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Offline NUKE

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« on: October 24, 2004, 09:43:57 PM »
Well, I have this new camera and couldn't wait to get it outside and take it for a spin.

My plan was simple; I would drive about 25 miles to Lake Pleasant early Sunday and get some desert pics.

Along the way I would stop by Turf Soaring school and take some close-ups of the gliders swooping a mear 10 feet off the ground and just 50 feet away. Might be cool. They also have an utralight airfield.

So I take my camera and leave the house around 7.30am. I get all the way to the utralight place, walk up the boss and ask if I can walk around at take pics. "No problem" says he. I ask if the gliders still buzzed the crossfield at the end of hanger area as before. "Negative" says he, had a fatal accident between a glider and a tow plane, killing the son of the  Soaring school owner.

So I head to me truck and decide to take a couple ultralight pics before heading down the road to the lake when it suddy dawns on me that the camera's compact flash card is still nestled in my computer's card reader....AT HOME!

Fast foward 2 hours and I'm at the lake. Tremendous deep blue skies with high alt, high contrast clouds. These clouds arc aross the deep blue sky and will be a nice backdrop to the desert pics.

I get in close on some cactus, shoot the lake panorama and even some abstract shots that I thought would look cool. I had a great time, shot about 60 pics and headed home around noon when the lighting got bad.

I drive home. Pulling into my driveway, a hazy memory popped into my head. The night before, I had been testing some very low light shots. Low light shots require higher ISO settings. I wanted to test the max 1600 ISO settings to see how it worked and to see how grainy the pics would be.

Well, I never switched the ISO settings back from 1600. All the pics sucked. All grainy like sandpaper :mad:

Saburo, please tell me you have made that mistake too! :p

That's the one thing I don't like about this camera....the ISO setting is not diplayed at all times. Canon should make the ISO setting on a dedicated thumbwheel and also display the current setting in the viewfinder.

Well, I never let setbacks get me down and now I'm pissed. So I head back out to the lake again and I just got back. No more clouds or deep blue sky....I got caught in traffice on the highway and didn't get there until the sun was nearly down. Maybe I'll post some after I get done looking at them.

Anyway......
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« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2004, 10:04:02 PM »
It could have been worse. You could have tried to take pics of a train.
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« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2004, 10:07:10 PM »
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It could have been worse. You could have tried to take pics of a train.


I was thinking the same thing....  :rofl
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« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2004, 10:56:01 PM »
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Saburo, please tell me you have made that mistake too! :p


That does happen once in a while. Not lately as the camera has trained me to look at my ISO setting once in a while ;)
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« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2004, 11:56:16 PM »
Okay, two pics out of about 30....and they suck.

Better luck next time. I'm a poor old black and white guy in a cruel new world :)

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« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2004, 12:03:52 AM »
Sorry to say NUKE, but you are the first photographer to make these mistakes.  I'm linking this post to the dpreview.com formus so the whole photography world can laugh at your utter worthlesness. ;)

I'll just add that its good you took your camera along on your photo trip - unlike me once...  Oh lord... :(
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« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2004, 12:16:01 AM »
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Sorry to say NUKE, but you are the first photographer to make these mistakes.  I'm linking this post to the dpreview.com formus so the whole photography world can laugh at your utter worthlesness. ;)

I'll just add that its good you took your camera along on your photo trip - unlike me once...  Oh lord... :(


lol.

point me to your link...I wanna laugh :)
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« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2004, 12:20:03 AM »
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Well, I never switched the ISO settings back from 1600. All the pics sucked. All grainy like sandpaper :mad:


Jeez, that really bites.... I've done that too. My wife recently shot a roll of 400 speed film and was anxious to see the prints... When we got home, I prepared to remove the film from her Cannon and discovered that she failed to capture the film on the take-up roller... So, she had zero photos for her efforts.

Thankfully, I had my Fuji S5100 digital and took many of the same shots.

For those of you guys reading this still using film, I suggest going to digital. There's virtually no advantages to using film anymore. My new Panasonic DMC-FZ20 Lumix is typical of the newest digital cameras. Fully automatic or completely manual. It uses a Leica 12x lens, equivalent to 36mm to 432mm on a 35mm film camera. 5.0 megapixel images. It can shoot photos as fast as 4 pictures per second.

