[vpci] Re: [vpci] RE: [vpci] Re: [vpci] RE: [vpci] Fw: The Mansurovs - D800 to Cause Nikon’s Stock Price to Drop?, plus 1 more

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2012/4/2 Charles Gossett <charlesgossett@xxxxxxxxxxx>

>  I wouldn't put much faith in this artical. Nikons stock price is actually
> up at this time.
> Also, there's no way I'd believe the photo of the bee is a crop from the
> photo shown.
> There are numerous sites that let you dowload full res images from the
> D800, try it for yourselves.
> Most importantly, look at the date this artical was posted........April
> Fool's!!
>
> NINOY: Stock Quote & Summary Data
> $ 3091.25 0.41%
> Apr. 2, 2012 13:41 ET Market Open
> Update Quotes: On Updates every 7 Seconds.
>
>
> Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ninoy#ixzz1quIjLsCX
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> From: fain.zimmerman@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 12:43:52 -0500
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> Subject: [vpci] Re: [vpci] RE: [vpci] Fw: The Mansurovs - D800 to Cause
> Nikon’s Stock Price to Drop?, plus 1 more
> To: vpci@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>
> *Good idea Brent! They'll have to have their own category and can compete
> only against each other!*
> *Fain*
> *
> *
> 2012/4/2 Brent Ortego <brentortego@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>  Are we going to have to handicap D800 users in the contests?
>
> Brent
>
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> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 09:45:34 -0700
> From: flippytippi@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [vpci] Fw: The Mansurovs - D800 to Cause Nikon’s Stock Price to
> Drop?, plus 1 more
> To: vpci@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>  Interesting article below regarding the Nikon D800.
>
> *Tippi Van Doren*
>
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> Posted: 01 Apr 2012 10:52 PM PDT
>  Nikon executives have been pacing the floor today as they expect a huge
> drop – perhaps as much as 20-35% – in the company’s share price at the
> market’s opening bell. Over the weekend, Nikon frantically attempted to
> reassure some of its largest investors and retail partners there is no
> reason to panic. What happened? By all respects, Nikon has been on a roll
> with the D800 and D4 model introductions. Most experts have attributed
> Nikon with hitting it out of the park. The issue uncovered this weekend,
> however, is that the D800 is actually much better than originally thought
> or reported thus far. Surprise, surprise… the D800 is actually capable of
> an effective resolution of 108MP!
> Conveniently left out of the original product marketing material and
> technical details, was the fact that the D800’s sensor has a substrate
> capable of capturing additional detail. When combined with sophisticated
> interpolation software (also not revealed to the public), it is capable of
> tripling the camera’s resolution. No doubt this newly discovered feature
> will lead to increased D800 sales. But the more troubling concern is the
> potential impact on the sales of Nikon lenses. When a photographer can take
> pictures with a 24-70mm f/2.8 lens, and is able to obtain high resolution
> crops similar to what a 105mm macro, 300mm, or 200-400mm lens can produce,
> why purchase additional lenses?
> Turbo Mode
> This capability, affectionately known within the Nikon Engineering ranks,
> as “turbo mode”, was apparently going to be introduced in approximately six
> to nine months. D800 owners would have been able to activate it after
> paying an additional $750. This would have marked the first time a camera
> manufacturer charged a fee for activating a feature after the camera had
> been shipped from the factory. Nikon customers would have been required to
> purchase a software key unique to their camera to enable this feature, so
> as to prevent people from sharing the code. But one of the Nikon engineers
> accidently stumbled upon a menu and button sequence that enabled this
> capability, thus bypassing the need for an activation code. In the software
> industry, such capabilities are often purposely inserted into the code.
