On1 just releasted an "update" said to fix crashing and some video card issues. They also returned the old AI mask tool, seems the new one is not ready for prime time.

That is ok, I knew being an early adopter I would run into these things.
I am going to install it this evening.

The D5 was made in Japan. I was the last model.
I experienced what others experience. All over DPRevew back in the day.
I don't think Nikon is terrible.

It is not as good as Canon Imho

Thanks Joe, but anyone can edit a picture and make it look better with the right tools.

You are in the same boat I am. I think you need to guy gigapixel and then you are in. I have Resize AI in On1 photo raw and don't need gigapixel. So I am not going to spend the $99 buck so I can get the crippled Photo AI that someday may be as good as the stand alone products which I already have.

Well this will ruffle some feathers. I started with Nikon. Their products are not reliable, at least on the lower to mid end. My first camera was a D100 I sold it and the person who bought it told me years later it does 2 years after buying for me. My next camera was a D70 and that model had a known defect that the power supply would come apart and Nikon would have to fix it. A lot of D70 owners had this problem. Next came oil on the sensor problems and other issues.

Canon is built in Japan for the most part, Nikon is built in Singapore or Korea except for their to single digit series and this year none of their cameras are built in Japan. Japanese quality is still the best IMHO.

But my main point was that prices for DSLRs will only continue to plummet and BandH and Adorama will drop prices as the supply of DSLRs stay high because no one buys them.

So I have no problems buying used Canon, Nikon not so much but that has been my experience. The D100 was Nikons first affordable (at 3k dollars) digital camera.

I still have my D200 as well, and I know what all the buttons do. But that does not give me the right to judge people who want to spend money on new gear as some sort of psychological whack job or someone with an addiction or gambling problem. They are just consumers. Manufacturers feed them a line that the newest and latest will make it easier, and it does, but that does not mean they will get great pictures.

AI is promising and it promises it will make decisions and make it easier for us.

Just because your friend uses a 6mp camera or you have an old D200 gives you the right to demean people who decide to buy new gear or new software an press the AI button and get better pictures they could get with a 6mp cameras. It is their money. I call it jealousy.

Because some people cannot become a pro photographer. They are a brilliant scientist or a doctor or blue collar worker that has the money to buy expensive gear if they want. That gives jealous people the right to demean them?

Sounds like class envy to me.

The $$$ makes it possible that I can talk to the computer and it does speech to text so it may not make me a better typist, it makes me so I don't have to be a typist at all and I can focus on what I am doing like writing a book, or creating educational materials. Auto mode on a camera makes it so I don't have to learn the exposure triangle because it does it all for me, then raw lets me fix the mistakes the camera makes and I can recover highlights or remove noise with AI so I don't have to learn photoshop.

Lets say there is some magical "eye" or some genetic memory or trait that is handed down that allows some people to have this magical "eye" and they become a pro photographer with 25 years experience and they are very good but photography pays so little for them they cannot afford nice gear and are envious of those who chose a different career and can buy any gear they want because it is a drop in the buck for them. That is where derogatory terms come from, the have nots who cry class envy.

That is why I don't think this subject is very funny.

As for knowing every button on the camera. I don't know every feature on my car, or every feature in the software I buy. And certainly not every feature or app on my cell phone. I don't have to, it works for me and I don't want to know everthing.

If the person does not know every camera feature, that does not mean they have GAS. I think it is a stupid term anyway. Who has the right to tell people they can't buy new gear, or that they have to learn every feature or they have GAS. Stupid, jealousy.

And if they come here say, How do you change to electronic shutter mode. You can either not answer them. You can do what that Canon guy does RTFM followed by a snide remark and instead of helping is a jerk. Or you could help them if you know. Or you can say they have GAS to their face or behind their back. Really, people are so jealous.

G.A.S = Gear Acquisition Syndrome.

The guilt committee runs around and tells people who buy gear they should just use what they have. If you guy gear, you somehow have a the Gear Acquisition Syndorme and you are buying gear you don't need. Saying things like, that gear is not going to make you a better photographer, use what you have, and try to put you on a guilt if you buy new gear. That the new mirrorless have features you won't use and the DSLRs are all you need and if you decide to upgrade, you will be wasting your money, you wont' be getting better pictures.

It kinda started out like a joke a while back, but lately people regurgitate what they hear and use it as a weapon trying to putting people on a guilt trip and control how people spend their money.

I am with you on the phones, I don't like buying new ones but since I have to have a service provider they all hand out new phones if you switch. I switch every 2-3 years and get a new phone. The S22 plus was free but I paid 200 bucks for the S22ultra which has better cameras. In 2 years, I will get another phone when I go to Verizon or ATT.

Shoot, I should have bought Gigapixel. I never bought that one and probably would have gotten Photo AI for free too. Bummer.

But I think like you do, probably not uses it, usually only need one of them at a time on pictures, mostly Noise reduction

Ran through a little noise reduction, sharpening, structure and changed the color. Sharpening brought out the stars or, you had a lot of hot pixels. Probably the former.

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My experience with the Tamron 150-600 G2 at 600, it's sharpest at f7. 1 and f8 Make sure the lens is locked at 600 so there is no creep.

Make sure your tripod is sturdy and securely footed and the gimbal/ball head does not move and is rated to hold the weigh of your camera and lens. Do not shoot in the wind. Do not turn in image stabilization it can introduce softness.
Make sure your lens/camera are balanced on the gimbal/ball head so the camera does not want to tip one way or the other.
If you are using a dslr use image shot delay to eliminate shutter slap vibration.

Try and shoot when temperature has stabilized outside. If you have big cooling rocks, buildings, roads, city buildings/heat it can create heat distortion, especially when shooting near the horizon. Over water try to catch the moon rises later in the evening

Use good software like Topaz Sharpen AI and DeNoise AI

He better get it somehow because old programs or new, they need internet validation most often. (not always)

I use my cell phone to download programs to my laptop or phone and then transfer them to a desktop or laptop.
Most software requires a connection to the internet to validate now days, so network is required. If you have no internet and cell service, hope you have a laptop to drive into town with to get your software downloaded and validation.

Well, as with anything adapted, it may not work like you think it should and I have no medium format lenses or adapter to test.

Make sure the company you buy from has a return policy just in case an test it to make sure it works.

HP 6.9 foot laptop.

I find my 17 foot laptop quite portable.