waltflanagan

<p>I wouldn't risk it. You're dealing with a bunch of low paid security people who don't necessarily know the rules. Plus what kind of quality do you really expect to get? I'd take my compact w/ 24-300mm equivalent lens and my tiny binoculars and enjoy watching the Olympics with my own eyes. Then buy Sports Illustrated when I return.</p>

<p>Why does your D700 need replacement? Why not another D700? Are you looking at a used D3s? New ones are not that cheap. What is your budget? Why not a D4?</p>

<p>I shot a few foot races with my Nikon V1 and the 70-300 equivalent lens. Worked fine but it has sensor based phase detect AF.</p>

<p>This article shows some of the performance improvements with OpenCL GPU acceleration. </p>

<p>http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/photoshop-cs6-gimp-aftershot-pro,3208.html</p>

<p>Only a couple of functions in Photoshop can actually use the GPU. AFAIK nothing in Lightroom can use it. Since you don't play games you'll be fine with the integrated graphics. As Bruce mentions, the SSD and RAM are better investments. You did use the word "building" so I'm assuming that means desktop. In the future if these programs get more GPU acceleration you can always add a dedicated graphics card.</p>

<p>Get the park map from the NPS website. The Anhinga trail near the eastern entrance is excellent especially if you're with your family. It's close to a parking lot and has tons of gators and herons around. The Shark Valley tram tour is fun as well but the photography wasn't as good. I would be more concerned about going in the middle of July. Take plenty of bug spray. I was there in December and still got tons of insect bites.</p>

<p>Why do you want 50 Mbps video output? I usually see people asking the question the other way as in "My (video)camera outputs X bitrate, what is the best high bitrate storage device for it?"</p>

<p>The second battery keeps the clock running etc. while you are changing the main battery. I converted my D70 to infrared years ago. It still gets some use every once in a while.</p>

<p>Norm Abram of This Old House often says "They don't make them like they used to... and thank goodness for that.</p>

<p>I think people compare the best products (and buildings) from years ago and compare it to ordinary products of today. We should really compare the ordinary build quality products from 50 years ago but they have fallen apart and have been forgotten. </p>

<p>But it is disappointing to read of so many D800 quality problems. Thom Hogan has recently gone in to detail on it as well.</p>

 

<p>Finally some real benchmarks showing performance w/ and w/out GPU acceleration. I primarily run Corel Aftershot Pro so I'm looking forward to that GPU speedup of ~2X.</p>

<p>My MacBook Air thunderbolt port can drive my 30" 2560x1600 display w/ no problems using a $7 Mini-DisplayPort to full sized DisplayPort cable.</p>

<p>Thunderbolt combines DisplayPort and 4 PCI Express Gen 2 lanes onto one cable.<br>

<br />The DisplayPort page has 3840 × 2160 listed as a support resolution. They also list the color depths as that requires more bandwidth as well.<br>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Technical_specifications</p>

<p>I think you've learned already that 4K is not exactly 4096xsomething but is around 4K in one dimension. 3840x2160 is QFHD (Quad Full High Def) and is close enough to qualify as 4K by most people. HDMI 1.4 also supports the QFHD standard.<br>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution</p>

<p>Here is a 31" 4K monitor from Viewsonic. They say it costs as much as a car but don't say which car. It requires 2 dual-link DVI connectors which my 3 year old Nvidia card has no problem doing to my dual 30" LCDs. They say in the future it will be compatible with 2X DisplayPort which I'm assuming is a future extension to the standard. By the time these things are in the $2000 range you'll probably have Thunderbolt 2 or 3 ports that can handle it. DisplayPort is a packetized interface. It may be possible with firmware and software updates to enable 4K support.<br>

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/05/viewsonic-vp3280-led-4k-monitor-hands-on/</p>

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<p>Those really wanting/needing extreme camera performance is a very small group, I'd say well less than 1% of the market. Think of how many people now use cell phones instead of cameras. Even among camera enthusiasts, the number really wanting to carry around expensive, bulky and heavy equipment is likely less than 10%.</p>

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<p>All of that may be true but it doesn't really matter to that 1-10% that will buy an FX D4/D800/D600. Many of us have multiple cameras and multiple systems depending on the occasion. I'd probably get a D600 as a SMALL and LIGHT camera. Compared to my D3 it certainly is. I also have a D90, D70 IR, V1, P&S, Hasselblad, 3 TLRs, and more. When I take pictures I decide which setup to take to capture what I want at the quality level I deem acceptable for that situation. I generally don't worry about what everyone else is shooting or with what.</p>

<p>Do we need it? I have two 30" LCDs at 2560x1600. Do I need it? I don't really care. I have the money and love using them.</p>

<p>There is nothing forcing the original data source to be higher resolution. You can scale it right before displaying. Most modern browsers allow you to magnify the screen. In Firefox I just hit ctrl+ or View->Zoom->Zoom In. Some modern operating systems allow you to magnify a window or the entire screen. When I watch a movie I just hit the "F" key and it zooms it to full screen. Same with an image browser.</p>

<p>Programs can adjust their interfaces in various ways. If the program is completely pixel based it may have alternate sized icons and can just change the font size so everything still looks fine. You can read these links on how the new Macbook handles scaling.<br>

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5998/macbook-pro-retina-display-analysis<br>

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5996/how-the-retina-display-macbook-pro-handles-scaling<br>

<br />Things like SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) are stored as vectors, not bitmaps so you can Scale them to any size you want without losing detail. Apple has been working on a resolution independent system for years but it still isn't finished. This isn't a great link but you can google more.<br>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_independence</p>

<p>Hollywood is already using 4K video cameras (roughly 4000x2000 pixels) 1080p HD video is just 1920x1080. Today 4K televisions cost around $60,000. In 5-10 years they may be under $5K and soon after that $1K and most people will have one in their house.</p>

