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Neat shots all...Jeff, I like the way Queen Victoria is holding the Holy Hand grenade of Antioch.
NOLA was a blast. Couldn't have come home with a more diverse selection of crap if I had stayed on another 4 hours like I intended to. Something told me to get home instead....good idea. Ice storm forming up in Memphis on my return. Slush in streets already 2 inches thick. I will remember NOLA fondly as we wring the last cold out of Spring 2014. https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7297/1...c12a5937_c.jpg To Show or Not to Show by Brad-(OLS), on Flickr |
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snapped this today, not exactly centered but I didn't have time to stand around and reshoot
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I love Arlington Cemetary. Cool pic Ben.
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Took this one this morning. Again a little uneven, but I only had time to take one
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Helluva shot, Ben. Great idea to get it done while the snow was on the ground. Of course THERE, maybe it hasn't all melted
and there was no rush, haha. I thought about taking a snow shot across my street yesterday evening, and it was all gone this morning. BUT I DID GET TO NOLA... http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7371/1...26b1b42b_c.jpg Destrehan Manor by Brad-(OLS), on Flickr |
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As a kid (or and adult) in NOLA, you have this SHIRT, this hideous shirt you wear one day a year, or several days
a year for only a week. it is your Mardi Gras-colored polo, which if you think is hideous in the vertical stripe mode, you should see in horizontal stripes. But I digress...I saw this kid playing on this railing while watching a parade, and I couldn't shoot fast enough. GREAT key lighting from the ground source, outside a bank. http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2338/1...0eca4dfe_c.jpg Mardi Gras Kid - Nikon D7000 Nikkor 55-200mm DX lens by Brad-(OLS), on Flickr |
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Here is another photo I shot for Print Sales. I am going to be shooting a lot more of these over the weekend.
If you see one you like, perhaps you can buy a print. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps09b5ba5f.jpg |
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That shot of the kid is awesome! I'm going to be down on Jekyll Island and Savannah, GA in April, so there are a lot of great opportunities there. I may head on down to St. Augustine to shoot the Castillo de San Marcos there, and up to Charleston SC also.
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Road-tripped with the family this week and among our stops was Ottawa, where Parliament Hill is in the midst of a mutli-year restoration project pegged to cost Canadian taxpayers more than $1billion before it's done.
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Ehh, what's a billion when you are Canadian. You had THREE SISTERS skiing in Sochi, all of them decently hot,
some of em really hot. You're CANADA...What's a billion dollars? here is a pic of some musician. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3725/1...2af4f926_c.jpg Justin White and The Poodle Brandy, Memphis, TN by Brad-(OLS), on Flickr |
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Love the humming bird pics Mike. :tu
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Man, what a day. I spent the first four hours of today online trying to decide whether to buy a used D700 for roughly $1200,
a new D600(610) or a used D3 or D800. When it was all over, I had decided that just because my D700 is experiencing mirror return issues after smacking it against the pavement in NOLA, I can still operate around it and simply not buy another camera. After selling a D90 and giving away 3 D100/D70's for Christmas, I still have about 8 bodies. So while there is no shortage of backup cameras to my D7000, I have no dependable full frame body anymore and almost all I shoot is low light environs. So while I can still take the D700 and shoot with it, once the mirror gets caught in an up-cycle, I can no longer see for framing or focus through the VF. I can fire off as many shots as I want, the shutter opens. And if I want to make the mirror behave, I usually just have to fire off about 8 shots of high speed continuous to get it back down to resting in the right position. But it can't be depended on, its just there if I want to carry two bodies and shoot two lenses without switching out. If I got PAID to shoot, it would be an easy decision. But just because everything I do is for pleasure, I can still get away with having a bum full framer. But what I shoot is ALWAYS a potential FUTURE cash cow, one day I hope to sell a print of everything I like, so having something in the chain be intermittent is still a big issue. But like I said at the start, I wasted a half day of work and still made it out to lunch without having spent a penny. So I am technically ahead of the game. But what messes up the WHOLE equation is the 'for pleasure' angle. I simply can't justify spending even used-stuff money as an amateur right now. I think that is what kept me from jumping, that and the less-than-attractive prices, even used. ---- I think what I am REALLY hoping for is that if I just STOP babying my D700, i.e. only using it when I have to have low light capabilities, then I can get the mirror to start behaving eventually BEFORE I wear the shutter out from all the wasted shots trying to get the mirror to return to a 45 degree angle after every shot. It will be hard, because it was halfway to 150k when I bought it. And believe me, I have thought long and hard about bouncing it on the pavement AGAIN to try and reset it back to being a solid performer. Works with a frying pan on all the old TV shows to relieve amnesia. |
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I think I realized what is going to have to happen. I can't keep shooting manual focus lenses on the D700.
