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by **Glen** on Mon May 23, 2005 6:53 pm

Paul (or Gary) not even the celebrated Nikkor name would tempt me to buy a dribble silver 70-300 :lol:

by **birddog114** on Mon May 23, 2005 6:55 pm

Me, I'll ditch everything I have and buy one of that 70-300G :shock:

by **Grev** on Mon May 23, 2005 7:49 pm

Those are great shots! The panorama is especially spectacular!

by **stubbsy** on Mon May 23, 2005 9:15 pm

Leon

Awesome pano shot. I'm so impressed I'm speechless :shock:

So you tried Glen's 12-24, eh. Bad for the lust :lol:

NZ hol is soon so better start saving your pennies.

by **gstark** on Mon May 23, 2005 10:08 pm

Here's a couple of my images from last evening.

Handheld, 80-400VR, ISO 200 1/400 f/9

80-400VR, ISO 200, 4 seconds f/8

by **phillipb** on Mon May 23, 2005 10:14 pm

4 seconds hand held? :shock:

by **Geoff** on Mon May 23, 2005 10:23 pm

Gary - that moon shot is brilliant!! I like it very much!

by **gstark** on Mon May 23, 2005 10:27 pm

phillipb wrote:4 seconds hand held?

No ... please reread ....

by **Geoff** on Mon May 23, 2005 10:29 pm

gstark wrote:
phillipb wrote:4 seconds hand held?

No ... please reread ....

The VR is good, but not that good

by **gstark** on Mon May 23, 2005 10:29 pm

Geoff wrote:Gary - that moon shot is brilliant!! I like it very much!

Geoff,

Thanx. I do too.

by **Glen** on Mon May 23, 2005 10:41 pm

Gary, when I saw you take that I would never have imagined it would come out that good :wink:

by **phillipb** on Mon May 23, 2005 10:43 pm

No ... please reread ....

Oops

for a minute there I was picturing you wrapped around a light post with the neck strap tied around your hands and the post.

by **wendellt** on Mon May 23, 2005 11:41 pm

[quote="gstark"]Here's a couple of my images from last evening.

Handheld, 80-400VR, ISO 200 1/400 f/9
80-400VR, ISO 200, 4 seconds f/8

Wow Gary hand held! I saw you do bracketing shots but would have never of guessed the result
that image of the moon is amazing, it's so vibrant and crisp, the opera house shot looks true to life, is ISO 200 the sweetspot for night photography with a D70, why is the shutter speed so high(1/400).

best

Wendell

by **gstark** on Tue May 24, 2005 7:05 am

wendellt wrote:
gstark wrote:Here's a couple of my images from last evening.

Handheld, 80-400VR, ISO 200 1/400 f/9
80-400VR, ISO 200, 4 seconds f/8

Wow Gary hand held! I saw you do bracketing shots but would have never of guessed the result
that image of the moon is amazing, it's so vibrant and crisp, the opera house shot looks true to life, is ISO 200 the sweetspot for night photography with a D70, why is the shutter speed so high(1/400).

Wendell,

The moon is a surprisingly bright object in the night sky, reflecting light from the sun, which of course is exceptionally bright.

For the purposes of shooting the moon, it's self illuminating, and you need to totally disregard the fact that the sky is dark, or that it's nighttime when you're shooting.

by **gstark** on Tue May 24, 2005 7:07 am

phillipb wrote:
No ... please reread ....

Oops for a minute there I was picturing you wrapped around a light post with the neck strap tied around your hands and the post.

That was later in the night, Phillip.

by **BBJ** on Tue May 24, 2005 7:11 am

Well i like Gary did this when i got my 80-400 VR as well took a shot of the moon hand held, i took mine at 1/125sec and i was surprised at how well it came out. Good shot Gary looks good.

by **gstark** on Tue May 24, 2005 7:14 am

Glen wrote:Gary, when I saw you take that I would never have imagined it would come out that good

Glen,

I am just so impressed with the VR technology. Ok ... 400mm @ 1/400 should be theoretically able to be handheld, but that's not accounting for the crop factor, and there were certainly a few of those shots that, despite the VR, are not clear.

