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Hi,

I am visiting Seattle on May 11th and would like to spend the weekend and may be

couple of days extra around photographing. So far what my colleagues have

suggested, which is obvious, is

- Mt Rainier

- Mt St Helens

- Victoria and San Juan Island

I would also like to here from fellow photographers, considering this time of

the year etc.

Regards

Sunil

Thanks all for your inputs. Indeed, after some thought, I have decided to concentrate only in one area, Coos Bay and south till Brookings. UNLESS I am wrong, I am not too crazy about sand dunes, I have some wonderful snaps from Death Valley for that. I am looking forward to sunsets at ragged coast of Samuel Boardman State Park, mornings in Coos Bay and surroundings, tide pools, and may be detour to Golden and Silver Falls. I understand that I have to discover a bit, but any specific location I should not miss?

Friday Night - Mendocino

Saturday Night - Port Ordford

Sunday Night - Coos Bay

Travel back starting Monday noon via Reedsport and I5, reach home (Redwood City) by midnight.

Hi,

I am planning a photo tour of Oregon Coast over the long weekend. I

would drive out of SF bay area on Friday evening and reach Northern

most location. I will drive south during the following days catching

sunsets (and may be sunrises). I don't mind reaching Sunday late. Can

I do the whole Oregon coast in the schedule. Otherwise, I would just

do half of it. Which half I should do, north of Florence or South of

Florence. I am following "photograph America" newsletters. Your tips

and comments would be immensely helpful. Where to stay? What are great

places for sunrise (sunsets may be plenty)? And anything else?

Thanks a lot

Sunil

Thanks every one, I will soon put some of my photos online to share with you all.

Sunil

Hi,

I used to hang around in this forum 3-4 years back. I learned great

deal of nature photography then. I am wanting to get back.

Are there any other similar great nature photography forums that I

don't want to miss. I like enthusiasm at dpreview.com, just that it's

mostly about equipment.

Thanks a lot

Sunil

"I still feel there is something to be said for uniformity among a camera's product line though. However, I'm sure Nikon will eventually produce a full-frame sensor, if for no other reason than that's what the marketplace wants."

How can you so sure that marketplace wants a full-frame sensor.

If you see the trend in semiconductor technology in general and sensor technology in particular, rate of signal-to-noise-ratio improvements would be much higher than improvements in success rate of large sensor sizes and the economics of it. Secondly, who does not want better picture quality using smaller sensors.

It's like in rural India the videographers still use those old bulky vhs cameras. Not that they can't afford slick dgcam that would give much better video quality. Their clients are unimpressed by the small size of a dgcam.

To comment on Arnub and Shun

To me Nikon makes lot of sense. I was in pro-sumer range. I had F90x and I skipped buying F100. Then I bought D100. Now I can happily wait for D200 or upgrade my expectations to pro level and buy D2x. Typically I would use my camera at least for 2 years.

For that matter I still have Dell Precision 320, Pentium 4 1.7 GHz, best configuration that I bought 3 years back. It still works. I skipped buying 3.x GHz.

Canon guys relax, Nikon being at number 2 actually helps me.

Photography is my hobby and not my profession.

I don't get it!

If Canon EOS-1D Mark II, 8.2 Megapixel is at $4499 at B&H, what's wrong with Nikon D2x, 12.4 Megapixel at $4,999.

I am happy user of D100, I have such nice results from last trip to Death Valley. I will go for D2x as I think that it is going to be as good as D70. For me it's foolish to even think of making a switch.

No, that's not the case what you think. I do take pictures and they look good too. I am now working on my first possible show.

However, being a computer graphics researcher, I enjoy technology too.

Is Nikon seriously lagging!

Well I don't think so. But that is precisely being said over and over

again in the other forums. Currently I own quite a lot of Nikon gear.

D100, F90x, Coolscan 4000, 4 good lenses etc. I don't think I will be

in position to switch to Canon. At the same time I am anxious that

Nikon did not announce D2X nor F6. Am I making a mistake by sticking

to Nikon, not that there is an option. I am not a pro.

I want ask this question here hoping that I don't get any undue hyped

up impression of some guy blindly passionate about Canon brand.

