Any comments on Nikon 1 J1? Thinking of buying for mom, she's going to be traveling and her old Oly is not in good condition.

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Added on March 28, 2012, 1:20 pmwow.. all small bulu bulu detail also can see!

This post has been edited by gerald7: Mar 28 2012, 01:20 PM

lol. she wants me to get her an iPad... I was actually thinking of the Canon S series too hehe.. J1 was her suggestion

hahaha probably. ..

so you gave your mom an iPad? hehe cool!

nice share. Ive always been on sRGB since long ago. And never bothered to try out other color space. Will give the others a try.

On subject of printing, there is lots to learn about that. Im still trying to figure out whats the best print out. Hmm..

haha thats why been all around the printers looking for one which suits my taste.

mmm our (Kuching) pc fair cannot fight w/ other places one la.. ours no gals one.. this round only 2 gals.

hahaha sure~

yesterday was doing a yumcha session with my friends and somehow the topic of photography came up and one of my friend a canon user was saying that he "read an article or comments in dpreview that because d800's high MP, the current line up of nikkor lens cannot handle the resolution (meaning cannot maximize) and most images would become SOFT. thats why, Canon is not chasing MP's but changing its line up of lenses."

to me im normally pretty cool with who ever uses what la, not a real technical person either. for me its about the images at the end of the day not the technicalities of the gears. But when one hears smug comments like that, its kind of annoying. As if we are in the wrong camp and Nikon's made a booboo. I have heard this same sentiment from numerous d700 / d3 s/x owners. That D800's mp too high and current lens line up might not be able to maximize it. Maybe they are all reading from the same blog... hmm..

My unfounded theory is that it will look soft because its BIG. If you scale it down to maybe 12 mp it will look sharper than say actual 12mp sensor results. Anyone care to enlighten me..

This post has been edited by gerald7: Apr 14 2012, 09:22 AM

haha not only him, I have not either. So I'm just keeping quite.

Afternoon. Thanks

Well it does seem that canon could not do any wrong recently. build in flash triggers. 61 af points etc etc etc etc etc etc. Anyways I'll just wait and see whats coming replacement of d300/s looks like. decided not to even debate this non issue with him.

Interesting link

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Added on April 14, 2012, 5:30 pmDownsizing for comparison and debating purposes only . But I didnt that wont be a problem for me, as my d300 is still serving me very faithfully.


120411-Sunrise by Cybreed, on Flickr

This post has been edited by gerald7: Apr 14 2012, 05:30 PM

That would be Gunung Matang, shot from the road heading towards Kampung Telaga Air.

yea, it was pretty misty that morning. We were quite lucky to be shooting from high ground. My friends got some awesomes shots. I still have yet to review mine properly yet. Feels like going out tmr morning and hunt for more sun rise.

This post has been edited by gerald7: Apr 14 2012, 05:58 PM

I didnt intend it to be High dynamic Range~ it was one photo in raw. I just tweaked it in Lr and resize n watermarked in Ps. The "Halo" is from bumping up Clarity slider to 100 value.

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What are your insights on dry boxes?

I have been a small one for about 3years now. since last year I saw that RH% is always close to 55%. Does these things need servicing or maintenance? Its analog meter. I wonder how accurate is it.. Hmm..

ok thanks!

Swt as it turns out my drybox analog meter is really off. I used a microcontroller and a temp/humidity sensor (took me all afternoon to code it) and it reads nearly 32% difference from the Analog meter.


when its 26% humidity on digital, on analog its nearly 58%. So now im lowering the fan speed and try to raise the humidity a bit.. 26% is too dry right? Will crack the rubbery nikons away...

On the down side is that the analog meter cannot be tweaked or adjusted. So I guess I'll go out and buy a digital one and replace the analog one.

hehee I have friends doing that too. And I approve! then I can try with out buying

This post has been edited by gerald7: Apr 20 2012, 10:33 AM

I would say mentor is best choice. If cannot find mentor, find group of friends with same curiosity and interest who is willing to share. I seen it happen many times. Ppl break into groups and there will always be one who is more 'experimental' and the rest will follow, and everyone contributes to the group.

When I started playing, I was lucky to meet a few creative people, who kindly added me to their group. Learned many new ideas from them. Inspired. But now back to my old ways of randomly shooting

This post has been edited by gerald7: Apr 21 2012, 03:40 PM

sweet! too bad i cant join

I still love my d300 (consoling myself not to change camera bodies)!


120411-sunrise-006 by Cybreed, on Flickr
Multi expose 3 frames

This post has been edited by gerald7: Apr 25 2012, 08:48 AM

hehee twin moons~ d70s. not sure, I know my d80 also got this function. Fun thing to learn. Can create many interesting effects.

I used the multi- exposure feature.

sure, no prob! come come!

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Added on April 25, 2012, 8:24 pmerm.. for this shot it was set to multi expose 3 frames.

using 80200 shoot the moon twice, zoom a bit to get different sizes.

then switch to 11-16 and shoot d wide angle

tadaa!!!

I actually just learn can do with multiple lens. Normally i never swap lens when playing multi expose.

This post has been edited by gerald7: Apr 25 2012, 08:24 PM