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<p>Shun, your results seem to suggest that the d7100 can write to the card at speeds between 60 and 72mb/s. That would seem to suggest that with 1.3 cropped images, you could potentially see fps of between 4 and 5. Which quite frankly would be amazing! I'll be interested to see your future postings.</p>

<p>I'd be interested in how fast it would shoot with the 1.3 crop as well, buffer full. If it makes it to 4 frames/second, that might make it a workaround.</p>

<p>Barry, once the buffer was full, how long for it to clear?</p>

<p>I tested the 70-200vrii and the new 2xtc versus the old 80-400. I could see no appreciable image quality difference at f8, and the AF as well as the image stabilization was better with the 70-200 and tc. I'm sure the image quality at 400mm will be better with the new 80-400, but the combo of 70-200 and tc is more versatile for me, and the image quality at 400mm is good enough. Brad Hill has reviewed the new 2x TC here<br>

http://www.naturalart.ca/artist/fieldtests/tc_series3.html<br>

and has some images. There is also a flickr site dedicated to that TC that you can check out as well.</p>

<p>South of Jasper on the Icefields Parkway.</p><div></div>

<p> Last Saturday night, Rated PG Roller Girls Vs Oil City Derby Girls<br /> D700, 80-200mm, 1/250s f/3.2 at 80.0mm iso2000<br>

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<p><img src="http://i.pbase.com/g1/90/16790/2/128039725.fJXHyACv.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="800" /><br>

"Lady of the Lake" , my first wedding shoot last weekend. Thank goodness I was second photographer!<br>

<a href="http://www.pbase.com/cameras/nikon/d700">Nikon D700</a> <br /> 1/250s f/14.0 at 75.0mm iso1250</p>

<p>Namgar Lhasaranova singing at the Art Wells Festival in Wells B.C. last Sunday Night. Taken with a D700 and 80-200 @iso1600, f4.5, 1/500 sec</p><div></div>

<p>I brought my old FM2n out for the local Sikh celebration of Basaikhi recently. I don't know if it is really cliche, but I guess I could title it"Hope Springs Eternal" The trouble with cliches, though is that they are quite often accurate.</p><div></div>

<p>Prom night and the traveling fair coincided last friday night.</p><div></div>

<p>End of winter celebration at Murray Ridge Ski Hill , Fort St. James BC. Events included the bathtub race and the slush cup (aerials into a pool of slush). Good to see not all kids exclusively into video games.</p><div></div>

<p>A shot from our local winter triathlon last Sunday. FM2N, kodak bw400cn, 200mm f4 ais.</p><div></div>

<p>FM2n ,Ilford XP2, 55mm 3.5 macro, Honeywell Tilt a Mite flashgun. heavy,wet snow, brought out the old standard.</p><div></div>

<p>Sanjay here is a good resource on Kodak projectors.:<br>

http://www.underwater.org/mermaid/information_projectors.html<br>

The Golden Navitars are very good- do a search either on this site or on Google, and you will come up with numerous recommendations.</p>

<p>I recently had an old leitz projector (which I loved) die on me, and found an Ektagraphic AMT on Fleabay for $50. Well worth it. Upgrade the lens however as the standard Kodak lenses are not equal to their Leica or Leitz equivalents. There are 70-125mm f2.8 golden Navitars going for around $10 right now on Fleabay. Well worth it. Another nice accessory is the kodak stack loader which will take 35 slides in a clip-no requirement for a tray(about $25 on the auction site). So for around $100 you can get a very nice setup which was designed for commercial use and should last a long time.</p>

<p>Bad attitude Santa- taken last weekend at town Christmas tree lighting ceremony. F90, 55mm 3.5 @f4, ektar100</p><div></div>

<p>Ektar can do fine in bright light, as long as you are not looking for subtle colours. It has good dynamic range and holds highlights well.</p><div></div>

<p>I too have shot ektar and scanned with an Epson v700. Those cyan skies of the kids in the tree (gorgeous shot by the way) look familiar, but are easily remedied in PS.<br>

Image >adjustments>selective colour><br>

-choose cyan in top box, then adjust sliders<br>

Cyan 0<br>

magenta +20<br>

yellow -10<br>

black +20<br>

Try a little shadow and highlight too!<br>

Once the colour cast is fixed , Ektars ability to hold highlights, and its small grain make it a very interesting film.</p>

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<p><img src="http://i.pbase.com/g5/90/16790/2/105310358.pEUAcTDz.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><img src="http://i.pbase.com/g1/90/16790/3/111775338.3QWZUGQQ.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="248" /> <img src="http://i.pbase.com/g1/90/16790/3/112310508.JuLXc5cw.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="370" /><br>

Thumbnail of image with 100% crop. Scanned with Epson V700 at 4800 dpi with epson scan<br>

More examples here at<br>

http://www.pbase.com/pgonline/ektar_100</p>

<p>So far I've shot it at its rated speed and have had good results.Subjectively I think this film works best in low contrast scenes where it makes colours pop in a natural way. Ektar is a joy to scan- I use an Epson V700. Here are a couple of examples<br>

http://i.pbase.com/g1/90/16790/2/111775348.w3cnfEGT.jpg<br>

http://i.pbase.com/g1/90/16790/2/111775338.3QWZUGQQ.jpg</p>

 

<p>http://i.pbase.com/o3/90/16790/1/111678991.M5qaHn1M.00350029scnar.jpg</p>

<p>A scan of of Ektar 100 taken with F100 and 200mm f4 AI. Scanned using Epson V700. Below a 100% center crop at 6400 dpi</p>

<p>http://i.pbase.com/o3/90/16790/1/111678988.dS0rzhrh.00350029scnacropr.jpg

<p>I get the best results scanning from my V700 using the 48 bit hdr option in Silverfast SE. Save it as a tiff file, then open it in Camera Raw in PS. Be sure to use scanner sharpening and set gamma gradation to at least 2.2 (I set it at 2.5). I find file manipulation far easier in Photoshop, than trying to muck around too much in scanner software.</p>

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