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<p>If you just want one cable you can buy a Mini DisplayPort to full sized DisplayPort cable from newegg. I use one with my MacBook Air and Dell 30" LCD (2560x1600) and it works great. For DVI the monitor requires a dual link DVI card/cable but DisplayPort has even more bandwidth than dual link DVI.</p>

<p>There are also some limitations for Thunderbolt and multiple displays but mostly affect the laptops.<br>

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/09/18/thunderbolt-display-daisy-chaining-spec-cleared-up/</p>

<p>supply and demand</p>

<p>I have a Nikon D3 and various other Nikon DSLRs but I also have a Nikon V1 which is one of their mirrorless cameras. It's so light that I do take it more often than my DSLRs but the same argument can be made for the camera built into your cell phone. As mentioned before, there are quite a few mirrorless cameras that have either an integrated electronic viewfinder like the V1 or a clip on attachment.</p>

 

 

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<li>Is there such a thing as a screw mount anti-aliasing filter that can be mounted in front of the lens for times when it's properties are needed?</li>

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<p>no.</p>

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<p>Actually there are some like this link but I have never used it. </p>

<p>http://www.caprockdev.com/antimoire.htm</p>

 

 

<p>I do MD5 sums similar to what Stephen does. I have about 3TB of data and in 5 years I have seen 2 files go bad. Both files were large video files and not in a critical part. The files still played fine without any noticeable artifact or damage. The hard drives report no bad sectors. I restored the files from backup anyway because my 2 backups matched while the main drive in the computer did not.</p>

<p>There has been research like this that show cosmic rays can and do damage computer chips. Hard drives and tapes use magnetic fields which could be damaged from other magnets.<br>

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/03/do-we-need-cosmic-ray-alerts-for.html</p>

<p>For the salesperson why sell one brand of camera and lens when you can make that remark and sell TWO brands! $$$$</p>

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<p>I find this whole "I don't like to have to shoot at arms length" concept difficult to understand.</p>

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<p>The camera is more stable when you're bracing it against your face. I also find it easier to track action when it's at my eye. As I said, I don't really care how you compose or take pictures. Whatever works for you is fine.</p>

 

<p>I have a Nikon V1 which is mirrorless and has a pretty good electronic viewfinder. I've read posts from quite a few people who have taped over the sensor that switches between rear LCD and EVF so the EVF is always on. I absolutely hate composing on the rear LCD but I have no problems if you are others enjoy it.</p>

<p>You already made the point of whether USB ports will exist in 100 years. Here's $100 that says no. Good luck collecting! :)</p>

<p>Your film shot has interesting lighting so it's interesting. Your landscapes are dull because your lighting is dull and frankly I don't see much interesting in the composition either. The TV image with blown highlights has blown highlights. Some highlight recovery algorithms make strange artifacts. You can change the lighting, darken the windows like they do on a movie set, or do an HDR merge. Print film has far more exposure latitude so it's harder to blow highlights. </p>

<p>It looks like all of your shots are at f22. Why? You're loosing sharpness to diffraction. You can go to flickr and search for Canon 450D or Rebel XSi (identical camera) and see thousands of excellent shots so don't blame the camera.</p>

<p>Focalware on my iphone</p>

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<p>The D4 is a sports/action camera, with 10fps it would be something of a problem to move 76MB RAW files to cards at that rate. And buffer size would have to be humongous.</p>

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<p>The V1 that you deride can shoot and record full resolution 10MP RAW files at 60fps. Each RAW file is about 11MB in size. It has a 1GB RAM buffer.</p>

<p>Rob Galbraith's web site says they could shoot 20 14-bit lossless RAW files on the D800 w/ a fast CF card. At 76MB each that would imply a 1.5GB RAM buffer. DRAM is cheap but the card interface can be a problem. Some of the high end 4K (~12MP) video cameras interleave their writes to multiple cards. He also reported that the D4 could write to XQD cards at 92MB/s. It's possible for Nikon to do far more but the cost would go through the roof and the market for it is tiny like the market for 4K cameras.</p>

