesn't release that much heat - open to ss or tubes. I would prefer an integrated one box solution like the Rogue. Other thoughts - LOW heat. Drivers are 91db efficient and listening distance is <11 ft so doesn't need to play loud. Most listening is done at low volumes. Just need one input, balanced or otherwise. Remote for volume would be nice but not required. Can control volume from my laptop -> apple tv -> ps audio dl3. I don't HAVE to spend the whole amount I get from the sale of the Rogue but let's put a $1k cap on the gear. I remember jp speaking very highly of the minimax amp/preamp combo but I don't know how hot they get. Considerations have been given to the Peachtree Nova, Arcam Solo, separate preamp and power amp from Emotiva. Haven't really kept up with speaker amps so any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I don't see Sony going out of business anytime soon. They are providing great bodies with new tech for peanuts (by comparison). http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1029861-REG/sony_ilce6000_b_alpha_a6000_mirrorless_digital.html/BI/2123/KBID/2868

Baaah nevermind. Thanks for letting me know though.

http://www.trippingthroughthedark.com/manual-focus-on-d800e/ Not sure that company offers a solution if it makes the metering go awry.

Response from him - "the stock screen. Matte."

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1267129/0?keyword=Nikon,f100#12069510 Half the price they usually go for. Includes the grip too. Plenty of feedback so I doubt it's a scam. Thoughts?

Touche.

Isn't the downside though that you can't focus and recompose at very wide apertures? let's say I don't want the face in a portrait to be in the center of the frame. So I focus first since the split screen is in the middle but if I am at f/1.4 or wider and move to recompose, no way can I stay in the same plane. How does one accomplish this with split screens? With focus peaking, one can just move the focus point to wherever one wants on the screen and then use magnification and peaking to dial in focus without having to recompose. I guess I gotta find me a split image screen to try out

Very nice shelly. Glad you like it

Doesn't the focusing screen essentially replace the green dot? If so, whether you stick the screen in the d800 or the d610 shouldn't matter. If you are getting a sigma 24-70, why bother with the focusing screen? Are you thinking of keeping your vintage nikon gear? I never did shoot film (older nikon bodies) so I don't know how good/easy the manual focusing was but I have yet to see anything come close to the sony gear with focus peaking when it comes to manual focusing. Why not try an A7 with an adapter with the glass you already have?

I don't know about the green dot in the 610, but in the nikon bodies I have used in the past (d7000, d5200, d3100, d600, d800, d800e) the green dot was solid for far too long. With f/8 you can get away with it because you are bound to hit the focus by sheer dumb luck but get down to f/1.4 and the dot is basically pointless. HOWEVER, if you set up a little test before you start taking photos with the camera and shoot just when the arrow disappears and then the dot appears solid and gradually progress through the focus throw, you can figure out exactly when to click. Once I figured this point out on all the bodies, the number of keepers went up by a bit. At f/1.4 I think you are taking a bigger gamble with the AF. Given that I think I was doing better with the Rokinon 35/1.4 lens with the d7000 than I do at times with the sigma 35/1.4. However the last time I had the d800, I used the zeiss 35/2 and 50/1.4 with it and wide open, I was getting a fair number of keepers. I was not aware any company was doing focusing screens for the d800 as the screen size was not "normal." I emailed Katz a few times and they said that the dimensions are not standard and it required more fiddling about than they cared for. The zeiss 135/2 I had ordered a few weeks ago had a bad focus ring so it went back. While talking to Adorama regarding the 85/1.8, they offered to throw in some heliopan filters for the zeiss if I purchased both so I went for it. Will let you know how the manual focus is when I get it. The focusing screens have me intrigued though. Will look into it.

Live view + manual focus + lens super stopped down? IIRC, you have posted some images where the edge couldn't have been wider than a strand of hair. Isn't that asking a little too much of AF?

$800 for a lens that is almost as sharp as the Otus seems like a bargain. And comes with AF on top and a native mount so no fiddling around with adapters. Dew eet.

I came back to my senses, Nate. I think the only reason I keep going back to nex bodies is the focus peaking with manual glass which offered the best experience (to me). Unfortunately, that won't happen on a body like the d800. The focus confirmation dot is not even close to reliable compared to focus peaking - set it to red color and the moment you see a tiny red dot in the pupil, bang. Perfect focus every time. Ari, my quibble with the 85 (the one that I had) is not with the dof. It's that the bits that are supposedly in focus that seem very blurry. Anyways, I got another one to try from adorama today. Hopefully the one from amazon was a dud.