Heirs can deal with them.
Yes, we all have our price...
If you think about it, going into a relationship is like getting a car. You can either rent (date / club), lease (longer term relationship), or purchase (marriage).
Some people get tired of renting and like the convenience of always having a car around so you can just get in and start driving when you need it, so they lease. But there is a time limit with a lease -- you either need to buy at the end of the term, or you need to return it... you can't just extend the lease indefinitely. As well, when you want to return it at the end of the lease, you may find that it's not quite so easy. You can get blamed for all kinds of damages and might have to pay various charges or risk a lawsuit.
To avoid the hassle of leasing and returning every few years, some people feel purchasing for the long haul is the solution. Some figure although it's a massive up-front cost, you save in the long-run. Problem is, as the years pass, the value depreciates. In fact, they say you take the biggest hit as soon as you drive off the lot.
In an effort to maintain the value, some will put a lot of effort into pampering their baby, buying lavish accessories, treating it to a deluxe service, etc. But after the initial 3-year no charge maintence , you find that it constantly needs new parts and accessories. The cost of maintenance and upkeep seems to keep going up, and yet it doesn't perform quite the way it used to when it was new. Breakdowns become more frequent, and you're starting to think about a new model.
Now you realize that getting rid of your old car is not quite so easy either. After doing some research, you find that you will take a huge loss to sell the car, and you wonder whether you're better off keeping it until it dies
The batteries keep going dead. :grr:
On the pano head? Isn't there an external power connector on that thing?
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/filters.htmYou still need grad neutral density and polarizers, same as with film explained in paragraphs below. These effects cannot be duplicated electronically. nik multimedia's color efx pro is the best way to simulate these looks if you forgot to use the filter when you made the shot....
Also many polarizing filters, even the most exotic and expensive B+Ws, often alter the color balance towards cooler blue, and thus the warming ones often wind up being neutral. I always hand-pick my polarizers for neutrality. I found the cheap off-the-rack linear Tiffens here and the very expensive Nikons here are the best. I found the B+Ws not good. Also the Hoya circular polarizer I have is quite good.
I gave it a real quick & dirty in about 30 seconds with Gimp which is all that's installed on my work PC. Sorry if that's not up to your standards. :wink:Hmm, I just might be skillier than SD, supposed he did a quickNdirty on the image, while I went and fired up Photoshop and tweaked it with 'curves' as well as desaturating.
You don't want to do it in GIMP on the file you uploaded to Picasa. You want to process the raw .NEF file to recover some of the highlights first. You want to adjust the exposure by about -1EV and then use that file in GIMP. I've never used ViewNX, so I'm not sure exactly how you would go about doing that (but it can adjust exposure).Uda's looks pretty good. Do you know how I'd do that in the gimp?
I think that was with my 18-55mm lens which has no filter on it.
www.lensrentals.com is the best rental choice IMO. Roger is a good guy.
www.lensrentals.com is the best rental choice IMO. Roger is a good guy.
A little known fact: this big huge lens gathers so much light you can set ants on fire with it. By moonlight.
They have an GigaPan Epic Pro available...so tempting.
Lunar, what is the longest lens you have shot with on yours?
Roger’s take: Be warned: This lens is hugely addictive. Strong photographers have wept standing in line at the post office to return it. Please don’t let your tears fall on the return label’s bar code – it slows down return shipping when the scanner can’t read it.
Hmmm...I might just want to try an 800mm lens since I'll never be able to afford one in real life! I also love the comments and reviews. The one for the 85mm F/1.2 L prime is also funny:
The 800 f5.6 is also the photography equivalent of a D cup: Not a necessity, but wherever you go with it, you’ll make lots of new friends.
^$430/week...maybe a hour with a 'g/f experience' would be better, lol can't afford of one them in real life either.
Already have the g/f for the experience and don't need to waste money on a fake one. $400 is relatively cheap to borrow a exclusive $10,000+ item for a week. I would only do the 4 day and save a couple hundred. I would likely need a decent tripod to support it.
Apparently the chief of *sales* @Nokia has gained access to Steve Jobs' reality distortion field supply of Xtra potent Kool-Aid :bstd: Either that or the translation done by Bablefish failedHELSINKI, April 20 (Reuters) - Fast developing cameraphone technology will shortly make SLR system cameras and even professional cameras obsolete, the sales chief of the world's top cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) said on Tuesday.
"They will in the very near future revolutionise the market for system cameras," Anssi Vanjoki said in a speech in Helsinki.
"There will be no need to carry around those heavy lenses," Vanjoki said, pointing to a professional photographer taking pictures of him.
The proliferation of smartphones with picture quality comparable to most pocket cameras has boosted photography around the world, but they have so far not challenged real system cameras due to phones' smaller size and weaker technology.
Vanjoki said high-definition (HD) quality video recording was also coming to cellphones within the next 12 months.
"It will not take long, less than a year, when phones can record HD quality video and you can transfer it directly to your HD television set," Vanjoki said.