david_stokely

That is one of my goals for this winter also.

Dave

Here's an awesome article I read on this very this very topic. Hope this helps:

http://www.vividlight.com/articles/3905.htm

Dave

This has been such a strange fall: mid-upper eighties the first week in October, really no cool weather to speak of. I'm not sure past years schedules will be of much use in predicting when the colors will peak. I'm in northern Indiana, probably 200+ miles from Brown County and we're just starting to see a bit of color. I suspect that there's a few weeks to go yet for the Nashville area.

Dave

I tried twice recently and got no responses and very few looks. I thought that maybe I was doing something really wrong, but after watching other auctions, I didn't see anyone having much success.

Dave Stokely

I bought my D70s in May with the kit lens. I very much like taking

wildlife shots and yet didn't have lots of money for a long lens. I

found a used Nikkor 70-210 f4-5.6 at my local Nikon dealer for what I

thought was a pretty reasonable price. Note this is not the 'd'

lens, but the older non-d one. I have just been very pleased with

the clarity of the lens, etc. Just thought I would share the good

thing I've found.

Dave Stokely

The attached photo is pretty much straight from the camera. It is

cropped slightly to an 8 x 10 format. In the original, you can

literally count the rows of stitching in the hat. This was hand held

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This is very interesting and really I don't know what it means. What is your interpretation of the photos? Which one rendered the scene more realistically?

I took your photos and copied them onto my computer and played with them in my Microsoft Digital Imaging suite software, comparing the histogram curves for the different color channels of a section of the shadow of the fence at the top of the shot. This to me should have been a rather neutral color and yet is quite differently shown in the two shots. The blue and red channels looked the same or very very similar in both. The big difference was in the green channel. In both shots the red channel was a somewhat darker hue than the blue channel. In the D70s shot, the blue and green channels were of pretty much identical hue, but in the d1 shot the green channel was about midway between the blue and red. I have a d70s and so I'm interested in your interpretation of these photos.

I look forward to hearing from others.

Dave Stokely

I'm relatively new to digigal photography, buying a Kodak dx7630 in February and a D70s Nikon in June and for the first month or so, I wasn't overly impressed with the photos I was taking. My first temptation was to blame the camera/lens, etc., but I continued reading the manual, trying different thing and looking on the internet for tips. The improvement between my shots in June and now is dramatic. I'm taking lots of inside shots without a flash (during church services) and having good success. I bought the kit lens and have since purchased a used 70-210 f4-5.6 Nikkor lens. To me anyway there is just so much about this camera to learn. So many settings and they aren't just insignificant tweaking things, but make big differences in how your pictures turn out. For a quick tip on indoor shots, I set the camera at shutter speed priority, shutter setting @1/50 sec. or faster and the ISO at somewhere between 600 and 1250. The camera will read 'lo' but still allow the shots to be taken. Take a few test shots and see how they look, tweaking the shutter speed and ISO as required. I can adjust for exposure in software, I can't compensate for blur, so keep the shutter speed as fast as possible.

Anyway, keep trying and don't get discouraged. It is an awesome camera.

Dave Stokely