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Word. I used the kit lens for that pic. 18-135 lens. 4sec exposure, iso 100, f/32

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Saw something that interested me yesterday. There was a thread somewhere in Flickr in the D70 group about
"how many shutter activations does your D70 have?" Well that's what everyone wants to know, right,
how long their used DSLR is gonna last? Or how many photos have been taken on that camera you have had
forever. Different programs read EXIF data differently, and other programs mess with your data when you
save a file inside their environment. But the SURE way to find out was interesting. Take a photo straight out
of the camera and upload it to Flickr. Then read the EXIF data. And for the D70 at least, it gives you the
shutter count to date on your camera. It did NOT work with my "new" D100. Or I wasn't paying attention.
The EXIF data is part of the "actions" menu for individual photos in Flickr.

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Yep knew that. Worked when I had a d90 but not with my canon.

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This was a lower light photo I took with this iffy 24-50mm lens. With a tripod I might have been able to coax
a few nice pics out of this evening, but I had to go to check out the bar where the girls were playing. For
now I am judging ALL of my gear hand-held. I have a few tripods and a monopod, but if I can't shoot a decent
photo hand-held with a lens, it won't likely ever find its way to a tripod with me. But this shot shows the
weird plane this lens is in....not crispy, but not terribly soft anywhere. Hand held at the limits of the light
for the aperture and shutter speed. Most people would say "if you don't like the sharpness, why even post
it up? I like trains? I like the warmth. I am bored at work. OH BTW, Justin, my two D70s, ~9700 and 1700
shutter clicks repectively. I think they at least one must have been someone's problem child. I could SEE
9700 activations from a rarely motivated photog who later sold the camera, but 1700 sounds like someone
got rid of this camera early on and it keeps getting passed around, lol. Either way, this is their last stop.
I will shoot them into the ground.

http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps03266de0.jpg

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Looks good from what i can tell on my iphone

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More.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8231/8...91eeaa1c_b.jpg
IMG_1802 by emopunker2004, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8099/8...938a548f_b.jpg
IMG_1797 by emopunker2004, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8088/8...b52876b3_b.jpg
IMG_1795 by emopunker2004, on Flickr

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http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8231/8...538c5be3_b.jpg
IMG_1784 by emopunker2004, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8235/8...4a374021_b.jpg
IMG_1762 by emopunker2004, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8230/8...a2c65fd7_b.jpg
IMG_1742 by emopunker2004, on Flickr

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Was it worth getting UP??
I like the 2nd pic in the first 3pic post.

I got to work with this camera I want to do a lens test with and it looks like the battery is failing, lol.
I might still get a test walk in. MUST see if there is ANY sharpness in this lens or it is getting
'stocking-ed" at Christmas.

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Yeh it was worth it. Need a ND filter so I can get longer exposure time.

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I sure hope it was SHARK....I had a $60 Nikon D100 in my kart at Adorama, it had an "overly sensitive mode dial"
that I figured I could hot glue into the Program mode. Went to check out and it had been fore-snatched out
from under me. I had PMed Shark about it, maybe he got it. For ME, no loss, I didn't need another Nikon, much
less a D100, but SIXTY BUCKS, come on, what was I to do? Let someone ELSE get it? Let's hope it was Shark and
he has a hot glue gun.

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What is the filter ring size?

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67mm

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Just the lens...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8516/8...39aa04c3_b.jpg
IMG_1601 by emopunker2004, on Flickr

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No, I was too late! But, even under $200 for the others is not bad at all. I think I'm ready to pull the trigger.

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And Justin, that looks a lot like Driftwood Beach on Jekyll Island. Awesome pics. Were those done with a longer shutter speed?

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Thanks Ron. They were all 1,2,4, and 6 second shutters. Too bright for any longer without a ND filter, even stopped all the way down.

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I always try to have a minimum of a .06 ND filter with me, but where I shoot most, in the Smokies, I rarely need
it and sometimes have to get it off there to get any kind of shot at all. But I keep it in the bag as well as a circular
polarizer. God I love a good polarizer, lol. Not great on sunsets, though. Man if Shark picks up a old has-been
Nikon like me, look out. I was shocked I like the D100 better than the D70 for now. I have not shot enough
with it to know for sure, but it seems much faster, and at least this one I have has EXCELLENT rich, deep
color. OLD as that thing is Shark, and it IS OLD, it is a very good idea for the sensor size alone. ALl of the other perks
are just gravy.

And now, brought to you fresh in the morning, a camera/lens test with the D70 and the supposedly terribly soft
Nikon 24-50mm 3.3-4.5 AF lens..... hell it IS kind soft there, but handling the indoor light well.

http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psc6cf95c6.jpg

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Word. My FIL had a used D100 for a while. He liked it plenty. He upgraded a lil over a year ago to a D90.

