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i've been shooting with the f828 since december of 2003. i love it. i also have a canon dslr, i shoot with both cameras.
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Well, Im in no position to post pics right now, as Im still in Italy, and things are a tad behind here... If I get the opportunity, though, I shalt certainly leap, whilst looking sufficiently! Beware fat file sizes, though; 8 megapixels of tasty (digital)zoominess, even in regular JPEG! I wanna learn how to use the RAW mode, though, as I still dont quite understand what RAW is, what it does, or what the consequences are of using said mode... I know theyre better, though! A lot better (so Im told)!
Well, thanks for the congrats and offers for info, guys! Ill be getting back to you guys on (insert topic here) in the near future! Right now, though, Im gonna go get me a pizza! In L"Acquila! (Damn Italian keyboards!)
Ciao For now!
Which means, and this is the beauty of it, that you can use special software to change the white balance, the exposure level (by about two stops, I believe), the contrast, the color saturation while it's still an uncompressed file.
The idea is that shooting in RAW lets you fix mistakes made while you were shooting. There are downsides, however. RAW files are much bigger, because they're uncompressed TIFF files, and so use up a lot of memory. Your cards won't hold as many shots. And also, RAW forces you to tinker with special software before you can use the shot and compress it to a jpeg.
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info and findings courtesy of shay stephens. i concur fully with them, btw.
My testing has shown that f/4 continues to be the sweet spot for ultrafine details such as may be encountered in landscapes. If you are not shooting for ultrafine details, then all the apertures are pleasing and don't suffer from large differences. I feel very comfortable using any of the apertures of the 828.
The differences I see are really only evident in 100% to 200% magnification or greater. At wide apertures (f/2.8) of course there is more aberrations (PF for example and slightly less fine detail, though better than at f/8) at f/8 the contrast tends to be a tad less and diffraction effects begin to show resulting in less fine detail. The fine detail loss is the greatest at f/8, but not to the point where the typical viewer would notice. Only in comparing between the same shot done at f/4 and f/8 would the difference been seen. Of course at f/8 the PF is less evident. So some may have to pick their poison as to which aperture to use ;-)
If you are going to print at 8x10 or smaller, I really don't think the aperture will make any difference in the print. If you plan on printing larger than that and want the finest detail possible, then f/4 will give you the most bang for the buck.
But even a 16x20 shot at f/2.8 looks amazingly sharp.
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When will be posting fishy piccies? And where for art thou en Italia?
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Blast! Seamaiden! Youve smoked out my ruse! I confess... I have stolen another's trademark! I am a boring ninny and un-original as it may be! I cant find a good avater these days! Where does one find cool animated avatars and stuff?! I guess its gonna be another Inu one if you want me to change it... *Sheepishness*
Ill change it if you want, but I dont know what an Italian KB is... Im back here in Cali, now; arrived at 12AM last night (realizes the incongruency of terms used. shut up. tired. sleep. *drools*...). I traveled around a bit with my whole family.... My mom is a third generation Italian, Brazilian by birth by Brazilian parents, Italian Grandparents... Shes never been to Italy, and has been dying to go... I graduated from highschool on the 1st, was on a plane within the next 12 hours for Calgary, Canada, for a 5 hour lay-over. Yeah. Thats how bad she wanted to go... So we went and tried to sniff out some relatives and distant connections. We found a fairly distant cousin in a tiny village in the mountains of the Molise area, called Acquaviva Collecroce. Near Termoli and Campobasso. From there, it was a place called L'acquila ("the eagle, or something...), where supposedly my grandmother's parents came from (more like the surrounding region). Thats was a bit of a wild-goose-chase, until we were tooling around a city called Montereal, WAY up in the mountains (L'acquila is pretty freaking high up; on the shoulders of the Grand Sasso!), when on our way out we spied a WWI monument that had my mother's family name on it (Persechillo or something like that). We'd always wondered how two Italian families could possibly know each other enough to setup an arranged marriage in Brazil (my mom's parent's wedding was forced), and where the connection had been... It seemed like we'd stumbled onto something there... Anyway, thats another trip... After all that, it was on to Firenze (Florence). We stayed in an "agro-tourism" place; essentially an apartment on a farm outside of town. What was most interesting was that we stayed incredibly close to where Machiavelli was banished from florence to! We ate dinner in a restaurant that used to be an adjacent building (essentially the same structure) to the house he stayed in! Crazy! I got photos of the view of Florence that Machiavelli stared at for years! I even bought some Machiavelli Chianti (the restaurant had a winery somehwere else where they made the stuff using the local vinters). I drank it in the restaurant, and decided it was worth bringing back...
Well, that was the trip in a nutshell (like a freaking giant nut!); Ill post pics to illustrate in another thread. Or maybe I should do it in this one to maintain the relevance and info...?
Guess I broke what I said in the beginning of this post over my knee! *sigh*...
That part is right as is the bit about files being larger.
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DG, Italy sounds like a blast. My mother's grandmother was Italian.. I have no idea from where. The Sambolin surname, which I thought seemed odd for Spaniards, is actually an Italian surname. We seem to have the Sicilian blood on my father's side, but ending up in New Orleans ultimately corrupted our blood with all SORTS of stuff. I don't think Budo would have a problem with you nicking the av, he's taking a break from all things "net".
Now you're obliged to get us some piccies of fishies.
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My tank is just now recovering from wild ups and downs that I find hard to explain, as Ive made several changes to the setup over the past few weeks... My green hair algae, which I had come to see as an enchanted, never-ending forest of nastyness (actually, I kinda lent a different look to the rocks, and I cant say that my hermits didnt enjoy hiding it it!), has almost up and vanished over about a weeks time! I really cant explain it... Things are looking a bit scragely right now, and I still hace some remedial work to do on the tank after the trip, but overall, everybody's looking happy--except my rBTA! Its starting to loose some of its colors! AARRGGHH!!! And the stupid clown is sort of [email="half-@ssed"]half-@ssed[/email] hosting in my Torch! I say [email="half-@ssed"]half-@ssed[/email] because she only really puts her tail into it, and does a bit of a swish....
Well, I think Ill go work my tank now then!
Tchau for now
Clean your glass! Nice blue mushies, too.
Actually, now that I look more closely at the shot of the sixline, it's actually your Trachphyllia that appears to be at best focus, shallow depth of field thing going on there, yeah?
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Hey, you know how hard it was just to get the glass that clean?!?! I have this sort of brown coralline which I suspect really isnt a true coralline, as I can remove it with my fingernails and it feels kinda soft thereafter... When I got back from Italy, I could not see anything in my tank!!!
Actually, in person those shrooms are actually more green than blue!
I still call my brain a Wellsophylia! Neener!
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Ive always wished I knew what the 20/20 designation ment... For some reason or another, Ive just never know what that means!
Also, and I know it seems weird after mention of eyesight values, but whats with the boldwhen you write other people's names?! I asked you in another thread, but I dont believe you got it...
Any ideas?
TIA... (I hope)
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