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    B&H still a good online seller?

    in Nikon

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    <p>B&H: The first item I remember buying from 'em was an import Nikkor 300 2.8 AIS new for 1200 bucks in May 1983. I've been buying from 'em ever since. I feel like I know the owner personally after all these years and it's good feeling for me and for B&H. It's been amazing to watch B&H grow from those small ads in the photo mags to be king of the hill. </p>

    <p>However, the king has a pea under his mattress these days and seems to have taken a lesson from Amazon is stupid packing of expensive items for shipment by putting folded bubble-wrap on top of the item, and then leaving the bottom and sides totally unprotected against shock. B&H should change the B-W machine and have the item placed between the bubble-wrap at the minimum. They way it is now, you better pray the manufacturer does a good job in protecting the items with their packing. I get quite a few items with the box partially crushed even when the outside box is undamaged. How many G's does it take to crush the corner of a box inside an undamaged outer box?</p>

    <p>I still won't stray too far from B&H, but I will stray Adorama's way.</p>

    <p>Adorama: They always used to be second fiddle to B&H, but I agree that over the last several years they have really upped their game to a high level resulting in becoming a viable alternative to B&H. It's good for both Adorama and B&H to have strong competition between them. </p>

    The problem with being a woman photographer in today's not so safe society......

    in Nikon

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    <p>Lil, nothing is safe in life, but crime is at it's lowest point in almost fifty years in California according to the Public Policy Institute of Calfornia:</p>

    <p>http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=1036</p>

    <p>"California’s violent crime rate is at its lowest level since 1967. After increasing slightly in 2012, California’s violent crime rate dropped by 6.5% in 2013, to a 46-year low of 397 per 100,000 residents. From 1960 to 1980, the state’s violent crime rate increased from 239 to 894 violent crimes per 100,000 residents—a staggering 274% rise. After declining in the early 1980s, the rate rose to a peak of 1,120 in 1992. Since then, violent crime has declined substantially. Nonetheless, in the most recent national data (from 2012), California’s violent crime rate of 422 per 100,000 residents was higher than the national rate of 387 and ranked 16th among all states. In 2013, 59% of violent crimes in California were aggravated assaults, 35% were robberies, 5% were rapes, and 1% were homicides."</p>

    <p>You hire babysitters (maybe), so maybe you can find someone who is interested in learning nature photography to accompany you and be your bodyguard at the same time as they learn the tricks of your trade. You're much more likely to get assaulted at an ATM or injured driving to and from where you would like to shoot some pics. </p>

    <p>You might even start your own photo class and have your own group for safety.</p>

    Are magazines supposed to give me a photo credit?

    in Business of Photography

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    <p>Dan, publications will look at a photo credit from a magazine, contact the publication that originally published the photo to get the photographer contact info and then buy publication rights to the photo. I had this happen to me with a photo of mine that ran in Road & Track on their PS page. Ultimately about ten publications (including The National Enquirer) contacted R&T to get my info which resulted in sales to me. Some of the pubs gave me photo credit too, but not the Enquirer. I asked the Enquirer photo editor why, and he said that they never do, but they pay very well instead, which they certainly did. The photo I shot was just a quick snap out the car window as I drove by this particular vehicle. Now the NE did want details, so I had to look at one of my shots, call the guy who was selling the vehicle and he filled-me in on the details for the NE. It was our tax dollars at work that paid for this car. Here's the original shot in R&T and the NE version.</p>

    <p><img src="http://www.jaypix.com/pix/4carw1.jpg" alt="" /><img src="http://www.jaypix.com/pix/4carw2.jpg" alt="" /></p>

    <p> </p>

    Nikon FE: Doesn't work, even with fresh batteries

    in Nikon

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    <p>Maybe it's like an F3 where it doesn't operate normally until the frame counter says 1. The first time I used an F3 when it came out, I had the habit of firing (with a fresh roll) before the frame counter said one, and the F3 was stuck at its one mechanical speed. I had to stop using the F3 I had borrowed from NPS only to later learn what caused it.</p>

    High quality lens for interior -- architectural and real estate work

    in Nikon

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    If you don't want distortion, the Nikkor 15mm F3.5 is your lens. Note that the link "Link" is for the Mir website on the Nikkor. The second link is for a prior PN thread on the 15mm.a

     

    http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/nikkoresources/ultrawides/15mm.htm

     

    "Technical Highlights: * Panoramic 110° picture angle allows you to shoot in the confined space of cramped interiors; it also produces spectacular results in landscape, architectural or virtually any type of photography. * Straight-line rendition of subjects with virtually no distortion. * Immense depth of field practically eliminates the need to focus at smaller f/stops and moderate or greater distances."

