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Thanks Iain. It's hard not to be reflective in these times. One thing I hate about the ageing process is it robs you of enthusiasm. I really wish I could raise the impetus to get out and do this sort of photography again.
Well I don't recognised that, my enthusiasm is very high indeed.
I have just bought a Rodenstock APO Ronar, 105mm f/9 lens to use for flower image stacking, it's insanely sharp and has lovely rendition, my friend is making up an adapter so I can mount it on my D800. Probably use the PB4 bellows for now until I can make up my own stepping camera mount. With a lens like this you can literally paint focus.
On top of that I am rebuilding two Landrovers, my enthusiasm is boundless, right now my ability and energy is very low due to being in hospital recovering from corona virus but hopefully after convalescence I have so many plans, collating and finishing the images for the book and finally publishing it on line.
During my enforced period of idleness I have been researching some project management software which will hopefully keep me on track. I find project management software very useful for projects like vehicle rebuilding, my original software goes back to about 1989, Claris- MacProject, I love it but it didn't get updated for the millennium date changes, so became very hard work to use, Excell is ok but lacks the functionality of proper project management software. So having chosen what I think is a good replacement I'm looking forward to contacting the vendor, a Canadian company just to confirm it's suitably for my needs. Then I will start another little adventure getting it set up and keeping my projects on track.
I started this reply on my iPhone but it is a nightmare to use on this site, I had to dig out my old iPad to edit the mess!
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Robert.