The Unofficial Official Photography Thread...
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Some great shots.
Have taken quite a few shots of the Red Arrows over the years, they actually flew over my house last week, but have never been able to get a good shot of them sadly.
Matt38
Dirt Disciple
Thats spectacular............
MattiThundrrr
Kona Fan
I'm a longtime fan of Nikon, been using their stuff since before digital metering. Thus, 13 years ago, when my first son was born, the choice was easy. I knew the operating system, liked the lens, respected the sensor.
Even though I was familiar with the buttons, I read the manual several times, taking notes and spending hours fine tuning the programmable settings. I snapped thousands of excellent images, discovered it's strengths and weaknesses, became one with the instrument. Now those images are trapped on a hard drive somewhere in my basement, or burned onto a compact disk for which I no longer have a drive. Worse, the camera's battery has died, losing all of my settings.
I need to make a decision here. Do I invest the money in a new battery, as well as the time to re reread the manual and reprogram, in spite of its diminished connectivity? Do I embrace the new, and make the leap to a mirrorless Nikon, or (gasp!) some other kind? Or do I recognize the new reality, give up on the idea of a camera in itself, and just buy into the convenience of a phone camera? My phone is cheap junk, and it's pretty trashed, so I could probably use the upgrade...
Even though I was familiar with the buttons, I read the manual several times, taking notes and spending hours fine tuning the programmable settings. I snapped thousands of excellent images, discovered it's strengths and weaknesses, became one with the instrument. Now those images are trapped on a hard drive somewhere in my basement, or burned onto a compact disk for which I no longer have a drive. Worse, the camera's battery has died, losing all of my settings.
I need to make a decision here. Do I invest the money in a new battery, as well as the time to re reread the manual and reprogram, in spite of its diminished connectivity? Do I embrace the new, and make the leap to a mirrorless Nikon, or (gasp!) some other kind? Or do I recognize the new reality, give up on the idea of a camera in itself, and just buy into the convenience of a phone camera? My phone is cheap junk, and it's pretty trashed, so I could probably use the upgrade...
My phone camera is rubbish and will only reproduce blue sky as white so I often carry my Sony compact with me too. I went to take a group picture last week and was met with hoots of derision and shouts of " I've still got one of them at home somewhere".
My vote says get a new battery for your Nikon and continue to enjoy it.
My vote says get a new battery for your Nikon and continue to enjoy it.
MattiThundrrr
Kona Fan
As of about 8 years ago, Nikon was still filing patents for smart phones. I wish we could get something like this, adding phone capabilities to a camera, instead of making a phone try to be a camera
grantoury
Kona Fan
I just bought a used dslr Nikon (d3300) and am pretty happy with it. Things move on quickly in digital photography so in your place I would be tempted to buy something more recent. A camera is still better than a phone camera, I think.
MattiThundrrr
Kona Fan
"What is the digital equivalent of lovely, he wondered. What are the digits that encode beauty, the number fingers that enclose, transform, transmit, decide, and somehow, in the process, fail to trap or choke the soul of it. Not because of the technology, but in spite of it, beauty, that ghost, that treasure, passes undiminished through the new machines."
Salman Rushdie