I can afford to spend a bit and sell some thing, only if I am sure.

- I can't buy F5 because there will be probably F6 and I like digital.

I always wanted to buy F5, but could not afford, and bought F90x.

- D100 (what I own) is ok but it is not F5 or better, I bought it

because it was the best digital then, i.e. last year.

- I am not sure if D2X will rival F5, forget the fact that one is film

and the other is digital.

- I searched and searched for last 2 weeks and did not find a single D2X

- D70 is better than D100 for its bucks, I feel cheated

- I can't sell D100 for reasonable amount because of D70

- I can't buy Canon 1D Mark II as Nikon lenses won't fit to that

- I am not sure if Fuji S3 pro does as good metering as F5 and whether

it will be as good as D2X (if at all)

What do I do? I can wait, but I don't want to make mistake yet another

time. People bought F5 when it came out. They must have had immense

satisfaction for years there after. Will D2X be the case!

You know what, my D100 is probably just right for my advance

amateurish indulgence.

Thanks a lot

Sunil

Hi,

I am a landscape and micro photographer. Recently I was on my photo

tour to Death Valley and Joshua Tree with my Nikon D100, F90x and lot

of lenses, gitzo carbon fiber tripod, etc. It was a good trip and have

some nice shots.

However, with us, there was a friend couple with some digicam (I

forgot the brand, probably it was Minolta). Firstly I was stunned to

learn that they were referring to John Shaw's book on landscape

photography. They could experiment all the things about aperture,

shutter speed, dof, even hyperfocal length. When we got together, I

saw no difference in many of our shots as they almost tried to copy my

composition using their small flimsy tripod. Upon observing their

images for sharpness etc without being extra picky, I looked like

stupid to sweat so much to get similar kind of results. Now, agreed

there must be some difference in quality, because I have $4000 gear.

This leaves me with a question though. Do I really need a Digital SLR?

Why can I not accept the convenience of the light gear which can fit

in small waste bag.

Why can't there be a very light weight, very powerful professional

camera from Nikon and Canon. This is my Nikon D2x wish (joking). I

agree that small CCDs have noise problem. But I guess small lenses

might mean good precision, low distortion, low aberration, low cost,

low weight. Forget about full frame CCD, I am talking about smaller

than APS CCD.

I was looking at Nikon Coolpix 8700 8MP digicam announcement.

Thanks

Sunil

Hi all,

I want to shoot butterflies. I can find out about other techniques.

However, when do I expect them out and are there any places around SF

Bay Area I should go hunting them.

Yosemite!!! I think I would prefer gardens, that way I will keep

myself focused.

Thanks

Sunil

Hi all,

Thanks a lot for all the suggestions. I am finally inclined to drop Mono Lake. Instead, I am planning to spend two days in Joshua Tree. I will also do Lone Pine area.

Joshua Tree is best in spring I understand. But I couldn't convince my wife that we should spend whole week in Death Valley. :-(

Let me know if I should not miss between Death Valley, Lone Pine and Joshua Tree.

Thanks once again.

Sunil

Hi,

I am finalizing a trip to Mono Lake, Sequoia and Kings Canyon and

Death Valley in December (24-30). I have following tentative

itinerary.

2 days Mono Lake

2 days Sequoia and Kings Canyon

3 days Death Valley

Any inputs/corrections would be highly appreciated. Firstly is it a

good time at all to visit these places. I am doubtful about Sequoia

and Kings Canyon. I feel like I should spend a day or two more in

Death Valley and drop or just briefly visit Sequoia. Will it be

overcast in Mono Lake, looking at SF Bay area's weather now a days.

Sunil

Scott, what do you mean? I don't think single exposure of 35mm film has that much resolution.

Personally, I was impressed with the technique, not by this particular photograph. Some of his other images are good and highres. To the extend it motivates me to practice stitching.

I am wondering, can stitching match large format photography? I saw some really gorgeous panaromas in one of the gallery in Carmel last weekend. When I asked "is this digitally processed", I was intimidated by "large format" "cibachrome processing". There might be truth in it, but just makes me wonder if digital is that trash, given the technology of today.

