I have a couple of collections of various albums that I access on laptop by going to albums and then it’s one of the options to view.
However, I can’t see this on mobile.
Anyone know how to access it?
Thanks.
I have a Mac that's maybe a year or so old. No problems up until very recently.
I'm quite a keen (amateur) photographer, and use the SD card reader a lot.
But it's now just refusing to show the card. Or another card I tried.
For the record, the same SD card works in my PC and also in my work mac, so I don't believe it's the card.
Things I've tried:
When running Disk Utility, the card is visible (greyed out) but using 'mount' or 'first aid' doesn't remedy it. So my Mac obviously knows it's there, it just won't open.
It just says 'Not Mounted' but won't mount it.
Googling it just seems to bring up downloadable software - and I don't want to start venturing down that route. PArtly because, who do you trust and partly because I'm sure the sove is probably much simpler
I'd love it if someone has any ideas as I'm at a loss.
Thanks for any help.
I use eBay a bit as I collect (and use) vintage lenses but a lot of this involves reading carefully through the full listing only to discover that something with ‘excellent’ in the title actually has fungus or some other issue.
As I’m regularly searching across multiple different lens focal lengths I forget which ones I’ve seen. And more importantly, I know I don't want to buy.
First off: Have I somehow missed an option to get rid of those ones that I don’t want to buy. Mark them in some way so that I can know I’ve already seen and rejected?
Second off: would this be a useful feature to add for anyone else? I find it massively frustrating but recognise that sometimes with things you think are a big issue, turn out to be very specific and don't really affect anyone else.
Thoughts?
EDIT: I did manage to find a way to suggest edits to eBay, so have submitted it. FIngers crossed it's something they think is worthwhile implementing.
I work in advertising and in the late 90’s had a job where we worked on cigarette brands.
Even in those days the restrictions were really tight (rightly so) and were getting more and more restrictive.
There was certainly no way you’d get adverts of people looking cool, smoking cigarettes on TV.
Enter Mad Men.
A series in which smartly dressed, good looking people work in a cool industry smoking cigarettes 🚬 on main stream tv.
As it’s ‘historical’ they were shown to be smoking a lot and their agency handled the Lucky Strike account. So they mentioned Luckies a lot too.
It was during the second series (I think) when I first thought this.
That’s when I saw that Don Draper almost always had a pack in his top pocket of his shirt and you could see the Lucky Strike roundel through his shirt.
Recently picked up this SR-7 and wanted to test to see if the meter still...meters.
It does and seems to be pretty accurate.
Used Ilford XP2 shot at 200 (instead of 400) but processed as normal.
Pretty pleased with the results.
I rarely see Operation Good Guys discussed and very few of my friends (people my age) remember it from when it was on.
Pre-dates the Office as the first mockumentary show that I’d ever seen. Brilliantly funny (to me anyway) and even (sort-of) spawned a film.
I did buy the DVD box set (though I’ve no idea what happened to it).
Can’t understand why it’s
A) not more popular
B) never repeated
Anyone else remember this?
For the sake of clarity it's pictures one and two.
I already have an ARI lens (a 55/2 - added as pic 3 for comparison) but recently picked this one up. From looking at the fact that the minimum aperture is f/16 I think it's an ARII 55/1.8.
But I can't find any reference to it being all black (apart from the nose ring - see pic 2).
It's actually a lovely looking lens as it's a gunmetal grey, but looking online it feels like it should have a silver ring at the bottom. Anyone got any ideas?
My daughter has a job on reception at a relatively high-end restaurant that involves being on her feet for hours on end.
This year, for various reasons she’s getting a lot more hours - which means a lot more being stood up. Some shifts being 12 hours.
Her current shoes offer no support and at the end of her shift she’s been complaining of real pain.
As she’s front of house, she’s not allowed to wear trainers - which rules out a lot of the ‘Sketchers’ type shoes or my own suggestion of all-black Nike Air Force 1.
My limited research throws up lots of brands promising support, but all from companies I’ve never heard of.
As such, I’d love to hear from someone that actually uses something they could recommend.
Can’t be mega-expensive as she’s a student and this is her part-time job over the summer.
She’s 21 - and is probably going to not like anything I’ve found so far.
Thanks for any recommendations in advance.
EDIT: Thanks all for the suggestions. Have passed them all on.
Just posting this here in case anyone else comes across this particular issue and is looking for a solution. I couldn't find any info about this online.
So I got my hands on a Minolta MCII Rokkor-SG 28mm F/3.5 as it came with a camera I bought.
Info is as follows:
Min f/stop: 16
Elements: 7
Groups: 7
Filter thread: 55mm
Lens Hood: D55ND
Close focus: 0.6m or 2ft
All well and good. So I spotted the correct hood online and ordered it. Fits well, but once that is on the push on lens cap has nowhere to attach.
I do have some 55mm generic pinch caps for other lenses so I tried one on those. Unlike some other lens hoods, this one has nowhere for a cap to clamp onto - at least not one the same size as fits the lens.
