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Bigger glass

Nice pics!

And no I don't believe it has countermeasures.

 

The color shots are grainy, at this magnification..
I am using 70-200 2.8 Nikon...

Grain ruins pics...Blk /Wht is able to remove grain in LR3

D800 will lose less at crop mag..big glass that I want is $10,000+

 

IMO random noise looks natural, it's pattern noise IMO that ruins pics. To my eyes, those don't exhibit it, at least not at fchat res. *shrug*


How cropped are those? If you're getting a FF body just to crop it, wouldn't you be better off with a higher density crop sensor like the D3200 (24MP DX)? That way you get the most out of your telephoto glass, and you don't have to worry about losing sharpness edge-to-edge on a significantly larger frame.

 

all the while being a whole lot less than $10K

high pixel density ='s noise though regardless of sensor size... there's no free lunch.

 

Yah, but the newest gen exmor Nikons are handling it exceptionally well.

Downsized to web or print size, the D800 is impressively good up to 3200ish.

I suspect it has to do with their high DR (low read noise) allowing shadow recovery without inducing untoward noise.

Granted, the D800 will be better than the D3200.

Either way, yes: there's no free lunch. Optical zoom > digital zoom.

 

So the traveling exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library right now is about George Washington. They had life-sized forensic reconstructions of him at three eras in his life.

http://www.history.com/videos/forensic-reconstruction-of-washington#forensic-reconstruction-of-washington

Pretty cool stuff.

Oh, and his teeth
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Cool stuff, dentists could have made a killing back then.

 

One from yesterday, I really need to start watching my shutter speed more closely, especially at ISO 50.
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Pretty dog.

Why are you shooting at 50?

It's an expansion speed. Don't think it gives any noise or DR advantage; merely allows doubling exposure time for motion blur.

I think

Edit: or if it's so bright that 1/8000 isn't fast enough at desired aperture I guess, but that has to be a way outlying case

 

*shrug* No reason really, I thought it might give some noise advantage, guess not.

 

Got my new sync cord today and was able to start playing with the strobe. No one in my house would let me take pictures of them so I grabbed some stuff I had around.
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I'm not dead certain about that, but I think it's expansion out of the native range in the same way as H1 and H2 are.


Cool pix. What kind of surface is that? I've been wanting to put together a light box. Reflective base could be sweet.

 

Hmm, well, I probably won't use it again, slows down the shutter too much even wide open.

It's actually a white board that decided after a year to fall off my office wall this morning, I thought it would make a decent platform. The background is a roll of seamless white paper.

 

Couldn't resist

 

Nice! I like the race-worn look on the GTO.

Shots from a lakeside walk on Sunday. Had an elegant and rare visitor in the form of a white swan.
Then went back to the more numerous seagulls and ducks.

GT
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Those pictures of the swan taking flight are great. I was trying to capture cormorants doing the same thing a while back but just couldn't quite get it.

I've been going out a lot recently of an evening taking photos for a little project I have been doing called 'The Face of Hong Kong'. I polished it off last night and thought I might post the result here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48817379@N03/7134151857/in/photostream

 

Great Shot, I had a Sheltie years back...I miss him, shot reminds me of My Guy..

The saturation / Vibrance in this shot means one thing...Shot Raw and edited in LR3
am I right??

 

They're great dogs aren't they?

RAW and LR4, been shooting that way since I got my 40D.

 

LR4 is great. Well, process version 2012 in LR4 is great. LR4 lags compared to 3.

 

I have been really happy with LR4, where are you seeing the lag?

 

Specifically the develop module isn't as responsive as I'm used to.

It's noticeably slower than LR3.

However the new process is much more straightforward, so overall I likely save time.

 

Interesting. It's hard for me to see since I just switched my whole photo library from my Mac to my PC which is at least 2x as fast.

 

Funny, I recently doubled resolution, so I'm sure that plays a little into my impressions. I was however using LR4 with my 40D, and noticed the same thing.

I read some stuff online that surmised LR4 accesses the image files more frequently. My data has always been on a large/slow but backed up spinning drive (with OS and software installed on solid state). So I added an additional drive to my workflow. I have a dedicated 60GB SATA3 solid state drive that I import new photos to, build the library, cache and previews on. Once I'm done working the set, I import it into my (now archival) main library on the bigger drive.

I saw some performance gains, but I think it has more to do with the previews being on SSD than the image files.

I suspect that some of the speed hits have to do with what they render into full sized previews (luminance noise reduction, for example).

But I'll take it. PV2012 is worth it without question. It's great.

 

Wow, a lot more complex than my workflow. Right now I'm working off a single 500Gb 7200 drive on SATA. Pulled a 1TB drive out of an external last night and will move my whole photo library to that and then pickup another as a backup.

I doubt I'll move to SSDs for quite awhile. I'm happy with my speeds now and I know they would spoil me. Once it's financially viable to move everything over to them I'll do so.

 

Really the SSD drive just adds one additional step at the end.

Small SSDs aren't terribly expensive (I see 60GB on sale routinely for 80 bucks. Not nearly the bang for your buck as HDD, but I don't need large capacity the way I use them).


I like DNG for future compatibility, and it does it on the fly on import, so not a big deal either.