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Jul 28, 2017 22:49:46   #
fchaines wrote:
Sparky,

Bring lots cash!


Well, more than cash, bring your favorite credit card to Iceland! Credit cards rule, you can use them everywhere and it is just so easy and fast to pay with the card. We only withdrew the equivalent of $50 dollars in cash from an ATM machine during our entire trip, and ended up spending almost half of the Icelandic Krona cash at the Duty Free shop at Keflavik airport, just to get it of it.
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Jul 28, 2017 12:07:21   #
My HB and I spent 10 days travelling around Iceland at the beginning of July. Needless to say, the trip really exceeded our expectations. There are countless photo opportunities wherever you go, even while driving along the Ring Road - you feel like you want to keep stopping to shoot at the beautiful landscape. We also took advantage of the very long days for good photo opportunities, as the sun barely sets in the horizon during the summer months. It is rather unfortunate that you are only spending 3 days in Iceland, but try to make the best of it. You might get lucky and be able to watch the northern lights.

There are a wide variety of day tours leaving from Reykjavik that you can book, and some of those may be seasonal. You may just be constraint to the reduced daylight in October as the days will be shorter, depending on the time of your trip in October. We booked our self-drive tour with Nordic Visitor, they have lots of great information in their website; here is the link to information about Time and Daylight, :
https://iceland.nordicvisitor.com/travel-guide/information/time-daylight/

A must-do tour is the Golden Circle tour which can easily be done in one day (do a bit of Google research and you will get plenty of information). As another poster mentioned, another must-see site is the Jökulsárlón Glacial Lagoon and adjacent Diamond Beach in southeast Iceland, but would require an entire day for a round-trip road trip to the lagoon from Reykjavik.
It looks like your photography gear should be more than sufficient for your photo needs.
While in Reykjavik, take time to visit the Harpa Concert Hall and also go to the viewing deck at the landmark church in the city (Hallgrímskirkja) for great views of the city.

The Blue Lagoon is a wonderful site to visit, especially if you visit as soon as you land in Iceland (to help recover from jet lag) or in the day of your departure, just to relax in the thermal waters before the long flight back home. Should you plan to go to the Blue Lagoon make sure to book tickets in advance (their website has all the information you will need and more!).

You can find wonderful examples of Iceland photos and Icelandic landscapes in Flickr groups such as "Iceland - Landscape" and "Beautiful Iceland".

Looks like you are all set with your camera and lens gear, that should be sufficient for your short trip. Enjoy it to the fullest!
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Apr 11, 2017 10:00:53   #
collen63, you may want to watch the tips by Tony Northrup on recovering lost photos: https://northrup.photo/my-account/download-sdp-ebook/stunning-digital-photography-video-index/recovering-lost-photos/
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Feb 17, 2017 09:32:27   #
You also want to check reviews on the Nikon 18-300 lens by Ken Rockwell:

http://kenrockwell.com/nikon/18-300mm-vr.htm
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Feb 17, 2017 09:18:58   #
mrmal, thanks for your response. Your suggestion to be able to edit raw files in Photos app certainly works that way, **as long as** the RAW file format you are importing is supported by the OS version installed on your Mac computer.
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Feb 17, 2017 07:55:09   #
Folks, for accurate information on what RAW formats are supported by iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, check out this Apple article on their Apple Support online page:

"Digital camera RAW formats supported by iOS 10 and macOS Sierra"
https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht207049

With that said, I realized that my MacBook Pro (which I upgraded recently to MacOS Sierra) does not recognize NEF raw files from my new Nikon D5600 camera (no support for D5500 either)... a real bummer. And no word on when MacOS Sierra will be updated to provide such support for those Nikon camera models. I simply can't open any NEF raw file via Photos for Mac app or any other photo-related app I have installed on my Mac (not even via Preview app).
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Feb 16, 2017 13:00:27   #
You can always read Ken Rockwell's review on this lens:

http://kenrockwell.com/nikon/18-300mm-vr.htm
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Jan 7, 2017 21:52:29   #
Always enchanting... awwww...
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Jan 7, 2017 13:43:26   #
Enchanting!!
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Jan 7, 2017 13:42:54   #
I feel like I was almost traveling with you after seeing these pictures, very nice. Thanks for sharing.
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Jan 7, 2017 13:41:07   #
Quite a stunning shot. Would you mind sharing the settings used?
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Jan 7, 2017 13:40:34   #
Amazing shot, wow!
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Jan 7, 2017 13:39:59   #
Striking!!
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Jan 7, 2017 13:35:19   #
Great shots of the Oculus from the inside. It is one of my favorite venues for photography in Lower Manhattan.
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Jan 7, 2017 13:02:10   #
I've been researching the Nikon D5600 on the internet in the last month. Billnikon commented that this model is aimed at younger buyers who "love" sharing on their phone. This to me might sound like a somewhat narrow-minded observation. It is precisely the SnapBridge feature (with NFC, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi incorporated to communicate with the SnapBridge app) that greatly appeals to me to share images to mobile devices, particularly when travelling - what they refer to as "Remote Photography". It will be a great convenience for me and many other users to be able to upload my photos from the camera into my smartphone, and (besides any side intentions of sharing of photos on social media sites) be able to upload them to my photo backup web services a lot faster (like Flickr and Google+, as examples). I find this to be a great advantage in itself.
Adorama just advertised this camera for sale (pre-order), for $697 (body only) and also with different bundles. I am sure other online vendors are following suit.

For those of you interesting in learning more about the Nikon D5600, spend some time on YouTube browsing the camera reviews, here are just a few for your convenience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Dl8zaw-lE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN1vcP1Wb4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsbfcGQCbyk
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