You can check it out
here.

My Fuji is no slouch either with a 10x lens (equivalent focal range of 37mm to 370 mm) and produces excellent 4.0 megapixel images. With a 256 meg card, you can shoot super-high definition photos all day and never get close to using all the memory.

Some of my digital photos have been published in anthologies and others have won contests (where prints were required). Still others have been sold, actually paying for my new camera.

With a good photo printer (look for the multiple cartridge types), the latest version of Adobe Photoshop (even Photoshop Elements will do) and quality photo paper, you can have a state-of-the-art photo lab on your desktop.

For about $230 (including a 64 meg card), you can get a Kodak CX6330. This is a pocket sized 3.1 megapixel camera with a 3x optical zoom lens. One of the best kept secrets in digital cameras is that Kodak probably has the best color technology in the business. Not even my expensive Panasonic reproduces colors better than the CX6330. I keep one of these in my car. Some of the photos it has produced have made the finals or semi-finals in several contests, and one photo has been published in a new book due out next month. So, don't underestimate the inexpensive Kodaks.

The attached shot was taken with a $200 Kodak.. It was selected for publication. Keeping the camera in the car paid dividends....



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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2004, 01:55:22 AM »
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It could have been worse. You could have tried to take pics of a train.
:rofl I've just come from that thread!

Funny, they didn't mind when I took a picture of a train - this one in Arizona, of all places...

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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2004, 02:19:58 AM »
You should also set in your custom functions to not allow a shutter release without a CF card.

Looking at your pics checkout exposure braketing.
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« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2004, 04:27:03 AM »
Nuke,
Did you shoot them in RAW or JPEG?
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« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2004, 04:57:03 AM »
LOL, Nuke, you sorry bastard.  I'm sure everyone has had camera days like this...I know I have.  When getting pics off of your CF, just copy 'em to your HD and put the CF card right back into your camera.  It took me three times forgetting the CF card to finally figure that one out, duh huh.  I'd give you advice on taking pictures, but then you'd just end up taking crappy pictures. ;)
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« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2004, 05:38:46 AM »
Very nice pics anyway NUKE.... and Saburo.

Now put on your Mr Black camo suit and sneak up on your local nudist camp and shoot some hotties :)

..better yet... go visit medicboy and get some shots of that 19 year old hardbody that he as been talking about all year.
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« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2004, 09:01:00 AM »
Sorry to hear your shots did not turn out like you hoped. I have made mistakes like that as well.

I have to ask why you are not using a digital camera? At least then you can see your results right away and correct for any errors.

I was talking to the president of a large camera store chain this summer about the industry.

He says that even art students are now buying digital cameras and that film is pretty much dead. The quality of each new generation of digital camera is so good that soon there will be no reason at all for film.

The only real disadvantage to digital is that it is still not easy to print the picture at home and get the quality of film. However if you take the picture to a place with the equipment you can get film qualtiy prints now as well.
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« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2004, 09:20:26 AM »
Nuke,
   Sunday must have been a bad day too try and take pictures in arizona. A friend and myself hiked to the summit of Mt. Humphreys sunday, Started about about 9am and had a great time. There was about 6 inches of snow at the trail head and by the time we were climbing the summit we were hitting spots with a foot too a foot and half deep. So anyways, I brought my Kodak digital, nothing fancy but I didn feel like hauling a big camera, just wanted something that would take some decent picks of the climb. Well I take about 50 pictures and some that I am really looking forward to seeing. We leave the snowbowl at 4pm and head for pheonix where my friend lives, we hit that horrible traffic oustide of phoenix as I think you may have also. Finally we get back to his place, I grab my stuff and get ready to drive too Tucson, its already 7pm, im tired and sore and now I have to drive home. I get home and just want too look at the pictures I took and email them too some friends and faimly. I download all of them and when I look at them they are all way too bright, you cant even make out anything in the photos. I cant explain what would have caused it but I was not happy at all. So I hope you dont feel bad knowing it wasnt just you that had these problems, the sun gods in AZ must have been pissed yesterday.
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