Author: David A Lockwood

Amateur photographer with an interest in Prehistory (Rock Art).

JJC ES-2 Film Digitizing Adapter (clone of Nikon ES-2).

  1. This is a digitised Ilford HP5 Plus negative.

I have been doing tests with a newly acquired JJC ES-2 clone of the Nikon ES-2 film digitiser.

JJC ES-2 Film Digitizing Adapter with 6500K USB LED Light Set, 35mm Negative Film Copying Scanner for Canon Sony Nikon Macro Lens, Convert Negatives to Digital JPEG

.  Click above image for Amazon link.

It works very well and comes with a LED light attachment which the Nikon version does not have.

The setup I used was:

Nikon D800, PK11(a), PK13, Nikkor 55mm F2.8 AIs micro and the slide/film copier.
It is a lot cheaper than the Nikon equivalent (seems made of engineering plastic like the Nikon one)  and includes the LED light attachment along with 5 lens adapters.

Trials and Tribulations:

Trials and Tribulations:

First off, thank you everyone  for your concern. I’m ok, just a little
shaken up, but l’ll be ok.
For those of you who don’t know what happened, I was robbed this afternoon at the petrol station. I gathered myself together, my hands were still shaking, I was dizzy and I honestly
think I was in shock. My money was gone. I called the police, they were fantastic and called for medical assistance as my blood pressure was through the roof. The police asked me if I knew who did it, and I told them “Yes, it was pump number 2.”

Could not resist posting this: for all those who are shocked at the price of fuel.

Cannot attribute it because there was no indication on the forum I saw it on.

Finding the Mother Tree.

Click book image for Amazon link.

From Wiki:
Simard asserts that healthy forests centre on a matriarch tree that acts as a nexus of nutrient distribution that shares these nutrients among other trees of the same or different ages and species that are chemically and physically linked together by an expansive mycorrhizal network. Simard faced ridicule during her younger years; however her research became “critical to addressing problems in the timber industry” that led to reforms in sustainable forestry.

A thought for the last day of 2021.

Maybe a somewhat controversial thought on this last day of 2021.

From the Encyclopædia Britannica:-

Dictatorship.

A form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations. The term dictatorship comes from the Latin title dictator, which in the Roman Republic designated a temporary magistrate who was granted extraordinary powers in order to deal with state crises
Modern dictators, however, resemble ancient tyrants rather than ancient dictators. Ancient philosophers’ descriptions of the tyrannies of Greece and Sicily go far toward characterizing modern dictatorships. Dictators usually resort to force or fraud to gain despotic political power, which they maintain through the use of intimidation, terror, and the suppression of basic civil liberties. They may also employ techniques of mass propaganda in order to sustain their public support.

 

Let us hope 2022 can revert back to what passed for normal two years ago.