If the mirror gets caught up, if I use AF lenses on it I should still be able to shoot, just not frame the shot.....hmmm. My best low light lenses are all manual focus....that's how I could AFFORD em, lol. At least the D7000 works the same way with manual lenses as the D700, and also operates in low light. Makes it a little easier to stay on the fence. Having the money is the really hard part. ANYTHING I come up with is OK on money. Reason is just fighting really hard today. |
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here are two cats on the street over Mardi Gras and I have NO IDEA
what they are talking about, but it does NOT look entirely wholesome. Considering they are 50-60 feet off Bourbon Street, is there any surprise? I just thought the light was extremely bi+chin'. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3821/1...b86c9f07_c.jpg Business Meeting by Brad-(OLS), on Flickr |
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Really like that picture Brad, love how it's framed with showing so much of the blue door :tu
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Why, thank you sir. Nice to get a compliment on a photo that could have gotten me killed. :)
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meh, at least you woulda been killed doing something you love :sh
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I was shooting some birds out of my back window upstairs the other day, and I had PULLED the second D90 I had for sale,
since I smacked my D700 on the sidewalk in NOLA. I needed a good backup and I was about to sell it. But not one to let a potential buyer go away empty-handed, I gave decent prices to him on 5 other camera models and a lens. But I had the D80 I wanted to sell to him attached to a 300mm f/4.5 I picked up a few months ago. SO I took some photos with it to show him what the D80 puts into a file. These bird photos are all in fading evening light, so the ISO was cranked. I needed DOF and shutter speed both, so, I had to do it. Hand-holding a 300mm lens ain't no job for 1/60th of a second, lol. So sorry about the noise in advance. It was getting late. And even with the noise, ITS NO D90, but it ain't a bad D80. I am liking it more and more every time I shoot with it. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psdc79c64b.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psda8c8e4f.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psd8e96103.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psae68943e.jpg |
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This has most likely been covered here before, but I'm a bit too lazy to read through this entire thread:
To begin, I'm a novice and after doing some research, I feel that I'm looking for something equivilant to the quality of a D90. Given a choice between the following brands of digital (DSLR) cameras 1. how would you rank them? 2. which would you pick? 3. why? Thanks in advance. 1. Kodak 2. Sony 3. Canon 4. Nikon 5. Minolta 6. Any others I may have left off |
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Dave, in my limited exposure to the world of DSLR's, I think your money is best spent on a Nikon or Canon. Each brand has it's pros and cons, Brad might be able to weigh in on the differences between a D90 and the Canon equivelant. I've only ever used Canon's and have been very happy with them. My reason for choosing them, I had a point and shoot Canon Powershot (3.2MP) that had a recall on it. Found the recall 2 years after it was issued when my camera started exhibiting the problem. Called their customer service and they sent me the packaging and labels I needed to ship it in and got it back in under 2 weeks. Shortly after that I decided to get a bigger MP point and shoot, got an Olympus (12MP) and it was garbage. The Canon took clear pictures, almost every shot with the Olympus was either out of focus or grainy (noise) as heck.
That's what started me down the road of DLSR's and since I had a great experience with Canon customer service, that's the brand I chose. I'm sure Nikon has equally great customer service. To me at least, it seems Nikon people hate Canon and the same goes for Canon people. I love the 2 Canon DSLR's I have but don't hate Nikon, just never had any experience with them.:2 |
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So the D90 is around $700-$800 from what a quick Google search brought up.
That is in the neighborhood of the Canon 60D. I've heard a lot of good things about both of these cameras. Canon T4i is also an option. I had a T2i before I bought the 6D and as an introductory DSLR the EOS Ti series seems to have a lot of options for novice/hobbist shooters. |
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I will go ahead and say a couple of things...First I will comment on your list, but loaded with caveats.
