Posts for: therwol
Mar 28, 2024 10:33:00 #
User ID wrote:
Youre spozed to end the title with "And what do you Nikon Users Think ?"
Happiness is a warm Nikon. Hold it, caress it, stroke it, sleep with it. Never let it go. Only a true photographer would know this.
Mar 28, 2024 09:39:36 #
User ID wrote:
It depends.
Not joking.
But Im unwilling to rehash all the tiresome details of "it depends" for the zillionth time.
Ill only point out that viewing on a screen demands more resolution than a wall hanger print if the image is intriguingly full of small details. Its much more comfortable to zoom into a screen image than to stick your nose onto a wall hanger sized print. its verrrry much easier to "wander around" in a screen image than in a hard copy.
Not joking.
But Im unwilling to rehash all the tiresome details of "it depends" for the zillionth time.
Ill only point out that viewing on a screen demands more resolution than a wall hanger print if the image is intriguingly full of small details. Its much more comfortable to zoom into a screen image than to stick your nose onto a wall hanger sized print. its verrrry much easier to "wander around" in a screen image than in a hard copy.
It's much easier to zoom in on a screen to view details in a picture, but a large print, such as found in public places and sometimes in a home, is for others to view, and when I encounter such pictures, say in a restaurant, I do "look around" for detail. Large format pictures from the 1800s and earlyl 1900s are particularly interesting to me. I like to see in detail what people were doing, what cars they were driving, what they were wearing, what businesses people shopped at etc. I don't own the original to view those pictures on a computer screen or possibly on a large TV. More pixels will make details in a large print easier for OTHERS to see details.
Mar 28, 2024 09:32:58 #
All suggestions are appreciated. I'm leaning toward the Nikon 200-500. I have many opportunities to take pictures of birds, squirrels, turkeys etc just from my front porch. Even with cropping, the results leave something to be desired.
Mar 27, 2024 22:34:15 #
ricardo00 wrote:
A 500mm PF is quite a bit lighter and focusses faster plus works better with a TC (yes I own both). You can probably pick up a used one these days for a decent price. Unless you think you might need to zoom our to get something close much of the time, why not get a prime? I usually end up cropping anyway for wildlife, especially birds. Just a thought.
Good suggestion. Thanks.
Mar 27, 2024 17:54:50 #
kpmac wrote:
Nicely done. You are correct; a longer lens would have helped.
Thanks. I'm going to have to break down and buy something longer, perhaps a 200-500 and deal with the weight.
Mar 27, 2024 17:51:32 #
SteveR wrote:
Why weren't there protective concrete pylons in front of each bridge support that would have brought any ship to a stop before actually hitting the bridge supports? Granted, I'm not an engineer, but it seems like common sense.
This has been brought up. I'll bet the replacement has this sort of protection.
Mar 27, 2024 17:49:01 #
Red Shouldered Hawk perhaps 200 feet away. Taken at 200mm with a Nikon 70-200 f/4 VR. Second image is a crop. The images look darker on my screen than they do when I simply view the pictures. I don't know what's up with that.
Mar 27, 2024 17:20:48 #
cbtsam wrote:
I guess you guys just don't ever crop. An enviable luxury!
Yes, it does make a difference in cropped images, but otherwise it makes none the way that images are normally viewed and printed. Super large prints? Okay, but most people don't make them.
Mar 27, 2024 17:13:58 #
Let's start another thread on jpeg versus RAW, just for fun. Always good for insults. When we're done with that, how about Sony versus everyone else? Nikon versus Canon. Don't forget purple streaking with Foveon sensors. That was the best for insults. I look forward to them all. In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy myself trying to figure out Jerry's problems with everything he touches.
Mar 27, 2024 12:41:54 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Why are there so many different ways to attach win... (show quote)
I have a 2012 Mini Cooper Countryman. I bought wipers in a local car parts place whose book directed me to the wipers. They weren't correct. The mounting system was wrong. I returned them and went to the nearest Mini dealer for the wipers. That was a pain. The dealer is 40 miles away, but I felt I had no choice. I didn't trust Amazon to sell me the correct wipers.
Mar 25, 2024 23:03:14 #
Nancysc wrote:
It was L. Bernstein who brought Mahler into the popular realm (popular among classical music listeners. This was in the 1960s. And of course this was 20 years after WWII, so enough time to bring German music in general into the airwaves and concert halls.
Bernstein is buried with the score to Mahler's 5th, said to be his favorite. I was once listening to the last movement of the 5th at a very high volume in my car and didn't even notice the police siren on my tail as the officer tried to get around me. Big music.
Mar 25, 2024 17:11:43 #
Nancysc wrote:
Youtube has a video of Bernstein conducting the Mahler II in an English cathedral (not in London). It will make a believer out of the most devout atheist!
I'm not sure about that, but it's a magnificent piece of music.
You surely know that he was Jewish, married a Christian, converted to Catholicism, but still encountered anti-semitic issues that increased toward the end of his life. The Vienna Philharmonic didn't play his music after WWII until the 1960s.
Mar 25, 2024 17:06:34 #
neillaubenthal wrote:
One of my fave's as well…but I would put Tchaikovsky #1 and Beethoven #5 ahead of the Rachy 2 and 3…and the Tchaikovsky wins over all the rest.
It's a matter of taste, of course. Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff wrote emotional pieces. Beethoven is more intellectual. Tchaikovsky in particular wrote many memorable romantic melodies in his pieces. Rach 2 has at least two that I can think of that have been borrowed over and over. Rach 3 is more harsh than 2, and I have to be in a mood for it.
Mar 25, 2024 13:44:52 #
fourlocks wrote:
Love his work but my all time favorite is Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 (New World Symphony) sometimes describe as the most beautiful symphony ever written.
If anyone wants to know, my favorite symphony is Brahms' 4th.
Mar 25, 2024 02:23:50 #
niteman3d wrote:
I hope it's true... just read a rumor that a 28-400 Nikon Z mount lens is in the pipeline. I really miss my Tamron 28-400 which doesn't work with the FTZ.
Nikon is a very secretive company. We read rumors for years that the D850 would be replaced by another DSLR like maybe a D860 or D880. There were rumors that they would produce a mirrorless camera with a 61MP sensor to match Sony. It didn't happen. What you're seeing may or may not be true, but the only way to know is to wait and find out.