Jeep for Larry Loc: Grapevine, Texas

For anyone still watching this topic, I decided. Brown truck with new D750 with 24-120mm F/4 should be here in a couple days. Even got extra Nikon battery and 32gb SD card with it, no extra cost.

Nikon_DonB Loc: Chicago

Great decision! I'm sure you will love it.

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

Jeep for Larry, I just picked up my D750 and the AF-S 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 ED VR lens last Saturday. I still have my D7000 with 18-105mm kit lens. Took some photos of the same subject with both cameras but could not see any difference when viewed on my Dell 27-inch HD computer.

Jeep for Larry Loc: Grapevine, Texas

Well, after a month with the new D750 I am THRILLED with my purchase. I am amazed at the 'depth' of detail the D750 produces. I am also liking the great hi ISO. I am taking photos at 12800 ISO and they are very little grain. I even did some testing at 51200 ISO and could get by at that if I had a situation that called for high shutter in low light.

I tell my wife and family all the time, "I love my D750."

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

Jeep for Larry, I also have the D750 and I will experiment with high ISOs. I have been using 200 to 500 but I should try some higher ISOs to avoid using a flash (Nikon SB-700).
I have some really nice looking close-up photos when viewed on this Dell 27-inch XPS computer but when I upload them to UHH for the Gallery and view them they look horrible. All the fine detail is gone.
I am now learning how to use Lightroom 5.7. Just loaded it last week. Could not resist a new copy at $50.
I paid almost $100 for 2 by 32GB SD cards. (I see you got one as a free-bee). I have RAW(NEF) going to card #1 and JPEGs going to card #2. I had to do it that way because at my age my brain (what's left of it) does not function if both JPEGs and NEFs are on the same card. -
FiddleMaker

Jeep for Larry Loc: Grapevine, Texas

If you want the full detail to be available in UHH, you would have to click on the Store Original check box to have the full resolution file uploaded. Then there will be a 'download original' link available on your photo and it will be the full resolution file.

Lightroom is critical to making my raw files come to life and also control those areas that are darker or lighter then I'd want. I have a couple user presets that I created where I found myself almost always putting in a little sharpening to about 48, a little vibrance, clarity and saturation, and the lens correction. I use a little less saturation and vibrance when photos have people in them, thus the two presets. I actually switched over to just raw files with the D750 as I found myself liking the processed files much better than the jpgs that the camera was producing.

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

Jeep for Larry, Thanks for the tip for posting photos on UHH. Will give it a try.
I must say that I have achieved some really excellent results processing my JPEGs with Nikon's View NX2 free software. The camera produced JPEGs are not that good. I find myself always tweaking the JPEGs with View NX2. I tried using View NX2 on a couple of NEF files but I found myself way over my head. I'll stick with Lr. Can I assume that JPEGs can be processed with Lightroom as well?? -FiddleMaker

Jeep for Larry Loc: Grapevine, Texas

You can use Lightroom to edit JPG files but it really shines in editing the raw files. The white balance correction is basically unlimited in a raw file but much more constrained in a jpg. Just search withing UHH or even globally on raw Vs Jpg and you'll see that raw editing is the way to go unless you need immediate jpgs to share before you can process.