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<p>I wish the photo.net forums had an easier way to reply to someones comment or like a comment. Shun though your post is off topic I appreciate the humor and I personally do think it is relevant. </p>
<p>I know that I can get the same photos with a different camera than I do but I chose the camera I have because not only does it help me get the photographs I want but it is FUN to use. I enjoy holding it in my hands. I like how the controls are. Could I adapt and use a cheap camera and still get great photos? Sure. I just don't think I would be as motivated to go out and take photos because I wouldn't enjoy my camera as much. Though maybe there is a cheap camera out there that I would enjoy just as much. </p>
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<p>I am in California and my work has a very large garden in front of my office area. Last year there were humming birds out all the time and the garden was full of them. I could sit in the garden and photograph humming birds all day long. </p>
<p>This year we have a lot of flowers blooming in the garden but very few humming birds. Now I am lucky if I see 1 or 2 humming birds in the garden.</p>
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<p>I live in the Monterey Bay Area and my favorites are Fast Raft and Monterey Bay Whale Watch.<br>
<br /> http://fastraft.com/ little bit more expensive but it is a more close to the water safari type tour with less people in each boat. They are also very good with photographers. Their main captain Kate is a good photographer herself as well as a great naturalist.</p>
<p>If you want something a little bit less expensive on a larger boat go with Monterey Bay Whale Watch. I work with their main photographer regularly and they do great tours. http://www.gowhales.com/ <br /> I took my wife out on one of their tours for our anniversary and it was the afternoon tour and we got to watch the sunset out on the water. It was really great. They also have a very knowledgable naturalist on board and a skilled captain.</p>
<p>Word to the wise if you visit that area please make sure you pull over to let faster traffic go by you and if you pull over pull all the way off the road. We have a lot of accidents happen because of poor driving and parking habits from visitors. Also if you go down the coast there are not many bathrooms so make sure you go when you can and not on the side of the road that is becoming a major issue in the area as well.</p>
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<p>Well I finally took the plunge and ordered this lens. I debated for a very long time and decided that the 70-200mm f4 plus this lens would make a nice round kit for me to use. I will be using this lens for wildlife photography. </p>
<p>It is on back order currently (presumably due to demand and to fix the firmware issue before sending more out into the world) but as soon as I get it I hopefully will post some images here.</p>
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<p>Kent,</p>
<p>I totally agree with your assessment. I am less of a traveler since I have a three year old son and more of a wildlife guy living in an area that lends itself to that so the extra reach of the new lens would be nice.</p>
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<p>I am still on the fence between the 80-400mm AF-S the sigma 150-600mm sport and this new lens. However I am starting to lean more and more towards the new nikon lens as details and user accounts come out. It is sharp and would be a great addition for me for wildlife photos. </p>
<p>Thank you everyone for sharing all of your experiences with this lens.</p>
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<p>I have seen some compare this lens to the Tamron 150-500mm and obviously the Nikon 80-400mm but does anyone here own the Sigma 150-600mm Sport that also purchased this lens? I would be curious to see a comparison between those. <br>
Though in general it has been very difficult for me to find any concrete reviews on the Sigma 150-600mm Sport from a source that I recognize.</p>
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<p>I am really anticipating this lens. I have not ordered one yet as I want to see how it stacks up against the 80-400mm and the Sigma 150-600mm though I have not seen very many reviews about the sigma 150-600 C or S. </p>
<p>I am in need of a new telephoto and my three options right now are the Sigma 150-600 Sport, Nikon 80-400mm, and the new Nikon 200-500mm.</p>
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<p>I am very intrigued by the 200-500mm myself. Though it does feel like a too good to be true scenario. Right now I am using a 55-300mm AF-S for wildlife and I was going to upgrade to the sigma 150-600mm Sport though I was reluctant as that would leave me with no "walkaround" zoom lens. For not too much more than the 150-600mm Sigma Sport costs I can pick up the 70-200mm f4 Nikon and the 200-500mm f5.6 Nikon. That might be a good kit to cover my basis. I will go with the latter if the 200-500mm Nikon stacks up well against the 150-600 Sport Sigma which I have heard good things about.</p>
<p>Currently shooting on a D7000. </p>
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<p>I recently acquired a mindshift pro and I absolutely love it. I haven't put it through its paces for hiking yet but for regular traveling I have gone on several weekend road trips and I fit a D7000 body, 35mm prime, 55-300mm zoom, 10-24mm sigma and 105 macro in the belt pack, a gorilla pod tripod on the back, flash bracket in the side pocket, batteries, memory cards and charger in the top pocket, and other accessories. <br /><br />In addition to that I was also able to fit 4 days worth of clothes in the top part of the back pack. It is extremely well made and very comfortable to wear. Not only that but you can get a padded insert for the top part of the backpack so if you need to cary more gear you can. <br /><br />The belt pack is detachable so for quick day trips you can grab it and go if you don't want to bring the whole backpack with you. It is a very large backpack though. I believe it is made by the same people who design and make the Thinktank bags. <br /><br />The quality is superb. You can fit a bigger tripod on the back if you want and it has plenty of loops to attach more stuff to the outside if you want. It also doesn't scream camera bag. Most of my family and friends who have seen it have no idea it has camera gear in it.<br>