> They are known as “Easter eggs”, since they require a bit of hunting to
> find. Most of the time, they are rather innocuous and simply result in some
> humorous message flashing ont o the user’s screen. Nikon’s Easter egg,
> however, unlocks a significant capability – one that it was counting on for
> additional revenue. As with most modern day secrets, once the menu and
> button sequence was discovered, it went viral on the internet. While we
> can’t report on the specifics of the additional substrate and interpolation
> software, we can say that the initial test results are nothing short of
> jaw-dropping.
>
> <http://mansurovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Flowers-Wide-Angle-D800.jpg>
>  <http://mansurovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Bee-Flower-D800-Zoom.jpg>
> Implications Obviously Nikon has pulled off what may be the most
> significant photography-related engineering feat of the last 50 years. It
> will garner extremely positive press as more details regarding turbo mode
> emerge. But Nikon’s Easter egg, in the form of the button sequence
> unlocking this feature, will likely result in a significant hit to Nikon
> revenues. Nikon was seeking to lay the groundwork for a new type of product
> – one that could be upgraded in the field by unlocking capabilities already
> present in the device. It was also seeking to fundamentally change the
> structure of DSLR pricing. While software companies have enabled customers
> to upgrade their software via encryption keys (for a fee), few hardware
> companies provided similar capabilities – at least not without some
> additional equipment such as CPUs, RAM, or other hardware. Should Nikon
> continue to pursue this strategy, it will no doubt be much more careful in
> the future!
> How will turbo mode impact affect Nikon lens sales? This is a huge source
> of profits for both Nikon and its retail partners. DSLRs often have a
> relatively small mark-up, but lenses, particularly the higher end models,
> carry a hefty margin. The high resolution capabilities have some concerned
> that the D800 may enable someone to get by with one or two lenses. The
> unbelievable detail captured would allow them to crop to ridiculous levels
> and still have stunningly detailed images. Some are concerned that the
> D800′s turbo mode may fundamentally change people’s perceptions regarding
> the number and types of lenses they need, particularly if they don’t print
> images beyond twenty four inches.
> Nikon will likely see the stock price recover over time, as people revise
> their original calculations of lost revenue from the discovery of the turbo
> mode Easter egg. It may, however, take some additional time for the market
> to understand the impact of turbo mode on lens sales. For now, Nikon and
> its investors can count on a roller coaster ride as the stock price ebbs
> and flows with the uncertainty of the moment.
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>   Mastering Lightroom: How To Use the Tone Curve 
> Panel<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mansurovs/~3/WdINBE1z7EE/mastering-lightroom-how-to-use-the-tone-curve-panel?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email>
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> Posted: 31 Mar 2012 10:55 PM PDT
>  In this short tutorial I will show you how to use one of the easiest and
> most powerful tools found in Lightroom – the Tone Curve. In my previous
> tutorial about black & white 
> conversions<http://mansurovs.com/how-to-convert-portraits-to-bw-with-lightroom-4>,
> I briefly showed you how to use the HSL Panel’s Luminance section to
> control the lightness of separate colors of the image. Using the Tone Curve
> Panel is very similar as it also allows you to control the lightness and
> darkness of various parts of a given photograph, however, rather than
> altering separate colors, the Tone Curve tool controls certain ranges of
> actual tones in the image.
> What Is It?
> [image: Tone Curve 
> Explained]<http://mansurovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Tone-Curve-Explained.jpg>The
> Tone Curve represents all the tones of your image. The bottom axis of the
> Tone Curve is the Tone axis: the line starts with Shadows at the left-most
> end and ends with Highlights in the right-most end. In the middle you have
> Midtones, which are then further split into darker Midtones, called Darks
> in Lightroom, and brighter Midtones, called Lights. In other words, going
> left to right, the curve starts with Shadows, Darks, Lights and ends with
> Highlights. You can also see the corresponding range shown to you by
> Lightroom once you hover over a specific slider under the Tone Curve, in
> the Region section of the Panel. The Y ax is represents lightness of a
> given tones. The tones get darker as you move lower and brighter as you
> move up the axis.
