Photo Sharing - Nikon Part 2

[SunDial]

 

[traylorc]

It's A Small World - Night Shot (3) by traylorc, on Flickr

 

[wbeem]

Animal Kingdom Lodge at Christmas by wbeem, on Flickr

Practicing with My New Camera

I just got a Nikon D800 and decided to take it out to the Disney World resorts to try it out shooting the Christmas trees. Damn, this camera makes big files. I learned I still have a few more settings to tweak to my satisfaction, and that I need to go back in the evening to avoid that bright background.

Still, here's the first effort with the new camera at Animal Kingdom Lodge.

 

[HPS3]

Congrats William on the D800. I'm still trying to setup the D600.

 

[wbeem]

Congrats William on the D800. I'm still trying to setup the D600.

Thanks. I caught a really great deal with it, so I'm happy. This is a good time of year to practice with gear, so I'm planning on a few more Disney trips to catch some lights and other scenes.

 

[Evad]

Congrats on the new camera Mr Beem!!! Can't wait to see the results!!

 

[wbeem]

Congrats on the new camera Mr Beem!!! Can't wait to see the results!!

Thanks. I'm primarily planning on using this one for some portraits. Bracketing those HDR images will eat up some disk space.

 

[denise]

Animal Kingdom Lodge at Christmas by wbeem, on Flickr

Practicing with My New Camera

I just got a Nikon D800 and decided to take it out to the Disney World resorts to try it out shooting the Christmas trees. Damn, this camera makes big files. I learned I still have a few more settings to tweak to my satisfaction, and that I need to go back in the evening to avoid that bright background.

Still, here's the first effort with the new camera at Animal Kingdom Lodge.

love the photo...I would so love to have a D800...but I love my D7000 and think I might stick with it. I would however would love a 14-24 lens!!!

 

[wbeem]

love the photo...I would so love to have a D800...but I love my D7000 and think I might stick with it. I would however would love a 14-24 lens!!!

Lots of people love their D7000. If you ever do get the D800, just make sure your computer has the capacity to handle those large files. That's the downside of it. Humongous file sizes.

Then again, it gives you a lot of leeway to crop.

 

[SunDial]

Thanks. I caught a really great deal with it, so I'm happy. This is a good time of year to practice with gear, so I'm planning on a few more Disney trips to catch some lights and other scenes.

Nice Pic from the AKL. I take it that you are fairly close to DW.

 

[SunDial]

love the photo...I would so love to have a D800...but I love my D7000 and think I might stick with it. I would however would love a 14-24 lens!!!

The next camera body I would like to get is the D7000. Right now i am still shooting with a D40. It is still working for me, i decided to get the better glass and picked up a 24-70 about 3 years ago. I also picked up a 10-24 a few months ago.

 

[HPS3]

Hey William, what Mb's are the file size coming out of that D800. With the D600 they give some crazy RAW file called Lossless Compression. With the D600 and my old Sony Nex I'm getting the same size file I think. About 24Mb.


Sts Louis Cathedral by Harry Shields, on Flickr

 

[traylorc]

Maleficient's Fiery Breath by traylorc, on Flickr

 

[wbeem]

Nice Pic from the AKL. I take it that you are fairly close to DW.

Yes. I'm an Orlando native. Right now, I live about 45 minutes away from WDW. In fact, I'm thinking about heading down this afternoon.

 

[PreludeVTEC01]

Happy Holidays! by PreludeVTEC01, on Flickr

 

[My2Girls66]

Medieval city of Perouges, France

 

[wbeem]

Hey William, what Mb's are the file size coming out of that D800. With the D600 they give some crazy RAW file called Lossless Compression. With the D600 and my old Sony Nex I'm getting the same size file I think. About 24Mb.

Sorry I missed this question earlier.

I have Lossless compression available on the D800, also. That means the file sizes vary depending upon the information written because of the compression technique. For the Christmas tree shots in the Wilderness Lodge, my files ranged from 36MB to 50MB.

For those of you unfamiliar with Lossless compression, think of it this way. Imagine you had a copy of some text with 27 exclamation marks in it. Each mark takes up a byte. However, you could represent the same information using a different encoding technique that says "just show 27 exclamation marks" here. Instead of 27 bytes, it would take up four bytes.

1. One to identify a Lossless scheme
2. One to identify the character to repeat
3. Two bytes for "27" times to reproduce"

When you shoot something with a very busy or complicated scene, chances are you won't have as many opportunities to use this kind of Lossless compression compared to a shot with a solid-color background. That's why the file sizes can vary so much. It depends upon the data in your photo.

The other aspect of using a Lossless compression is that the data has to be interpreted when you load it, meaning it could be slightly slower to view due to the calculations to render the display.

 

[HPS3]

Thanks William for the lossless comp. lesson. I had no idea what the heck it was. The only 2 choices for RAW on the D600 is Lossless Compression and Compressed. There is no regular plain RAW. When I first started using the D600 I searched everywhere for regular RAW, it seems they eliminated it on the D600. I wonder how much of a difference it really makes.

I picked up the Rokinon 14 f2.8 because I couldn't come up with enough money without selling any organs to fund the 14-24. It's really sharp but is manual focus and has a crazy mustache distortion. The distortion is fixable in LR4 with a lens correction profile.


Christmas Time by Harry Shields, on Flickr

 

[traylorc]

I picked up the Rokinon 14 f2.8 because I couldn't come up with enough money without selling any organs to fund the 14-24.

Harry...the key to acquiring new glass is to figure out which organs you simply cannot live without, and then sell the rest for new glass.

For example...I assume you still have two kidneys. Sell one of those bad boys and you could be potentially be in the hunt to pick up a 14-24 by the time the post christmas sales kick in to high gear.

 

[wbeem]

Milo by wbeem, on Flickr

A friend of mine lost one of her dogs to old age today. I lost one earlier this year and regretted that I never got any decent photos of him. The puppy here is not gonna have that problem.