Mind you, I did also drop the shutter speed down in doing my bracketing, shooting down to 1/250 @ f/11. Some of them worked, some didn't, but this one seems to be the pick of the bunch.

I may post one of those too, plus I still have a couple of others to add ...

I should not forget to add that the amount of detail I can see in the shot of the SOH is amazing; while this shot doesn't show it, there's a crane clearly visible above the light source to the RH side of the image, and the tiles on the sails are also quite visible. I may post a couple of 100% crops of those sections of the image just for the hell of it.

by **gstark** on Tue May 24, 2005 7:50 am

OK ... here's a couple of 100% crops ...

by **Matt. K** on Tue May 24, 2005 10:17 am

Gary
Nice work! Now make a selection of that moon and drop it in behind the pic of the opera house.

by **gstark** on Tue May 24, 2005 10:34 am

Matt. K wrote:Gary
Nice work! Now make a selection of that moon and drop it in behind the pic of the opera house.

Matt,

Already done; just not yet posted.

by **stubbsy** on Tue May 24, 2005 1:18 pm

Gary

I really like your moon shot for two reasons - firstly the fantastic detail in the moon, and secondly for the way you've cropped it. The black expanse on the left really makes this shot for me, especially since I see so many neat & in the middle moon pics (with apologies to Matt K :wink:

)

by **leek** on Tue May 24, 2005 5:21 pm

sheepie wrote:Pano, 5 frames stitched together - 50mm tripod (no fancy pano head though )...

All of the photos are great, but I love that Pano Sheepie, and can't wait to see the printed version at a minimeet... The colours and the clarity of the shot make it sing!!! You should open up a stall at the Rocks and sell it to tourists...

Out of interest, How much better is Panofactory over and above what Autostitch can do??? I'd love to see the same images combined with Autostitch as a comparison?

by **birddog114** on Tue May 24, 2005 5:45 pm

Leek,
Use pano plaster :lol:

better than any other pano :lol:

by **leek** on Tue May 24, 2005 5:51 pm

Birddog114 wrote:Leek,
Use pano plaster better than any other pano

I used to use invisible Scotch tape in the good old days of film... very tedious... :lol:

by **gstark** on Tue May 24, 2005 5:57 pm

stubbsy wrote:Gary

I really like your moon shot for two reasons - firstly the fantastic detail in the moon, and secondly for the way you've cropped it. The black expanse on the left really makes this shot for me, especially since I see so many neat & in the middle moon pics (with apologies to Matt K )

Peter,

Thanx for the kind words. The full image is, indeed, NAITM, and I really didn't want that at all, hence the crop.

The detail is great (who says the 80-400VR is soft?) but what I found of interest was that I changed the NEF from using my default camera-loaded custom curve to using just the Nikon high contrast profile, which brought everything out just perfectly.

by **gstark** on Tue May 24, 2005 6:00 pm

leek wrote:
Birddog114 wrote:Leek,
Use pano plaster better than any other pano

I used to use invisible Scotch tape in the good old days of film... very tedious...

Who remembers using editing tape on 8mm movies?

Or even before editing tape, you had to scrape off the emulsion from one section of the film, brush a special liquid adhesive onto it, and then press down the second section and compress the join while it dried.

by **Glen** on Tue May 24, 2005 6:02 pm

Gary, those handheld shots do illustrate the benefit of VR very, very well

by **Heath Bennett** on Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:10 pm

Great shots Gary,

Your moon shot has a fantastic amount of detail - more than my post of the moon last week with jupiter:

http://www.d70users.com/viewtopic.php?t ... highlight=

The only thing that I believe could improve on yours is dulling the sharpening a little on the edges of the moon. On mine I sharpened quite moderately, but did a quick blur brush along the edge as it seems prone to over-sharpening.

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