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 >> > >