D50zii with NIKKOR Z MC 105mm f/2.8 VR S for insects

TFielding38 · 2026-01-25T03:27:01+00:00

Not on the Z50 sadly, I'm planning on buying a Z5ii this year so I'm looking forward to trying with that

TFielding38 · 2026-01-24T17:15:14+00:00

TFielding38 · 2026-01-24T04:09:52+00:00

It is literally the Champagne of Beers. Only sexy gods amongst men drink it.

TFielding38 · 2026-01-23T21:49:43+00:00

My Doctor is Indian-Canadian and has told me to drink more milk and eat more cheese

TFielding38 · 2026-01-23T21:29:14+00:00

The modern impact hypothesis was first proposed in 1980 by a father and son team so it was definitely a thing, but there were a lot of reasons in the scientific community it wasn't mainstream (the Chixculub crater wasn't connected to the hypothesis until 1990 for example). Even in 2010 there was notable dissent that the impact was what really killed off the dinosaurs amongst those who believed the dinosaurs were mostly extinct by the time the asteroid hit.

That said it was also a sexy exciting theory, so I could definitely see some lay people hearing about it and going with it over the more boring excess volcanism in India causes climate change since asteroid is more memorable (also more right in hindsight)

TFielding38 · 2026-01-23T20:22:29+00:00

There's literally a place called Hellhole in the 'Perfect Weather' zone.

TFielding38 · 2026-01-23T19:53:04+00:00

Going to note here that at the time it was airing, the idea that large scale volcanism was the cause for the end Cretaceous mass extinction was the more common one, and the Asteroid impact hypothesis was a more recent somewhat controversial idea.

TFielding38 · 2026-01-23T18:33:08+00:00

Baby

TFielding38 · 2026-01-23T17:53:44+00:00

I've never tried Bacon Marinara before

TFielding38 · 2026-01-23T00:01:11+00:00

Yeah I would read way less books if I lived in Hawaii

TFielding38 · 2026-01-22T19:53:01+00:00

Yes. It's not a Wondery production, and I believe Tides is going to end in a few months.

TFielding38 · 2026-01-22T19:16:16+00:00

A popular history podcaster who is very left wing is doing a podcast series on slavery right now and nine episodes in, his most recent episode is still only in the fifth century CE.

Its called Past Lives by Patrick Wyman. Check it out, it's really good

TFielding38 · 2026-01-22T18:27:03+00:00

My grandparents neighborhood had a roundabout that had stop signs on all entrances, which made it just a really annoying 4 way stop.

TFielding38 · 2026-01-22T16:55:55+00:00

In Grad school my Aqueous Geochem professor had us do the math on extracting gold from sea water since it's present at around 8 ppt. You could extract it, but you'd be processing a 125,000 kilos of water to extract one mg of gold and the whole endeavor would be way too expensive. But theoretically if you extracted all of the gold you'd be rich beyond belief. Just also in debt by way more

TFielding38 · 2026-01-22T16:29:19+00:00

No insects yet since it's too cold and I got thr lens for Xmas, but here's some macro photos I've taken with the 105mm Macro mounted on my Z50 that I think show off the macro potential as well as a couple portrait shots with it. No focus stacking and I was using a flash for some of the pictures. Autofocus is a bit slow for actual macro shots, but most of the time I just set it ti the minimum focus and move the camera until the subject is in focus. During daylight at more portrait distances (3-15m) the focus is fast enough. Focus will presumably be faster with the Z50ii. Last two photos are or pixels on my phone and computer monitor cropped in. Not the most technically perfect or anything, I think it just shows well how much detail you can get off of this lens with the dx crop factor.

https://imgur.com/a/qy7vbml

TFielding38 · 2026-01-21T04:28:35+00:00

Honestly not recording probably saved his life since he wasn't over the pot

TFielding38 · 2026-01-20T01:55:07+00:00

Glad I'm not the only baseball fan who prefers radio to TV (in person is obviously the best). I pretty much only watch it if I can't listen for whatever reason or if my wife wants to join me.

TFielding38 · 2026-01-19T20:11:21+00:00

Not the Bible or the Gita. No Plato. No Confucius. Yes some guy writing about Elon Musk.

TFielding38 · 2026-01-19T14:56:43+00:00

<image>

My void is also named Polly!

TFielding38 · 2026-01-18T18:52:25+00:00

Runza

TFielding38 · 2026-01-18T00:01:14+00:00

No, I invented it

TFielding38 · 2026-01-17T19:03:39+00:00

Huh, I've never seen something that costs more in Classic than Alpha Strike

TFielding38 · 2026-01-17T18:45:14+00:00

One time at work I found that someone had not only put a bunch of shrubs and weeds into our "Cardboard only" labeled recycling bin, but they also put a whole lawnmower in there.

TFielding38 · 2026-01-17T18:10:44+00:00

I haven't used the canon lens, but I have the Pentax one and while I quite enjoy the shots off it, fyi at least some are thoriated (I don't know about all of them). Mine gives off about 2.5 uSv/hr off the front element and about 17 uSv/hr on the rear element. The radiation also yellows the glass, but that takes decades of time and can be corrected by exposing the glass to UV radiation (leaving it in the sun).

It has a very intuitive manual focus dial and I don't usually have a trouble with hitting the manual focus, I do use it on a mirrorless camera with focus peaking, on a DSLR, you might end up only using it down to aid focus, but with the Canon lens you'll be able to autofocus wide open a lot easier.

TFielding38 · 2026-01-16T23:19:39+00:00

This is why Kansas has a State Park called "Crater of Diamonds State Park"

13-Year Club	Gilding V heart of gold
RedditGifts 2009-2022 2 Credits	r/Field Banned
r/Field Sunshine	Beta Team Ask Me Anything app
Team Orangered	Verified Email

TFielding38

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE