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Jul 22, 2022 11:44:32   #
Maybe the OP should contact NASA and buy the Hubble Telescope Instead.
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Jul 22, 2022 11:40:43   #
Ioannis wrote:
I have a Canon M50 camera that I’m very happy with 18-55mm lens. I would like to purchase a zoom lens for landscapes, portraits, birds and every day use on vacations or at home. I need to stay with prices no more than $ 500-600 and here is why I’m asking for help from my fellow HH. I know Canon makes M zoom lens of 18-150 and 50-200 (‘if I’m correct with their focal length) I don’t like their bottle type of style! Please advise for any brand with an average size lens up to 200 mm focal length.


Talk To CHG_Canon. He has the best Knowledge when it comes to Canon Products, and even though He Bugs Me at Times, This Guy Knows His Stuff when it Comes to what You Are Asking.
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Jul 22, 2022 11:04:24   #
To all Concerned. I made a Reply Yesterday and I though that I punched in 2018. I did not mean to say that I had a D850 back in the 80's. I was brought in as a Consultant on this Case, I actually had to go to a Therapist for 4yrs.. And I feel that any of You that would have seen what I did, well let's just say that it was something that had the power to Overcome The Human Mind. I still have Nightmares today. And I was wrong to expect Paul or anyone else that read my reply. I was try to Multi-Task and I thought that I put 2018 instead of the 80's. I'am truly Sorry if I Offended Any Fell UHH'rs. I do have a very hard time with this case, as the Girl was My Confidential Informant and Someone Administered that Fatal Shot.
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Jul 22, 2022 10:36:50   #
SuperflyTNT wrote:
Now that’s just weird. Sad that you had to go there. What’s your point? At least you were the lucky one to have a D850 in the ‘80s. Nobody else was able to get one until almost 5 years ago.


I was referring to the D850 in Present times. I did not get the D850 until they were introduced to Market, What made You Think That I Had one during the 80's. I mean't 2018 and so You can Take that out of my Reply. Just think if I would have had the D850 during the 80's if I would have had the Greatest DSLR ever produced then. I have 2 D850's. I usually read my Posts before sending them, well I sure did not do this on that reply. Thank You for bringing that to my attention. Although, I think that most Manufacturers Have Mockups that probably do go about 5yrs. snd then they perfect their designs. If You look at Apple, it has been stated that their Product Line could be up to 10yrs in advance of what they sell today. It kind of makes sense that a Tech Company could stop and sell their latest Products and yet have a Line that would go 10yrs deep.
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Jul 22, 2022 00:01:43   #
CHG_CANON wrote:
The scariest moment is just before you buy a mirrorless camera.


The scariest Moment for Me is Taking a Great Shot with My Nikon D850 and Having the Lab Call Me and asking What Should they do With The Most Beautiful Image Of An Overdose Victim and They Don't know Which Side They Should Shoot of Her Due To Decomposition Of The Body. This is What Happens When You Have A Lab Tech Yelling, "What Should I Do"? The Body Has Decomposed So Much That I Could Not Even Let The Parents In To ID Her as It Was That Bad. Paul Maybe You Should Poke Some Fun At That One. They Live in the Windy City and You Could Run That Joke Past Them? Yes, Her Dad Is 6"5' and Weighs Around 250 and He Is All Muscle, Now That Would Qualify as "The Scariest Moment" I'am Pretty Sure. Happened Back In the 80's.And If That Doesn't Qualify, Then I do Not Know What Will. I bet it's not that Funny Now.
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Jul 20, 2022 01:30:38   #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Print the free shipping label as proof of effort ...


