Some d70s meet Shots

[MHD]

I'm glad I could finaly get at my d70s shots!
Some of my favs from the meet were taken on that body!
MCWB with the 70-200VR and SB-800
Taken with the 17-35/2.8
The focus off!


Glen with the 52/1.2 noct
Taken with the 17-35/2.8


More to follow!
I finaly understand the 17-35/2.8
Originaly I thought: Why would people want a lens with such a short focal range when there is the 28-70/2.8???? Now I understand it is the short focusing distance!
If I was in a media scrum this is the lens I would want!

more to follow

[Onyx]

Nicely shot... and damn, there's a lot of red in those skintones!

[MCWB]

MCWB with the 70-200VR and SB-800

Only the 24-120 VR, otherwise it would have been in your face. I lost the focus-off, dunno why the 105 macro won?

[MHD]

yeah... WB not spot on... never realised how handy that initial camera guess was...

now, I love the distortion that that lens gives:

[MHD]

MCWB with the 70-200VR and SB-800

Only the 24-120 VR, otherwise it would have been in your face. I lost the focus-off, dunno why the 105 macro won?

Because it was not the 105 macro... it was the 17-35/2.8

[MHD]

And a slightly blown Chris

[leek]

What are you using to PP these Scott???

The WB seems badly off, so I assume that you are using PS ACR to read the Raw and not Nikon Capture...
Are you losing the as-shot WB settings???

[the foto fanatic]

It looks like you gather under a pergola with some sort of translucent roof at Birdy's place.
I am guessing that it is the cause of the yellow/red casts seen in some of the pix from the meet.

[MHD]

too red?

No WB available... shot with the d70s

[Nnnnsic]

If this is the sort of results that the D70s is going to give, Nikon need to have their head smashed open with a very loud coconut.

[birddog114]

If this is the sort of results that the D70s is going to give, Nikon need to have their head smashed open with a very loud coconut.

But then, what are we going to do?

[Glen]

Onyx, we are all just suntanned from the glorious sunny winter days we get in Sydney. Wish you were here.

[sirhc55]

Same day - same lens - D70. Processed through NC



Same pic processed through PSCS

[Onyx]

Ah hah! Looks like PSCS introduces the slight magenta colourcast, might be in common with the converter for unix that Scott used.

[Nnnnsic]

Cheers Chris.

You're not using Windows or Mac are you, Scott?

[Glen]

Leigh, I think Scott is a linux user.

[MHD]

Gentoo Linux, Kernel 2.6-rc10
KDE 3.4 DCraw 7.02

[stubbsy]

Gentoo Linux, Kernel 2.6-rc10
KDE 3.4 DCraw 7.02

Are you swearing at us

[leek]

Gentoo Linux, Kernel 2.6-rc10
KDE 3.4 DCraw 7.02

Hmmm... this raises an interesting angle on the WB encryption debate that I hadn't thought of before...
OK... Nikon are encrypting the WB to force people to use Nikon Capture, yet they don't provide a version of Nikon Capture for Linux...

Hmmm...

[the foto fanatic]

I'd suggest someone takes a WB reading using an ExpoDisc and retake similar photos at the next meet.
A Preset WB might be the answer to the colour cast.

[MHD]

Gentoo Linux, Kernel 2.6-rc10
KDE 3.4 DCraw 7.02

Hmmm... this raises an interesting angle on the WB encryption debate that I hadn't thought of before...
OK... Nikon are encrypting the WB to force people to use Nikon Capture, yet they don't provide a version of Nikon Capture for Linux...

Hmmm...

Absolutely!

[digitor]

Any chance I could get hold of one of these D70S nefs, so I could try it with Raw Magick?

Cheers

[MCWB]

I have some at home that I can host, will whack them up later tonight for you.

[MHD]

sure...

http://www.potofgrass.com/nefs/

[MHD]

I've put two d70s images up..
and am in the process of coping a d2x nef up... (19MB!)

[MCWB]

Because it was not the 105 macro... it was the 17-35/2.8

D'oh, fair enough then!

[leek]

I'd suggest someone takes a WB reading using an ExpoDisc and retake similar photos at the next meet.
A Preset WB might be the answer to the colour cast.

Hi cricketfan... It's not a colour cast - or anything that would be solved by using the Expodisc... It's the result of the WB encryption on the D70S. Due to that, Scott doesn't have access to the as-shot WB data and therefore all the photos appear strange...

[stubbsy]

I'd suggest someone takes a WB reading using an ExpoDisc and retake similar photos at the next meet.
A Preset WB might be the answer to the colour cast.

Hi cricketfan... It's not a colour cast - or anything that would be solved by using the Expodisc... It's the result of the WB encryption on the D70S. Due to that, Scott doesn't have access to the as-shot WB data and therefore all the photos appear strange...

Of course WB can be altered to correct the colour cast during PP.

[Glen]

John, so all D70s users who use linux will end up with a colour cast unless they pp?

[leek]

Of course WB can be altered to correct the colour cast during PP.

Yes, it can, but that means manually setting for each and every photo... Uugghh!!!...

John, so all D70s users who use linux will end up with a colour cast unless they pp?

Looks like it...
and anyone else who prefers not to use Nikon Capture...

[MHD]

later, when I can be bothered... I will have more of a play...

[SoCal Steve]

MHD - Thanks a bunch for posting the D70s NEF files. Getting to actually try opening them in PS Camera Raw was the acid test I was waiting to try. They would not open as NEF's only as VERY low resolution TiFFS (53K). As much as I'd love the new features, my back up will be another D70 body.

[digitor]

sure...

http://www.potofgrass.com/nefs/

Interesting! Div by 0 error on both D70S nefs.

EDIT: D2X worked fine on RM - wb looks good.

I thought I read something the other day about dcraw now handling the wb "encryption" OK - maybe an update would fix the issue for you MHD?

Cheers