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I can't think of a better time to buy one, lol...They used to be several thousand dollars.
I almost had one for $60, lol. Granted I would have had to hot glue the mode dial down
in Program mode, but $60?? Come on.

And now that you can get a used lens to put on it for about 30-50 bucks that will take
decent photos, why on earth would you NOT pick one up? Hell I see the 70-210 I just
raved over for $50. Granted $50 today is not as easy as it used to be to spare, but
that's a great little used lens that is perfectly functional on a D100. There are several
perfectly acceptable walking around lenses for under $35 there, too. It's a scary good
time to be looking at old, useful gear. It's like getting a pound pup. You take in a very
useful, very durable camera that would normally just be space junk, and you are makin'
pitchers wit it. Don't fall victim to the pressure to upgrade.....too far.

Like Justin, :r

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Lol. Word.

Photography competition coming up at work. Winner gets their pic hung up in the admin area at work. What to submit...

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I'VE SEEN my upgrade, Justin, and it is the D700, lol. I held it. It were awesome, sho nuff.
But I may never have it. I just don't need it now. Someday I might get it if I retire and
need to work weddings and special projects. But for now I am just glad that I stopped
shooting up the bad heroin, those dang point and shoots. I was keeping my costs SO LOW
by buying the nicest used ones I could afford, before long I had a bag full of nice point and
shoots, and with all that money I could have just peeped ONE DAMN DAY at the used
DSLRs, spent ONE DAY in researching the cheapest ones, and saved myself tons of money
on P&S cameras I can't hardly sell. In the end I did sell the nicest ones, and didn't take a bath,
but I got lucky. It was a fluke I managed to sell both of em so easily.

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Depends....are there a lot of ladies? Cat pics, lol.
If there are a lot of men, gun pics. Nah, they might
report you as dangerous. Wait, you're in LE, right?
Maybe guns are fine. Take something new and fresh.

A DONUT BOX!

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Too bad...I have 62mm

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You want to know what is SICK about my sickness, Justin? The fine folks out at Adorama
also have a couple of D1X / DIH cameras available for about $100, but neither one comes
with a charger. THOSE cameras, at least the D1H, those suckers were FAST, like a scalded
dog. You could get 8-9 frames a second out of it, plus it had a 40 frame buffer in it.
JUST TO HAVE THE BODY IN THE BAG for when I needed something that fast would have
been worth the $105. But without a charger, its not worth it. Maybe to someone who
already has a body and charger and wanted a spare, but DAMMIT, I wanted it to work out.
In the end, I could have picked up a universal RC car charger that probably would have worked
decently, but I started adding it all up and thinking, hell, both my other D-series cameras
can shoot 3-4 frames a second, do you NEED EIGHT? But there will be that one event where
I will think, 'I coulda had that shot'. lol.

That's how diseased you have made me with your DSLRs and your lenses and your big sensors.
I was happily saving money and minding my own business. Now I want to own every sub-$100
piece of used gear I spot.

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Well good MORNIN' Steve....We gonna have SNOW tonight, Steve.
How's that sound down in FLA?

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Or instead of buying 5-$100 cameras u could buy a $500 camera...

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Gonna be ~37* here tonight...

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Absolutely not. Cause $500 doesn't get me what I want. $1500 does. :dr

So since there is no way I am spending another $1500 in photography,
(yes I have invested that already, but have gear for 3 people) I guess
I will be making do with this stuff for a LONG time. I like it....a LOT.
I am sorry I hollered about yu guys sucking a55. You were right and I was
wrong.

Now my sister has a D70 and a 18-55, a 35-70 and a 70-300mm, UVs and a bag.

My nephew has a Olympus E-330 with a 14-45mm and a 40-150mm and UVs

And I have a D70, a D100, a 18-55, 24-50, 55-200, 28-85, 70-210 and a few fast normal primes and a
bag or two and UVs and CPs and NDs. My entire lens range are duplicates of all my other lenses.
I am thrilled, lol. No really....I am thrilled. I take em out on walks and shoot the hell out of them to
see what each one can do. And I would never take them all out. But HAVING them all makes me feel
good for NOW, lol. I can pack an easy 2 lens bag and be covered for any planned occasion. And to be
honest, I would NOT have all these lenses if these old Nikon AF lenses were not 35-60 bucks apiece.
I would have that 70-300 cheapie G and a fast prime. But no one wants these old designs anymore.
Hell, I'll take em.

