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I am gonna take out the D100 tonight with the same lens and shoot all the same stuff.
I gotta figure this out. I love the color rendition of the D100, but it's meter does not seem to be able to hold the D70's meter's hat. I still love the camera, though, I will likely keep it til it disintegrates, it just FEELS good in the hand, and it is fast for a dinosaur. And its only a body, after all. Oh and Shark....if you think you might wanna try out this lens, you can get it here... Gray market means that you do not get a Nikon USA warranty, but Adorama will warranty it for the same 1 year, so if you feel lucky like I do, its a STEAL. In this case gray market does NOT MEAN fake. |
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Those are some nice test shots Brad. I picked up a 50mm 1.8 Canon and like shooting with it, but haven't gotten enough experience with aperture values. Understanding the theory and effectively putting that theory into practice involves much test shooting.
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Just got this in for the cruise. Olympus TG-2. Waterproof to 50ft, drop proof to 7ft, and freeze proof to 14*F
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jeff, I agree that to be confident with the depth of field DOES take a ton of no-pressure practice, if for no
other reason than making all the mistakes. I knew I wanted to just hammer the blur, so I did what I said I did earlier, opened it ALMOST wide open with just a bit of wiggle room to ensure that I did not suffer from 'wide-open softness" syndrome. But what I found out was that I had TOO MUCH blur in most of the cases. Now, I DO have a 'depth of field preview' button on my camera which basically shows me through the lens what the depth of field will be like under the current metering and settings, but I do not use it...I WILL though, now. I went out tonight, but the wind was way up, so none of the flowers would really stay still. That presented a lot of issues in itself. I found again that the D100 has metering issues, but I guess its like a Montecristo No.2, when its ON, its fabulous. I got a little of both tonight. Great results and head-scratchers. When you compare the two camera's results, you can see that the D100 seems to have better dynamic range. granted I DID NOT make an attempt to set them up the same, like I should have. One could have saturation set higher, there are a number of things that could be fundamentally different. I need to check them both out tonight. ANYWAY, here are the same basic shots and some extras. |
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Here are a few others, simply because they were SO spectacular. These are the ones I see have such great
dynamic range displayed, in addition to the onion flowers and the dogwood flower above (note the leaves) in the post above. In the yellow tulip, you can clearly see that I used way too much aperture for this particular shooting sitcho. the DOF is so narrow, you can only see 1/4 of one petal in in the plane of focus. But since the LCD is SO TINY, you can't really tell what you have and fix it on the scene. You have to wait to get home. |
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Nice pix brad.
Well that ****ing Olympus has to go back to where I ordered it. Having a replacement sent. See anything wrong? http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8261/8...161a09c9_c.jpg P3100001 by emopunker2004, on Flickr |
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Went over and "babysat" my niece and dog sat the dog while her parents were at the hospital with our other niece.
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Still life, lol. Its no bowl of fruit, but there IS GRAIN in there, I guess. That your new camera and lens?
Justin, I love the shots of the dog, I like to see motion stopped like that, and the shiny coat really comes through. |
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But you are testing and messing, and that's what counts here at the ole Photography Thread.
Round these parts we don't cotton to folks leavin' their cameras in a sack. We want ACTION, babay. With that said, I am sorry that I left mine in the car after lunch. I wanted to shoot this new Little Caesar's " Deep!Deep! dish pizza. It's more of a thick crust, with the ingredients you SHOULD be getting on your hot and ready pizzas now but aren't. So for $3.00 more for a hot and ready, next time I will pass. If the crust was thick and fried and greasy like Pizza Hut's, I would almost let it slide. ANd hey, for $8.00, I GUESS its not BAD. But the deepest thing about this is the crust. I was drooling thinking about this being like I consider a deep dish pizza to be. Not today. |
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Ehh, what the hell am I SAYING....just because I don't have MY camera in the bldg, THIS IS a
media department, I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a media tool. Cheapie lil Samsung compact camera works good enough for this test. You get a double pizza box, with 8 thick slices of pizza, you can tell by the pepperoni how big they are in relative terms. The way they are cut, they even LOOK like a good deep dish pizza. But that's as far as it goes. Once you bite it, you can peel pack the cheese a bit and see this thing is 4/5 crust and 1/5 stuff. For $8.00, ehh, OK, maybe. But if you are expecting a meal in a slice, it ain't happenin'. |
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Ok my funny sign assignment. I know it's lame but it's all I could find lol
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What? That's absolUTE-ly funny. I mean, unless you are chinese and easily offended.
