Mac wrote:
Mac wrote:
Does anyone know of a group for Nikon users called Nikonians? What are your thoughts?
Thanks
Mac
A big thank you to all who took the time to respond. For the time being at least I think I will skip Nikonians as well as any other forums and stick with just UHH.
Mac
A final word, since you have made up your mind. I have been a Nikonian for several years and whatever else you say about them, their workshops are really really good. Those alone are worth the small dues.
Marjorieg wrote:
Can anyone recommend a point and shoot camera that can shoot in raw as well as jpg. I presently have the Nikon P&S P7000 and I do not find the camera very good. There is a very long delay between each photo. I know the Canon G12 does shoot in raw but I know nothing about Canon cameras,
I had bought the P7000 as I thought it would be a good companion for my Nikon D7000 while traveling. However I am very disappointed in it.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.....
I am a Nikon guy but years ago I bought the Canon G9 (ancestor of the G12) for the purpose you have in mind. It has been spectacular. Don't be afraid of using different manufacturers for different things (as long as they are compatible, of course.) I love my G9.
bhdsnyder wrote:
I am an amature photographer who's main interest is photographing wildlife and wildflowers. I use a Nikon D50 with a 70 to 300mm lens on the wildlife and the 18 to 55mm for shooting wildflowers in Macro mode. I was a bowhunter for 34 years but now just go out with my camera. My interest in photography really increased with Digital.
Welcome. Too bad about the snow. You will love this site. I have learned a ton already.
flshutterbug wrote:
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Too bad you are on the bad side of the Everglades. I am in Naples and would be interested.
To learn more about the new camera I have (Nikon D300s) and to carry it with me everywhere I can so I don't miss any more shots like I did a few weeks ago, when I was on the golf course and saw a monkey squirrel and a baby (adolescent) alligator nose-to-nose trying to figure out what exactly the other guy was. They held that pose for 10-15 full seconds before the alligator (yes, the alligator) decided to break the spell and ran for the water.
RobGilchrist wrote:
Here is my attempt at a little further tweeking
This is a great subject. I have an entire box full of old photo prints of my parents, grandparents, and extended family from the "Old country", almost all of whom are gone now. (I am 76). My nephew and I are trying to cobble together a genealogy to go with the photos and we would love to restore many of them, both b/w and originally in color, that have faded badly.
It would be greatly appreciated if the guys and gals that "tweaked" this photo submitted here would identify the software they used. Some did already but it would be nice to compare.
Thanks
This is a very timely subject for me because, newly retired, my wife is on my case to clean out closets and attic and get ready to put the old manse on the market, and just today I unearthed about 10-15 carousels of 30 to 40 year old slides that I had forgotten I had. A quick look shows that they are not in great shape, with some to severe color degradation/fading in most of them--if not all to some degree. Poor storage conditions, I am sure.
My question is whether color degradation/fading can be corrected, even somewhat, and if so, how. Both Kodachrome and Ektachrome. I see great advice regarding the scanning/digitizing process and equipment above, but once a degraded slide is digitized, is there anything that can be done to bring it somewhat back to the original colors?
Thanks
joelhaynes wrote:
Carl wrote:
I have Aperture 2 on my 3 year old Mac and just upgraded the OS to Lion. I am having trouble now, to say the least. I never was a real fan of Aperture but it was OK. Now it is not. So I figured maybe it needed to be upgraded to Aperture 3, so I went to the Apple App Store and wow! there are sure some terrible reviews of Aperture in the Lion OS. So I am stuck.
If I get Pixelmator, which many praise, do I need Aperture?
I am not sure where that handful of bad review of Aperture on the App store are coming from. I have Lion installed on a 2008 iMac and a 2009 MacBook Pro both with Aperture 3. I saw no problems with Aperture memory problems before or after converting to Lion. I remain a very satisfied Aperture user. Perhaps those problems are due some underlying Lion installation issues.