My GOD, You Really Do Get off On All Things Canon. I Bet If Someone Told You That Canon Came Out With A Toilet, You Would Rush Out And Buy It. I Really Don't Believe You Paul, Especially When There's a Fed. Agent on This Forum And You Tell The Guy To Print A Fake Label. You Really Don't Have Any Shame In Your Game Paul. You Are A Fine Specimen And We Should Make Sure, GOD Forbid Something Were To Happen To You, That You Are Buried in a Casket That Has Canon R6 Painted On It. You Slay Me, You Were Probably Half Asleep And The Liberty Mutual Commercial Triggered Your Brain And You Woke Up and Thought Of You And Leemu Driving In A Van With Canon R6 Painted On It.
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Jul 20, 2022 01:07:14   #
bikinkawboy wrote:
Nickaroo, sorry to hear about your health. As long as we are healthy, especially when young, we can get on our high horse and chirp very loudly. As we get older and our health starts to slip, we can look back on our lives and see the humor in our inflated egos. As one ages, our priorities definitely change. You appear to have the right attitude, so hang in there and the best of luck to you.

Now back to fussing and feuding! Ken Rockwell has made some good comparisons between cameras of different mp’s and ISOs. Photo clarity or sharpness usually follows expectations, with higher pixel counts generally returning higher quality. ISO differences also tend to follow expectations with newer and more expensive cameras returning less noise. Not always, but generally.

With moderate enlargements like you mentioned, I agree that most people couldn’t tell which camera did what. However, with massive enlargements of small areas, I suspect one could do a better job of matching photo and camera as long as they were familiar with the age, pixel count and to a lesser degree, price of each camera.

I don’t doubt those that say mirrorless cameras perform better than older DSLRs. But then again, they are comparing state of the art technology with older technology. Just like I know a modern day car with heater, AC, molded contoured seats and modern suspension will be more comfortable than a Model A Ford with no heater or AC, horse hair stuffed seats with coil springs and a straight front axle.

I figure any modern mirrorless camera that can’t do everything a DSLR can but do it better is a piece of crap. Just like any modern car that can’t outdo a Model A is a piece of crap.
Nickaroo, sorry to hear about your health. As long... (show quote)