     

     

    http://www.photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00Km5u

    Blur (intentional)

    in No Words

    Posted

    I deliberately used a low shutter speed here to blur the advertising

    on the cars, as I found this location with no guardrails, advertising

    signs or fencing, just pure location and track. This tearsheet is

    from Road & Track where it was originally published in 1983. Both

    shots here are mine.<div>00cd9R-548893284.jpg.0089151feb32b4dc85de7a7b0c1619c2.jpg</div>

    Is there a wireless remote control for the video on a D300s?

    in Nikon

    Posted

    <p>DSLR Dashboard and a TP-Link MR3040 router. Total cost under 40 bucks. There is a 107 page thread at this linki:</p>

    <p>http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/themes-apps/app-nikon-dslr-dashboard-via-usb-v0-30-t1256583</p>

    <p>I use it with a D800E for stills and video. Search the thread for d300s and you find many successful d300s users.</p>

    <p>Watch this youtube video on how to do it:</p>

    <p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Our-AxmrDJM&feature=player_detailpage</p>

     

    My first car

    in No Words

    Posted

    1961 VW Bus with split front seats. The yellow one is not mine, but Corvair

    powered and built with aircraft quality throughout. I'm the one sittingon the lawn with

    the girl, not te guy behind my VW. Note the racing tires, Firestoned (yep)

    SuperSports GP F1 tires (thought the fronts had a racing recap on them). It blew

    reduction gear bearings frequently because of the Ford wheel adapters and the rear

    16x8 American Wheels (fronts were 15x7). I still have the Newport Paipo Rick

    Newcombe Wedge Special belly/knee board.<div>00bwEt-542099684.jpg.0cff4e044439eb84175704a271e17a8c.jpg</div>

    Photographer is not giving me my wedding photos after agreement!!! Please help :(

    in Wedding & Event

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    <p>" I just need this event to be photographed that my wife and I could remember it and we could send out some pictures to her family and my family whom couldn't attend the wedding because it happened in another side of the world (US, California). I said I just need to take the pictures, I dont need editing . . . "</p>

    <p>" I just need someone to take the pictures and because he has some of the equipment he could just take the shots and it doesn't matter how its gonna turn out."</p>

    <p>" They are so important because we also have to go through immigration process and they will be asking for the pictures as well."</p>

    <p>Was this photographer shooting a wedding or providing documentation of what appears to be a wedding for immigration purposes? No one else at the wedding took a photo that could be used to document a wedding ceremony for immigration purposes?</p>

    <p>If you don't care how the pictures turn out (What if no pics turned out at all?), I'm sure there are plenty of cell phone pics of the event so save yourself the aggravation. Chalk off the hundred bucks as a lesson that if something as important as a wedding and establishing immigration credibility is only worth a hundred bucks to you, you got what you paid for.</p>

     

    For formula 1 fans

    in Casual Photo Conversations

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    <p>I was lucky to participate as a photojournalist in what I consider to be the "Golden Age" of F1 photography back in the '70s and early '80s, freelancing with Road & Track magazine, Grand Prix International and others (through a French press agency). One of the best books on the subject (actually a museum exhibit catalog) is "Passion and Precision: The Photographer and Grand Prix Racing 1894-1984." You can find copies for sale on ebay once in a while. Here's a scan of the cover and one of the forward. The catalog also includes interviews with many of the photographers, including William A. Motta, the great art director of R&T from the '50s to the '90s. The Ferrari shot on the cover is mine, as it represented the modern F1 photographer. Of course the French were unhappy that my shot was overlaid on top of Lartigue's famous shot.</p>

    <p>I am working on digitizing my Kodachrome archive, but here are some poor scans as examples.</p>

    <p><img src="http://www.jaypix.com/pix/pass.jpg" alt="" /><br>

    <img src="http://www.jaypix.com/pix/forward.jpg" alt="" /><br>

    <img src="http://www.jaypix.com/pix/bss.jpg" alt="" /><br>

    <img src="http://www.jaypix.com/pix/massv3.jpg" alt="" /><br>

    <img src="http://www.jaypix.com/pix/loto1v4.jpg" alt="" /><br>

    <img src="http://www.jaypix.com/pix/villb01.jpg" alt="" /></p>

    <p>And James Hunt's first victory and the only victory for Hesketh, leading Lauda at the Dutch GP in 1975.</p>

    <p><img src="http://www.jaypix.com/pix5/hesk1.jpg" alt="" /></p>

    <p><img src="http://www.jaypix.com/pix/hesk1.jpg" alt="" /></p>

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