<p>I'm surprised that you found one in stock last week. The D800 and D4 have been and still are heavily backordered since they were announced in Jan/Feb. I would guess it will continue that way until the winter.</p>

<p>About 15 miles of the road to Chaco Canyon is unpaved. You don't need 4WD but it's a bumpy washboarded road in a lot of places. The good thing is that there aren't that many people there. Have you been to the area before? Mesa Verde and Canyon de Chelly are not far away and I think more scenic but much more crowded. Near Santa Fe are the Bandalier cliff dwellings. </p>

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<p>I have no idea for the reason of the delay but the last paragraph about the Olympics should tell you that you're going to be waiting longer than July for your camera if you're a normal photographer. I know that in 2008 Olympics there were lots of posts comparing the number of Nikon vs. Canon bodies but I'd say the vast majority of Canon shooters at the Olympics will be using older bodies. Assuming they ship in July, 3 weeks is not enough to know and trust everything about the camera. Regarding priority, Nikon has done the same thing with the D4/D800 by giving NPS members priority even though they pay the same as regular consumers. </p>

<p>Here's a list of some features that are GPU accelerated.<br>

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/gpu-opengl-features-preferences-photoshop.html</p>

<p>I have yet to find any review site that has benchmarks showing how long an operation takes with and without GPU acceleration. If you're not playing high end 3D video games then the integrated graphics are probably more than enough for anything you're doing. </p>

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<p>They artificially limit the capabilities of the different Eye-Fi cards. I have the Pro X2 model, the cheaper cards can't do RAW upload. If you google "eye-fi ad hoc" you'll see that at least the Pro/X2 can connect to an ad hoc network.</p>

<p>The transfer to phone was not what I imaginged at first. The Eye-Fi card itself becomes an ad hoc Wifi network. From the phone I join a WiFi SSD network name of "Eyefi 321341" and start the EyeFi phone app. Then the images start transferring to the phone. You can configure timeouts, auto joining, auto social media upload, etc. when you run the setup program on your computer.</p>

<p>I'm only claiming that I'm happy with it for my use cases. I'm sure you can find tons of other opinions via google.</p>

<p>First I will say to the OP, just buy more cards. </p>

 

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<p>Walt - how large are the photos you transfer through your phone? Are you able to handle RAW? I can see the advantage of your solution for some shots, but I'm wondering how it might work if you were taking a lot of photos at the same time. And then of course there's the dreaded phone plan data restrictions to consider.</p>

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<p>A lot of event photographers like WiFi. I think most of the pro Nikon and Canon bodies have WiFi addons. As the photographer shoots the images are transmitted back to an FTP server on a PC through WiFi. I've seen this at a wedding where an assistant was displaying shots via a projector in real time.</p>

<p>The Eye-Fi card is great for cameras that don't have WiFi add on modules. You could use it around the house with your home WiFi and not worry about cell phone data usage. I'm sure someone out there is setting it to automatically post every image taken to facebook using their 5G/LTE++ unlimited data cell phone plan but I don't use mine for that.</p>

<p>Sometimes when I am hiking I will take an interesting picture and feel like sharing it immediately. I shoot RAW all the time and actually edit white balance etc. in camera on my Nikon D90 and produce a JPEG which I can also scale down in camera. The EyeFi can transmit RAW to your phone and there are apps on phones to edit RAW files but I don't use them. Then I select "lock / write protect" on the finished JPEG which the Eye-Fi card uses as a trigger to transfer to the Eye-Fi app running on my iPhone. It shows up on the iPhone where I can then use Photoshop Express to edit further or just email/text/etc.</p>

<p>I've done this at a few amateur sporting events where taking photos with the iPhone camera directly wasn't practical. I would edit on camera / transfer / etc in between races. It was fun sending / receiving texts w/ images as the event was going on to the friends and family of the competitors. I don't use this method to create final poster size prints, I'll still edit the RAW files back on my computer but as I said it's fun for me.</p>

<p>I'm not trying to be rude or grumpy. I don't know how far into your course you are but the concepts of shutter speed and aperture should have been handled in the first week. Also, I don't know how you have been able to do much without knowing how the light meter in the camera works.</p>

<p>This link has PDF versions of the Canon AE-1 manual. I'm assuming you bought the camera used and didn't get a manual.<br>

http://www.butkus.org/chinon/canon/canon_ae-1/canon_ae-1.htm</p>

<p>This link explains proper exposure, shutter speed, and aperture, as filling a bucket with a garden hose. <br>

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/digital-photography-exposure-for-dummies-cheat-she.html</p>

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<p>Sometimes I wonder why cameras do not just go ahead with technology and have an "internet upload" option.</p>

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<p><br />With an Eye-Fi SD card you can do that if you want. It is possible to configure it so that as you take pictures it automatically transfers them to your phone and then to various image hosting and social media sties. I use mine in the manual transfer mode, select just the image I want to transfer, then edit it on my iPhone, then email/text/etc.</p>

<p>Are you taking this class because you have to or because you want to? If you're just trying to get through the class then okay. I fully admit to only reading the Cliff Notes version of anything Shakespeare. If you're taking this class to learn for yourself then you clearly aren't learning the very basic concept of ISO / shutter speed / aperture. You're not going to go very far if you don't get those fundamentals. Tell your professor you don't understand the basics and ask for help.</p>

<p>Have you ever run a machine like this? Do you currently process your own film? Have you ever run any kind of business before at all? </p>

<p>Are you planning to test a lot of rolls until you get everything fine tuned before opening to the public? I would be very wary of using a new lab for my film. If you mess up processing the film then I can't just take it to someone else and have them redo it.</p>