Experiment_626
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So, I'm going down to WDW next week for four or five days. I have thought about trying to shoot some stills of the castle during "The Magic, the Memories, and You," but I'm uncertain how to tackle it. Has anyone else here tried and gotten good results they'd be willing to show? If so, I'd be especially interested in the settings you used.
Looks like I'll have a couple of new lenses for the trip -- a 35mm f/1.8 and a 17-50mm f/2.8 (B&H confirmed they've shipped today, so I expect to have them in hand by Monday). I almost certainly won't have my D7000 in my hands by then (what a fiasco that has been -- see below). If I did, I'd probably consider shooting video of the show instead. But it looks like I'll be wielding only the D300 again, not that I'm complaining about that.
So, the aforementioned fiasco -- after much foot-dragging, the department finally laid out to me exactly what I'd been approved to buy and what I hadn't. Turns out it was still less than I'd requested, but more than I'd initially been told. But I'd found the refurbished camera body in stock at RitzCamera.com. I was told everything was a go -- and then TPTB higher up the chain asked for justification for the purchase. The items being bought in this round are from the university's research budget, and so if an item isn't a test-tube, more or less, they're yelping about it. Took another few days to get them to approve it finally, and the purchase order was issued. Of course, the camera was out of stock again, but at least I'd be the queue, right?
But wait, there's more ...
In speaking with the person in my department who does ordering, she had told me that Ritz Camera was already in the system as a company for whom we can send purchase orders. Cool, I thought. Fewer delays (ha!). As it happens, she made a passing remark yesterday that lead me to discover that the purchase order was issued for one of the local Ritz Camera stores -- that is what was "in the system." I brought to her attention that Ritz Camera.com and the brick-and-mortar stores are separate companies -- and the local stores have been gone out of business here for at least a couple of years! The purchase order might as well have been issued to the Twilight Zone -- if a camera does show up from this, it might be possessed or some such.
So now, again, I have to keep pestering people about getting this straightened-out and ordered from the right place. Of course, no one else here cares about nearly as much as I do, so if I don't keep being a squeaky wheel, there's no telling when the camera will show up. And next week I'll have a remote release and a spare battery (from B&H) for a camera I don't have!
Oh well ... I shall not be defeated!
Sorry for the long-winded aside, but perhaps someone might enjoy the story in a perverse way!
SSB
Looks like I'll have a couple of new lenses for the trip -- a 35mm f/1.8 and a 17-50mm f/2.8 (B&H confirmed they've shipped today, so I expect to have them in hand by Monday). I almost certainly won't have my D7000 in my hands by then (what a fiasco that has been -- see below). If I did, I'd probably consider shooting video of the show instead. But it looks like I'll be wielding only the D300 again, not that I'm complaining about that.
So, the aforementioned fiasco -- after much foot-dragging, the department finally laid out to me exactly what I'd been approved to buy and what I hadn't. Turns out it was still less than I'd requested, but more than I'd initially been told. But I'd found the refurbished camera body in stock at RitzCamera.com. I was told everything was a go -- and then TPTB higher up the chain asked for justification for the purchase. The items being bought in this round are from the university's research budget, and so if an item isn't a test-tube, more or less, they're yelping about it. Took another few days to get them to approve it finally, and the purchase order was issued. Of course, the camera was out of stock again, but at least I'd be the queue, right?
But wait, there's more ...
In speaking with the person in my department who does ordering, she had told me that Ritz Camera was already in the system as a company for whom we can send purchase orders. Cool, I thought. Fewer delays (ha!). As it happens, she made a passing remark yesterday that lead me to discover that the purchase order was issued for one of the local Ritz Camera stores -- that is what was "in the system." I brought to her attention that Ritz Camera.com and the brick-and-mortar stores are separate companies -- and the local stores have been gone out of business here for at least a couple of years! The purchase order might as well have been issued to the Twilight Zone -- if a camera does show up from this, it might be possessed or some such.
So now, again, I have to keep pestering people about getting this straightened-out and ordered from the right place. Of course, no one else here cares about nearly as much as I do, so if I don't keep being a squeaky wheel, there's no telling when the camera will show up. And next week I'll have a remote release and a spare battery (from B&H) for a camera I don't have!
Oh well ... I shall not be defeated!
Sorry for the long-winded aside, but perhaps someone might enjoy the story in a perverse way!
SSB