Nikon comes to me much the same way that Jeff came to Canon. TO ME, canon made the best superzoom point and shoots of all time. But they had REAL issues with unexplained 'lens errors' where Canon would tell you that YOU GOT SAND and debris in the mechnism and there was nothing they could do about it. They also denied certain cameras ever had any issues at all. I had a Canon S1 IS, freaking awesome camera. Followed up an even BETTER one, the Canon S5 IS. I was in the smokies, fell into a stream carring my S5, thought no problem, I'll just go and get my S1 out of the bag. Turned it on. Boom, lens error. Never been to the beach, never been DIRTY. Those 'hypersonic motors' SUCK A55. So I dropped Canon forever. I really like Nikon, because I have been with em for 18 months as a newbie DSLR user, (loved my superzooms.) I have handled and shot with 9 different models of Nikon DSLR body in that year and a half. ALL OF THEM used the same battery. I never have to worry about chargers and batteries, I always know where everything is. People all tell me here that this is not all that big of a deal. I think differently. I have handled 20-30 different Nikon lenses, snapping them all over one camera to the other, they all fit, they all work, whatever body I grab. Automation is all I lose in the most extreme examples. A LOT of my lenses are manual focus only, at least half. I believe in Nikon's optics, and I believe in the layout of the better cameras, and I do not feel lost when I hold a cheaper model. I like Nikon, but I would not buy anything very NEW from them, the earthquake really messed them up and I think QC slipped some over the past 5 years. I think they will get it back, but for now I am retro-buying (haha, that's all I ever DID was retro-buy. I also forgot that the first camera from Nikon I ever bought with a new battery type is the D7000 I just picked up last month. Another nice camera. The only thing I have to say that involves them BOTH is do what you are doing, talk to people. They are both outstanding, leaping over one another on the way to the top, but always there. There is a NICE old full framer for sale, a original Canon 5D, and I want it, its half the price of a Nikon D700. But I have to BUY a Canon lens to go with it, because I have none. I realized if I knew ANYTHING about myself it was that there was NO WAY I would stop at one lens. So I had to back down. I am invested heavily in Nikon and the bi+ch don't like her man runnin around. Minolta is still a very good company, but with the top 2 names, you can almost name your focal length and there is a lens for you, ready to go. With Minolta, Olympus, Kodak....they are not near as well-prepared for your needs. I would never suggest against ANY manufacturer, they all deserve customers who compare and buy their brand in the end, because they all have a dog in the hunt for now. SONY...that's the REAL RUB. They are blood-smart. They have been ready since day one. They've been selling sensors to EVERYONE...There's a SONY inside 80% of the DSLRS out there today. But that money coming in was not wasted, SONY is making the best ILCompact cameras out there now. Their DSLRs are no joke either. And they are CRANKING OUT the lenses. SO if you boldly chose Sony, you would not be left out in the cold. Plus SONY makes it easy to mount other people's lenses to their bodies. They go out of their way to do it. All that said, buy a Nikon from me. Or maybe a FUJI Superzoom. |
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Nice review, Brad. After all of that from both of you, I'm still leaning toward the D90. That sucker seems to be everything (and more) that I'm looking for.
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Had the opportunity to catch the Johnny Winter Band in a tiny 80-seat venue last night.
Lighting was minimal and I couldn't use flash, so had to shoot at 1600-2000 iso and handhold at very low shutter speeds but managed to get a few sharpish frames. He's 70 but the hard life he's lived has aged him well beyond that. He basically had to be guided on and off stage and sat through the show. His guitar changes were done by an assistant. But man, the guy can still play. Last frame is my fave. Started to pull out more of the detail in the shadows in post and then realized it was better before. http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...ps084d73d4.jpg http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...pse0c0dccf.jpg http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...psdd3ff795.jpg http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...ps4075a60b.jpg |
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Thought I'd weigh in on the discussion.