I look at this differently than most. I look at things and if they are productive then why change. The Guys on This Thread act as if they are The Members that Make Up The Nikon Board. They Are Not Thank God, but they sit back and type while I'am out there busting my Butt to make a little side cash for betting on Football and Basketball. Since I happen to work for the Athletic Department for The University of Michigan, my Brother gets my picks in by Friday at 11:00PM. That way there is no conflict of interest and my Name does not get dragged through the mud. Now, back to Cameras, They do not ask which Camera I have used at a Sporting Event or a Concert, they look for the End Result. To tell the Truth, I still like my D6 and D850 over my Z9. Everything that I own related to Photography can easily get Damaged and my stuff will put a check in my pocket, no matter if it is a Mirrorless or a DSLR. So, in the end, it doesn't matter who uses what. I golf with a squad of 32 Golfers every Saturday and everyone puts $100 in for Skins and 25 for Closest to the Pin on the Par 3's, then $20 for who is closest to the Pin on the 3rd. Shot on the Par 5's. so I watch this 75yr old man pull out His Persimmon WOOD Clubs and He nails that Ball every time that He Hits It. So I asked Him if He has ever tried to hit it from being on a Tee in The Tee Box, He Looks at me Like He is Calling me dumb, and Tees the Ball up on a short but a Very Hard 396yrd Par 4, That Ball Took Off Like a Rocket and he rolled it up to The 125yrd Marker, He Ripped it 271 Yards. None of Us Could Believe it. and He Suffers from Spinal Stenosis. Go Figure. That Old man taught this 64yr. old How it's Done. And to Top it off He Won $450 in Skins and a Closest To The Pin On a Par 3 and that brought Home some $275. He Bought us Crown Royals until I could not take anymore as I was scheduled to go to Dinner with Family That Night. I had 4 Hours TO Clean Myself Up and Get ready For This High Class Restaurant and Luckily I knew the Owner Really Well, So Since He Was Family, I excused Myself and Grabbed Him and Told Him That I need Some of His Funny Gummy's and He Gave Me 5 and I ate 4 at Once, needless to say that settled My Stomach Enough to take Down A Tomahawk Steak like I had Never Eaten Before. You should Have Seen The Look My Parents and In-Laws had on their Faces when I Picked Up That Huge Steak Bone and Started Cleaning Every Bit of Meat Off Of It. My Sister and Brothers Started Laughing Because My Cousin Told Them What He Gave Me and How Many I ate at Once. I was Higher Than a Georgia Pine by the Time That All Of Us Left. I was a Drug Cop at the Time and Did not Care What Anyone Thought. I Still Don't Care What People Think About Me and That is How I Will Beat This Cancer Again.
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Jul 20, 2022 00:06:32   #
therwol wrote:
Nikon will kill off the DSLRs they make. They're already about half way there. DSLRs and mirrorless are the same medium. Mirrorless is an evolution, not a revolution. IQ in most circumstances is going to be the same. Mirrorless has some added features that some might find useful. You can't deny that. (News agencies are switching to mirrorless. No more clickety clack in press conferences. I read that the PGA will or has banned noisy cameras with mirrors. There is some logic to that.) The cameras you mention are fine cameras, but they are not going to promote them any longer. Sales will fall. They will go away. I don't care. I bought a D850 last year. I'm 70 years old and on a fixed income. I have a system built around that camera. I'm done with buying cameras, and I can be happy with what I have. If I were younger and just starting out, I'd buy a mirrorless camera and build a different system around it. I don't understand why feathers are going up and insults are flying over this issue. I'm following three different threads simultaneously on this subject, and it's the same in all of them. Let's just all calm down. We have no control over what's happening short of a big surge in buying DSLRs that isn't going to happen. Buy or don't buy what you want. I've even suggested in a previous thread that if you want a DSLR, now may be the best time to buy one new. It's a choice.
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Oh, I forgot to mention to You, and this is from My Dear Friend who Is A REP For Nikon, He said that Nikon plans on building the D6, D780, and they have run Some D850's at the Manufacturing Plant in Thailand and Taiwan.
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Jul 20, 2022 00:02:50   #
therwol wrote:
Nikon will kill off the DSLRs they make. They're already about half way there. DSLRs and mirrorless are the same medium. Mirrorless is an evolution, not a revolution. IQ in most circumstances is going to be the same. Mirrorless has some added features that some might find useful. You can't deny that. (News agencies are switching to mirrorless. No more clickety clack in press conferences. I read that the PGA will or has banned noisy cameras with mirrors. There is some logic to that.) The cameras you mention are fine cameras, but they are not going to promote them any longer. Sales will fall. They will go away. I don't care. I bought a D850 last year. I'm 70 years old and on a fixed income. I have a system built around that camera. I'm done with buying cameras, and I can be happy with what I have. If I were younger and just starting out, I'd buy a mirrorless camera and build a different system around it. I don't understand why feathers are going up and insults are flying over this issue. I'm following three different threads simultaneously on this subject, and it's the same in all of them. Let's just all calm down. We have no control over what's happening short of a big surge in buying DSLRs that isn't going to happen. Buy or don't buy what you want. I've even suggested in a previous thread that if you want a DSLR, now may be the best time to buy one new. It's a choice.
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I shoot for Pro Sports, mainly in the Detroit Area such as the Red Wings, Lions, Tigers, and yes the Pistons. I also work in the Athletic DEPT. For The University of Michigan, mainly Football and Basketball as I'am Very Good Friends with Harbaugh and Juwan Howard. I also have committed myself for Full-Time to work the Benches during The Good Football Rivalry Games. But I will be allowed to shoot a Game that is out of Hand and I will Mainly shoot from the End-Zone and the Side of the sidelines that are closest to the Pylon at the front corner of the End-Zone. As Far as The PGA goes, DSLR's have never been a problem, I don't need to be 10ft. away from the Golfer to spin a few shots off. I go down about 30yrds. from the Tee-Box. Great Angle to shoot from. Then I make my way to the Green and catch some Putting action and then I usually go to the 3rd Hole to give myself a decent Location to shoot from, so we all work together and if someone forgot a extra XQD or SD UHSII card and even a CF Express Card and since I shoot Nikon I always have 4 Batteries on Person at all Times and My Intern will bring extra stuff just in case We Have to Help one another. Now this is True and Really Happened at The Players this Year. There was a day in He Mid-50's I would guess if I had to, well she was complaining about not having an extra SD Card or XQD Card, I hooked Her Up and She waited for me and it was another Golfer's Wife. She asked if I lived in the Area and I told Her No I did not. She asked what Hotel I was staying at and she said that She Would Send a Car to Pick Me Up. Well I took the Bait thinking that she had a Husband that was in the PGA. Well, there was no Husband and Technically I was Not Married. Let's just say that we rushed to have desert in Her Bed and that Woman was something else. I guess the Moral to the Story is to always Have Extra Cards and Batteries.
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Jul 19, 2022 23:23:09   #
User ID wrote:
If you believe "a camera that performs" is about image quality, then OK you happen to be wrong.

