The proper way is Knee-kon Jerry. I take Japanese language classes and my Sensei (Japanese born - Japanese Language teacher) shoots Nikon :roll: The double 'p' in Nippon only extends the 'p' sound. The 'Ni' vowel sound for them is like our 'Knee'. I say 'vowel sounds' because Japanese is all vowel sounds with some modifiers. And their vowels are not the same as ours, needless to say: Ah, I [pronounced 'e'], U [pronounced 'ooh'], E [pronounced 'eh'], and O {pronounced just like our long or hard 'o']. With that, you can see that 'Ni' would be pronounced Ne (knee).

On the flip-side. There is no 'Ca' vowel sound in Japanese, it is a 'ka' vowel sound as in 'kaw'. Canon, as we know it actually started out being 'Kwanon' (qua-non in English) and later 'Hansa Canon' then post war 'Canon' which has absolutely nothing to do with a cannon (taihoo - pronounced 'Tie - ho - o' in English).

Japanese class [Nihon-go] over. :lol:

BTW, there wouldn't be a Nikon Camera Company had it not been for Hansa Canon.

We lost a great one when we lost Mel. Thanks for the memories.

Technically, what you are saying does not add up. The battery grip is nothing more than a battery container with a couple of switches (the shutter button and the power switch). You have two batteries instead of the standard one and they are positioned in such a way that they are in a parallel circuit, meaning that instead of adding voltages of the batteries, they add in the ability of additional current (amps), thus sharing the load.

As long as the camera is not on, there should be no current draw on either battery. They should just sit there and look dumb. Even if you were to keep the power switch on the grip on, if the camera is off, there should be no current draw on the batteries. If however, you leave the camera on (sleep mode after XX minutes) yes, there is current draw because the camera is not truly off. It is asleep, ready to respond at your first command. Could that possibly be your issue?

I have the grip on my 60D and personally think that the two batteries combined actually extend the use more than double (more than if I used the two individual batteries inside the camera itself). I have attributed that to the fact that the batteries share the load, thus do not heat up as much, thus at least a little more shooting power.

All of the above is being said assuming that you do not have a battery issue with one or both of the batteries themselves. I am also assuming that you are using stock LP-E8 Li-Ion type batteries and not just AA batteries in your pack.

Anna... There are a couple conflicting comments here. First you are speaking of the 'IS' and Autofocus, then you shift to the colors being 'spot-on" and yet later state that 'you know fuzzy'. I realize that you said that nothing was changed in the settings, but do you realize that there is a complete new set of settings for video than there are for still photos, and some of them do inter-mesh? One that I noticed on my 60D is that 'white balance' carries over from still to video. That in itself would make a huge difference in the color being 'spot-on'. I use that as an example, you might have switched to cloudy, sunny, shade or something other than AWB for still shots and it carried into your video shooting. Another possibility, especially with 'Live View' is that your focus, although manual, got bumped off of infinity? My 18-135 isn't marked with the infinity mark, and with autofocus off, the focus ring is rather loose. Being on the front end of the lens, could it have been bumped and you not noticed it on the LCD? And my last suggestion/question would be - at what 'frames per second' were you shooting? That could affect the quality of moving objects, especially at night.

I have not shot that many videos with the 60D (a ton with my S5 IS) and don't usually have my 18-135 on the camera, but having used it in the past, these are just a couple of things that I noticed that could cause the problems that you had. Hope it helps.

Thanks Robbie. Someday, maybe we can both post some reds.. :D

We bring some in too, but this year, Ma Nature won. Thanks for the comments.

Thanks Erv, appreciate the comments.

Peekayoh... I appreciate your input and even though I did not find the noise objectionable, will try to lower the ISO even more the next time the shot presents itself. I pride myself in shooting as low of an ISO as possible, so possibly I should have tried the 200 setting.

Thanks Country Mama. The heavy rain this week has beat them to death now. Photography is the only way we can keep them around. :-D

Beautiful color Robbie, great set.



What a strange combination.

Beautiful capture. Bet it remains one of your favorites for many years.

Nice sharp series. Glad the spider is near your house and not mine.

Nice work. Please keep them coming.

Beautiful Robbie. Have to agree, I would rather have the birds. The cats can eat canned fish just as easily.

Beautiful.... Really like the Mimosa.