The Photographers' Corner 2013-2020

[Mr. Paul]

Great shot Mr. Paul! What shutter speed did you use?

Thanks Ronstar ... exposure was .8 second with fstop dialed down to 22 and ISO set to "low" which is 50 I believe.

Nice weather is really bringing out some nice shots ... great work FireD, seraphim, Ronstar and Toolman.

These are from our visit to Great Sand Dunes National Park yesterday

Medano Creek runs at the southern edge of the dunes. Spring runoff is the best time to visit, so we did



Mt Herard in the background


Sophie in Heaven


The Great Sand Dunes are formed as the winds deposit sand at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

 

[splitwdw]

Mr. Paul, I do enjoy your pictures.......especially Sophie. I'm hoping to get a new furry buddy this Summer. Had to let my girl go a couple of summers ago and think it might be time.

 

[Walt34]

The Canon Pixma Pro 100 printer arrived today. The thing is heavy and HUGE! Can't wait to get my tower PC back so I can set this printer up, get the profiles set and do some prints.

BTW, the special runs to the end of this month. A $300 rebate on the printer and a pack of paper brings the total down to $98, not a bad deal. There's also a a $400 rebate if you buy a Canon camera (must be one of several specific models). So if one is sitting on the fence about the printer this might push you off.

 

[Mr. Paul]

Mr. Paul, I do enjoy your pictures.......especially Sophie. I'm hoping to get a new furry buddy this Summer. Had to let my girl go a couple of summers ago and think it might be time.

Thanks! We never had a dog until retirement. Sophie is almost never left home alone and we are the bestest of buddies. Puppy up and let's see some pics

 

[photoguy]

The Canon Pixma Pro 100 printer arrived today. The thing is heavy and HUGE! Can't wait to get my tower PC back so I can set this printer up, get the profiles set and do some prints.

BTW, the special runs to the end of this month. A $300 rebate on the printer and a pack of paper brings the total down to $98, not a bad deal.

Wow that's a super deal. I gotta think about this one though because I just sold my 24" hp z3200 printer (no space for it in the move). Ideally I'd like a 17" printer, but still for only $100...

Does this take the consumer size ink cartridges? or can you use the bigger carts?

 

[Moscyn]

I don't have a good camera and take photos from my iPhone in my travels. I most probably should invest in a good camera if I want to seriously develop photography as a hobby. However, I look at my iPhone photos from time to time and they do look good. Here's one in my travels driving on The Great Ocean Drive in Australia and another while driving along the hills of Tuscany.

 

[FIREd]

The Canon Pixma Pro 100 printer arrived today. The thing is heavy and HUGE! Can't wait to get my tower PC back so I can set this printer up, get the profiles set and do some prints.

BTW, the special runs to the end of this month. A $300 rebate on the printer and a pack of paper brings the total down to $98, not a bad deal. There's also a a $400 rebate if you buy a Canon camera (must be one of several specific models). So if one is sitting on the fence about the printer this might push you off.

Looks like a great deal. Unfortunately, I have no room for a printer...

 

[Walt34]

Does this take the consumer size ink cartridges? or can you use the bigger carts?

I think it uses the consumer-size carts, in reviews I see lots of complaints about ink prices but that's true for all photo-quality printers, not just Canon's. And from what I've read about inks, papers, and the interactions between them over time, developing those inks and papers is not cheap. I'll buy store-brand toner and inks for regular correspondence and such but if I want long-lasting quality photo prints I think the only reasonable hope is pay the freight for high quality inks and papers. But I'm not printing in professional quantities either so ink costs are less of a factor for me.

A disappointment is that I cannot get the print head to go into the holder. I must be "fat fingering" something - I don't see any obvious defects, I traded a couple of emails back and forth with Canon tech support with photos, I looked up a youtube video on doing that, and I still can't get it in there without using a hammer. I'm pretty sure that's not a good idea. I haven't seen anyone else complain about this. Perhaps I really did get a defective one but I think Canon has pretty good quality control so we'll see.

I'm going to call Canon's voice tech support line later on. I really don't want to send this back but right now it is an expensive boat anchor.

 

[photoguy]

I did some more checking on the pro-100. It turns out the cartridges are 13ml and run about $15. So $1.15/1ml which I guess is not bad for a smaller printer. My old hp z printer was about $0.50 / 1ml but of course I was buying 130ml cartridges (for about $60).

I hadn't realized that the pro-100 was a dye printer instead of pigment. I was really looking for pigment due to extra longevity so my wallet is safe for now.

