[nikonf4] Re: D7000 images

  • From: Eric Welch <ericwelch@xxxxxx>
  • To: "nikonf4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <nikonf4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:13:28 -0700

Remember, these are jpeg originals. I can post one from RAW later.  

Eric
Sent from my iPad

On Oct 30, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Koichi Mac <nikonf3tmd4@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
>       Thanks for the URLs.  They are really nice to make head-to-head 
> comparison.  
> 
>       Things I noticed: 
> - the contrast level was slightly up on retouched
> - untouched has slightly better edges (resolution)
> 
>       So the law of inverse relationship between contrast and resolution 
> still wins out!              :-DD
> 
>       And they both look nice.
> 
> 
> Koichi Yasutani - a.k.a. Steve + MP
> Lakewood, WA U.S.A.
> 2010 / 10 / 30                15:44 PDT
> 
> On Oct 30, 2010, at 1058 , Eric Welch wrote:
> 
>> 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_Señora_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
>> 
> 
> 

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