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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2015 00:17 |
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Robert
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Hi Ed, good to hear from you! You have prompted me to think Eye-Fi... They use SD type cards, I have never really considered Eye-Fi because I don't trust the principle and I tend to use multiple 4Gb CF cards. I do have a massive 16Gb SD card in my D3100 but never fill it, ever. I usually offload after each days session of a few snaps. a 1Gb or 2Gb card would do equally well! But, with a D300S I could have a 4 Gb card in the CF slot and an Eye Fi card in the SD slot. Save the same data to both and then I have belt and braces (suspenders?) I can export selected images to my Mac Book Pro or iPad by wi-fi if I wish and when I get home I have the option to have the images transfer to my desktop Mac as I take them, I think... I have just been browsing the Eye-Fi website and I am rather confused, they seem to be pushing Cloud storage now. Not sure if the original function of wi-fi transfer still works without sending it to "all my devices". I really don't want "all my devices" swamped with hundreds of near identical NEF files which I then have to delete, as happens when I take photographs with my iPhone. Happy to share but on MY terms please!
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2015 08:52 |
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Ed Hutchinson
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Hi Robert It is always good to hear from you. Since I lost all my old photos, I now keep the ones I do now on both my iPad and the iMac, they do not go to my iPhone or the wife's iPad mini. I don't remember what I did but I think you can shut off the sharing in settings As a winter time project I plan to rescan all the old stuff I have on slides again It is a long process but what the heck I am retired I don't have anything to do anyway (RIGHT) I have not been out with the camera much this year, seems like there is always something that is more important to someone. I really missed being here it will be fun to catch up, and see how everyone is doing. I need to go get my breakfast it is 645 am and my stomach thinks my throat has been severed or removed completely LOL How is your auto project coming along? Speaking of auto I am in total lust for the F type Jag what an awesome car It so good to see a Jag that does not look like a re badged Aston Martin. Take care and be well Robert Ed 
____________________ R.O.C.E.D. retired old cranky extremely dangerous! |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2015 17:54 |
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Robert
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Thanks for the kind words Ed. At least you still have the original slides to fall back on. I scanned my old photo's and some of my slides with my D1, things have moved on since then. I need to do them again with my newer higher resolution cameras. I have an old enlarger which I have adapted to a copy stand with powerful LED lamps which give a balanced light but stay cool, which the old power hungry Halogen lamps didn't, in fact at times I had to stop and let things cool down a bit. I haven't been doing as much pure photography either, although I have been keeping a good photo record of my car build and since it was finished and on the road in June I have been taking it on local runs and exploring the lanes around here. Great fun because we have some quite steep hills nearby and I can let her rip up them. The car has a 3.5 Litre (about 213 cubic inch) it's the ex Buick aluminium engine and it's pretty powerful for this country with bags of pulling power.  I have made all the bare aluminium panels myself, and the stainless steel radiator grill too, made that from stainless steel welding rods, took two days just to polish the rods! I had been quoted over £200 just for the mesh to make it from. The welding rods cost me £20, a good saving. I plan to replace the grotty fibreglass front wings with rolled aluminium ones when I get time. Something like this, which is an original 1930 Alfa Romeo. 
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| Posted: Fri Dec 4th, 2015 06:46 |
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Ed Hutchinson
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WOW It really looks good and even better with the alfa fenders, it looks light so she must be quick and many smiles per mile. I know about that Buick V8 they were popular for installation in any small car. I had a friend with one in a Datsun 2000 wicked good fun car even saw one in the back of a VW beetle, and one mid engine in a 54 VW transporter van Oh for the crazy days of youth! NOT My car building days ended when I discovered motorcycles  Now I am into modifying air guns (read to make more powerful and accurate) good fun and cheap to shoot, the tuna and cat food can population is getting much smaller LOL I just ran out of coffee so need to refill bye for now Ed
____________________ R.O.C.E.D. retired old cranky extremely dangerous! |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 6th, 2015 22:00 |
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amazing50
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Dug out an old 512k microdrive and it still works. Must be about 15 years old.
____________________ There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept ;~) Mike Grace |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 7th, 2015 08:16 |
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Iain
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I've still got one of those somewhere. you won't get many pic on one of them now.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 9th, 2015 15:56 |
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Robert
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Never had a micro drive card, struck me as way too fragile for my sledgehammer techniques!  I am now in possession of a very clean D300s, albeit a high milage example. Swapped for some of my old (obsolete) gear. As mentioned in my other thread on Geminid meteors: http://nikondslr.uk/view_post.php?post_id=12769 I used the D300s for the first time last night. It was a pretty testing outing, I took 585 exposures of the night sky. I tried 3,200 ISO but felt the images provided by 1,600 ISO were cleaner so given that still left me with an exposure of 4 seconds @ f3.2 I was happy to use it. My greatest delight was the huge difference in battery life, my D200, taking similar images was only managing 40 images per battery last night, whereas the D300s took nearly 600 images and the battery indicator is showing more than half the capacity remaining of the only battery I used in the D300s. I am sure it would have gone on to take at least 1,000 images on that one battery. I did have my Nikon ML-3 remote receiver plugged into the ten pin socket, but it was turned off, so it shouldn't have affected the battery life, or did it? I took a lot of time lapse JPEGS recently in daylight with the D200 and I did notice the batteries were draining quite quickly, even in daylight. I haven't really compared the D200 images with the D300s images yet but from a taking point of view they bear no comparison. The D300s just got on with it. The D200 took a lot more management to make sure the exposure was acceptable and the frequent replacement of batteries I was intrigued to see how it handled the switch from the CF card to the SD card. As the exposure counter counted down on the CF card to 0, I watched the counter, as the last image was saved to the CF card, the counter then indicated how many NEF images could be saved to the SD card and it proceeded to save the next image to the SD card, which I had set as overflow. Neat!
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| Posted: Thu Dec 10th, 2015 04:14 |
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Eric
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Robert wrote:Never had a micro drive card, struck me as way too fragile for my sledgehammer techniques! I was in no doubt you would 'feel the wow' in the step change between the 2 series and 3 series bodies. Enjoy! 
____________________ Eric |
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