gfen wrote:
> #1 Lesson: Not caring about film cost kicks ass!
Absolutely. Mine paid for itself in film (non) costs in two and a half
pro events, ignoring the other shooting I did.
> I need to read the manual.
Uh yeah. :-)
> Antishake is pretty clever. I'm hand holding below my old cutoff, 1/45.
Awesome! I can't wait to try it.
> The wireless remote doesn't let you utilize the autowinder, or whatever
> we'd call it. Multiple shot feature. Eh. Whatever.
Really? Even when the camera is in sequential exposure mode? (Or
whatever they call it) On the *ist D, single exposure mode is shown as
a rectangle in the LCD. Sequential exposure mode is shown as what's to
look like a stack of rectangles, sort of like
+--------+
| |+
+--------+|+
+-------+|
+------+
> That having a 50/1.4 turn into a 75/1.4 isn't desirable.
No, but having my 300/4.5 "turn into" a 450/4.5 is pretty handy and
pretty cool. And having my 400/5.6 "turn into" a 600/5.6 is even better
sometimes. Not to mention that since you're only using the center of
the lens' coverage, you typically get better sharpness out to the edges
of the digital image. Then again, I use long lenses far more than short
ones.
> Wait, I have to set ISO? It does for me? Huh? What? Eh?
I really wish the *ist D showed the ASA/ISO in the viewfinder or on the
top LCD panel. I keep forgetting to reset the darned thing. :-) I just
noticed a minute ago that the photos I added to the "Stuck Filter"
thread a couple of days ago were shot at ASA 1600, a leftover from the
night shots at the Petit le Mans a week ago.
> Multiple AF points seems to be useless.
Not for me. When I'm panning fast moving racecars, I've found that the
AF is usually "behind" what I'm seeing in the viewfinder. I think it
has to do with the amount the car moves during the "lock time" between
the shutter contact closing and the shutter tripping. It may also have
to do with the way the intersection of the "focus sphere" with the
moving car changes as the car rotates and I rotate.
What happens is that if the car is moving left-to-right across my field
of view, the most in focus part of the car is typically aft of the
cockpit, even though the camera locks focus on the center AF point. But
I've found that if I set the selected AF point to the one just to the
right of that, I see the focus toward the front of the car just before
the shutter trips, but in the photo the part that's most in focus is
around the center of the car. That all assumes, of course, that I've
done my job in panning and not shaking and the whole thing's not just a
mess of motion blur.
> Evidently, raw images from the camera don't go into Photoshop?
They can go into newer Photoshop versions (CS1 and above?) that have
Adobe Camera Raw installed.
> I wish I knew what I was doing.
Welcome to the club.
> I need to learn that I have a preview screen right on teh camera, and I
> don't need to go home, download the photos into the PC and then see what I
> got.
That's "technically" known as "chimping". It can cause you to miss
shots and cause you to be ridiculed by your photographic compatriots.
If you do it in the wrong place, like on the Jersey barrier beside a
race track, it can get you killed. :-)
> I haven't really tried full manual mode, so I haven't had to get used to
> using wheels and buttons in combinations, although I rarely used anything
> but Av mode, anyways.
"Hyper" mode is awesome.
> Alas, the days of the prime lens are probably as over as the days
> of film flagship bodies.
I sure as hell hope not. After finally acquiring a couple of really top
notch F* and FA* primes, it would take a stupendous zoom to make me
switch. I'd rather take a separate body for each lens. Some of the
shots from those lenses are just incredible.
The major bummer from my perspective is a buffer small enough to fill
the way I use the camera. On the MZ-S, I've shot as many as fifteen in
quick succession as a big incident on the track unfolded. For me, the
five/six shot buffer on the *ist D is OK 90% of the time, but that other
10% it's really a pain in the neck waiting on the camera to write the
buffer.
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Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)
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