Some cameras perform far beyond some others, yet as you presented in your post, all half decent cameras can make images indistinguishable from each other.

Performance is about how well a camera *enables* users to pursue many of their photographic intentions. Image quality is NOT performance.


My D6 and D850 are more than Half-Way decent Cameras. Do Not Insult My Intelligence by going backwards from where I have complimented You. I know a heckuva lot more than You when it comes to Photography, so never underestimate a Fellow UHH'r as you might be surprised by what comes back at Ya. So, Please tell me the story of Photographic Intentions and You do Realize that it is a Vast Subject and is Very Generalized. So Open Your Pie-Hole and type a Good Response. I have followed You and You Are always jumping Good Photographers on the UHH Site. Do You even take the Time to Think about the Admins. Of this Site? No You like to spout off at People that know a lot more about Photography than You Ever Will, and You can take that to the Bank. I really do not know why I even try to rationalize Posts on the UHH Community. The Door swings both ways and if you think that You know Everything about this Game Photography, then Go Write A Book. Photographic Intentions, like You are the Next Ansel Adams, Schmuck as we say in Israel. And do not take that as a remark in Yiddish terms, take it in English Terms.
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Jul 19, 2022 23:02:51   #
bikinkawboy wrote:
I’ve ridden motorcycles going on 50 years. Performance is what you want and you expect. There is far more “performance” diversity among bikes than cars. I ride touring bikes and my performance interest is riding comfort, low engine rpm power and luggage capacity. I have no interest in sport bikes, where performance is measured by acceleration, top speed, high rpm power and handling. The typical sport bike lacks everything I want in a bike. Touring and sport bikes lack everything a dirt bike rider wants such as light weight, lots of ground clearance and the ability to climb insanely steep grades.

Now to cameras since that’s the topic you desire. I will not be taking my D800 on a bike trip in August. Great image quality but it’s to big and heavy to be stuffing into the saddlebag along with lenses. I think I will take the D7000. Smaller and lighter, good image quality and fast focusing with screw focus lenses. I’ve decided to not take the D5100. Good image quality, a bit smaller and lighter than the 7000, but auto focus requires lenses with internal motors, which tends to hunt more than the 7000.

