Oh the joys of not planning properly

Have your say on issues related to using a DSLR camera.

Moderator: Moderators

Forum rules
Please ensure that you have a meaningful location included in your profile. Please refer to the FAQ for details of what "meaningful" is.

Oh the joys of not planning properly

Postby PiroStitch on Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:21 pm

This is my celebration and gripe post all in one :)

Firstly I received my birthday/christmas present to myself yesterday and have been studying the manual extremely hard trying to figure out what to tweak and how to tweak it to suit my needs. Oh the joys and headaches 12.2Mp creates :evil:

Joy because all my portrait pics turn out oh so sweet now. Disdain because Rawshooter Pro doesn't support the D2Xs and hacking the EXIF to recognise as a D2x only creates a white balance issue. Turns out Rawshooter gives me a white balance not as shot in camera :? I tried to run Capture NX but it runs like a dog and I have no money to get DxO. I could just upgrade the whole computer to run Lightroom, but alas still lack of funds...well not lack of funds, just have to save up otherwise I'll be a headless groom ;)

Another point I might add is that now I'm running out of hdd space...fast :) At 19 to 20Mb per pic I need a new hdd now :)

So the lesson I've learnt is if you plan on upgrading something, plan ahead and consider upgrading a whole heap of other things because you never know.

On the upside, the D2 feels so so sweet and demands respect :D

Sorry for the long post, just things I've learned very quickly over the past 24 hours :D
Hassy, Leica, Nikon, iPhone
Come follow the rabbit hole...
User avatar
PiroStitch
Senior Member
 
Posts: 4669
Joined: Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:08 am
Location: Hong Kong

Postby stubbsy on Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:31 pm

Wayne

You'll have fun with your new toy. On the HD space issue - I suggest you shoot in compressed RAW which chops back to around the 10Mb mark per image. I can't tell the difference. YMMV.
Peter
Disclaimer: I know nothing about anything.
*** smugmug galleries: http://www.stubbsy.smugmug.com ***
User avatar
stubbsy
Moderator
 
Posts: 10748
Joined: Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:44 pm
Location: Newcastle NSW - D700


Return to General Discussion