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I like your comfort zone, its first class ira

“Stand on its own” so true, so true 👍Thx for sharing your thoughts

I have no doubt you'll be back.

Thank You. New abode needs another camera.

Safe travels, Ira. Looking forward to when you get settled and can get back to uploading.

Good luck and God bless,Thanks for the memories as one guy used to say

Good Luck on your move, look forward to future videos from a new location.

Best wishes for the sale of your home and hopes that your new home is in a welcoming and friendly neighbourhood. I look forward to seeing you again when you are ready.

Best of luck to you Ira -- regards from Ireland

All the best to you, thanks for past videos and looking forward to next ones...

Best of luck with your move Ira. Hope you will be staying in the Maritimes!

Can’t wait for the new location.

All the very best with the move Ira, to both you and your good lady. It is events like this that remind us, there is life beyond CZcams! That's NOT to say we don't want you back as your style and content is precisely what the platform needs.

Good luck with the move and looking forward to your return from the new location.

_ Thanks for sharing. _ Decide what is best for your circumstances - we will understand. _ Wishing you all the best on your old and new home transactions. 🙂

We'll miss your talents at the Old Triangle! Thanks for the great shots

This is an opportunity to start a new chapter and maybe and end to your G.A.S. Keep your new space simple, less is more. We look forward to hearing about your new adventure. You look happy and less serious than normal. :)

Well. First I wish you every success in your new home and I hope the move goes smoothly. Secondly, I hope you settle in to your new home quickly and that you can upload more videos as soon as possible. All the very best of luck, Ira.

Thanks for posting

_ Thanks - wishing you a pleasant move.

Nice shirt. And, a good message.

Always a joy to see you and listen to your mellow tones Ira. Your eclipse images really are excellent and I am looking forward to seeing results from that 20mm lens. Hope all goes well with the move!

I've settled on a older dell workstation with 32 gBs of RAM, does everything I need and more and I've always been a Windows user, so i feel at home. Gear wise, I've not been shooting much because of lack of time, but when I do its usually my pentax DSLR or ricoh GR3, not my mirrorless fuji that's getting used. I've also started printing out $1 of instant 4*6 prints at my local camera store from pictures i am taking on my phone - cheap way to keep the creative embers stoked. Nice to see you again and looking forward to the next one

More gear! I knew it! Just kidding. Have you ever considered buying vintage lenses? They are mostly full frame, but will work on your 4/3 using the center and best part of the lens. They have sometimes a very interesting bokeh and a "je ne sais quoi" only old lenses got. Should I mentioned they are very cheap? They are not fast lenses, but for landscapes it works, they are compact, light, small and often got a very nice metal finish. Good luck for your move.

I had two of those. For the first 360 photos those days, with the fish eye and ipix software. Great little camera.

Always enjoy your videos. Waiting for tomorrow’s eclipse. We are almost dead center in the path of totality. Good luck.

Totally agree with your comment about the Oly 17mm 2.8f . Mine is now attached to my Oly EPL 7 which makes a great light weight everyday combination.

Hi Ira, I always enjoy your rambling videos. Also enjoy the fact you continue to embrace great cameras that are not recent releases. A good camera in 2015 is still a good camera. I did have the 12-50 but it rarely focussed accurately (despite which camera body it was attached to) must have been a duff copy. However I was lucky enough to have obtained the Oly 12-45 f4 which for me is ideal.

We are definitely out here, Ira. Still loving your videos and love listening to you. Whether your videos are about gear, photos or your own life experiences with cameras, they are all terrific. Just keep them coming.

_ Thanks for sharing.

I enjoy your posts, enjoy your style applied to anything you care to talk about,thank you

I don't care what you post Ira, I just love your style. I also find it slightly frustrating that gear related videos get the most views, but there isn't anything to be done about it. Carry on posting what you want to talk about because I'm sure your subscribers like it.

Nice. I like that you did this in monochrome (i.e. black & white). I also like sepia toned pictures - don't have to use the 'smelly' chemicals now that it can be done digitally in-camera, or via photoshop-like programs.

Merci Ira. I thought I was right there.

Thanks for sharing 😊

A nice pre-Easter present - a video from Ira.