If I was going on vacation in the truck, I’d take the D800 for me and the old D50 for my 8 year old grandson. If it got dropped, no big deal. For me, that’s what differences in performance means.
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Camera's are the Topic that I desire, what do You Think the UHH Community is about? My God, you are typing about Cameras, not MotorCycles. Try to get on one of the Progressive Insurance Commercials. You are a Trip, I feel Like telling You to Go To Your Doctor tomorrow morning and find out if a Few Screws came loose on You. I have been guilty at times when waiting for The Judge to get back after she has had Her Martini Lunch. You sound pretty confusing about Performance when You Reply with Dropping Your D800 or Your Grandson dropping the D50. So You Judge Performance by How they Bounce and then Work or don't work? You are 1 of a Kind and I have no problems with Labeling You as the Photographer Who Drops the Camera and Judges it by How It Took the Drop. That is Original, but then You won't take the D5100 because You said that You would have to take more Lenses, It is not like You are Going on this Trip to Search For Bigfoot. !-3 lenses is not going to hurt to take and let Your Grandson have the Time of His Life, You are not shooting for Nat. Geo. for crying out loud. If You are trying to Hurt Me, then STOP IT, my Friend's and I are laughing are butts off. Way to much for what I'm guessing to You Being around 70ish maybe? You are to Easy, so stick to Your Sports Bikes and whatever else You May Have, because Your Future in Photography might have done the Titanic on You and The Band Quit Playing Many Years and Hours ago. I would love to meet You Sometime at a Bar and I will buy the first 3 rounds.
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Jul 19, 2022 22:14:17   #
JD750 wrote:
Mirrorless literally means no mirror. Technically there are many cameras that can meet this literal criteria. Lately, within the photography community, the term "mirrorless" has been used for an interchangeable mirrorless (no mirror or prism) lens camera. However this is a more recent narrowed use of the word, and the broader definition still applies.


What if You turn the Dial To MUP ON a Nikon Camera and set Your Camera Settings and Let's say that it is a D750, that could be construed as a MIRRORLESS Camera Right?
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Jul 19, 2022 21:48:56   #
JD750 wrote:
Correction: They will quit developing new DSLRs after the D6.

This year, something like 30% of their camera sales came from DSLRs, so I don’t see Nikon in a hurry to lose that revenue. DSLR production and sales will continue. However as revenue continues to decrease on the DLSRs, there will come a point beyond which it won’t be profitable to produce them.


And let's not forget the D780. I think that they may Produce the D850 also, and this is coming from a Very Close Friend of Mine Who Is A Field Rep. For Nikon and He Flies To Thailand Twice A Month To Look At Quality Control For Nikon. And I Believe That He Goes To Taiwan Also. He is a Really Cool Guy and He Could Set A Lot Of The Guys On This Thread for Their Misinformation, You know, All Of Nikon's Board Person's That Are Hear On This Thread. LOL!!!
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Jul 19, 2022 21:35:18   #
burkphoto wrote:
Oz, Kansas…


I'm Counting On You My Friend To Light The Board Up. You Are The Teacher, So School is in Session. BTW, the Bronchiectasis has now spread throughout all sections of my Lungs and I was diagnosed that My Bone Cancer is back, but it is just messing with My Leg Bones. I Beat Before and I will Conquer it again.My Wife Drove Me to The Synagogue on Saturday to Meet With Our Rabbi, of course I told Him that I did not need His Prayers. And that drew a Major Pinch from my Wife under the table no less. I loved Your Reply to the Guest being Oz,Kansas. I'm rolling over in Laughter and My Friends who won't leave told my Wife that she Knew what She was getting into when She Married Me. That went down like The Zeppelin.
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Jul 19, 2022 21:13:41   #
User ID wrote:
If you believe "a camera that performs" is about image quality, then OK you happen to be wrong.

Some cameras perform far beyond some others, yet as you presented in your post, all half decent cameras can make images indistinguishable from each other.

Performance is about how well a camera *enables* users to pursue many of their photographic intentions. Image quality is NOT performance.


And What Say You to give me the Poorest example That One Could Give. Using My D6 And D850 are really Not That Hard To Get What I Need. My Z9 is Very Nice, but as Soon AS Nikon Releases its Updated Version, Then I Already Have A Kid That I'am Teaching and I Plan On Giving Him My Z9. So explain Yourself with actual Facts that Make any of these Camera's that I listed, unable to perform when put up against a Mirrorless Camera and You Better Not Name Sony because I will eat that for tomorrow's Lunch. Come on,, Give Me An Example other than what an ad would say. You are making this thread a lot of fun.
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