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OOps, I forgot the one in the mail now...Sigma 10-20mm UWA lens. That officially makes me way over-lensed.
But again, one lens I paid 25 dollars for. One I paid 44 dollars for. For me it was worth seeing if it was an
optical dud or stud. The $25 is kinda shabby looking but is pretty sharp in rough outdoor conditions for which
I bought it. Indoors it is far too slow to shoot with. All the other cheap buys have proven to be solid.

And one other thing, thank the supreme being for Adorama. Had B&H not sent me a 1600 dollar camera
in place of a 140 dollar model, and the subsequent BS not put me off of them for life (well, for now),
then I would not have discovered that Adorama wants half the price for the same merchandise in old,
used lenses. Not always half, but its usually SIGNIFICANT. I wasted a few hundred bucks buying
from B&H on used lenses.

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My Dad died 25 years ago this month, and every year or so I will stumble upon something in the vast collection
of miscellaneous crap I inherited from him. It has been a struggle, carrying all of this junk with me in my 10
or so moves over that time, and a lot of it has gotten tossed prior to one move or another. But he liked to putter
around Salvation Army and Amvets on the weekends, and he picked up all KINDS of 5hit. Last week I got the D100
in and noticed that it had a screw in port on the shutter release for a manual shutter plunger so you could remote
trigger without using the timer. I remembered something in one of the drawers in one of the chests of his stuff,
I always thought it was a kind of tight-space-whatzit-grabber, but I thought, OHHH, it might be a remote trigger.
Sure enough, it screwed right in and pre-meters/focuses and shoots with it just fine. Shame I had to spend so
much money to USE IT, but what the hell...I miss him.

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Is compact flash the only memory card to go with the D100? IIRC, I looked at the specs and it said the camera can use CF or SD. What about a nice 32GB SDHC card?

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D100 is CF only

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Make your own 10-stop ND filter. Awesome!
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-...ity-ND-Filter/

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Thanks! Hopefully this camera will have the Version 2.0 firmware upgrade

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does it have the cable? i'm sure you can put it on there yourself if you have the cable or find a cable to if.

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Hey guys please help me out with picking my image for the competition.

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=61145

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I am guessing when he says "the cable" Justin is saying AC power supply? As far as for the firmware upgrade.
Not sure I would sweat the firmware based on what I have seen of the camera. I need to check mine, it completely
slipped my mind.
Sucker's blazing fast.

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When you get the camera, take a photo and look at the thumbnail display and scroll right or left through
the info displays...I think there are 4 or 5. Histogram, basic EXIF data 1&2, and general file info. In the 3rd or 4th item
on the first EXIF page there is the firmware version. Mine is a version 2.0, so there is that wonder and worry eliminated.

And correct, Compact Flash only. I only buy used, but the price can be about the same or close nowadays. Hard part is
getting them in 'Low GB" versions. Not that the cameras can't take the big ones, I think a properly firmware'd camera can
take at LEAST 8GB cards (?), It's kind of a waste to use more than 4 GB on that camera. You'd get too lazy and lose data
one day. 2GB are almost too small. But plenty, that's for sure. You could shoot a whole shack weekend like a clicking cliche'
and not fill a 2 GB card, cause it don't do vid-yo. One thing for sure, now that SDHC is in almost everything modern, there are
people EVERYWHERE with CF cards they don't need.

Cept' me.

INDOOR LOW LIGHT LENS TEST FOR SHARPNESS>

http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...pscbfc57db.jpg

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USB cable

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Nikon 9300 refurb on Woot! for $100
http://www.woot.com/offers/nikon-16m...w-18x-opt-zoom

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I got all the $100 cameras I can stand for now.
Plastic has a slight steam rising from it.
Won't be able to use it til it cools.

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On the D100 they 'recommend' that you either take it in to have it done, or you find a A/C adapter
cable to keep the mirror....wait...that's cleaning the CCD...never mind. Haha, that's the CABLE I was
referring to. Derh.

I do not think the D100 firmware is even available to the casual photographer. I think it is DEPOT ONLY.
That's why he is hoping so hard that it's updated already.

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New Tshirt

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8247/8...2d8acab7_z.jpg
Untitled by emopunker2004, on Flickr

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I Hit that up . #1 or # 5

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New Flash. Canon 430EX II

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8365/8...ec43ca94_c.jpg
Untitled by emopunker2004, on Flickr

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I've been playing around with the Nik Software suite of plugins lately. Really like the results. Sure, you can do it all with PS, but this really streamlines your workflow.
Here's one with SilverEfex Pro

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...ps15325e10.jpg

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Very nice Jeff.

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You can pick up a CF-SD adapter for about $20. Basically a CF card into which you insert an SD.
Using one in a D200 and shooting RAW and the write speeds are certainly acceptable.