My favorite thing about it is that I don't have to use it as a full backpack if I don't want. I can fit a lot of photo gear in the bottom belt pack and I can take out the padded insert on the top and use the top for hiking gear or food.</p>
<p>The one I have:<br>
http://www.mindshiftgear.com/products/rotation180-professional </p>
<p>Their smaller bag:<br>
http://www.mindshiftgear.com/products/rotation180-panorama</p>
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<p>I took a 10-20mm sigma and the 35mm f1.8 nikon lens to NY last summer with my D7000 and it was amazing trip and my lenses were perfect. I didn't feel like I was lacking anything.</p>
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<p>I actually quite like the look that "bad" film can give. It is not always a good look but sometimes it is fun to play around with expired film. </p>
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<p>Did you sign a model release? Where were the pictures taken? </p>
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<p>There are a ton of different ways to do this. One is to make a new layer make a rectangular selection on that layer then use the gradient tool going from black to white to black again then change the layer blending mode on the new layer to "lighten" that will get rid of the black but leave the white. Then just reduce the opacity on that layer. <br /><br />Another way is to make a new layer select a rectangle fill it with white and put the gradient into a layer mask or an alpha channel instead of using layer blending modes. That will get you the same result as well. Both of these techniques will get you smooth perfect gradients quickly and easily.</p>
<p><br /> The second option is better in my opinion because you can grab that layer and drag it over anything and it will appear the same. Layer blending modes depend on what is below them. Also if you use a layer mask or alpha channel then you can adjust the gradient to be slightly different. You can also change your gradient tool to be linear or circular for some different effects as well.</p>
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<p>It is interesting because I work in game development and have for quite some time so my views on it are from a developers standpoint. <br /><br />I am not really sure what point you are trying to make to me with this last post though as my original point was that this is not really comparable to photography in real life which you agreed with at the beginning of this post. </p>
<p>I am familiar with the pseudo random dynamically generated events in these games. But those typically do not refer to how an environment is built. It might chance the lighting slightly, it might change how the sunset looks on a particular game day but each tree and each building each resource placed into the level is meticulously organized. <br /><br />Yes bugs do pop up but those usually involve gaps in colliders allowing players to fall through geometry or memory leaks. Not all bugs are glamorous or create anything interesting for the player to see or unexpected. </p>
<p>Generally in a game engine (depending on the game engine) but lets take Unreal, or Unity as examples the systems in the engine are compartmentalized. I wouldn't say that the entire engine is a simulation but rather it is a collection of small simulations that the developer can choose to have interact if they want. It has a physics simulator and a lighting simulator and maybe a weather simulator. </p>
<p>Not only that but these simulations do not function in the same way as they do in the real world because you can control how they interact with individual parts of the game differently. </p>
<p>Like I said to me this is a great way to admire the artwork that someone else created. It is a great way to practice your skills in observation and composition. But I would not compare it to photography. </p>
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<p>Laurentiu, yes it really is like that. In real life you have many more variables to consider and many more attributes to control than in a video game. In a video game the entire world is a meticulously crafted illusion. Every aspect of it is controlled by someone. It is either controlled by the programmers through code if it is a dynamic element or it is controlled by the artists if it is an element that they had to model and texture. Time in a video game moves faster than in real life, this gives you many more chances to capture the "sunsets" There is also a finite amount of variety in these sunsets. </p>
<p>I think this is a great exercise in composition and it is a really great way to observe and capture interesting scenes. It is also a nice way to admire the hard work and countless hours that the game developers put into the game but it is not really comparable to photography in real life. </p>
<p>You could turn it into something later on if you go in and illustrate over it or work it in photoshop in some way. <br /><br />The bottom line is that you are terribly underestimating how much work goes into a video game and how meticulous the world construction is when you say something like:<br>
"They don't anticipate all the scenes or even know how they will actually look from all the angles."<br>
