{"id":4601,"date":"2025-03-08T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T22:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2025-06-28T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:31:36","slug":"up-caesars-camp-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/08\/up-caesars-camp-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Caesar&#8217;s Camp again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello, Spring. It looks like the good weather will persist throughout the weekend and into next week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, P and I climbed up Caesar&#8217;s Camp. As usual, the view from the top made the climb worth it. We were also lucky to see the cows that roam around the area. But I did not take any pictures because I had to stay quiet so as not to spoil the videos that P was filming on her phone. By the time she finished, they were on their way down the hill through a bushy gully. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I took some test pictures with the D850 and made the same pictures with my Nikon FM2. I reckon the dappled sunlight will come out better on the black-and-white film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-attachment-id=\"4602\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/08\/up-caesars-camp-again\/2025-03-08a-001\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-001.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Eddy Young&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright (C) 2025&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2025-03-08A-001\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-001-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-001-1024x576.jpg\" data-id=\"4602\" src=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-001.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-001-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-001-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-attachment-id=\"4603\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/08\/up-caesars-camp-again\/2025-03-08a-002\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-002.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Eddy Young&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright (C) 2025&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2025-03-08A-002\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-002-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-002-1024x576.jpg\" data-id=\"4603\" src=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-002.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-002-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-002-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-002-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-08A-002-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Spring. It looks like the good weather will persist throughout the weekend and into next week. Today, P and I climbed up Caesar&#8217;s Camp. As usual, the view from the top made the climb worth it. We were also lucky to see the cows that roam around the area. But I did not take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-1cd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3867,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/05\/more-pictures-from-expired-ferrania-solaris-100-film\/","url_meta":{"origin":4601,"position":0},"title":"More pictures from expired Ferrania Solaris 100 film","author":"Eddy Young","date":"5 November 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I developed a third roll of Ferrania Solaris 100 today, and the pictures are meh, consistent with the previous two experiments. 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I set up some LED lamps and flash lights and took pictures with the Nikon FM2. I also shot the same pictures with a Nikon D200 for later comparison. 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