I Find The Simple Life Ain’t So Simple

I threw a handful of the photos from the D3100 with the Tamron lens into Lightroom a few minutes ago.  I learned that yes, it is pulling basic metadata and encoding it. More importantly, however, my photos (in automatic mode, suppressed flash) are about two stops over exposed.

 Here are a few comparison pictures:

The darker pictures are the ones that have been corrected in Lightroom, and adjusted down two stops. 

I am about to pack up and head to a small, decently lit urban area with a Nikon AF lens that I know works correctly and see what I get.  I’m tempted to use the Tamron with in full manual mode as well. I haven’t decided on that one yet.

 I’ll post some updates shortly.

 

Runnin' With The Devil

I should probably actually upload the three or so of these that I will have written up once I’m done here, I was doing so well posting something every day, and then this past week I have been still writing, but experimenting with slightly stupid things and slightly stupid ways of doing the things.

Anyway, today I came across a couple of rando camera lenses for stupid cheap, and some wacky film.

I picked up a Tamron 70-210mm Nikon AF lens, and found out later that the lens requires an in-camera motor for the AF to work…Which I didn’t have handy. As for image quality, I was using the D3100, which seems a bit off, but the light was also a bit off.  Anyway, here are a few of the photos from that:

 

 

Good to see that Word 2000 isn’t going to allow me to drag and drop my images…I guess I’m going to have to add these when I post them.

 Anyway, they appear to be super over-exposed. I feel like I’ve been getting that out of the D3100 the last few times I’ve used it. I should probably throw a full auto lens on there and see what that’s about.  If the same thing happens, I should probably go full manual and meter some shots to see what is going on there.

 I’m also going to try that lens on the D40X and D3500, because duh.

 It looks like I’m going to be using it primarily on the older film SLRs with the body mount auto focus though. Which will be good.

 Which reminds me, I need to throw at least one of these pictures into Lightroom to see if the lens is including metadata.

 Then there’s Clippy.  Everyone complains about Clippy in Windows XP, but here he is…Staring me down in Office 2000.

I’ve Been Working From 7 to 11 Every Night

I’ve got MS Works 8.5 installed on VirtualVista.  The first .iso that I downloaded was missing several files, so I snagged a different one.  It worked much better.

I’m trying to decide how far I’m going to go with VirtualVista, I should probably try to track down all of the system updates, since the built in Windows Update app doesn’t actually work anymore. Should I install some older games, or let it ride? Should I just use it for this nonsense? Because as long as this works (pun intented), I’m good with it,

Here I Come Again

Let’s try this again.  I’m working on a virtual machine running a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate, and MS Office 2000. This time around I have USB support, at the very least, and potentially, a shared OneDrive folder. If that is the case, it’s all good in the (Network) neighborhood.

I love how I apparently need to add “OneDrive” to the Office dictionary when I run the spell check, because it didn’t exist…26+ years ago.

I’m going to sit here and let that sink in for a few more minutes, because…Snap.

Which is funny, because 26 years ago I was primarily doing work on a Windows 3.1 PC running Office 4.0 or something equally archaic.

I should really try to get something like that running in a VM this week so that I can recapture the good old days. Unfortunately I won’t be able to get anything I write off of it.

Maybe if I create a shared HDD and pull it with the Vista?