Make that 'bored' and I share your thoughts on this one. If you are not interested then just move on.
Somewhat of a consideration. Refurbished generally means fixed and brought back to factory specs. This means at one point the item was damaged and repaired. They entice you to buy it with the 90 day warranty ensuring it was fixed properly. Mine was never abused or damaged to begin with and is in pristine condition. If you want buy someone else's broken and repaired equipment to save a $100 I am sure Nikon will be more than happy to accommodate you.
Nothing to "restore", the lens probably has not even made 50 shots. Based my price on what they are going for on EBay.
I have decided to go a different direction in my photography. All of the above equipment is in like new condition. These items were purchased new by myself from B&H photo and are the USA models. Everything that originally came with this equipment; boxes, paperwork, cables, software, etc is included. The camera was used primarily indoors for studio work. Shutter count is at 2519. The camera had a total clean, lube, and adjust around the shutter count of 2300 at the Melville, NY Nikon facility. Being primarily an indoor camera the lenses were almost never used and nothing was used in a high humidity environment (rain/fog) or in temps below 50 degrees. I want $1500 for the D800, $900 for the 16-35mm f4 VR, and $850 for the 28-300mm VR. If interested send me a message.
Not so much on the auto focus anymore. Read the specs on the new Fujifilm X-Pro2.
That lens plus the new XPro-2 will make an excellent combination.
If you are considering Fuji there is yet another option. Tomorrow Fujifilm will be announcing their new XPro-2 camera. Lots of upgrades including a 24.3 megapixel sensor. You can read the full list of specs here:
http://product.fujifilm.com.au/products/consumerProducts/xCamerasLensesAndAccessories/x-pro2/specifications
Cannot comment on the X30 but I use the X100T for the exact reason that you stated. It is an incredible camera that takes amazing photos. And yes, it does have back button focus. Rpavich is correct about the Fuji forum. I visit there daily as well as here.
Thank you so much for your help. I spent hours without success and you got it. The photo is only going to be printed wallet size so it should turn out fine.
Dave
Here is the link to the folder containing the original scan and the restored photo up to the hair attempt.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o6zt54lhsaibw3z/AAC14oL8XcvNrJJoSwgy9Cr0a?dl=0
The final photo with my hair restoration attempt and borders is still a .psd file and is over 800Mb. I am currently in Linux and later today will go over to Windows to convert it to a jpeg and upload it to dropbox.
Thanks for looking.
I plan on posting 3 photos to dropbox, the original photo, the edited photo, and the edited photo with borders. Are you ok with going to a dropbox account?
My mother in law asked me to restore her most treasured photo. It is a photo of her 5 children when they were infants. Originally it was a 120 print that she cut down (with scissors) to fit in her wallet where she has carried it since. Her children are now in their 40's. There is no negative and this is the only copy.
I am not a Photoshop wizard at all. I am using CS6, took my time, learned a lot on here as well as you tube, and was able to clean up everything but the hair. I am unable to make the hair acceptable and not a clue on how to get it there.
Not really sure why but the jpeg file has grown after numerous edits and now sits at around 75Mb. Because of the sizeI have not been able to upload it to this site for review. If I post the image on dropbox will you work on it from there? Otherwise does anyone know how to get this large of a file to upload?
Thanks,
Dave
Sort of correct. Steve Jobs created the NeXT OS during the interim when he was not working for Apple. He took a Mach micro kernel and modified it to create the NeXT kernel. The kernel is what defines the OS not the 'kernel facilities'. Everyone shares most of those, Unix, Linux, and BSD even though Berkeley did develop a lot of this code. Since everyone is using pretty much the same thing it does not define the OS only the kernel and how the kernel implements them.
BSD is an open source version of UNIX developed as a teaching platform by Berkeley. The Mach Kernel was developed as a teaching tool by Carnegie Mellon totally independent of BSD. Jobs used the Mach kernel not a hybrid Mach/BSD kernel. System utilities ('kernel facilities') are shared by everyone so I stand by OS X is its own creation not a knock off of BSD.
As for Linux, Torvalds started with the Minix micro kernel and has managed to create something quite excellent.