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Nikon D700 Field Test

Published August 2nd, 2008 in photography | 3 Comments »

Each year we make a 350-mile journey from our home in Grand Rapids to attend EAA’s AirVenture - more commonly called the Oshkosh Air Show. This year is much the same in the past - we awaken at 4AM for the five hour car ride. The big difference this year is that I’m lugging a new Nikon D700 with me.

I’ve had the camera for only three days. To tell you the truth I’m not very familiar with its features and controls. Furthermore, as a long-tme user of Canon cameras, I’m not very familiar with the Nikon system. I promised myself that I wouldn’t read the manuals; I would learn the features the hard way so that they would stick in my head easier afterwards. I’ve already decided that I’m going to put the D700 through its paces even if I have to fumble around with its buttons, dials and menus.
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Shooting with the Nikon D700

Published July 28th, 2008 in photography | No Comments »

Last Friday, my daughter Andrea drives in from Chicago. She has organized a barbarque for our extended family in the backyard for Saturday. As usual, the fare is hamburgers, steaks, bratwurst, salmon and a variety of salads. And also as usual, as the 1:30 PM start time arrives, my daughter is nowhere to be found, leaving me to make all of the preparations for the 25 or so guests.
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Good photos come cheap

Published June 30th, 2008 in photography | No Comments »

I’ve been interested in photography since I was a very young kid; so much so that I wanted to study photography at college. However, I somehow became distracted and ended up studying something completely different. Yet for these past 50 years, I’ve kept photography as one of my top interests.

I’ve been involved with computers for my entire professional life. In the early 70’s there was no such thing as a personal computer. When PCs started to appear about 1976, I yearned for a way to marry the computer with photography. But the movement to digital imagery was slower than even molasses. Of course we know that this has all changed in the past ten years or so and now digital is the standard having all but replaced conventional film photography.
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