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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 6/3/2008
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Exactly, Andre! That was the perfect example! And as we all know, racing profis prefere the real thing! ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 6/2/2008
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Hi Nick,
Yes, I understand. It's a little like the differnece between an automatic transmission and a standard stick shift in a car. Some people don't "care" how they get to their destination, and others like to use a stick shift and a clutch.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 5/31/2008
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Hi Andre!
Yes, with "careless" I mean without setting up too much, which is obviously what the design of such cameras was made. It is more or less "assumed" that most people will want to simply point and shoot, and so the features that will be likely used more seldom are "out of the way". Which makes it harder to use them if you want to use then. And of course "most people" means a big market. The question is how much of the deamand comes from "most people" and how much is created by companies. The one thing causes the other, I guess.
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 5/30/2008
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Hi Nick,
Possibly "careless use" sounds a bit strong, but I understand what you mean. Millions of people don't care how or why a camera does what it does. They just want a nice colourful picture to show their friends and relatives. It's a huge market, that can't be ignored.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 5/28/2008
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Hi Andre!
I can imagine how happy you must be for that easy option of shutting off auto focus! I think that this alone shows that your D200 was intended for manual focus too - i.e. for the more interested people.
On many new cameras you can readily see that the manual options are treated a bit like orphans. They are less well integrated in the general concept of usability. It shows me what the target market of such cameras are. Not that they have to be bad, but they are more for that kind of "careless use".
Cheers!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 5/27/2008
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Hi Nick,
I can't tell you how happy I am to have the easy option of shutting off the Auto focus with my Nikkor 18-200 dx afs.
When I was using my Fuji S5000, I almost always used Auto focus, mainly because the manual focus operation is very unfriendly, even unnatural for a person used to focusing with the lens barrel. It would take three times longer to fiddle with the menu before taking a shot.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 5/24/2008
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No publicity is bad publicity, ey? ;-)
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 5/24/2008
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Hi Andre!
This is exactly why I asked you about the lenses. I have the same feeling considering some photo shoots with newer camera/lens that I borrowed from friends.
First of all the material itself that is avialable nowadays is much better. We have all kind of different glasses and refraction types, etc. But the design of the lens is no more as good - it is less realistic. Perhaps because of too much trusting the quality of the glass, or perhaps also because of the typical faster development/market cycles. The older designs took much stricter requierments in account, and used many lenses for correction of aberation, distortion, and the like. Nowadays there are lenses covering a huge range of focal lengths with only 4 or 5 elements in them, which is a bit too optimistic. They do some good jobs in a certain range while the rest of the range is acceptable but not really as good. The painstaking care of design is not as tedious as it was, and though the manufacturers insure that the quality is the best, I have my doubts. I am not sure but I have my doubts.
Then, what you say about autofocus is exactly my impression. It works well but it feels like a hindrance to me. When I take some snapshots with my secondary camera, the EOS 1000f, I get really tired from those "thinking seconds" of its autofocus mechanism. It's much like relying on some maschinery that might also think different than I do. I have to point the camera to some object so that it can focus automatically but this is a nuisance. And not to speak about the many cases in which there is simply nothing upon which it can focus at the distance that I would like it to focus. Then I have to switch to manual, and try to focus manualy using that extremely thin ring that is available for this purpose.
In general I have the feeling too, that there is a certain amount of automatic functions that do not get in my way, but make them a bit more and soon I start feeling uncomfortable with that. I assume too that Iam old fashioned though. I just can't pass over more than a certain amount of control to the camera, and I also have to know what kind of control the camera takes over. If it says to me "lean back and Ido all for you" then I have the feeling that I am merely something like a tripod! ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 5/23/2008
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No problem Nick,
Hey, I get more exposure for your mistakes :)
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 5/23/2008
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Hi Nick,
Don't worry about the name slip, it happens to all of us.
About the lenses, I was expecting the Vivitar to be not so good, simply because it is an after market lens. But, it has surprised me with the quality that has come out of it. The Forget Me Not flower Macro for example. Also the Red Winged Blackbird. The 50mm Nikkor lens, I always knew would be good. I don't realy know how those lenses compare in terms of quality (I suspect more care went into the build of the older ones, but that is just a gut feel) One thing that I do like is the way the old lenses send me back to the old days of shooting without autofocus. It just seems faster and more natural to me. I always seem to be waiting for the new lenses to make up there mind when to stop focusing before the shutter press. The Nikon 18-200 DX vr that I have does focus fast on auto, but still it still feels like a lag to me. I guess I'm old fashioned that way, but I like that one press shutter release, when I'm ready...not when the camera is ready. I hope that makes sense.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 5/22/2008
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Noooo,no, no! Always the same with me! Now, Nick my guy, this is *Andre*! Not Dave!
I am very sorry, Andre!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 5/22/2008
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Hi Dave!
I am only glad to read that more and more of your old lenses prove to work so good woth your new camera! I guess that this contributes much to the enthusiasm.
Sure I am going to check out your new ones! But one question already now: Do you have any kind of impression that the oldlenses do some kind of "different" job, or ist it simply good optics and so also good images?
Cheers!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 5/20/2008
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Thanks again Nick,
Yeah! Lots of enthusiasm!
I am very pleased to tell you that another one of my old lenses works beautifully with the D200. I posted a couple today. The lens is a Vivitar 70-150mm Macro Zoom. It was made after 1977, so no alteration was needed to use it with the D200. It is stricly manual focus F3.8. But, I have the choice to use manual exposure settings or meter with aperture priority. I posted a Macro floral and a telephoto bird image today both taken at the 150 mm setting. Check them out when you get some time.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 5/16/2008
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Hi Andre!