>
> While all of this may sound very technical, it is in fact quite simple to
> adjust. All you need to decide on is which range of tones you want to
> alter, for example: if you want to make the Midtones of the image darker,
> just click on the middle portion of the Tone Curve and gently drag it
> downwards – you will notice your image getting darker as you drag it,
> similarly as it would if you were to decrease Exposure in the Basic Panel.
> If, on the other hand, you wanted to make your Shadows part of the image
> brighter, you should click on the left-most third of the Tone Curve which
> represents the Shadows and gently drag it upwards to see them brighten up.
> Simple, isn’t it?
>
> Region Curve and Point Curve Lightroom has two different Curves you can
> work with. The one that I’ve been showing you so far (the enlarged
> screenshot at the top) is the easiest to operate, especially for beginners
> – lets call it the Region Curve for simplicity sake. When you’re using this
> Curve, Lightroom basically helps you keep it as smooth in transition as
> possible, so that you don’t ruin your image by accidentally distorting the
> Curve too much. You can either adjust it by dragging the Curve itself or
> using the sliders bellow it, which will give you exactly the same
> flexibility. You can also adjust it using an automated Lighroom tool, which
> appears as a dot at the top left of the Tone Curve Panel, right next to the
> Tone Curve. All you have to do is click on it to turn the tool on and then
> click-and-drag on the particular tone range or area of the image to adjust
> it. Even if you tried hard, however, you could not make a, say, “N” shaped
> Curve using Region Curve simply because Lightroom is aiding you by keeping
> a smooth tonal transition – a very useful feature, really, it saves you
> from ending up with something like this:
> [image: N-Shaped Tone 
> Curve]<http://mansurovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/N-Shaped-Tone-Curve.jpg>
> But then there is another Curve you can use if you do need to make
> adjustments not possible with the Region Curve, and it is called Point
> Curve. You can activate it by clicking a small square button at the bottom
> right of the Tone Curve Panel. Once you do that, you will instantly notice
> sliders disappear only to be replaced with one control – Channel. This
> setting allows you to choose which color – Red, Green or Blue – you want to
> alter (the default is set to RGB, which includes all colors). Changing
> individual colors opens up a whole new range of editing possibilities, like
> simulation of film 
> cross-processing<http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=cross-processing>(deliberately
>  using wrong chemicals to develop film and get crazy cool
> colors), but we won’t be getting into that this time – that’s a whole new
> article. Lets leave the Channel setting at its default RGB mode.
> The idea of Point Curve is that you can alter it whichever way you like
> and make a complete mess out of your image – Lightroom will not get in your
> way. It’s a great tool for some advanced B&W and color work, but is also
> very useful when used as a starting point to work with Region Curve
> afterwards, much like the tone curve your camera uses when you take
> photographs. Lightroom actually allows you to choose one of the default
> settings of the Point Curve to use as a starting point – you can choose it
> by clicking on the drop-down list at the bottom left of the Tone Curve
> panel in either Region Curve or Point Curve mode.
> I plan to discuss the use of the Point Curve in greater detail in future
> tutorials as it offers a complete new range of creative editing. For now,
> lets focus on the simpler and more popular Range Curve (and simply call it
> Tone Curve further on before it gets too confusing).
>  The Easy Part As I have already mentioned, working with the Tone Curve
> is actually very easy. Depending on what you want to achieve, there are
> basically only four things you need to remember.
> 1) How To Make Your Image Pop [image: Tone Curve 
> Pop]<http://mansurovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Tone-Curve-Pop.jpg>Most
> of the time, this is the primary intention when using Tone Curve. Sometimes
> you may find that, after you’re done with the Basic 
> Panel<http://mansurovs.com/mastering-lightroom-how-to-use-the-basic-panel>adjustments,
>  while everything may technically be correct, there is still
> something missing, something to make that photograph look worlds better
> than it does. And you can see it in your head – it should look better, but
> why doesn’t it?