As always,enjoyable

Lol, I just bought an old camera. Doh!

Good presentation about the FOV for new comers. I would add that what makes a good portrait lens, is not the 85 mm forced distance or shallow DOF, but it is psychological distance that a person memorized a someone's face. And that is 4.5-5 meters. When we recall or we are asked to explain someone's look as their face, we remember that as we saw them from 4.5-5 meters. Not how we saw them at 2-3 meters or 1-2 meters. This is a key for portraiture photography, we should use this psychological event in human minds to create better portraits. For thst we need to know what a "portrait" means, and that is a bust... So from chest to little above head. That is about 50x70 cm framing IIRC. And to get that from 4.5 meters... We need 8-9° vertical FOV. And focal length to offer this on small format (35mm), is 200mm. At 450 cm the 200mm lens offers a - Framing size as 810x540 mm, so you have space to crop later better. - Lens set to f/4 a DOF as 112 mm. That covers just tip of the nose to corner of eye, but ears are out of focus, so you need about f/6.3 to have a 177mm DOF, and now you have ears too in focus, especially if head turned slightly. But you want f/3.5-4 to have totally out of focus background, that is unrecognizable. - You have best perspective to facial structure and form. Get good distance from the person, make lighting easier and you get to more freedom to control background by choosing perspective and camera angle. With small movement you can change background Bokeh completely, but you can as well include foreground Bokeh as well by shooting through some objects etc. for a 4/3" format the equivalent lens is 100mm f/2-2.8. Closest is really a 40-150mm f/2.8 @ 100mm and f/2.8 or 75mm f/1.8 @ f/2. For APS-C it is 135mm @ f/2.8-4 lens. For portraits one needs to include the face, the character (dress, hairstyle etc) and it needs really about 15-20 cm DOF (150-200 mm). So more and not less... The focal length doesn't change DOF, as on same format the same F-stop will produce identical DOF when subject magnification is same (subject fills same size in frame). So 24mm f/5.6 has same DOF as 200mm f/5.6 when person face is same size in frame. But 200mm will produce far blurrier background because it crops the background far more and enlarged it compare to 24mm. Why one should shoot with longer focal length to get blurrier background, but use higher F-stop to get deeper DOF to get whole face in focus. Superior compared to 50mm or 85mm f/1.2 lenses...

Cool video. I tend to save alot of my home activities for the colder months (indoor projects/video games/films), and then am rewarded with beautiful summer days outdoors after a winter of nesting :)

Do some bird photography. The birds don't have the cover that they have in spring and summer, as they don't have the lush green trees ans shrubs to hide in.

I have a fuji s5 pro that looks like that!

Great video, and I like the look of worn camera gear as well. Ripped rubber is just our patina.

I just can't watch with your shirt pocket looking like that!

Kathy gave me a book. A "fifty Two Day Photography Challenge" ( with two bonus pages ). It isn't hard stuff, it's just ideas.... a go do this type of picture this week challenge. I have been having fun with it and my plan is to follow along ... not jump around, (much ), and just do the page as I come to it. Some will be shot digital. Some have been shot on film. I am also old. My74th is coming soon. Most of my cameras are also old. I have looked ahead so I know which camera I want for certain pages and I have an idea of where a few shots might taken. This book has helped with my attitude this past month.

Hi Ira, Yes, sorting, editing is key to have a chance to browse our pictures later. Since a decade or so, I have decided to not limit myself in shooting, but I commit to keep only 10-15 pictures max per site we visited during our trips. This is an average of 40-60 pics per day. It seems hard to do, but it is not after all. Of course I keep all original pics on two 5TB drive in case of.I need to go back to them. What do i do with the pics I have selected? I watch them on a high resolution digital frame I could share with friends/family. Actually the device is running sometimes all day on our kitchen counter. Thank you Ira!

Hi Ira, definitely agree, January is downtime. However it's now February, days are getting slightly longer here in the UK and I'm getting motivated to go outside and take some images.

It is OK to do something or just relax and let something come your way - or not. Thank you for taking the time to post another one.

Never a truer word spoken Ira! You have now got me trawling through hundreds of files that need to be consigned to the electronic waste heap in the sky. Great video 👍