And excuse my long delay of deplying. This last project in history of maths was simply too much. And also too irresistible. If we all only knew how much we owe some guys that never cared to come out on TV.
About fun, well, I guess that's the name of it at the end. Any improvement at all will always have that fun. Of course fun is not sufficient alone, much like you never get fun when playing and you don't know the chords. But it is one of the necessary things regarding anything we do, isn't it? Without enthusiasm too much is simply missing.
BTW, what about your new camera? More enthusiasm about that?
Cheers!
Nick
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biljana mitrovic
{K:48110} 5/8/2008
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Yes,yes,yes..he looks just like that ...surprised :)))
I really love hi expression:)))
big hug
biljana
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 5/8/2008
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Thanks Andy,
There are a pair of these hanging around lately. They are real characters and easy to attribute human characteristics. They love the camera!
Andre
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Andy Seehusen
{K:3372} 5/8/2008
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Nice composition, Andre. I like the inquisitive look the swan seems to have, almost like the observer is being observed.
andy
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 5/8/2008
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Hi Biljana,
I might have surprised him a little bit. He had his head under the water, feeding and that's when I snuck up on him.
Andre
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biljana mitrovic
{K:48110} 5/7/2008
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Well, I find myself with head tilted on the left :)I just wanted to see or hear what this swan has to say...I think he wants to say something ...it look very startling...maybe confused...not sure:)
Great captured pic :)
big hug my dear friend
biljana
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 5/6/2008
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Thanks Andrzej,
There are a couple of swans that live near the mouth of the Rouge River. They have turned into very cooperative models. :)
Andre
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Andrzej Pradzynski
{K:22541} 5/6/2008
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Andre, you can really make them posing for you. Interesting gesture here, looks like luring or coquetting I would say. Cool frozen movement with the water drops suspended in the air. Interesting indeed, Cheers, NJ
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 5/5/2008
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Thanks Gianna,
I'm glad you like it.
Come back and visit any time!
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 5/5/2008
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Thanks Nick,
Yes, I suppose there are quite a few possibilities for slightly different versions of this one. This was one of those shots where I enjoyed the image so much when I first saw it, that I may have missed a few ways to improve it.
Anyway, just a fun shot . :)
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 5/5/2008
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Thanks Nicole,
I was lucky to get him in this position. He looks surprised :)
Andre
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gianna piano
{K:15530} 5/4/2008
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unusual, nice pose and "expression". I like it a lot.
g.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 5/4/2008
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That's really a special moment, Andre! Perhaps not the highest possible contrast on its face, but still quite an unusual, original moment.
I don't find the dark dots in the background so bad at all. But if one clones them, then the image goes even more in the direction of... a "latent" high key. I don't know how to describe that better.
And it also offers yet another possibility, which is hard to get, I assume, but which could convert it to an even more unusual view. Cloning its body off from the bottom left, would make it look like a mixture between natural and surreal.
Nonetheless, it is already a good one as it is now. Another one of those white on white - or grey on grey.
Cheers!
Nick
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Nicole Besch
{K:72664} 5/4/2008
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Wonderful as this swan is looking at you.I love the waterdroplets as well!Great presentation!!
Regards,Nicole
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 5/4/2008
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Thanks for the comment and visit Sam.
I'm glad you like it!
Andre
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Sam Andre
{K:12484} 5/4/2008
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She's just wondering... this picture proves that the question whether a woman should trust a man is a question of all times, all races and all species :)
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/26/2008
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Thanks Kes,
I've heard these guys can actually be dangerous, if you antagonize them too much. Those necks are very strong.
Andre
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Nelson Moore [Kes] -
{K:20241} 4/25/2008
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Hi Andre, a fine action shot! However, I believe this is a Flexineck Swan....
:)
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/22/2008
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Thank you Qasem,
I'm glad you like it.
Come back and visit my portfolio anytime.
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/22/2008
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Thanks Bill,
I think those settings are working out fine for me.
I might have still been a little soft on this one, but I couldn't resist posting it because of the pose, and the water drops.
There are some Night Herons in the area for a little while, so I might try and sneak up on some of them later this afternoon.
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/22/2008
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Thanks Alicia.
I appreciate the nice comments.
Andre
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Qasem Shukran
{K:1508} 4/22/2008
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Great shot very well done congrats
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bill smith
{K:5416} 4/21/2008
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Well I think it turned out great Andre, If the shutter would have been slower you might have missed those drops of water that gives this image a hint of action. Well done!!
Bill
PS< I tilted my head too :-)
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Alicia Popp
{K:87532} 4/21/2008
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Qué simpático retrato!!!
Las gotas de agua... espectaculares!
Felicitaciones!!!
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/20/2008
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Thanks Aziz,
I'm glad you like it!
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/20/2008
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Thanks Parehan,
A very nice way to describe it! Thank you.
Andre
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aZiZ aBc
{K:28345} 4/20/2008
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very nice shot ...
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parehan .K
{K:27453} 4/20/2008
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The perspective is an irresistible invitation!! Awesome photo..
Loads of affection, parehan
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/20/2008
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Thanks Dave,
Personally, I wasn't overly concerned about the marks either. I think there are a couple of things I might have improved on this one, but I thought the humour of the image made up for any slight faults.
Andre
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 4/20/2008
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Nice detail there, Andre, especially the water droplets! I didn't find the black marks too distracting, either.
Dave.
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 4/20/2008
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Thanks Ram,
Yeah, hard to resist isn't it! :)
Andre
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Ram Raju
{K:970} 4/20/2008
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Very nice capture! Like you said I did tilt my head damn! :)
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