Good article about resolution and megapixels

[mulester7]

Ronnie, monopods are a good alternative to the tripod. I have a Gitzo but you still have to be careful with side to side and to and fro motion since you lack the solid support of the the other two legs. I can't remember the last time I even used the monopod. It is more convenient to carry around but for what I shoot, three legs work better for me than one.

.....I understand what you are saying and agree on three legs, Jess, but you can't very well set up a tripod walking sidelines and in the bleachers ....hey, you helped me out lately by what you told me about two years ago in a PM.....

.....the pop-up flash on the Nikon D200 wasn't syncing with the body, and you said it was probably set to rear curtain in the menu....I didn't really care enough to dig in the book at that time to gain a pop-up, so here we went with a tripod at night....well, I gave the D200 to my daughter along with a new hotshoe flash awhile ago, and was not happy with her first shots, nor was she.....

.....I used the thing and noticed the new flash in the hotshoe wasn't syncing just like the pop-up....I thought about what you said, and got in the booklet....set it to front curtain and the camera came to life with the hotshoe flash, and Andrea was tickled....now she thinks I know a lot about cameras, it is to laugh....those who don't listen to Jess are stewpid.....

 

[pioneervato]

.....I understand what you are saying and agree on three legs, Jess, but you can't very well set up a tripod walking sidelines and in the bleachers ....hey, you helped me out lately by what you told me about two years ago in a PM.....

.....the pop-up flash on the Nikon D200 wasn't syncing with the body, and you said it was probably set to rear curtain in the menu....I didn't care at the time if I had the pop-up or not, so here we went with a tripod at night....well, I gave the D200 to my daughter along with a new flash, and was not happy with her first shots, nor was she.....

.....I used the thing and noticed the new flash in the hotshoe wasn't syncing just like the pop-up....I thought about what you said, and got in the booklet....set it to front curtain and the camera came to life with the hotshoe flash, she was tickled....she now thinks I know a lot about cameras, it is to laugh....those who don't listen to Jess are stewpid.....

Glad you got that worked out, Ronnie. After almost two years I am still learning things about my D200. I was using a studio flash setup this past weekend and was having problem setting up the camera and get it to do what I wanted it to do with the studio flash. I spent about a half hour going through the camera's menu back and forth and finally found the settings I needed to make it work right for me. Frustrating but good to know where I need to go next time.

With film cameras the whole process with using studio flash is so much simpler. I even had to purchase a special voltage reducing hot shoe flash sync to prevent from frying my D200 due to the possibility of the power pack sending too much voltage to the camera when shorting the power pack. Did not want to take a chance on just connecting the sync cord from the power pack to the camera and risk ending up with an expensive paper weight.

 

[danj]

With film cameras the whole process with using studio flash is so much simpler. I even had to purchase a special voltage reducing hot shoe flash sync to prevent from frying my D200 due to the possibility of the power pack sending too much voltage to the camera when shorting the power pack. Did not want to take a chance on just connecting the sync cord from the power pack to the camera and risk ending up with an expensive paper weight.

That's only partly true. My 1986 Canon T90 and both my EOS film cameras require no more than 6V trigger voltage which means I have a whole box of flash gear that can't be used on them without a reducer. My AE1 and N65 and old Oly pen can use higher voltage - even the almost 300 volts of the original Vivitar 285. That would cook the innards of the aforementioned Canons and all digitals I know of.

 

[danj]

Well I've finally purchased a DSLR - a used one at that. It's a Canon EOS 10d, which has all of 6.5 megapixels on an APS-C sized CMOS sensor. Pics look very good and remarkably free of noise - and I have noise reduction turned down on it. I'm not about to get rid of the P&S, though. Each camera is better for certain things than the other AND I would never be able to get the rather large 10d in a pocket.

 

[mulester7]

Well I've finally purchased a DSLR - a used one at that. It's a Canon EOS 10d, which has all of 6.5 megapixels on an APS-C sized CMOS sensor. Pics look very good and remarkably free of noise - and I have noise reduction turned down on it. I'm not about to get rid of the P&S, though. Each camera is better for certain things than the other AND I would never be able to get the rather large 10d in a pocket.

.....are you saying the pictures you've been posting for awhile now were taken with a point and shoot?.....

 

[danj]

.....are you saying the pictures you've been posting for awhile now were taken with a point and shoot?.....

About 1/2 were. The rest were taken with either a Canon T90, AE1, or Pentax ME-Super then scanned into Photoshop. All of the color shots from France, Italy, and Portugal were taken with a Pentax Spotmatic F on slide film, which I scanned into Photoshop at 4000 dpi. The B&W shots from Europe were shot with the same camera, usually on Tri-X.

This EOS is my first DSLR.

 

[Robinhawaii]

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