Going through all my other lenses, I eventually found that a 52mm pinch lens cap will grip the inside of the lens hood. I only had a Canon one, so I've ordered a generic one. It fits, but it's hanging on for dear life.
Bit of a design flaw TBH.
Basically the above.
I’ve been forced into the ‘upgraded’ app and have previously logged in.
Got automatically logged out yesterday and now when I enter my details nothing happens. The page is still live - that is I can tap on the forgot password link or Flickr help link and they work. But nothing happens when I press enter.
Alongside all the other missing features this has to be one of the worst app updates I’ve ever experienced.
ARII lenses were produced from 1961-64 - making this my second oldest lens - as I do also have an ARI.
This lens came bundled with a recent purchase of an SR-7. Still waiting to finish the first roll of film from that, but here's some I took with the lens on my Sony A7I.
Bokeh is pleasant and not distracting. Colours are punchy. Feels pretty sharp when it's in focus.
We had a garden room built some time ago and my wife had an office in one half and I had a shed in the 'smaller half'.
I don't use it as anything other than storage, but it does have two double sockets in there.
Went to plug something in the other day and it didn't work. Using a tester plug it came up with missing neutral.
First off, is this dangerous? That is, is the other side of the socket ok to use?
Second, how easy is this to fix?
I took the covers off both (to look for anything obvious - like a loose wire) and they look to be wired in exactly the same.
It's not an issue in as much as I don't need all the sockets, but I'ld like it sorted. And I don't want to start messing around with stuff I don't understand.
As an addendum, we fell out with the original electrician as he didn’t fit a big enough cable to power the shower and that meant everything had to be dug up again and re-installed. And the Ethernet cable he’s put in has never worked.
Picadilly Circus exit.
I'm going to be honest and say I cannot remember which lens I used to test drive this camera. But I like the results.
Shot on Ilford XP2. Set the meter to ASA200 but processed as normal at box speed (400). I read somewhere recently that it reduces the grain.
I recently picked up my first Minolta AF camera - a 600 Si Classic with the 35-105 3.5-4.5 lens.
Used it for a test roll and can't help noticing that on AF mode, focus seems a little 'off'. That is to say when it confirms and locks focus, the image through the viewfinder is soft.
I thought maybe it was the diopter, but I can't get that particularly sharp no matter what I did.
So I thought I'd try it against MF mode.
I didn't do a very scientific test but did try shooting on MF and AF back to back.
I tried it several times, but like the idiot I am, I didn't keep check on which I did first. So some I did MF first and some I did AF first. So I have several shots where I have one image slight OOF and one a lot sharper. But no idea which I did on what.
It's weird as some other shots worked OK.
Anyway. Before I put another roll through and be a bit more rigorous I just wanted to check from those in the know if this is likely to be a body issue or a lens issue.
I've already spend more on Sugru to make a new grip than I spent on the camera so I don't want to keep throwing money at this if the body's AF is off. But similarly, if it's a relatively quick fix by buying another lens, then I might be up for that.
Bought this as part of a set of three. Didn't really want another 50mm as I already had the 50/1.7, but who doesn't love getting faster lenses.
The front on shot looks like I've been photographing someone painting a ceiling, but doesn't have THAT much dust in it.
Weirdly, none of these shots were taken at 1.4 as they were from a nighttime walk along the Thames.
As per usual, I'm aware that Reddit crushes the images - especially Panoramas, so here's a link to the flickr album.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/119343618@N08/albums/72177720329681493
I found an eBay seller that had tonnes of Minolta kit. And bought a fair bit.
I kept holding off buying this - even though I kept looking at it.
And looking at it.
Did a little bit more research and realised that it's historically significant as it was the worlds first camera with a built-in light-meter.
The meter is on the left shoulder of the camera - so doesn't meter through the lens - but then that's no different to using a separate light-meter.
Took the plunge.
Arrived yesterday. Put a new battery in it for the meter and it appears to be reading correctly.
Will eventually get some film in it and test it properly.
Came with an ARII 55/1.8 and a MCII 135/2.8.
Pretty sure that the cold shoe is home made.
Don't really remember where I picked this one up, but know it was around £20 and I thought it was interesting.
The AR1 range was introduced in 1958, so it's by far my oldest lens.
As an f/2, it's the slowest of the 55mm that Minolta produced. The only way I can tell it's an AR1 and not later is that it stops down to f/22 and later lenses only went down to f/16. But I keep having to look that up as my knowledge of them is poor.
It's pretty beat up cosmetically, but I like that. I like that it's lived a life and been used. There's a big chunk out of the front, but the glass is clean and it's really sharp. Colours are great.
In one of the shots, there's tonnes of flares and ghosting, but I've not been able to reproduce that very easily. So I don't know if that was a one-off - pointing it at particularly bright lights.
It's small for a 'vintage' lens. Certainly the MC lenses that followed it are much bigger and heavier.
I'm not sure it would work 'properly' on my Minolta film cameras as it lacks some of the features, but adapted to mirrorless, it's a really good little find. If I came across more AR lenses, I certainly wouldn't discount them just because they're old.
Link to a few more, better res shots on flickr.
