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I suppose that is a good strategy from a marketing standpoint. Seems like everybody and their brother are buying DSLR's lately. Keeping things simple sells cameras.

liza wrote in post #2436599
I suppose that is a good strategy from a marketing standpoint. Seems like everybody and their brother are buying DSLR's lately. Keeping things simple sells cameras.

This is both good and bad, good in the respect that less people are surprised when I turn up with a SLR, though the Big White (the one with the red ring) still tends to scare the tourists If one wants to look invisible I find that one turns up with a P&S (it really works!)

The bad is that it devalues the craft because they think they can do everything in green box mode without an appreciation of what it takes.

The only thing that I get a kick out of...is the people that don't know anything about image editing....and think that you have to shoot in RAW to take decent pictures or to have any control over the editing process. You can manipulate a jpg as far as you can a raw image...if you know how to do it...most any serious editing work is done in tiff format anyway. It doesn't care what you start from.

I'm lazy. I shoot in RAW. It's just easier that way.

hi all.. popping in before I head to bed.. how's everybody's night?

liza wrote in post #2436617
I'm lazy. I shoot in RAW. It's just easier that way.

me too. it's a few extra steps but gives you a lot more room...

Fringe benefit of using a 1 series camera....you can shoot uncompressed jpg.

liza wrote in post #2436617
I'm lazy. I shoot in RAW. It's just easier that way.

even when you are shooting sports?

How many do you normally take during one game?

Woolburr wrote in post #2436639
Fringe benefit of using a 1 series camera....you can shoot uncompressed jpg.

now you tell me... .. someday dear friend. Someday I too will have all the best toys.. .. but for now I compensate...

sari

Another reason why I and my guys started calling the green box "Tourist mode".

Folks like me will pack a tripod to go on low light fireworks shoots, much to the amazement of the tourists. So happens I'm quite a dedicated fireworks chaser with reasonable results to show for it (sadly work took me away from home during Fireworks Season).

As the fireworks go off, they are echoed by the nonstop flash blasting of all the tourists in the hotel towers in the area (which offer the best views)...

I know for a fact that the auto modes on P&S and even SLRs usually set 1/60, flash, widest aperture or f/4.0. GOOD LUCK getting anything....

One evening, just for kicks, I set my 350D to green box mode in those conditions and took the shot just to see what the tourists would see. The end image was UTTERLY unuseable. I pushed the living daylights out of it in JPEG (You'll never get a RAW out of tourist mode), you could see one or two buildings and the grain looked like the picture had been placed on the road and run over several dozen times.

saravrose wrote in post #2436645
now you tell me... .. someday dear friend. Someday I too will have all the best toys.. .. but for now I compensate...

sari

Consider picking up a 1D classic... they are very nice.

saravrose wrote in post #2436645
now you tell me... .. someday dear friend. Someday I too will have all the best toys.. .. but for now I compensate...

sari

Sorry...didn't mean to rain on the parade....hehehe...I was surprised by the number of shooters using 1 series bodies that didn't know you could adjust the compression level. It is a very handy little feature.

Fireworks are great fun to shoot.

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I need to filch a tripod. Fireworks coming up this NYE.. it's a given.. my current computer wallpaper is a nice shot of last year's NYE fireworks. 350D and 10-22.

The ole Slik Sprint Pro I have here ain't so sturdy when you stick 5D's and heavier on it. It is AWESOME for a 350D though.

And, damn it, I left my remote release behind too.

Outstation postings suck especially when you cannot carry ALL your gear with you....

Woolburr wrote in post #2436696
Sorry...didn't mean to rain on the parade....hehehe...I was surprised by the number of shooters using 1 series bodies that didn't know you could adjust the compression level. It is a very handy little feature.

Hmm. I haven't noticed that part. But then again I just shoot raw so its not important to me anyway