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Old 11-07-2013, 10:41 PM   #61
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Problem with high ratio zooms is you lose a large aperture. These days you can compensate with much higher ISOs and built in image stabilization ( in the camera body with the OM D E-M5 ).
I agree - that's one of the significant compromises.

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As for Nikon, I don't recall the focus motor being in the body on any of mine ( D3, D4, D4s ). The lenses had the motor ( had 70-200 f2.8; 300mm f2.8 along with shorter lenses ).
Nikkor autofocus lenses starting with the AF, and preceding the AF-I, do not have an internal motor. Ken Rockwell has a good description. We have two or three, but started into DSLRs with a D100 - not a pro camera (but $3200 for the body when new) and earlier than the D3.
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AF-S (AF-Silent Wave Motor): 1998 These lenses have magical motors built into them to focus. The main advantage is not speed, but that most of these lenses allow one to grab the focus ring and turn it even in the AF mode to get instant manual focusing, without having to mess with any switches. (end quote )



Lenses I had were AF-S with the motor built in.
You know, when you drop a camera with even a short zoom, the lens costs $1,200 to repair and the camera another $1,800. And when you do it again three weeks later...
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Old 11-08-2013, 12:05 AM   #63
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AF-S (AF-Silent Wave Motor): 1998
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Lenses I had were AF-S with the motor built in.
That's the ones you want... but even after 1998 while new designs went AF-S, many AF models continued and were the more affordable choice.

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You know, when you drop a camera with even a short zoom, the lens costs $1,200 to repair and the camera another $1,800. And when you do it again three weeks later...
Been there, done that... but only the lens and only once. Amateurs don't use their equipment as much and so have less risk exposure.
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Old 11-08-2013, 04:31 PM   #64
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I've been trying to shoot a hummingbird on approach to the feeder. I don't want the feeder in the shot. So, with the 300mm and manual focus, I have no alternative but to pre-focus on a spot and hope the bird flies into the zone. So far, I have a lot of near misses.
Those hummers move fast.
Glenn - one of my former students made this

But he cheated and used a video camera....
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Old 11-08-2013, 04:41 PM   #65
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And a very high frame rate.
Nicely done. I think I'll just give up.
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And a very high frame rate.
Nicely done. I think I'll just give up.
There are no hummingbirds (pictures)

Another former student who runs a wedding video company, as a side job to his work at a TV station, now shoots everything (video and stills) with his DSLRs.
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Who knew a hummingbird was that fat?
Now I give up. I've got about 1/8 inch depth of field, wide open, slow shutter, high ISO.
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Old 11-08-2013, 06:15 PM   #68
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[QUOTE=DeadEyeDan;36462I still shoot my 7D but I am more selective to be sure.[/QUOTE]
The 7D is a great camera. I have the 5DII, and a 40D. Way too many lenses, that are seeing little use lately. I pretty much use only the 5DII with the 24-105, and sometimes the 70-200. I used to do lots of macro, but have not pulled that gear out in a few years.

Here is a cute little Havestman (Daddy Long Legs) I took ages ago.

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Is this the end of high end cameras? Thought this article was interesting:

High-End Cameras Fall Prey to Smartphones - Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com
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I've heard that a couple mostly camera companies are not doing well. Canon is well diversified into other products and will most likely be fine. On a camera forum someone said that Olympus is in trouble.
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Old 11-09-2013, 03:43 PM   #71
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The Nikon P520 arrived today and so far I am more than pleased with it - can't believe they can sell these things for the price they do. Here is the very first picture I shot with it - thru the window glass, so far from optimum.
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It's only a guess, but I'm sure that even moderately priced cameras are better than the cameras in phones (in part due to the total lack of optical zoom in phones), and that the sort of hardware we have been discussing is vastly superior. On the other hand, the phones are good enough for most people, most of the time, so another round of consumer camera manufacturers failing seems inevitable.
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And, nobody looks at the pictures anyway..
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And, nobody looks at the pictures anyway..
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An old saying goes, "the best camera is the one you have with you."
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Another quick test of the P520 this morning. Cedar Waxwings are migrating thru, and I shot them hand held with the 42x - the birds were about 80 feet away. I wanted to see how well the image stabilization worked at full telephoto.
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For anyone considering a superzoom, here is a series of 4 pictures, hand held all from the same location and in the same direction. They show the range of the Nikon P520 from wide angle to full optical zoom. The light was very diffuse, not a good photo day by any means.

It is along the Mississippi as Tundra Swans are migrating through. (For some reason the last one is uploading as lower res than the other 3 even though I exported them all the same )
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The EXIF information tagged in the image files for the above includes:
  • DSCN0049: 4.30 mm (like 24 mm in a 35 mm camera) 640x480 resolution
  • DSCN0050: 17.80 (like 100 mm in a 35 mm camera) 640x480 resolution
  • DSCN0051: 71.30 (like 400 mm in a 35 mm camera) 640x480 resolution
The last photo (DSCN0052) is 639x479 resolution, and contains no EXIF information, suggesting that is not directly from the camera, and that camera-supplied information has been lost in an editing step. The JPEG compression is also greater (quality 75 instead of quality 100), so it has been changed in some software, although that software kept the original timestamp. I was hoping that the EXIF information would supply the camera's focal length and other data to explain the difference with this image, but no such luck.

42 times 4.30 mm would be 180 mm, or about the same field of view as a traditional 35 mm film camera (or "full frame" digital equivalent) with a 1000 mm lens. Indeed, that's what the Cedar Waxwing photo's EXIF data shows. This would be a great capability to have in an all-in-one camera, and the swan photo sequence illustrates that well.
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They were all exported out of iPhoto with the same settings - strange that the last one came out as lower JPEG quality. ISO of the first 3 is 80, last one is 400, but not sure why that would reset the JPEG quality, unless that high an ISO won't allow the same JPEG compression quality? When I look at them exported and as I uploaded them they all show their EXIF data, must have been stripped in the upload.

Shutter speeds are all 1/250 or 1/500. f/3 on #1, f/4.1 on #2, f/4.8 on #3 and f/5.9 on #4
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I have received my Canon SX50 HS.

We are leaving for Hawaii to try it out! I am feeling a bit reluctant about leaving the 7D (plus two of my lenses) at home, though I will not miss the bulk of them. As we are staying a night on the USS Missouri (12/6) and have been told space is limited, I will leave the large stuff at home. I would rather have had a chance to test it first, or bring both.

Barely got it in time for the trip. Last night I got the battery charged up and took a few preliminary shots. Pretty impressive, but not a DSLR. It looks like noise will be an issue in low light, but the Topaz plug in for photoshop can clean that up pretty well. The wide end of the lens should be pretty nice for interior shots.

More when we return.
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