Author: Eddy Young
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Guess who’s back? Back again?
Nikon’s back, tell a friend. Eminem! Got it? Never mind— I received my D850 back on Thursday via UPS, about a month after it was posted to Nikon. The problem with the viewfinder focus not matching auto-focus is gone. Whilst they had it, Nikon Europe called me to report that they could not find any…
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2025 Flu #1
I’ve been ill with the flu since Friday evening, with the usual inconveniences: body ache, alternating shivering cold and fever, sleepless nights and weird dreams. Hiking was out of the question, and even sitting at the computer felt tiring. Instead, I spent the weekend on the couch, napping and binging on photography videos on Xiao…
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The grumpy photographer
As I walked away after taking this picture, I had a doubt, “Did I set the focus in this scene?” Clearly, I didn’t. *** I took the Nikon D850 out with us today. Back at home, I returned it into its original box, wrapped the box in leftover Christmas giftwrap paper, put the lot in…
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Cold walk
We went for a walk in the cold today, covering 10 km in Long Valley. The temperature hovered around zero degrees Celcius, so much of the overnight ice remained, which made it fun for us to slide on the many frozen puddles along the way. My one-month-old Nikon D850 has a misaligned focusing screen, which…
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View of London skyline from Caesar’s Camp
In these winter months, sunrise is still too late, and sunset too early, severely limiting the amount of daylight we can enjoy. The poor weather added to that does not offer much incentive to go on long walks. However, one week into my holidays, I had to get out of the house. P could not…
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Scanning old negatives
Today was a desk day spent re-scanning old negatives on the Nikon Coolscan V ED scanner. The picture below was meh when scanned with the Epson Perfection V200 but is pleasing to me now. Although the focus is off, I love this picture. P and I had just checked in to our room at the…
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Last pictures of 2024
I’m using up my remaining holidays for 2024, taking every Monday off until Christmas so that I have long weekends to enjoy for the rest of the year. Unfortunately, the weather hasn’t been great, which has ruined our plans for hiking. On Saturday and Sunday, we actually had Storm Darragh sequestering us at home, and…
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Sunday photoblog
We started today’s walk at Basingstoke Canal in Mytchett and progressed to Pirbright where we crossed Curzon Bridge into the MOD managed land to head back to our starting point. Along the way, we stopped at Frimley Lodge Park for pictures and for feeding the birds. P had a lot of fun throwing bread scraps…
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Pictures from Saturday walk
It’s this time of the year when the sun sets before 5 p.m. Every afternoon walk becomes a race, as we try to get back to the car before it turns dark. The shorter days make it more difficult to take pictures, but at least there are the autumn colours to be thankful for.
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October snapshots
Last month, P and I hiked a lot across the many MOD managed areas surrounding our town. Here are some snapshots from our walks.