Birddog - excited?

[Glen]

Birddog, you must be excited, is your D2X still on schedule for today?



ps Nice coincedence that I need to come to your place to pick up another notebook for my brother today

[Hlop]

ps Nice coincedence that I need to come to your place to pick up another notebook for my brother today

Be carefull - it's not a coincidence, It's a set up!

[sirhc55]

Birddog, you must be excited, is your D2X still on schedule for today?



ps Nice coincedence that I need to come to your place to pick up another notebook for my brother today

Glen - craftiness is your business

[the foto fanatic]

I'm looking forward to the 1st Birdy D2X post.

[Glen]

Chris, I thought I would be too busy and send my brother, luckily that doesn't have to be.

[birddog114]

It's just happened! Wooohooooo!
While I'm lurking the forum, the Fedex truck stopped in the front building, a guy open the gate a box in his hand with a big smile!
What do you guy think? Your guess!
My hand was shaking! I signed the doc, he left, I brought the box inside and did not want to open it my feeling
Oh no! I'll let Glen to open the box, cos my hand shaking and I may drop it on the concrete floor, he'll be here soon!

[xerubus]

good stuff!!!!! hurry up and open it and post your first shot with the 200-400vr

[stubbsy]

Christmas in March for birddog

Where's the first shot - even on a miserable wet day there's lots to photograph in your backyard!

[sirhc55]

Birdie - I am sure Glen’s hands will be shaking too - you had better open it together. Looking forward to seeing some shots but make sure you are using a VR as your hands will be shaking too much

[birddog114]

Christmas in March for birddog

Where's the first shot - even on a miserable wet day there's lots to photograph in your backyard!

Glen will do it for me once he got here! still shaking, box is still unopened

[xerubus]

open it... open it....

[stubbsy]

birddog. Go out the front, grab some stranger and get them to do it. Assure them it's not a bomb.

Put us out of our misery. I'll go blue in the face if I hold my breath any longer

[sirhc55]

That’s it Birdie - changing your status from guru to tease

[birddog114]

I'll leave that job for tGlen!
Ok, for member who come to Blackheath tomorrow. We are going to test drive the D2x with any lens in my tow.
So now, pray with me for the rain stop and sunshine tomorrow

[Link]

Congrats Birddog, I'm sure it must feel great!

[Oneputt]

What's a D2X?

[gstark]

Birdy,

Bring it here to Flemington; I'll open it for you.

Congrats ...... and enjoy it!

[the foto fanatic]

Show us a pic of Glen - maybe he'll look better via a D2X

[gstark]

Show us a pic of Glen - maybe he'll look better via a D2X

Trevor,

That's a big ask!

[kipper]

Hmmm....me just hopes that Poon has shipped Birddog my Gitzo G1325 by mistake and that the D2X is going to my office

[birddog114]

Glen just left with his 10 pics in one 256Mb Sandisk Ultra II card on RAW compression.
He opened and shot about 30 pics in differenece way while I'm doing some works, he'll post them soon once he backed to his base.

[stubbsy]

But have YOU used it yet, birddog?

[kipper]

Hey Birddog, I know this is slightly OT but do you know if Nikon are going to come out with any wide angle zoom lenses that are non DX eg. 18-70 or 18-55 with around F2.8?

Given the fact that the D70s are already being phased out for a newer meaner model, I just don't want any lenses that I have also to be made virtually useless if Nikon decide to change their direction with sensors.

[birddog114]

But have YOU used it yet, birddog?

No, I haven't got one shot yet, I'm still busy doing some works for the end of the week, Glen had around 30 shots.

[birddog114]

Hey Birddog, I know this is slightly OT but do you know if Nikon are going to come out with any wide angle zoom lenses that are non DX eg. 18-70 or 18-55 with around F2.8?

Kipper,
Sorry, negative! and I don't think that range will be existed in the near future with non DX lenses, and Nikon did not have that range in the past.

[Onyx]

Pffft, Glen - 256Mb CF card to play with a D2X?! Enjoy taking those half dozen pics.

Let's see those pics of the most photographed backyard Glen!

NB: If you've figured out the new sYCC colorspace let me know... I can still only see sRGB mode 1 & 3, and aRGB1998.

[MCWB]

Well, I just held it... and I couldn't wait to put it down! ~$15K of camera + lens (D2X + 200-400VR) is a scary proposition!

I was pondering the mechanics of taking so many large photos so quickly... in uncompressed RAW about 160 MB per second while buffered... even USB2.0 is only what, 480 Mbps, i.e. 60 MB ps. Incredible! This thing eats CF cards...