Sunil

Hi,

I just got back with my Epson 2100. Earlier I was using Epson 1280 and

had some nice prints. This was some 5 months back when I moved to USA

from Switzerland to join DreamWorks. Meanwhile I had received Epson

2100 but did not get time at all to explore it.

Ok, to make the story short, I realized that I am not able to get the

colors right at all. I tried various things but all the colors are

horribly muddy/dull and there is strong blue cast. I open photographs

taken with Nikon D100 jpg, which have color space Nikon RGB which I

presume is same as Adobe RGB. Photoshop does not complain about

profile mismatch as my working space is Adobe RGB. Then I print using

settings a) Source profile: Same as document b) Print space: I chose

Epson supplied Semigloss Photo profile c) Intent: Relative

colorometric d) Turn off printers color management and print. I expect

to get some decent result as the profile is supplied by Epson

(Australia).

What's the problem. I pulled out ColorVision's ProfilerPlus and tried

to generate the profile, but stopped thinking that I should first make

sure what's happening.

On a side note, is it worth buying ColorVisions new PrintFix? Any one

have any experience.

Thanks

Sunil Hadap

Hi,

I want to explore the field of building ICC profiles using scanners. I

came across some very good mathematics, using this mathematics one can

estimate accurately both the printer and scanner profiles iteratively.

My question is which is the optically best scanner. I don't care about

dpi. What I need from the scanner is good linear response, good

dynamic range and overall good optics.

On a side note, can I use D100 for the purpose. Does lens/ccd

combination of the camera is far superior than the scanner, or vice versa.

Thanks

Sunil

Sorry for the confusion. I wonder why I typed raid 0 when I meant raid 1.

Thanks for the responses so far.

About the spike risk and fire risk, I really have not found a good/cheap solution in terms of tapes and required software. As a last resort I am going for this solution. I have put a good spike guard, that it. About fire, how many people keep their backups in another building? After all, photography is my hobby. Still thanks for reminding me and others for these risks.

Hi,

I bought WesternDigital Caviar 200GB disk. I plan to buy another one.

It come with Promise FastTrack TX2 card which I believe raid capable.

I just don't want to be bother about backing up my valuable

photographs, how to setup raid 0. Do I need another ATA controler than

which comes with the disk?

I use Windows XP Pro and Dell Precision 320 workstation.

Any web links would be just fine.

Thanks

Sunil

It's too bad. Then why they call it raw image, just because it does not have a valid image header! I think this feature should go in the next digital camera's wish list. I can immagin at least half a dozen algorithms to reconstruct better image from the raw data. Particularly when it is super ccd.

Secondly, are you absolutely sure that the camera resamples (interpolates) the individual channel during reconstruction of accurate rgb. They might even be sticking whatever data they get per channel in simple rgb triplet. What I mean is just look at the rgb components of the resulting image as they directly come from ccd layout and simply recreate that layout.

Sunil Hadap

Hi,

I was just wondering, as CCDs capture rgb colors distinctly, if we

can take the color image in raw file and convert it to a BW image of

the resolution three times higher. It would be very nice idea to try.

Some sort of inverse Piezography idea.

Regards

Sunil Hadap

Hi,

I did not get how vuescan is different as compared to nikon scan when

you specify the film type. As far as I can search the nikon scan has

no such selection.

How vuescan achieves this, a particular setup for a particular film.

Thanks a lot

Sunil

Hi,

I think you should retain 1270 and convert it into a bw printer using any of the black ink sets. Even though 2200 is regarded (hyped) for its bw printing, I think in the long run you will like the setup, 2200 for color and 1270 for bw.

I am not sure how 1270 is supported in terms of black ink sets. I currently have 1290 and have just ordered 2100. I will soon order continuous ink system for 1290, currently I fill cartridges manually.

I want to shoot my cousins wedding and plan to print using MIS

Hextones. Does Nikon Coolscan 4000 scan the Kodak T400CN or Ilford

XP2 properly? Should I scan it grayscale or scan it color and

desaturate in Photoshop?

Thank you very much

Regards

Sunil