I bought a Fuji X-T2 about a month ago and I also have a Nikon D750. After using both for the last month you're right, neither is the 'be all & end all'. The negative for the D750 is weight especially with full frame lenses. The downside to the Fuji is the (this will ruffle the feathers of some of the mirrorless folks) electronic view finder - I very much prefer the Nikon view finder - even though you can see what your final exposure will look like. The Nikon is a cleaner, higher "resolution" look at your subject.

The end product images from both are more affected by me than the camera but I'm pleased with the images I get on both. What I've found is for a walk around camera I take the X-T2 (light weight, smaller, fun to use) and for my serious photos (do I have those?) I prefer my Nikon.

That is right - I retired about 8 months ago but the organization I worked for didn't allow much of anything (I worked at a hospital). Dropbox was blocked (not secure enough) and any USB device was blocked on all computers in the organization unless you had one of the IT issued thumb drives. The thumb drives they issued had little keypads on them that required a 4 digit passcode in order to work. And, you guessed it, you only got the thumb drives if you had an IT approved reason to be transferring business related only files from one computer to another. Internet was screwed down very tight, too.

There was so much security stuff running on the computers it would take 7 to 8 minutes for them to boot up, I only restarted it every 10 days or so. It got so bad that I took my MacBook to work with me, used the guest network, and did most of my work that way. I didn't have the time or patience to deal with all the security stuff. My work computer became an email / calendar machine.

Lol! I saw that after I posted it here - thanks

Before I retired I used to get frustrated with myself because I drove this road every morning and sometimes, predictably, the road leading away from my home would look like this but I never had my camera (work mindset ...). This morning when I got up it was a little foggy and I decided I'd get my camera as soon as the sun came up and go get the picture I always felt I missed. It only took 14 years .....

As usual, the download is best.

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There ya' go - I've been reading this thread (why ... I don't know ...) and thinking what you just "said".

Your comment sort of mirrors my thoughts. I like PP, I think it is fun.

The only time I shoot jpeg is when "the family" wants me to be the photographer for birthdays, Christmas, etc and any of those situations where i get co-opted - and don't care how the pictures come out. They get what they get and I don't get to enjoy the 'party' but that is a topic for another thread/day.

I capture this picture today from a youtube video .... take it for what it is worth. If you go to the link below and start at 55 seconds (to about 1 minute 36 seconds) you'll see why RAW is important.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDtebpvATzc

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I live about an hour from Roberts (they are in Indianapolis - 2 locations) and it is a family run business that has been in Indy for 60 years.

I've bought an awful lot of gear from them and they have always been helpful, knowledgeable, and honest. The owner (son of the original owner) is one of the nicest people you'll meet. I support them as much as I can because they provide what online businesses cannot; I can go in and handle all different cameras, lenses, etc.

Every time I get a new lens I take my camera with me and they let me put the lens on my camera and I go out the front door and taken pictures outside and around the area of the store. I get a chance to see the image quality, focus speed and accuracy, and if the results are what I expected. Great place to go.

From the exif data it shows she used a Nikon D810 and a Nikon 200-500 lens.

I grew up in a town of about 3,500 (grad from H.S. in '67) - muscle cars, 60's music, and High School basketball - I get something in my eye ever time I let myself think about it. Even in a town that small we had a place called the "Teen Hop" that had a dance every Friday and Saturday night - Saturday always was a live band and drew bands from as far away as Chicago (I lived in Bremen - northern Indiana about 90 miles from Chicago and yes, I grew up and still am a DIE HARD Cub fan). I'll never regret for a minute the times I grew up in, I'm 68 now and the reality that I could be gone tomorrow doesn't change that.

My wife and I still go see some of the stars from those days (Herman's Hermits are still touring and still sound great - a really fun show, too) We also went and saw Davey Jones 2 weeks before he died. The Righteous Bros, Stones, Jay Black and a lot of others are still touring - go see them while you can. There is also a 60's band out of Columbus Ohio, Phil Dirt and the Dozers, that are terrific. We try to see them at least once or twice a year - they are very good and sing a wide variety of 60s stuff - Jackie Wilson, Beach Boys, Righteous Bros, Sam Cook, Roy Orbison, Little Anthony, etc.....

Fourlocks is right - it was the music, and still is, that bound us together and I still listen to it every day - I have satellite radio in my truck and my wife's car and have an iTunes library of over 2,200 songs from the late 50s, 60s, and early 70s. Coincidentally, at around the same time the car manufacturers took the compression out of the muscle cars the music was weak, too. Not much I like after the early 70s.

Thanks to all for this thread!

During lawn mowing season I average about 8 acres / week. I don't mow everything every week and mow some with a lawn mower, some with a zero turn, and the some with a tractor / finish mower. Obviously, I live out in the sticks and I do a lot of work out here that "Americans won't do". Of course, I do it because if I don't the gov't isn't going to send me a monthly check to not do it ...... oh, and I enjoy it - I listen to oldies music or podcasts while I mow and enjoy the outdoors.

Agreed!

Consider that people on this forum spend $3,500 for a camera and $2,400 for a lens to take pictures of a flower in their back yard. Nothing wrong with that - it's their money and how they spend it is their business. If you can afford what you want and it fits your priorities .....

If Nikon put all of their developed tech into the next camera release then Canon, Oly, Sony, etc. would have to do the same thing or lose all market share. You know what would happen then - everyone would start b!tching at the camera manufacturers for not caring about keeping us current or what is the matter with the OEMs that they only came up with this one piddly little feature in the last 12 months ..... etc. The OEMs can either release small upgrades every 12-18 months or a big bang every 5-6 years, if they could do a big bang every 12-18 months they would already do that.

You can accomplish the same thing by buying a new camera every 5-6 years - if you think you need to.

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I really like the conversion of #1 to #2 - very cool. What software did you use to do that?

Beautiful! My wife and I stayed there about 10 years ago - I love GNP - I'd live there but my wife seems to think we already have a home (she's confused like that sometimes :) .... ).

Was your stay there recent?