[kipper]

Wait until millipede technology comes out

[Glen]

Just round at Birddog's and am I excited, my hands were shaking as I undid the box and put the card in. One awesome machine!!! These shots were taken out of the box with no adjustments to the camera (because I didn't know how to ). Luckily the D2X was set to compressed NEF, they were only 10mb instead of 25mb. Even better was when I looked at the crop in Capture it gave me the option of saving uncompressed at 69mb! Anyone got a 100 terrabyte disk for sale and a cheap cray computer?

Car





Car cropped





I thin

[sirhc55]

Wow

[Glen]

The files are so big my 768mb 2800mhz machine is struggling! Birddog mention he had upgraded all machines to 2gb, now I can see why. Photos I took were ordinary, might have to work on some more another time. I envy you all at Blackheath tomorrow.

[stubbsy]

<snip>

I thin

We know you're thin Glen

Now we also know you have a trigger happy typing style (or is that pesky new lappie having keyboard probs already! )

[Glen]

That was going to be "I think" written while writing aD2X file to disk, but it suddenly finished. The preview jpg was 3.2mb, the compressed NEF was 10.6, uncompressed 25mb, with an option to save as 69mb offered in Capture. Budget for a new pc with your D2X.

[xerubus]

mmmmm.... very very nice....

birddog... enjoy the new toy... you of all people deserve it...

cheers

[Onyx]

Glen, I think that was the unit I had a play with previously! If you were able to slide the battery in and play straight away (they come pretty much fully drained), and I had set NEFs to compressed on 1 units, not sure about the rest. I also turned NR off on it (I can see your 2nd pic is consistent with NR being off).

You might also have noted the AF switch on the body was set to S instead of the true default of C. Check the shutter actuations... it might be 40 more than it should have been.

[stubbsy]

Glen

Thanks for taking & posting the shots. Very impressive debut. Look forward to seeing what birddog does with it tomorrow.

[Glen]

Chi we stuck the D2H battery in, was set to S. To be honest I couldn't really get the menus worked out in five minutes, as we were also picking up a notebook for my brother, sticking ram in mine and the Trent (MCWB) arrived. A guy like me would require five minutes just to work out how to set it up the first time.

[sirhc55]

So, I imagine you are sitting at home now Glen, with your celluloid peak on, the lights dimmed with your money box in front of you. 1 gold florin, 2 gold florin, ah 2Dx, 3 gold florin. . .

[kipper]

Hmm....don't think I have enough personal possessions to sell to still be able to afford it

[birddog114]

Hmm....don't think I have enough personal possessions to sell to still be able to afford it

Forget the house and you can make it easier!

[christiand]

Awesome is all I can say so far.
Just like entering the 70-200mm VR world.

CD

[birddog114]

The next PC upgrade is budgeted for July or August 05 with coupa machines with:
Dual AMD Athlon 64 FX55 Processor, Socket 939, HTSB 2GHz, 1MB L2 Cache/ 2Gb RAM and RAID 5 with 4 x 400Gb SATA. These will fly the D2x files.

[Glen]

Worse than that Chris, truly great camera, I think I would need an evening to just work out the menus. It is beautiful, thank you Birddog for letting me open it and take some shots, I feel very honoured.

[birddog114]

Worse than that Chris, truly great camera, I think I would need an evening to just work out the menus. It is beautiful, thank you Birddog for letting me open it and take some shots, I feel very honoured.

You deserved it and my hand was shaken!
You'll get it one day near, once the market settled and stock is full on the shelves, and time for me to drool over the D3x

[Glen]

You will probably get your D3X same time I get my D2X

[huynhie]

You will probably get your D3X same time I get my D2X

and by that time I might think about moving to digital

[birddog114]

You will probably get your D3X same time I get my D2X

and by that time I might think about moving to digital

You told me the other day and your name is on list of the second shipment

[huynhie]

You will probably get your D3X same time I get my D2X

and by that time I might think about moving to digital

You told me the other day and you name is on list of the second shipment

And you shall give me the D2X when I pay you in full, untill then I shall always be on your list

[birddog114]

You will probably get your D3X same time I get my D2X

and by that time I might think about moving to digital

You told me the other day and you name is on list of the second shipment

And you shall give me the D2X when I pay you in full, untill then I shall always be on your list

You may have it with you on your coming holiday trip, and it will mark a milestone!

[birddog114]

Now, it's time to wait for the WT-2 and GPS module for the new baby, then I off to shoot wireless with 80Gb Wifi Hdd.