 

[Walt34]

After talking with Canon phone tech support last night, this morning I drove to a Canon authorized service center an hour away. Their web site said they are open on Saturday but neglected to mention there are no technicians working on Saturday.

The next stop was UPS and I returned it, asking for an exchange. The only thing I can think of is "ganging" of manufacturing tolerances so the print head simply wouldn't fit. If it happens again I'll do the drive to the tech center again (on a weekday, calling first to make sure a tech will be there) and ask them to show this fool how to do it.

Despite all the discussion about dye vs. pigment I'm thinking those differences are leveling out. And I doubt that I'll care anyway in 50 years, and in 100 I'm pretty sure no one else will either. In the meantime all the reviews I've seen about this printer rave about it except for print speed. Hey - it's a PHOTO printer. Ya want fast photo printing that's any good you're not going to get that for $400.

 

[seraphim]

Some great photos!

Moscyn, I love my iPhone for photos. IOS8 is supposed to permit apps manual control of shutter speed and aperture. Photogene is an excellent editing app, as well.

 

[TOOLMAN]

Almost out of the nest
Nikon D7000

 

[mathjak107]

to a photographer the cloisters is an amazing challenge. it is so difficult to shoot there as the streams of light and dark exhibits easily over load any dslr camera.

sooooo with that as our challenge marilyn and i (badcook5) went there yesterday for a photoshoot.

nikon d800 and nikon 16-35mm

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[mathjak107]

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[explanade]

What ISO for those indoor shots?

 

[mathjak107]

most are 100 . they let you use a tripod there until noon.

 

[explanade]

Ah okay.

Most cathedrals won't let you set up a tripod so a high end camera with high performance in low light would have an advantage.

 

[mathjak107]

i use a nikon d800 , excellent high iso performance up to a point. but even then the higher iso's beyond 1600 can be to noisy and soft at times. i have have gotten very good 3200 iso shots and very poor ones at times.

i rather stay low as certain processing i do sometimes requires very low noise .

 

[photoguy]

most are 100 . they let you use a tripod there until noon.

Wow that's awesome. In most places like that, I'm struggling to find a place to support my camera (no tripods) or cranking the iso.

 

[photoguy]

Despite all the discussion about dye vs. pigment I'm thinking those differences are leveling out. And I doubt that I'll care anyway in 50 years, and in 100 I'm pretty sure no one else will either.

According to canon the inks are supposed to have a 30 year lightfastness when behind glass (I guess that's why they called the ink ChromaLife 100). This is quite a bit behind pigment prints which get ratings of up to 200 years. However 30 years is still pretty good if they can actually achieve that (I haven't seen results from independent tests).

 

[Ronstar]

I'm tossing around the idea of splurging on a Nikon D800, and a Nikon AF-S Zoom Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF lens. I find myself shooting mostly landscape shots and this combo is highly rated.

I have a D5200 now. I see the weight of the D800 is 32 oz where the D5200 is 20 oz.

For you full frame people out there, does the extra weight wear on you after a while?

 

[explanade]

Yeah I wonder about that too. I have a D7000, which is bigger and heavier than the D5xxx series.

I was really surprised how much smaller the D5300 was, couldn't find a way to hold it comfortably.

I carry around my gear for 10 miles or more sometimes. Doesn't hurt my back but makes me sweat.

FF gear would be more, bigger cameras, bigger lenses, possibly needing to carry a tripod all the time to do FF justice.

 

[photoguy]

Judging by the interest of landscape photographers in the a7r (which can mount nikon/canon lenses with adapters), I'd say that many are choosing to go lighter.

Personally, I don't like to carry more than 3 lens in a backpack if I have to walk more than a mile (most of the time). However your 14-24 is a monster and might count as 2 lenses.

 

[explanade]

Was intrigued by the A7R but my understanding is that while it uses the same sensor as the D800, it doesn't get the same output.

Also, no geotagging support.

I would like to see Nikon and Canon bring FF to this kind of form factor, mirrorless and smaller and lighter than even some APS-C DSLRs.

But mirrorless cameras aren't selling that well and have suffered more of a drop in sales in 2013 than DSLRs, which fell for the first time in like 10 years in 2013.

 

[photoguy]

The A7R and D800 get very similar, but not identical ratings on DxO (with the nikon coming out slightly better). The A7R also has some weird compression system (even when you set the raws to "lossless") which can result in artifacts.

I don't think these would deter me from going with the A7r -- it's more of do I want the hassle of dealing with adapters, crappy autofocus, and sony's lack of product focus.