I like that more than mine, which was merely slightly humorous. I guess Shark is not playing this week. Unless his beer label is to be construed as humorous. Next week....well, I was gonna say "angry dogs", but your pic was funnier, you can pick the theme for next week. |
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Ok. Let me think about it. The following week I'll be on a cruise and won't be back til that Thursday. So let's make that week's due on Friday.
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Took these today while at my grandparents' house cutting their grass. NAS Jax is not far from their house, thus the P3 Orion.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8527/8...3200b597_b.jpg IMG_3427 by emopunker2004, on Flickr This guy was in the tree when I was about to leave there. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8523/8...1e55c9c9_b.jpg IMG_3433 by emopunker2004, on Flickr |
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Just ordered a nikon 50mm 1.8 for an upcoming trip. Going to be shooting with lots of water around so I picked up a circular polarizer as well. Any of you guys have tips on shooting with a polarizer on? Did I waste $20?
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since they can really screw up the sky in wider angle shots. But if you keep an eye on your images after you take them, you can determine if you should continue to shoot with it on or not. It is only a problem in certain sitchos. It can cause dark streaks/swaths in the sky. |
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I'll keep an eye on the LCD then. Thanks!
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Man, I am torn. Weather in New Orleans is going to be good this weekend, but it also happens to be the
French Quarter Festival, and the main reason I was going back this weekend was to shoot during the early hours of the morning when the light was good and there were not cars parked in every damn shot. But if its FQF weekend, not only will there be cars and people everywhere, but stages and trash cans and cables and porta-potties. I guess I will save myself for another weekend. |
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Also remember that when you shoot with it, and you turn that camera sideways without a second thought to shoot
that tall shot, that you circ polarizer will be turned off axis and the effect will go away, so you have to remember to turn it 90 degrees. If there is one thing I have learned about amateur photography, its that its all so clear at home, and when you get on the scene and start shooting, everything you wanted to remember just flies out the window, lol. I imagine that its also easy for the pros to forget, but I bet its much less so. And there are no marks on it, you just turn it til the colors bloom or the effect you see is the one you desire. They are cool but it is easy to forget you have it mounted, and you may get home and see you forgot to turn it and all your pics in one direction look great, and all the ones the other orientation are dull and colorless. 5HI+ happens. |
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really just shooting to test the lens. The D100 body tends to crush the blacks which is a nice effect if you want it, but could be considered a con or a defect in design when looked at critically. As a pro flower shot, you likely would not want it to be that dark overall. This is also the problem I have with the 1st generation DSLRs from Nikon. The LCDs are SO SMALL as to be useless in outdoor light for really being able to critically view your shot and make adjustments. So while my excuse is 'it was just a photowalk lens test', my dilemma remains going forward. But my main body, the D70 is a little smarter. You can see the two days' results, the first day with the D70, the same basic shots are better overall in terms of light balance. A further dilemma is the whole concept of fill-flash. I am not steeped in the photographic tradition. I have been shooting with SLRs since the mid-70s. But that was just the START. I dropped it as soon as my mirror assembly quit working about 1981. And I never was a good technique photog. The concept of fill flash was yet to be learned when I stopped shooting. Then in the mid 80s, I became a shooter by profession, video-wise. But when I began shooting stills again, I picked up a point and shoot. My composition and technique are solid, but my fundamentals are weak. I do not THINK about a shot in technical terms. I have a tool, an adjustable output flash, and I get so caught up in shooting the shot that I forget to raise the flash in appropriate, non-low-light sitchos. Same as I told Salvelinus about the circular polarizer....don't FORGET its THERE! :D |
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Lol ordered a Canon EOS Élan 7N 35mm camera for $88 shipped. And a tripod mount for the 70-200f4 and 3 different rolls of B&W film.
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Wow, talking about my first camera made me think back a long way. The very first thing I wanted to do
with my camera when I got it was to take perv pics. I guess that's why everyone gets that out of their system when they got a digital camera, gotta take shots naked just to revel in the fact that it will not have to be developed. But when my dad gave me this camera, I wanted to catch a cheerleader in mid-high kick. I was obsessed with it. And I got good at it, lol. But when you had to send the film off, it was about as risque as I thought I could get away with without the lab sending the FBI after me or something. I think its funny that now that we are a generation removed from ever CONSIDERING that there is no more LAB involved, I wonder how kids even THINK about their first digital camera. When I got my first digital back in the early 90s, I immediately started asking women to pose nude for me. They had thought about it, but would never want a lab to see the pics. It was a REAL selling point. I could shoot a ton of pics, burn a CD for em and keep my promise not to share the photos, and count on word of mouth to keep me in hot girls naked in my house. Anyway, back to my first camera............. http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...psa190208e.jpg |
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OK I lied...actually THIS was my first camera. But my dad took it back after I didn't seem to like it much.
