It's Fall in New England #3

Weeping beech is on my list.
My little itty clethra had about 2 yellow leaves left...I thought it was dying, I guess the other leaves had already fallen off(lol).

Inspiring photos! It's hard to hike with kids---my 4yr old GD wants to turn back & go home---she's very timid in the woods.

Very nice, Bill!

Karen

love the beech.

That's Koreanspice viburnum (Viburnum carlesii), Bill.

Great colors - seems the last ones are the purples, maroons, and deep reds.

thx VV that was what i thought - too lazy to look for the tag so i covered my bases as there are two of each in that bed - not surprised at all you would know

Got my new camera. Haven't opened it yet.

Present?

Yes - for myself. No time yet. Just finished cleaning all day. More tomorrow!

Oooh Victor. What type of camera did you get?

Nikon D300S. Had the 300. The new one has added some nice features. It will serve me nicely for a while. My next move might be to a full-frame.

camera geek :)

I'm getting more and more into it. It is even starting to pass gardening on the interest list!

What's a full frame Victor?

Oooooh, nice one Victor. It is addictive, isn't it?

Yes it is, Margaret!

Harp - a full-frame has a sensor that is the exact same size of 35mm film. Full-frames are really the best there is. They are very $$$ and what the pros use. They are fantastic in low light - almost impossible to ever get a noisy (grainy) shot. Only problem - some lenses I bought (DX type) cannot be used with them.

Are they like medium formats?

Sounds nice, Victor. Have fun with your new 'toy' when you get the chance to use it.

Karen

Thanks, Karen.

No, medium format is even bigger, Kathy.

Yeah, it's like the frame in the camera is around 4"x6" or somewhere around that size. Or is that large format? No, I guess large format is 8"x10". At least in the old film cameras they were. You had to put a cloth over the camera to see the picture properly, and the image would be viewed upside down.

Karen

I think 4 X5 is large and medium is between 35 mm and large.

Okay. Haselblad makes medium format cameras.

Karen

whoa. Yup. those are serious cameras!

ok Victor now you have to come over and take videos for christmas.. since my camera videos stink!!

No video camera?

yeah it's about 10 years old... had the dazzle video thingie to connect it to the computer.. that's long gone.. I almost had a heart attack when we went to browse at best buy recently and I saw how tiny the new camcorders are.. I really should buy one

I inherited my dad's fancy medium format camera but the light meter isn't working and it's incredibly expensive for film and prints. So I take it out once in a while and wish I could afford to use it! I used an old Speed Graphic 4 x 5 when I was in college. There were lots of cameras in our house.

Yes, the new ones are small. The flip ones are very cool, though without the bells and whistles of the more traditional type. All are hd now.

Kathy - some of the older medium and large format cameras are adapted with digital backings to allow them to be used with sensors.

Victor
If you took lousy pictures I could understand the hesitation but your picks are so well composed I cant see why you hesitate to have the full frame.
I'll be talking with teck msupport all day in order to get my website reactivated, just like the last three days.

Nice pictures Victor, can't wait to see what you do with your new camera.

Hey Pixi
I didnt know you were cursed with early rising

Mostly my son gets me up or when I have a lot on my mind. I have alot on my mind. ^_^

I completely understand.
I wake about 3:30 and stay in bed hoping to go back to sleep but a headache developes so I get up and feed the cats and look at DG to see what interesting posts there are.

It may have been a sound that I haven't heard in awhile that woke me up too........the snow plow!!

kryst ,dont tell me that.
I'll have to chat w/ my cousin in Rockland

Oh, it's worse..i've lost power 2 X already this morning. Just foe a minute or 2 but it was enough to elict a few choice words from my mouth. lol

I'm there Celest.
Its tough enough to wake up when the expected necessities are there but no coffee and no lights and no computer would put me over the edge

Exactly!! No coffee, not good. No compt. = no DG....very bad! lol

I am not on many forums so I like to have a large number of posts to read to while away the time until the daylight comes.
I even go into the part of the screen where posts from other forums are to see if there are threads that look interesting

Me too, and I try to remember to check the birthday list also.