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Great shot Brad! It reminded me that yesterday morning, I notice from the living room window something large walking in the gutter area in water runoff. I exited the front door and walked out to the street to get a better look. Turned out to be a nice size turtle (which we don't have around here). The shell must have been 7" in length. The only thing I could figure out is that one of the kids from the condo area about 1/4 mile from us snatched a turtle from the interior lake area, and released it up in our neck of the woods. Nonetheless, I placed it in a box and walked it back to the lake condo area. Found a nice part of the lake to release it and it took to the neighborhood asap:D

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LOTS of cool pics fellers...

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x2 :2

Very good last two pages fellas! :tu

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Great pics guys. Thanks for sharing.

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OUCH!
Win some, lose some, and I am still not sure where this one stands.
Picked up another D200 used from the Ado, and it's issue was supposed to be "dead pixels on sensor, USB transfer
image errors." Well if there is one thing I have found on Ado's used stuff, it's that you have to take what they say as
being slightly exaggerated, or sometimes likely the complaint of a person who wanted to 'justify' sending it back after
they bought it used in prior weeks. I could care less about USB transfer errors, I use a card reader and pop out the
flash card. The dead pixels?? Unless it is a 5hit-ton of em, no biggie, I have at least 7 that show up on high ISO or
long exposures on my original D200. I paint them out in Photoshop when I have to print a file. So I was ready for this
one's issues and the price was right.

So it comes in today and it is in showroom condition. So right there I am happy. I shoot a few shots in the office,
including a dark shot and a few plain field shots to expose the dead pixels. They may come in the same conditions
my other D200 shows them, but I can't find any in general shot circumstances. So I am doubly happy with the new
addition to my family of useless old bodies. But there WERE issues, one you should be aware of if you are planning
on buying any used bodies from Adorama. I have bought no less than 7 bodies from them over the past 2-3 months,
and in every case, they have "kept the original charger and sent me a crappy chinese wall charger and generic battery."
I wrap that in quotes because I THINK THEY ARE SELLING the chargers I should be getting and giving me these
chinese bits and pieces so they can claim to have included a battery and charger. But it smells like a scam to me.
But I cannot be sure obviously. But if you want a body from them, it might be a good idea to check what they plan
on sending you.

NOW the part that I actually posted for. All the above, sure, no problem. But I always check now, by posting
an out-of-the-camera image on flickr, the shutter count of all the cameras I buy, and while my original purchases
of D70s and D100s yielded a lot of low count cameras, my first D200 had 20k+ actuations and this new one has
SIXTY-NINE THOUSAND+ shutter actuations, lol. You talk about one foot in the grave. This one is a prime example
of people who save all their packaging and take uber-care of their cameras, all the while fundamentally wearing
them out inside. I imagine they get more for them when they sell. The camera LOOKS beautiful, but OUCH.......69,000+
shutter clicks.

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Film! Ilford HP5+ 400iso film pushed to 800iso
Shot in my "new" Minolta

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img356 by emopunker2004, on Flickr

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Kodak Tri-X

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img375 by emopunker2004, on Flickr

Not sure where I went wrong here but it turned out kind of cool anyways.
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img400 by emopunker2004, on Flickr

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I got actual Nikon brand chargers and batteries with mine, but no neck strap with the D90. No biggie. My D90 also has only about 27,000 shutter actions. Not bad!

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I also do buy the cheapest cameras they offer, so I can use my same old charger for all my batteries, so its cool.
The next camera I get will be another battery type, a D700 I am aiming at. But in no hurry. Out of all the massive
dumba55 numbers of camera bodies I have now, they all take the same battery. So before I get another camera
that doesn't, it's gonna be a D700, but for now I am really happy with my pile of crap. I am really working it lately.

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Justin I think you just found the best 'contest' to have....post up your best accident shots that you might not have shared
heretofore, mostly just because it was a mistake, but you always look at it and think, MAN, but for a focus issue or a framing
issue or some such, you never shared it. Let's go ahead and just make one mandate, that you start your post by saying,
basically, this one was a happy accident. You have a week. :) Although who would need it. We all know what our best
ALMOST pic is. Now, WHERE it is? That might take a week to resolve.

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I like this one best plus the next one down, of course.

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Whoooo?

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8 photos and not a word about where these falls are, lol. Hep a brotha out, shark.

