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Digital Photography segment on 2GB

Postby sheepie on Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:41 pm

Anyone in Sydney area that's interested, there's an 'OK' segment on at the moment on 2GB. They're pretty basic, but at least the guy's a Nikon lad, and does keep recommending our camera :)

Link here to live feed:
http://www.2gb.com/cgi-bin/501/501-listenlive.pl
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Radio promotion - sorry Gary!

Postby sheepie on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:01 pm

hehe - just sent the following to 2GB, and they read it on air - so we got a bit of promotion....

Hi - you frequently mention the D70 on the photography segment, and I believe you may even have one yourself. Can I suggest that anyone who has one of these fine cameras, or is contemplating one, have a really good look at the D70users forums on the Net. They are Sydney based, and it really is a wonderful community which gets together for meets as well as online.
http://www.d70users.com


Amazing thing was they read it within about 2 minutes of it being sent - they don't muck around!
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Postby phillipb on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:12 pm

Well done Sheepie, maybe our admins should change your title from member to ambassador. :)
Don't be surprised if we get another influx of members.
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Postby MooCowMedia on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:36 pm

Great Website...Happy to mention it at anytime.

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Postby sheepie on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:38 pm

Welcome Murray :)

Hope you enjoy your stay here - jump in with any comments you'd like to make on any thread, and make the most of all of us :)
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Postby MooCowMedia on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:41 pm

THANKS VERY MUCH.....

Hey any ideas on how i can lower or simulate a lower iso 200 setting...????
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Postby Glen on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:42 pm

Welcome Murray, thanks for the plug.

Well done Sheepie :wink:
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Postby sheepie on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:44 pm

MooCowMedia wrote:Hey any ideas on how i can lower or simulate a lower iso 200 setting...????


Could try using a Neutral Density filter, or maybe closing the curtains :wink:

Otherwise, only other option is to reduce the aperture, but that will affect Depth of Field.

Others may have other ideas - suggest you start a new thread in the Beginners questions area - will get a few responses there :)


Thanks for mentioning us on air by the way - was amazed at how quickly it came through! Have heard the segment a few times now, but haven't been at home at the time.
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Postby MooCowMedia on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:46 pm

Thanks so much....

Glad you mentioned it....the site is great!

Anytime just send me an email.
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Postby phillipb on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:49 pm

Hi Murrey,
If you need to simulate a lower ISO because your photo has too much noise, then there are programs such as Noise Ninja that can fix that.
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Postby sheepie on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:50 pm

By the way - aren't you still on air?

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Postby MooCowMedia on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:52 pm

Yes still on air......easy!

I want to lower the iso to take pics of water and give that foam appearance
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Postby gstark on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:55 pm

MooCowMedia wrote:Great Website...Happy to mention it at anytime.

Murray Wilton
Radio 2GB, SYDNEY.


Hey Murray,

Welcome, and enjoy.
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Postby sheepie on Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:58 pm

OK - if that's the case, you should be able to get away with higher aperture # (does that mean a higher aperture or lower? I'm not sure - it makes the hole smaller, but makes the aperture # higher.)

Otherwise, I've tried the ND filters with varying success.

Depending on the speed the water is going, you'll get away with a second or more :)

Used a Graduated ND filter on this one, F14 @ 2.5secs (200ISO)...

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Postby Nnnnsic on Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:02 pm

MooCowMedia wrote:Hey any ideas on how i can lower or simulate a lower iso 200 setting...????


My immediate suggestion would be to buy a D2x.

My second suggestion would be to perhaps try to pull the "film" the way you do with an analog camera... on these, what you do is shoot on raw and over expose. You will lose a bit of control, but you should be able to have a good play with it.
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Postby gstark on Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:14 pm

Murray,

Why would you be wanting a lower ISO?

What is the problem you're seeing that suggests a lower ISO as the solution?

While you can certainly fiddle with the EV compensation settings, I'd like to know what the eventual goal is, so that we can address the real, rather than a percieved, problem.
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Postby sheepie on Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:28 pm

Just to help others find this useful discussion, I have posted a topic in the Beginners section - suggest we move this there?

http://forum.d70users.com/viewtopic.php?t=4192

Mods - Feel free to pull me into line if I'm out of place doing this :)


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Postby Nnnnsic on Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:42 pm

Good call. We should move this discussion about a lower ISO rating to that thread. Cheers for that Sheepie.

However, any and all further 2GB welcoming and discussion is free to be ... umm.. discussed here. :)
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Postby Onyx on Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:29 am

Wow, this forum being recognised in the mainstream media. :D

Welcome Murray.

To fake ISO 100, shoot raw an image at ISO 200 1 stop overexposed (ie. with exp comp set to +1EV), then bring it back down in Nikon Capture or an equivalent raw converter. This brings your exposures back down to normal, and the shutter speed and aperture combination will have been 1 stop less than what they would have been at ISO200. This only works if your original captured image does not have no blown highlights (very unforgiving with any digital SLRs).
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Postby Nnnnsic on Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:28 am

That's called "pulling". :)
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Postby MooCowMedia on Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:44 pm

Cheers, thanks so much for all the suggestions, will give them all a go....
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Postby MHD on Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:54 pm

Well thats a first!
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