I guess I was 10 at the time. I took it to camp, shot some shots, but never had any desire to use my allowance to get the film developed. He took it back and used it and made a darkroom out of his bathroom every now and then and developed the shots. but I never touched that Brownie again. He gave me that Sears mamiya/sekor about 5 years later. http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps5b64db6f.jpg |
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Justin, I am not sure how to react to your purchase. Its people like you who will keep film going, I guess.
It certainly adds an entire new dimension to photography and photographic knowledge. You will be damn sure you are ready to expose when you finally do. Whatever you do don't get vats, chemicals and an enlarger, OK? |
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Lol ill be taking my film to a local place that does it. I ordered one roll of Fuji porta 400H color film also. I'm mostly interested in the B&W though. That's where film blows digital away. I was gonna get a canon ae1 body which is mf only and get a 50mm lens for it but decided to get a newer eos film body so I can use all the lenses I have now, except the fisheye.
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Brad you can pick the theme this week.
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Yeah, you can pick up Canon AE-1s in the street these days. ;)
I almost bought one JUST the other day, but it was the lenses that made me pause, too. Hell, I had a $150 Nikon D200 in my basket at Adorama this morning, and in the time it took me to browse a few reviews to make sure I wanted it, some other A-hole got it. (not THIS A-hole, lol) I stood up, stomped and cursed so loud it made our bedbug dog bark down the hall. I was fuming. I definitely have N.A.S. something fierce. I remember when I would just buy a cheap used P&S once a year. Theme for next week is French Quarter Festival pics. LOL OK, how about flowers while they are everywhere? I was gonna say Angry Dogs, since every time I go out lately I am capturing angry dogs in wonderful crisp Nikon color, lol. |
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I still have a Pentax K-1000 with a stuck shutter stashed away somewhere. Likely not worth the money to have it fixed, or maybe a hard smack upside the body could get it working again???????? Hmmmm...... :) I loved that camera; cheap, all it had was a light meter mechanism to give you an idea as to the exposure, and I think depth of field preview and that was it. The rest was up to you. It took some nice pics
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Not too many flowers blooming in still freezing cold Michigan, but I'll see what I can do. :D |
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And you can see that damn jammed up shutter to the right
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No depth of field preview on that, but you could set the ISO from 64 all the way up to 3200. I remember shooting with 1000 ISO film, and it was pretty grainy, even from Kodak.
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I love grain on B&W film though. :dr
I thought about picking up some ilford 3200 B&W, still might at some point. I plan on going back and finishing up my bachelors degree and changing my minor to photography from political science since i only have one have one class completed for that minor. |
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Started shooting with my first SLR, a Nikon FG-20, when I was a kid and went through a handful of film cameras. Remember getting an Nikon EM just because it had a power winder and looked cool, not really considering it had little manual functions.
Have worked in community newspapers since graduating from J-school, and spent the bulk of the 90s shooting with an F3 and F-801s. Also spent far too many Sundays in a poorly ventilated darkroom processing film. While I miss some aspects of film, I've moved on. I definitely don't miss those chemical-induced headaches. Salvaged all the darkroom gear when our paper went full digital, thinking I'd build a darkroom in the basement,but ended up selling it for a song at a garage sale. Don't shoot a whole lot since moving up to management and do miss that part, though trying to get out more. My son has now been bitten by the bug and it kinda cool to see him find his way, creatively, making some of the same technical mistakes I made years ago. He took an intro to communication tech course last semester and they actual taught him darkroom work, which surprised me. Now, he has dusted off my old film cameras and always asking for more film. |
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There will always be some need for film, it seems. I saw some guy at a parade here, he was from the media apparently, shooting pics using a really sweet Hasselblad.
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I don't know about now, but the last I heard Nat. Geo still required all submissions to be slide. Not sure if it could be Fuji or it had to be Kodachrome. Most of us were using Fujichrome 100 pushed to 120 or 180 back when I was shooting a lot of nature stuff.
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IIRC, the last roll of Kodachrome was produced in 2009. And I took a photography class back in 1983 when I was in 9th grade, it covered only black and white but I really enjoyed it. It was cool to learn all of the things that you can do in the darkroom. It was kind of a PITA to open the film cartridge and thread the film onto that reel and put it into the developer tank canister, all in pitch darkness. |
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Yep. Kodachrome is gone. The go to now if you want Kodak is ektachrome
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