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Yes, yes they do. Between the game designer, level designer, engineer and QC testers that game has been explored from top to bottom and from every angle.</p>
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<p>Interesting concept. Purely an exercise in composition as in a video game you have no control over lighting or exposure. You are just taking a screenshot of what the programmers and artists have decided to let you see of the game. </p>
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<p>I just got back from REI looking at backpacks and found quite a few good options. I figured based on my current backpack that I need a minimum of 30L capacity and possibly go up to 40L capacity. </p>
<p>Now I just need to find a decent insert to go into one of the backpacks. These are decently cheaper than buying an actual photo backpack.</p>
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<p>Thank you everyone for your suggestions and comments. Howard do you have any companies that make good ICU units that you would recommend? </p>
<p>Ellis that backpack is great but it is a little bit more than what I was looking for. Right now I am using my regular Dakine backpack and I usually wrap my camera gear in a sweater and put it in there. </p>
<p>Jochen I can see your concern about lag caused by that sort of configuration but I am not terribly concerned about it because it will be faster than what I do now. Not only that but I almost never leave my camera in the backpack when I am walking around and might want to take photos. I hold the camera in my hand. I am looking for something that I can use for short trips to visit family that will work as a backpack but also keep a minimal camera setup safe.</p>
<p>I have a think tank belt pack for specific photographic situations where I need to carry more gear and I have a pelican rolling case for when I need to take a lot more gear traveling. </p>
<p>This would be my every day pack for me. </p>
<p>I found a couple more examples of bags that might work for me though I wish I could see them in person.</p>
<p>Both of these have removable camera units. I will have to look around and see if anyone has them in stock so I can play with them and see if they are comfortable. </p>
<p>Thanks again everyone.</p>
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<p>Just a shot in the dark here but my first instinct is that this has nothing to do with photoshop and everything to do with the brightness of the various screens you are viewing the photos on. I bet your phone screen has its brightness turned way up or your desktop computer has its brightness turned down.</p>
<p>Try making sure that your various screens are calibrated to similar specs. </p>
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<p>Hello everyone,</p>
<p>I am looking to replace my normal backpack that I use every day. I use it for food, books, art supplies etc. and my camera. I carry my d7000 with me everywhere. It usually has the 35mm f1.8 attached to it and the 55-300mm is in there as well. </p>
<p>I was hoping to find a new backpack that would have a dedicated space for my camera and 2 lenses to keep it separate from all the other stuff I carry around. I found one backpack from fstop gear that would work but I wanted to check and see if there were other options out there.</p>
<p>This is an example of the type of thing I am looking for. It is a backpack shell that can function as a regular backpack. But it has an extra access door on the back and individual padded camera units (ICU's on their website) that click into the inside of it turning it into a camera bag. </p>
<p>Does anyone know of any other companies that make bags like this?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help.</p>
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<p>I think the saying "the best camera is the one you have with you" does hold some truth to it however I think it is important to point out that if you care about quality photos it would be advantageous to make sure that you have a better camera with you. </p>
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<p>I do not have experience with the Rollei but I do have experience with a couple of different yashica TLR models as well as a Mamiya C220 lenses and body for the mamiya. And for those cameras I have not had any major issues taking apart those cameras completely and cleaning the lenses, shutters, and other parts. </p>
<p>Whatever you do just write down notes or take pictures as you take the camera apart so you know exactly where everything goes. I didn't do that on the mamiya c220 shutter and it took me a while to get it back together after I cleaned and lubed it. </p>
<p>If you need lubricant for a shutter use synthetic watch lubricant. It is very expensive but a tiny amount goes a long way just dab it onto the shutter mechanism with a small paintbrush.</p>
<p>For the cameras I have experience with the lenses were the easiest part to clean they just screwed apart into individual elements that I could clean then reassemble. Hopefully someone who has experience with Rollei's knows if their lenses are put together in a similar way. </p>
nikon 200-500/5.6 comparison with Tamron 150-600/5-6.3
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<p>I haven't used the Tamron but I absolutely love the Nikon 200-500mm paired with the D500. The AF speed can be slow at times and sometimes it focus hunts when you try to focus on a small object in front of a busy background however I take a lot of photos of humming birds both perched and in flight.<br>
My setup works very well for that type of photography even with the focus hunting (which is a minor issue that only occasionally happens) and the focus speed which despite being on the slower side compared to other lens/camera combos is fast enough for me to get photos of the birds in flight.</p>