My experience with Pixelmator is so far very limited. However, the adjustment controls for brightness and shadows in Aperture 3 are more sophisticated than those in Pixelmator because they allow you to control the tonal range of both the brightness and shadows adjustment as well as the mid-level contrast. I haven't found that capability in Pixelmator but I haven't spent much time with it yet. Also, the levels adjustment in Aperture allow for a finer level of control than the similar tool in Pixelmator. My view is that Aperture and Pixelmator complement one another. Aperture's capabilities lie in library and organization functions and routine post processing with some nice sophisticated adjustment tools. It also is great for photo exporting and resizing. Pixelmator provides the layers-based platform for photoshop-type editing but you cannot use it for any library functions.
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Many thanks Joel. I think I will upgrade my Aperture 2 to 3 and see what happens. Your comments are appreciated.
Carl
I have Aperture 2 on my 3 year old Mac and just upgraded the OS to Lion. I am having trouble now, to say the least. I never was a real fan of Aperture but it was OK. Now it is not. So I figured maybe it needed to be upgraded to Aperture 3, so I went to the Apple App Store and wow! there are sure some terrible reviews of Aperture in the Lion OS. So I am stuck.
If I get Pixelmator, which many praise, do I need Aperture?
photocat wrote:
Check this out
http://www.thedambook.com/
Thank you Photocat. I looked at the Table of Contents and it looks pretty advanced for the likes of me, but the subject is right on my point.
Thanks again.
This thread is alone worth the price of admission.
I too am a new enthusiast and have no system in place for editing, storing and backing up what images I take (not many yet). I have concentrated on learning how to use my new Nikon 300s but once I have an image on a card I am lost with respect to what to do next except transfer it to iPhoto. The 300s has two card slots so I take both RAW/NEF and JPEG simultaneously. Any suggestions for a book or a video on the subject of how to go from the memory card to editing/cataloging/storing and backing up would be greatly appreciated. I have an elderly MacBook Pro with a broken internal disk drive and have purchased Aperture and Capture NX2 simply because I was told that is the thing to do, but I can't understand how to use either.
johnr9999 wrote:
Fascinating! Everybody on this thread exhibits decent spelling and grammar. The greatest offenders are conspicously absent.
I find it interesting that photography is about communications and yet some of the contributors seem barely literate.
I have found that people that read heavily are better spellers and communicators.
I have no intention of castigating the bad spellers, but I will classify them in my brain.
Well--it's hard to know where to start, since the opening message from wyndjammr had a misspelled word, and the post by johnr9999 above did too, as well as a grammatical error. The many errors in posts on this and other sites can indicate many things--carelessness, lack of education, lack of time, dyslexia, fingers faster than brain, etc., etc. Some of those errors are indeed jarring, and would cause me to reprimand and correct my child or grandchild if uttered at home, but I agree with the sentiment that we should all look beyond the form to the substance, on this site as well as in life. Let's not "sweat the small stuff" and enjoy the wisdom the members here are willing to share, free of charge.
JimH wrote:
Carl wrote:
the sales guy at a very reputable camera shop told me always to use a card reader because of the possibility (remote, admittedly) that the camera firmware could be damaged by a power surge from the computer if connected directly. Please don't tell me he gave me bum advice.
One of my side lines for the last 32 years has been building and maintaining PCs. He gave you bum advice. The chance of a 'power surge' from your PC's USB port damaging your camera's firmware is roughly equivalent to being struck dead by a hunk of blue frozen airplane poop while walking across Nebraska. He wanted to sell you a card reader. Was he successful?
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Of course he was. Actually he sold me two--I got one for my wife to use too.
RPMustang wrote:
I have read that there is a chance the images could be corrupted if the battery runs down before the file transfer is complete.
When I bought my Nikon D300s the sales guy at a very reputable camera shop told me always to use a card reader because of the possibility (remote, admittedly) that the camera firmware could be damaged by a power surge from the computer if connected directly. I am not a techie--so I took his advice and never had a problem with pins or forgetting to put the card back in the camera (I always carry spares anyway). Please don't tell me he gave me bum advice.
BTW Mustang--are you the only Packers fan in Texas? How big is your fan club? About the same size as the Cowboys fan club in Wisconsin.