Canon and Nikon each have their pros and cons. I've been a Nikon shooter since I was 16 and bought my first "real" camera, an FG-20. My son is now 16 and we got him a D3100 for Christmas. If I were starting from scratch, I may very well go with Canon for a few reasons. If you're looking to build a system, it seems there is more Canon gear available second-hand, at least in my area. I also like that their ettl system works with their lower-end stuff, while Nikon restricts CLS to prosumer and up models. (Having said that, I'm teaching my kid to properly use manual settings with a collection of vintage flashes --- no cheating. Just got some replacement metal bases for my 285s through ebay that I'll be soldering on this weekend). Yet I still find Nikon gear more comfortable to use. Ergonomically, I think it's better and I find it more intuitive. What it really comes down to is glass. Bodies come and go, and should be considered on a replacement cycle more on the level of computers than cameras these days. I shot my F3 for a good 10 years and it still works like a charm (though looks like hell). You can purchase a top-of-line DSLR today for several thousands (hello F4s) and it will be a paperweight in 10 years. I have a D1s in my bag to prove that. However, the lens you buy today will still be solid performers a decade from now, provided you treat them well. Agree with Brad that Sony is the dark horse in all this. I have no experience with the system but it seems competitively priced and feature rich. A solid electronics company with which my only complaint is it lean toward proprietary technology. Then again, I've used Apple pretty much exclusively since 1987 so I'm kinda talking out of my ass on that one. Like Brad, I'm sticking with Nikon, because I've already build a system (that's totally beat up but still functional) but I'd be hard-pressed to pick Nikon over Canon over Sony if I was starting from scratch. They all make solid products, though I've found Sony's customer service somewhat better than Canon's or Nikon's. Canon has the sand in mechanism and Nikon had the oil on the sensors of the D700. QC is an issue all around. I'd say choose the lenses you like, the ergonomics that work with you and build from there. (PS, look back one post for my Johnny Winter pix :)) |
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Great shots of JW!
That would be my advice as well. While it will be FINE to buy a body from me which comes with a lens, you should be prepared to pick up at least one really nice lens. Maybe not the $1500-3500 lenses, but something you can be proud of in a focal length or range that you really want to shoot in. That could be anything from a simple fast 50 to a fast 85 to a fast 12-24 or something long for birding or sports or boobs. A man can have a PILE of cheap lenses, but he ought to be able to impress himself when he has to. |
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I remember when I made the switch from P&S to DSLR, the photo difference was incredible. Then when I bought my first 'L' glass lens (Canon's higher end lens), I thought of the same difference as changing cameras. At the time, I didn't realize the difference a good lens can make.
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Even weird, carnivorous plants like pitcher plants bloom:
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Orchid:
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Sun shining into the windows, while they mist the tropical plants:
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Glad you got out to shoot, Ron! Makes me happy to see such color and beauty.
This weekend was my humbling party, my intervention. I broke my D700 over MG, so I had to go out and shoot with a D7000 and a D90 in a dark bar. I never thought in a million years the D90 would save the entire night. Before I left to go to the bar, I out-thought myself and switched to center-weighted metering on both bodies, because I thought I knew why I was doing it. Too much black in the bar, then BAM, a musician. I figured I could have a perfectly lit musician with a fading darker BG. Instead I came home with 318 shots of NOTHING. EVERY SHOT blurred to the point of uselessness. I was trying to keep the ISO low and I didn't get the shutter speeds up high enough. (shooting with a 105 2.5 AI manual focus lens on the D7000 and a 50mm1.8-AF on the D90. I got 4 useable shots, all from the D90. Most of this stems from the fact that I can't SEE for 5hi+. I look at the LCD for exposure, not focus. I need to go back to sitting down and looking through a dozen or so shots UP CLOSE before I think myself too good to make an error like that. So I ordered another full frame camera and put the D90 back up for sale. It sure saved me this weekend though. |
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I was trying to show a brother some more photos I shot with a D80, but it appears that the only ones on my flash drive
are from the same drizzly day shoot where I had the ISO cranked up. But here are a few more from that day, while I stall for time and get home to my computer again. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps941fc545.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps80c48e21.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...pscde457a9.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7f81ce07.jpg |
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A couple of D50 photos for reference....
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I wanted to let all of you know that I had some cameras for sale. I have sold both the D90s I had up for sale,
so pickin's is getting kinda old, but I wouldn't sell em if they weren't able-bodied and in good shape. And if you look at the pics above that I posted, any kind of half-decent lens will create a great photo. I really think that the old Nikons had a look about the photos taken with that perfect 6MP sensor that is lost with some of the newer super-optimized CMOS sensors. So if you want an old Nikon as a spare for fun you can check out my link to the WTS forum and check out the wares. What I don't sell I will likely keep, but for now I am looking towards a world with fewer cameras in my care. By the way, the bird photos above were taken with a D80 and a 37 year old Nikkor 300mm 4.5 AI lens. The light was really bad, but I think it is still a thumbs up for the old Nikons. http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=65925 |
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Got my first full frame yesterday. Looking fwd to improved noise margins in low light.
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