<p>I've tried Raw Therapee as well as Digikam (haven't tried Darktable yet) and I preferred Raw Therapee although I prefer Bibble over all of them including Lightroom which I tried on my Mac for a while. Back to GIMP, if you really need 16-bit editing you can get Cinepaint which is a fork of an older version.</p>

<p>I've used GIMP since 1996 when I was in college. I've only used Photoshop a few times because it doesn't run (well) on Linux.</p>

<p>These days I hardly need either. Today many people use a workflow program like Lightroom or Aperture. I use Bibble 5 which is now Corel Aftershot. I can do almost all manipulations within it and quicker that I rarely need something like Photoshop.</p>

Digic/Expeed is far more than just a JPEG encoding chip. Nobody would make a chip anymore just to do JPEG encoding.

 

 

 

In previous jobs I have worked on image processing chips similar to Digic/Expeed. The data is transferred from the sensor to the image processing chip. Within our chips was an ARM CPU core that runs the camera operating system. There is a memory interface for buffering to external RAM, interfaces to USB and SD flash storage, video outputs and LCD output, general I/O to receive all the button info, logic for video and audio encoding, and the JPEG encoding engine. The JPEG part of that was pretty tiny in comparison to the video and all the external interfaces.

<p>Yosemite and Death Valley are always nice to look at.</p>

<p>I've got a V1 as well. Most of the people who think it's a toy have never used it. The joke's on them.</p>

<p>B&H prices</p>

<p>Used D700 for $2349<br>

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/800841241-USE/Nikon_25444_D700_SLR_Digital_Camera.html</p>

<p>New D700 for $2199<br>

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/570162-REG/Nikon_25444_D700_SLR_Digital_Camera.html</p>

<p>Of course the new one is not in stock so maybe someone needs one bad enough to buy a used one but that isn't go to fly for very long.</p>

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<p>Large, medium, and small are JPEG compression options. When you shoot RAW, you capture the entire 36MP. There are options to crop so that you only use part of the sensor area, e.g. the 5:4 crop, DX crop and 1.2x crop, but there is no 16MP RAW mode on the entire FX frame.</p>

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<p>On my D3 at least, "large, medium, and small" controls how much the camera downsamples the data to produce a lower resolution JPEG. Large is the full 12MP, medium is around 8MP, and small is around 3 MP. The entire FX sensor area is used, it just downsamples to a lower res.</p>

<p>Fine, Normal, and Basic control the amount of JPEG compression which gives smaller files while maintaining the full resolution. You could of course shoot "small" and "basic" to get tiny 3MP over compressed images if you really wanted to. </p>

<p>Canon does have an "sRAW" format to downscale the RAW data and keep it in a RAW format. Personally I have never shot anything other than full res RAW or JPEG/FINE but the options are there.</p>

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<p>Well if it was "official" price drop, Nikonusa.com probably wouldn't still have it at $2,699, but nikon.ca have it at $2,499. so...</p>

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<p>Check again. Nikon USA has it for $2199 just like B&H, Adorama, Amazon, and probably all the other big stores. <br>

http://shop.nikonusa.com/store/nikonusa/en_US/pd/productID.213426600</p>

<p>The rumor site ran a poll last week of over 25,000 people.</p>

<p>59% wanted a D800 body with the 16MP sensor from the D4. Only 41% want the D800 with the 36MP sensor it has. Thom Hogan had a similar poll last year asking whether you want a D700 size body with the 12MP D3s sensor the 24MP D3X sensor. His poll showed them much closer to 50/50.</p>

<p>Just based on D700 sales I'd say that the market for this kind of camera is certainly there. Whether Nikon makes it or not is anyone's guess but that is the main reason people are complaining.</p>

 

<p>Have you ruled out the digital mirrorless systems like Nikon 1, Sony NEX, Olympus/Panasonic Micro 4/3, etc?</p>

 

<p>This article was posted about a month but it's still a good read on how Fuji diversified and transitioned their businesses while Kodak did not.<br>

http://www.economist.com/node/21542796</p>

<p>Going on Elliot's idea of shutter failure, take the lens off, go to manual and try a 10 second exposure. Does the mirror flip up? Did the shutter open? Do you see the shiny sensor now? You could also go into sensor cleaning mode and see if the shutter moves.</p>

 

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