> There are a few ways you can adjust the Tone Curve to give your picture
> that bit of magic it seems to lack initially, but by messing with it too
> much, you might as well end up with a horrible, unrecognizable image. The
> most dependable technique is adding a slight “S” curve by dragging the
> lower third of the curve down slightly, and the upper third of the curve
> slightly upwards. What this does is darken the shadows, which is the lower
> third of the Curve, and lightens the bright portions of the image, which
> are represented by the upper third of the Curve. You may just as well use
> the sliders under the Tone Curve to specifically change exactly what you
> want.
> [image: Tone Curve Tool - 
> Before]<http://mansurovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Tone-Curve-Tool_Before.jpg>
> Lets take the above picture and try to add a little more contrast to it by
> playing with the Tone Curve. By setting the Lights slider to +29, I boosted
> the brighter portions of the image while still retaining enough tones to
> keep them from blowing out. By moving the Darks slider to -39, I’ve
> darkened the shadowy parts of the image, yet not enough to make them
> completely black. This is what I got (enlarge and use arrow keys to
> compare; note changes in the Panel):
> [image: Tone Curve Tool - 
> After]<http://mansurovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Tone-Curve-Tool_After.jpg>
> Looks much better, doesn’t it? And with such a modest adjustment, too. You
> may notice color has changed somewhat as well – it’s a bit more saturated
> now, deeper, especially the cherries. While in this case I don’t mind extra
> punch in colors, it would be nice if I could set the effect to Luminance
> only – too bad Lightroom didn’t add such feature with the new version,
> Photoshop allows one to do that. Still, I can always bring those colors
> down by adjusting the Vibrance slider in the Basic Panel if needed.
> 2) And If You Want Less… [image: Tone Curve - 
> Flat]<http://mansurovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Tone-Curve-Flat.jpg>…all
> you need to do is set the curve to reverse “S” by bringing the Lights down
> and upping the Darks a little. You may want to do that when you find the
> image to be too contrasty as it is, or if you want to achieve a certain low
> contrast look. Setting the Tone Curve into reverse “S” will flatten the
> image, bring Lights and Highlights closer to Darks and Shadows in their
> tonality. This also helps if you have blown-out portions of image that you
> want to fix specifically with this tool, although you should always
> remember the Tone Curve works best in conjunction with the rest of the
> tools you can find in Lightroom.
> Lets see what happens if you push the upper half of the Tone Curve
> slightly down (Lights at -50) and the lower half of it upwards (Darks at
> +50):
>
> [image: Tone Curve Tool - 
> Flat]<http://mansurovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Tone-Curve-Tool_Flat.jpg>
> Looks much more flat, and the colors are less vibrant, too. This kind of
> Curve adjustment can often serve B&W photographs very well. Have you ever
> wondered why some of those black & white’s are so dreamy and moody? A low
> contrast Curve might just be one of the reasons, take a look:
> [image: Tone Curve Tool - Flat 
> B&W]<http://mansurovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Tone-Curve-Tool_Flat-BW.jpg>
> 3) Don’t Overcook It Too much is usually not a good thing, and Tone Curve
> adjustments follow this rule. Altering the Curve too drastically may lead
> to blown-out highlights and pitch-black shadows, so unless this is what
> you’re after, play safe and adjust the Tone Curve along with Basic Panel
> settings to get the best result. Remember, while it is one of the most
> powerful tools in Lightroom, you may end up ruining your image just as
> easily as enhancing it.
> [image: Tone Curve Tool - Too 
> Much]<http://mansurovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Tone-Curve-Tool_Too-Much.jpg>
> 4) Experiment! You may find that you only need to alter Lights, or
> Highlights, or maybe turn that straight line into a zigzag. Experiment!
> It’s the best way you can learn quickly and find new techniques to enhance
> your images on your own and then, hopefully, share them with others.
> Good luck!
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