What bemused you today?

[Oldboy]

Listen to this phone call: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xx7tPqmEwg&feature=share   

[Hinfrance]

That is pretty much priceless. But as she is trying to put out a contract on her teachers it's lucky she is below the age of criminal responsibility

What bemused me today? Same as almost every morning. Between our house and town there is a new speed enforcement camera, which I am sure will be causing an accident sometime soon on its own account as most drivers suddenly halve their speed as they approach it. Anyway, that's not the bemusing bit; about half a kilometre before the new enforcement camera there is an advisory panel that flashes up your speed as you approach. Fine you might say, and I would agree, except that this panel uses radar to measure your speed, just like the enforcement camera. It can often been seen displaying a speed reading when there is nothing anywhere near it, and when approached at a constant speed the readings vary wildly.

A few days ago as I drove towards it at about 80kph it first lit up '95kph' then '71kph' and then as I got nearer it finally got it about right, '81kph'. So maybe the people who almost stop passing the enforcement camera have a got a point . . .

That was in the little Mercedes. With the Corvette it consistently under reads.

[Oldboy]

That is pretty much priceless. But as she is trying to put out a contract on her teachers it's lucky she is below the age of criminal responsibility

What bemused me today? Same as almost every morning. Between our house and town there is a new speed enforcement camera, which I am sure will be causing an accident sometime soon on its own account as most drivers suddenly halve their speed as they approach it. Anyway, that's not the bemusing bit; about half a kilometre before the new enforcement camera there is an advisory panel that flashes up your speed as you approach. Fine you might say, and I would agree, except that this panel uses radar to measure your speed, just like the enforcement camera. It can often been seen displaying a speed reading when there is nothing anywhere near it, and when approached at a constant speed the readings vary wildly.

A few days ago as I drove towards it at about 80kph it first lit up '95kph' then '71kph' and then as I got nearer it finally got it about right, '81kph'. So maybe the people who almost stop passing the enforcement camera have a got a point . . .

That was in the little Mercedes. With the Corvette it consistently under reads.

Try painting your car in anti-radar paint. 

[Oldboy]

Spent an hour running round the woods in Earlswood today as I kept hearing a Cuckoo, but every time I moved towards his position the sound came from another area. The first Cuckoo I've ever heard. 

[Graham]

Spent an hour running round the woods in Earlswood today as I kept hearing a Cuckoo, but every time I moved towards his position the sound came from another area. The first Cuckoo I've ever heard. 

  Oldboy. they'er very clever those Cuckoos...he was playing with you! 

[John Doyle2]

Any one with an old 'Leica'. That, they want to give away?
A prototype Leica camera has sold for 2.16m euros (£1.74m), setting a new world record for a camera. Source BBC.

[Oldboy]

Spent an hour running round the woods in Earlswood today as I kept hearing a Cuckoo, but every time I moved towards his position the sound came from another area. The first Cuckoo I've ever heard. 

  Oldboy. they'er very clever those Cuckoos...he was playing with you! 

Not that clever as I went back today and got this. 



Click for bigger size.

[Hinfrance]

Well done Oldboy.

WBMT? Francois Hollande and God. God has had two goes at him today; first he soaked the b*gg*r to the skin during his inauguration, and then he hit his aircraft with a lightning strike.

Third time lucky God, third time lucky . . .

[Reinardina]

Don't know if that was on the news here; if not, my husband will be pleased when I tell him!

[Oldboy]

Just seen this on the Grey's of Westminister website. 

6mm f/2.8 Fisheye-Nikkor
EXCEPTIONAL - NEAR NEW AND ULTRA RARE! Nikon stunned the photographic world at Photokina in 1970 by introducing a 220 º fisheye Nikkor with an astonishing speed of f/2.8. It is the world's most extreme wide-angle lens to cover of the 24 x 36mm image area (at the time) with a massive glass dome which dwarfs the camera attached. The 6mm is for scientific and industrial applications and special effects when shooting portraits, architecture and interiors, etc. Lens production began in March 1972 and was only made available to special order. 6mm f/2.8 Fisheye-Nikkor lens serial no. 628024, Lens construction: 12 elements in 9 groups, Picture angle: 220º , Diaphragm: Automatic, Aperture scale: f/2.8-f/22 on both standard and aperture-direct-readout scales, Weight: 5200g, Dimensions: 236mm dia. x 171mm long (overall); 160mm extension from lens flange, Distance scale: graduated in metres and feet from 0.25m (0.9ft) to infinity (?), Filters: built-in skylight (L1BC), medium yellow (Y48), deep yellow (Y52), orange (O56), and red (R60) Front lens cap: Slip-on, delivered in a rugged metal case.

MINT- £100000.00

Just found a picture of this lens with some information. http://blog.nikonians.org/archives/2012/04/nikkor_extreme.html#more 

[Oldboy]

No wonder you can't get hold of a D800. 

The two Nikon full-frame cameras, the D800 and the D4, occupy the top two places in the full-frame category. Simple and efficient. Still, be careful: as ever, in this review we are discussing only the D800's RAW-image-based sensor results. We will follow up with DxOMark results for compatible lenses for this camera whose small pixel size promises to be very challenging.

Returning to the sensor, the D800's Overall score is the best that has ever been achieved, and its use case scores are equally impressive:   

[Hinfrance]

I can't get hold of one because they want more money than I  have. . .

And I don't actually want one anyway, so there you go

[ABERS]

No wonder you can't get hold of a D800. 

The two Nikon full-frame cameras, the D800 and the D4, occupy the top two places in the full-frame category. Simple and efficient. Still, be careful: as ever, in this review we are discussing only the D800's RAW-image-based sensor results. We will follow up with DxOMark results for compatible lenses for this camera whose small pixel size promises to be very challenging.

Returning to the sensor, the D800's Overall score is the best that has ever been achieved, and its use case scores are equally impressive:   

Out of interest are they the sensors that Sony produce for Nikon? I seem to remember reading that Sony supply all Nikon's sensors.

[Graham]

Just seen this on the Grey's of Westminister website. 

6mm f/2.8 Fisheye-Nikkor
EXCEPTIONAL - NEAR NEW AND ULTRA RARE! Nikon stunned the photographic world at Photokina in 1970 by introducing a 220 º fisheye Nikkor with an astonishing speed of f/2.8. It is the world's most extreme wide-angle lens to cover of the 24 x 36mm image area (at the time) with a massive glass dome which dwarfs the camera attached. The 6mm is for scientific and industrial applications and special effects when shooting portraits, architecture and interiors, etc. Lens production began in March 1972 and was only made available to special order. 6mm f/2.8 Fisheye-Nikkor lens serial no. 628024, Lens construction: 12 elements in 9 groups, Picture angle: 220º , Diaphragm: Automatic, Aperture scale: f/2.8-f/22 on both standard and aperture-direct-readout scales, Weight: 5200g, Dimensions: 236mm dia. x 171mm long (overall); 160mm extension from lens flange, Distance scale: graduated in metres and feet from 0.25m (0.9ft) to infinity (?), Filters: built-in skylight (L1BC), medium yellow (Y48), deep yellow (Y52), orange (O56), and red (R60) Front lens cap: Slip-on, delivered in a rugged metal case.

MINT- £100000.00

Just found a picture of this lens with some information. http://blog.nikonians.org/archives/2012/04/nikkor_extreme.html#more 

  It's sold for £100,000.00 to an unknown collector.




Oldboy?

[jinky]

I was going to get it but you cannot get filters for it evidently