Lens??

Lens?

Just got a D750 last september. Specifically for a trip to Iceland to photograph the Aurora. A raging success. I would have bought a Sony electronic shutter model, but we had three lenses already for the Nikon from an older film camera. The camera did a wonderful job on both individual photos and time lapse. And of course, two months after our trip, Nikon introduced their electronic camera, though I am not too upset, as I have a rule - never buy version 1.0 of a product. There WILL be issues.
Regarding the question of the crop frame vs. full, I would say, just spend the extra money. A year out you will forget how much it cost (I did), and you will have that little extra when you want it. You will never be caught thinking "If I had just..."
The below photos are at f/2.4 for ONLY 2.5 seconds!

Fixed - and thank you.

This was one other reason to have people review the site.

Dang - thought I had turned that off. There are apparently separate controls for each gallery -and they might appear differently for viewers as opposed to owners. Gotta go back through the mechanics

The purpose - 1) to serve as a repository for finally finished photos 2) to encourage me to finally finish them, as opposed to having 17 versions of each
3) To see what the reaction is to see if my taste somehow is the same as one or two other people on the planet

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Please post some of your photos in this forum. It's more fun and interesting than going off somewhere off site. Gizzy[/quote]

Yes - but they are LARGE LARGE LARGE

OK - That works

Nope. Maybe due to the fact I was changing a few things???

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Please stop by. I hope you will find it interesting.

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often, I'm left cold by flower photos (specifically: mine). Yours are wonderful.
Sorry I have no criticisms - and thus nothing to improve on, but I love them.

Yours uncritically,

Phil shaffer

One point I'd like to emphasize, and I think we all know this anyway. "HDR" as we speak of it includes 2 things: the actual HDR, and the tone mapping. To me, 90% of the emotional impact of the image comes from proper tone mapping. But, as above, capturing the HDR so that it can be tone mapped is unnecessarily cumbersome. It is this part of the process that I think could and should be included in high end camera functions.

Through the years, things that once required some "hands on" time became automated and/or simplified. Glass plates gave way to roll film. Light meters gave way to autoexposure. Autofocus replaced manual focus (for the most part). Since, boiled to its essence, HDR is a means to capture a wide latitude and corrects for the inadequacy of the receptor, it is natural to think of it as an improvement on an imperfect technique. I find that the current method of bracketing and then processing has its serious drawbacks. It robs me of time that could be saved by some computing. I could use this time to work on the creative end. It also, for the most part, precludes photographing anything that moves. I really don't like this one.
To me, it seems natural to include HDR in a camera as a means of correcting a deficiency in a receptor. After all, we are not forced to download our pictures and then white-balance in a piece of software.
If I were designing it, it would be a single shutter release. The receptor would be 16 (or maybe 32) bits deep, and would be able to record a latitude equivalent to 5 brackets. The file would be saved as a radiance (or perhaps raw would do fine for this). You might set the camera to do some immediate post processing, like the presets in Photomatix. You could set the camera to save JPEG also. Then, on download, all versions would come down. You could then take the radiance directly into Photomatix and spruce up the tone mapping. I agree that this part is not something that you would get your best results from automating, a human eye is necessary for the final production.

A question - what do you use for your backup?? This, to me, is a critical question that I have only answered with dual storage. Not elegant, but effective. It sounds as though you have no backup.

(I have found that I can buy external drives cheap at wall mart. Western Digital 600gB for about $80)

In your initial post you said that while installing LR, APERTURE said it did not support removable storage. Was this a mis-type. Did you mean that LR reported that it didn't support removable storage?

What is art?

Is Albert Bierstadt a "real" artist?
Or is DeKooning?

Unanswerable questions.

Like food: If you like it, eat it.

Oh BTW, I know most people know this, but just in case..

I have to run Windows from time to time on my laptop, so I have Windows in my mac. The cool thing is that with one button push, the screen changes from Mac to Windows, and the Windows looks just like any other Windows machine. Then one more button push and you are back to Mac. A nice parlor trick to amuse your friends who don't know that you can run Windows on a mac.

When OS 10 first came out, I was thinking one day that I had a machine that was running Unix, and OS 10 on top of that, but could also run OS 9 at the same time, and Windows. All of them running along perfectly happy, not bothering each other, but able to share info (such as cut/paste). Four OS's running at once. Cool.