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    In defense of video

    in Nikon

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    <p>This is my opinion. Do you want to pay $5000.00 for a D4 that may take 8 fps or $5000.00 for a camera that will take just as good a stills as the D4 at 30 fps. Do you think that Nikon would refuse to build the D4 if it could take 30fps. How do you define a still camera. One that won't take over 10 fps or should it be just 8fps. </p>

    <p>If you want to keep a still camera on the market, then your going to have to set a speed limit on how many fps it can take. The only way that your going to be able to define a still camera, is one that won't take over 24fps or so.</p>

    <p>The art of Photography is not in how many fps a camera will or won't take. Its in the person holding that camera.</p>

    <p>P.S. Even thouth I do shoot some video, I love my D700 dearly.</p>

     

    In defense of video

    in Nikon

    Posted

    <p>I know that you guys know a lot more then me about this subject, but there already is a video camera that can do far more than any Cannon, Sony or Panasonic. It's called the Red one. It's price is about $28,000.00, but they are comming out with two (I think it was suppose to have been released last year) this fall starting around $3700.00 that will take 120fps at photo shoot and magazine quality still frames.</p>

    <p>From the way they talked to me the quality of their video frames should be as good as any DSLR out there today. But of course, that was my interpretation of what they said.</p>

    <p>Long time no see, guys and gals. I just saw this in the monthly magazine.</p>

    <p>Check it out. http://www.red.com/</p>

    <p> </p>

    Where to buy D700

    in Casual Photo Conversations

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    <p>Willam, If you do decide to buy for one of the shops, let me give you some advice.</p>

    <p>After you place your order, if they send you a email saying that you need to call them, to confirm your order or something like that, call and cancel your order. Then when you get what ever they saw fit to send you, (even though you canceled your order), send it back with all of the documentation you can get that you returned it.</p>

    <p>If I was you, I wouldn't lesson to me, but get your self a very good attorney. I only got a good attorney and lost. It wasn't his fault that he lost, it was my fault for buying from someone who knew a lot more about what they were doing, then what they were selling.</p>

    Where to buy D700

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p>RightBuyDigital.com is selling it for $1179! How do they do that?</p>

    <p>I don't know how RightBuyDigital does it, but some stores that sale below what it cost to make, just send you a part or two. Then, if you want the rest of the camera, you pay more then what it's worth. If you do decide to get the other pieces, you will have to put it together your self, because no authorized Nikon dealer will touch it.</p>

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    Skin Smoothing Again - no blurring

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    <p>I have a question. "As for the "it as been taking care before" well let me tell you that on the most expensive photoshoot i have seen"</p>

    <p>How many hours would it take to retouch a photo like those three, if someone who didn't know what they were doing, did the makeup, lighting and poising. How long would it take a retoucher to get a subject in a pose like those?</p>

    <p>That's my question. Not being an intaganest, just like to know.</p>

    Must have features in first Video Camera

    in Video

    Posted

    <p>One word of warning about buying anything online. If you try to buy a camera online for 50% or less than the cameras real retail price, their probably going to do you like they did me.</p>

    <p>After you receive the wrong camera, you will call them up and ask why they sent you the wrong camera. They said "well we got to thinking about it, and we decided you might like a camera with a lens in it. The one you order doesn't come with a lenses". Then the battle is on, and the chances are about 99.9% that you will lose.</p>

    <p>Express Camera's was the one I dealt with. Their parent company has now change Express Cameras name along with the other ten online stores they operate.</p>

    <p>There's plenty of good online stores online so stay with them.</p>

    Photoshop: Single photo from multi-scan

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    <p>Some epson scanners will let you highlight multiple marquees of multiple photos at one time. I don't mean that it will scan all of them with one pass. You highlight each photo with the marquee tool and hit the button all. They will scan a photo with each pass one at a time. </p>

    <p>In other words, if you have five photos, you do one preview. You then draw five marquees, hit all and then scan. The scanner will then do five passes at what ever settings you set for each marquee (or photo).</p>

    <p>I didn't know about this for years, and I always did it the way you'll are talking about.</p>

    <p>I know that the Epson 4490 and the 750 Pro will do this.</p>

    Must have features in first Video Camera

    in Video

    Posted

    <p>Sean, here is a youtube video"

    on how to build the cheap DOF (Depth of Field) adapter for any video camera. . What this does is let you put any 35mm lens on any video camera. You can build it yourself (I think $38.00 is the cheapest I’ve seen), or buy one from around $400.00 to $4000.00 for the best.<br>

    As for as what camera, I have four canons (two GL-1's and 2 XH-A1s). Either these camera’s are no good, or there’s not a really “big difference” between them and the cheapest camcords on the market. Remember, you can’t compare the SD and HD cameras to each other. <br>

    We have a Samsung 61" HD TV. When I saw how my SD, GL-1s looked on it, the first thing I did was to buy the HD, XH-A1s. The HD – XH-A1s look better on my Samsung than the sean in real life. If there is any way for you to afford it, I would get a cheap HD camcorder. I haven’t seen any video of a cheap HD video (if there is such a thing) but, if there is no more difference in how my camera's compare to anything below $1000.00 then that's the way I would go, new or used<br>

    I think I would stay with tape for now, because all of the new pro cameras are still using it. If their staying with tape then there’s a reason why. <br>

    If you want to see the next generation camcorder now, take a look at what Red's coming out with. "http://www.red.com/store". Red makes movie cameras. They have digtal move camera that will take 60, 25MB, FPS. The one here runs about $30,000.00. But, their coming out with four new models starting at $3000.00 that is suppose to put any camera that takes video and stills to shame.</p>

    processors

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    <p>To me, it's like this. When everyone in my first (how to build) computer class said I was crazy for getting a 1GB hard drive, I asked the instructor what he thought. He said, if you can afford it, go for it, other wise don't.</p>

    <p>I use a quad now, but the duel core's (and single core) have edited a lot of photo's and video's for me just fine.</p>

    Using Nikon Capture NX-2 and Lightroom 2 together?

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    <p>I think that NX will out do LR any day. For me, NX does a better job of batch processing NEF files. I batch to tiffs and then import them into LR. As for as editing individual photos, for me, I can edit them much faster in NX. It's not that NX is faster than LR, it's just much easier for me to get what I want in NX than it is in LR. You half to save to TIFFs because Adobe programs throws out all of your edits if you try to import the NEF files. I guess Adobe doesn't like the competition. </p>

    <p>You have to import your photos into LR from somewhere. In NX, just save your photos to a file in the TIFF format. Then when you import your photos into LR, it won't throw out all of the edits you made in NX.</p>

    <p>I think if you own a Nikon, NX is worth having. I save a lot more time in processing than I lose in doing one extra import.</p>

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