Ah! Atocha treasure, or repros made from the originals as patterns? We saw the Atocha traveling display years ago in Claremont, CA. That whole recovery is a fascinating story. Nice treatment! ________________________________ From: Eric Welch <ericwelch@xxxxxx> To: nikonf4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sat, October 30, 2010 1:58:03 PM Subject: [nikonf4] D7000 images Got my Nikon D7000 yesterday. It's quite nice. I like it a lot. The customizability is really extensive. The LCD on the back is gorgeous, and the controls are laid out in a logical way. Noise performance is great. ISO 1600 is really, really clean. I haven't shot enough at high ISOs to really say yet how good, but up to 25,600 seems to be usable for some things. Overall, it's the best DX camera Nikon makes by far. And for the price it really makes the D300s look dated. AF is very fast, and accurate. The only thing that's not great so far is that when it focuses during video you can hear the lenses focusing. I don't even notice the noise from my AF-S lenses as I'm shooting, but it's there in the video sound track. So you really need an external mic to make audio work well apparently. Could this be a major reason other cameras don't have AF during video other than the D3100? One think Koichi would like is that you can set it so that with non-G lenses you set the aperture with the ring on the lens instead of with a command dial. I've got two photos you can download. Both less than 1 meg, though they are full size jpegs. When I created them I didn't have an NEF converter for it yet. Got that this morning from Adobe labs where Adobe Camera RAW 6.3 is still in beta. Here are the links: Unmodified: files.me.com/ericwelch/ b1is5f Added noise reduction in CS5 and tweaked colors and contrast. files.me.com/ericwelch/ 4juu68 It's from the Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank off Florida in 1622. We have it on exhibit in the entrance to our library. Mostly high intensity incandescent light with some daylight coming in from a skylight directly above. Colombian emeralds obviously and gold probably from there too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_Atocha Eric "In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" - Dostoevsky