Kipper's Crap Photos!

[kipper]

http://members.iinet.net.au/~darryl_m/photos.html

Here are some crap photos that I've taken with my F80.

The photos of the Great Ocean Rd would of looked better if the sky wasn't so washed out. Not sure how the sky could of been enhanced as it a pretty bright day and there was a fair bit of cloud cover so they were fairly plain and white. Hardly any detail to them at all. At the end of the day it bucketted down and there was a nice lightning show.

The shot of the girl is a bit low resolution when I scanned it onto the PC ages ago. Need to invest in a quality scanner and rescan it from print.
Have heaps of photos that I want to scan in from my trip to France.

[gstark]

http://members.iinet.net.au/~darryl_m/photos.html

Here are some crap photos that I've taken with my F80.

Nothing too wrong with those; I have yet to do the Great Ocean Rd.

The photos of the Great Ocean Rd would of looked better if the sky wasn't so washed out. Not sure how the sky could of been enhanced as it a pretty bright day and there was a fair bit of cloud cover so they were fairly plain and white.

That's where a polariser comes into play.The difference it can make is fan-bloody-mazing.

[kipper]

Yeah I haven't experimented with the different filters that you can apply to cameras. I've always wanted to and looked at Cokin (sp?) filters before but have always been put off spending the money on them. I will probably look at doing it when I get the D70 as I'm really looking forward to experimenting and seeing the results first hand. That's something that sort of puts me off with film/print because you'll shoot a whole roll of film and have about 5-30% of them being keepers and the rest being utter crap.

I really like the photo of the young girl. Took some corkers in France when I was there for my sisters wedding. Some of the colors that came out in the photos were superb. They look like postcards

[kipper]

Which reminds me I need to develop my Cape Schanck/Mornington Pennisula photos. Think I have about 3 rolls to develop Will get them done this coming weekend I think when I go on my D70 shopping.

[kipper]

Ok just had a look at some effects with and without a polarizer. Looks like it's on my too buy list next weekend

Can you get them in standard cicular filters that screw directly into the lens? Or do you have to use like a Cokin Filter holder and then get filter glass?

I know when I tried to buy filters before from Michaels (that's probably half the problem) that they tried to say that to get all the various types of filters I'd have to use a Cokin filter holder system.

[gstark]

Ok just had a look at some effects with and without a polarizer. Looks like it's on my too buy list next weekend

Can you get them in standard cicular filters that screw directly into the lens?

Yes you can.

Did you see this thread from last Friday?

http://forum.d70users.com/viewtopic.php?t=883

Everything you need

[kipper]

I did see it. I take it CPL = Circular Polarizing .. ?

As for the price of that D70 with 18-70MM lense and 1gb CF card, it's a bit much for me. I already have a Nikon F80 with Nikkor 28-70 and a Sigma 70-300 both with UV filters. Plus a Lowepro Offroad camera bag with two lense compartments. Which should have enough space for the extra body and lense.

So I'm looking at the D70 + 18-70MM DX Lense and a 512mb/1gb CF card, plus UV + maybe a CPL filter for around no more than $2000. Perhaps I'm dreaming but that's what I'm going to try and achieve this weekend

[Marvin]

Good luck!

[gstark]

Perhaps I'm dreaming

I suspect that you are.

I doubt that you'll see a better deal than what Birddog can do for you.

Let me put it anothger way - Vanbar have what would otherwise be the best price going around. Body + kit lens there is 2K. You still need at least one CF card, plus UV + CPL, which, as you've correctly worked out, is the polariser. Work on 70 for the CPL, 55 for the UV; what's the best deal you can do for a 1G card? I doubt you'll see any change from 2200, and that's just for what you're listing as your basic needs.

Don't forget to factor in shipping if you're going to buy your media on the net.

On the subject of CF cards - you should work towards having at least two on your person at any one time; anything less than 256 isn't worth bothering with, and at least one should be 512 or greater. To a point, faster is good too, so you're not stuck waiting for the buffer to unload, as I've seen with some slower media. What Birddog has matches perfectly with the camera.

As Marvin said, good luck.

[birddog114]

Kipper,
Wish you have a wonderful overseas trip, a sweet dream and good luck to your sourcing.

[Killakoala]

Kipper,

I am just curious as to your choice of using PNG as your picture format.

Is your scanner set up to produce in that format or did you consciously decide on it. It's rare to see that format anywhere these days.

I'm not complaining or criticising, a picture is a picture, just curious.

Steve.

[MHD]

For many of my web graphics I use PNG... Dont know why, I guess I like the compression...

[kipper]

That was back in my web development days, and done about 2 years ago. I liked PNG back then for some reason, thought it had good compression and was lossless.

[kipper]

Gstark,

I can get a Transcend 1gb CF Ultra (x45) for $180.
Hoya 67MM UV $40
Hoya 67MM CPL $70

Those were prices were without shopping around that much.
So that's $290 worth of goods.

I'm not sure if I'll go the one 1gb CF. Most likely take the path of 512mb and 256mb or even 2x256mb. As I've bought an Archos AV420 which has a CF reader. So I'll use that to offload the photos from the CF.

[gstark]

Those were prices were without shopping around that much.
So that's $290 worth of goods.

So, add the cost of the kit, and you're already $30 down on Birddog's price, and you still don't have all of the bits and pieces that you'd get with Birddog.

FWIW, camera bags are a bit like disk space and memory on computers; I have four different camera bags that I use, depending upon my daily needs. Translation: there's no such thing as too many camera bags.

I do wish you luck in your search for a better deal

[kipper]

I think I have two camera bags at the moment anyway. So I don't need three, if the seller of my camera tries to put one in the sale.