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oops!! ;s That's at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, just south of Cleveland, OH

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Ahhhhhh...I totally would have guessed Michigan for some reason. I enjoyed the pics.

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I had to laugh out loud, I was watching a video on a light setup by Joe McNally, and he said "for this setup,
I wanted a diffuser between the light source and the subject, so I set up a VAL....a 'voice-activated-lightstand".
A helper". (someone to hold his diffuser, lol.)
I about busted a gut when he said that. He must have surely been in the service at one time in his life.
What a very US military kind of thing to say. Voice-activated light stand, lol.

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Yeah they do look a lot like some areas of the Upper Peninsula. In the very last pic, the waterfall was maybe 15 or more feet high. There were a few young guys climbing UP the waterfall. One of them was barefoot.

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Well another pleasant surprise in the discount rack....I picked up a 35-135mm AF lens a few weeks ago for $40.
It was a complement to my 135mm prime I picked up the same day for $25 which turned out to be an epic
buy in itself, SO CRISP and bright. But the 35-135mm had yet to see the light of day, so I took it on a walk
for photo-exercise last night and it was a great buy, too. Everything I saw, I was able to shoot. I am again,
not a fan of push pull zooms, but this lens was fun to shoot with and produced some decent pics, all of which
are at home, sorry. While the 135mm prime is manual focus only, this 35-135 is more modern, with autofocus
and a really nice macro capability that I also tested. I am really glad I found two good D200s for cheap, since
they meter seamlessly with all those old lenses. I still want that D700, but I have put it away for another week
at least. Cheap lenses do not need to be strapped to a full frame sensor, and if I can shoot with whatever I want
on a D200, and have a D90 for modern lenses, I still don't need to have a full frame camera show all the weaknesses
of my lenses.

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Resisted the urge almost all day, but in the end, I still had not bought a D700. I mean I went through it in my head
10 different ways, but it always came back to 'what you have is fine' which REALLY surprised me. I thought
I was surely gonna end the day 1300 dollars poorer. All the signs were pointing that way. Whew is all I can say.

It really all comes down to that miracle D90 that just HAPPENED to NOT have an actual autofocus issue. Finding it
where I did, for the $200 tag, and having the balls to say "oh well, I can always manually focus it" and place that
order it is the very root of my satiety.:D

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Back to life!hey brad!

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Wtf! Wrong pic!

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This one

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How u like it so far. U have a 5d. How do you like it over it

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No 5d. I have the 60d and this. From what I've read, the 6d has better high iso performance than the 5d mkII and mkIII

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"back to the life, hey Brad " what Justin?

Finally got off my a55 and went down to the farmer's market this morning.


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Can't wait to play with the new camera come my days off!!!

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Was supposed to be a pic of my new full frame camera, the one i quoted here. Was supposed to say "Back to life thread! Hey brad look!"

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3 test shots just messing around. All 3 were shot at ISO 12,800!!!!! Nothing done to them. Shot RAW then converted straight to JPEG in LR4. No noise reductions. This is insane.

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I hate to say it but I finally had to break down myself. I had been buying all these lesser cameras, JUST like I did the
first time around, and NOT getting all that same money in a pile and just full-framing up. I had been monitoring the
situation, and with the D600 and D800 both having issues with consumers, I can tell the D700 is gonna be holding it's
value for some time. So I just got one. The cheapest one I could find, not a super smart idea, but that's the way
I think, apparently. I had convinced myself DX was fine, and it certainly IS...all my lenses were beginner material,
so DX was best and I managed to make it a better sitcho with the D90 and the D200s, I was making some good
photos with good resolution. I was ALMOST content. But I had been picking up a lot of 30-50 dollar manual focus
lenses, and I just let my mind get away rationalizing 5hit and 'fore long, I found it just too hard to keep saying no.
But now I am super-secret cash crackdown. I am just holding my breath on the shutter count. I already know
the condition, rating at least, is abysmal. But I am cambler.............see what I did there?

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:r good job Brad! Now you need some good glass. FF is gonna show you any optical flaws fo sho.

P.S. I love that ISO 25600 on the 6D is as good as ISO 3200 was on my 60D. So sad.

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What?...all these GD cat pitchers? Man has a $2000 camera and shoots cats with it.






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:r I know I know. But It's all I had to shoot at the time. It was hard to get good pix of my cats at night, with the other camera cuz the lighting is dim.