Project 365 2013 - A Learning Journey/Moab Man

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Moab Man

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Day 154, 2013 - Grape Vine.

OUCH!!! I didn't get this picture posted yesterday due to a stupid injury. My calf went POP like a knee might. The pop and wonderful feeling that went with it was my calf muscle tearing from bottom to top. So, after riding the final eight miles after the injury I dutifully went out shot this photo and then went to bed. Today, I hurt worse than yesterday but I am getting use to it so here is yesterdays picture.

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Moab Man

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Day 155, 2013 - Fathers Day

Ow, ow, ow! I can't squat down with my torn calf to take the picture!

Father's Day has arrived early from my loving wife. Thank you MoabLady.

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However, my D5100 can rest assured it won't be getting relegated to the corner of my bag to sit since the D7100 has a small you know what. Dirty minded people I'm talking about the camera's buffer of one second. The D5100 is slower by a shot but will keep firing. What I do need to try is if the D7100 will have a proper buffer if I were to only shoot high quality jpeg when I need rapid fire pictures. Anyway, I'm excited to play with the new camera and thank you again MoabLady.
 
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RockyNH_RIP

RockyNH_RIP

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Moab Man said:
Day 155, 2013 - Fathers Day

Ow, ow, ow! I can't squat down with my torn calf to take the picture!

Father's Day has arrived early from my loving wife. Thank you MoabLady.


However, my D5100 can rest assured it won't be getting relegated to the corner of my bag to sit since the D7100 has a small you know what. Dirty minded people I'm talking about the camera's buffer of one second. The D5100 is slower by a shot but will keep firing. What I do need to try is if the D7100 will have a proper buffer if I were to only shoot high quality jpeg when I need rapid fire pictures. Anyway, I'm excited to play with the new camera and thank you again MoabLady.
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Congrats!!! My Fathers day arrived yesterday also... D7100 :) Enjoy ....

Pat in NH
 
AC016

AC016

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Moab Man said:
Day 155, 2013 - Fathers Day

Ow, ow, ow! I can't squat down with my torn calf to take the picture!

Father's Day has arrived early from my loving wife. Thank you MoabLady.

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However, my D5100 can rest assured it won't be getting relegated to the corner of my bag to sit since the D7100 has a small you know what. Dirty minded people I'm talking about the camera's buffer of one second. The D5100 is slower by a shot but will keep firing. What I do need to try is if the D7100 will have a proper buffer if I were to only shoot high quality jpeg when I need rapid fire pictures. Anyway, I'm excited to play with the new camera and thank you again MoabLady.
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No need to worry about the buffer if you are shooting in JPEG of any format. This is just a wild thought, but i am thinking that they handicaped the buffer of the 7100 somewhat, in order to make the D400 more attractive..... there, i said it again. In all honesty, when you look at the specs of the 7100, it is what the D400 was "supposed" to be. Aside from the buffer, how could Nikon improve on the specs of the 7100? How much better could a D400 be? Oh, i said it again:p Anyhow, just a thought.
 
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Moab Man

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AC016,

I agree. I think there will be a marginally improved sensor in some way as they are always getting better with each generation and a proper buffer. I shoot in raw, but I'm not a snob about jpeg and know if I want the speed I will have to roll over to jpeg. Just have to make sure I have it set up right from the start.

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Dave_W

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Or you can buy a very fast SD card and your buffer will not have a chance to fill up. I use a 95 mb/sec SD card when I need such speed and I've never filled the buffer with my D800 set at 14 bit RAW. IMO there is never any reason to shoot JPG....ever! lol!!!
 
RockyNH_RIP

RockyNH_RIP

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Dave, thanks for the tip... I will look into one of those... how fast does the 800 overflow its buffer if you used a standard class 10?

Thanks

Pat in NH
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
Moab Man said:
Day 157 - Brooding and Burnt

Saw this gentleman with a pretty good sunburn and looking like he's had a bad day.

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I see something I have not seen before in the EXIF data.
Camera Maker: NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model: NIKON D7100
Lens: 55.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6
Image Date: 2013-06-06 19:07:06 +0000
Focal Length: 280mm (35mm equivalent: 560mm)

Digital Zoom: 1.330x What is this?


Aperture: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 0.0080 s (1/125)
ISO equiv: 400
Exposure Bias: none
Metering Mode: Center Weight
Exposure: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Auto
Flash Fired: No (enforced)
Orientation: Normal
Color Space: sRGB
GPS Coordinate: undefined, undefined
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
 
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Moab Man

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Tracsoft - Don Kuykendall said:
Digital Zoom: 1.330x What is this?
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The D7100 has DX mode which is our standard cropped sensor. You can then switch it to 1.3 mode and what the camera does is crop it down further giving you an artificial zoom. It is not a "digital zoom" in the old sense of the word where digital zoom would blow up the pixels and ruin the picture. The DX mode is 24 megapixel picture and the 1.3 mode is ~16 megapixel. Didn't think I would like the 1.3 until I started shooting.
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
Moab Man said:
The D7100 has DX mode which is our standard cropped sensor. You can then switch it to 1.3 mode and what the camera does is crop it down further giving you an artificial zoom. It is not a "digital zoom" in the old sense of the word where digital zoom would blow up the pixels and ruin the picture. The DX mode is 24 megapixel picture and the 1.3 mode is ~16 megapixel. Didn't think I would like the 1.3 until I started shooting.
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Thanks, I did not know the D7100 had a crop mode. I thought only the FX cameras had that. Interesting. Gives you just a little extra reach when you need it.
 
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wthorson

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I really like that shot. The glimpse of the sun shining through the trees. You'll need to get another shot of this when the water is going. I am so jealous of you D7100!!!!
 
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Moab Man

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Day 158, 2013 - Exhausted

Saw this little guy last night. Family decided to ride across the grass and it was too much for the little guy and he decided to walk it across - but he never gave up.

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Day 159, 2013 - D5100 Comparison D7100 at 3:00 a.m.

Just for grins and not trying to prove or disprove anything I thought I would compare the two using the same lens and same settings. Only editing was lens correction in the raw editor. I then cropped to just highlight the slice shown. White balance for both was set to sunshine.

LOL, I copied and pasted the info to the second photo and forgot to change the camera. So the right picture is the D7100 or if you're on a narrow screen and the images are stacked it's the bottom image. Doh!

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Day 160, 2013 - Antelope Island

Went out to the Antelope Island State Park to do some picture taking. Please enjoy.

First up - birds!

These guys live in the old barn. NOT easy to catch in flight. They are so quick and dart around in flight.

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Seagulls

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Saw this hawk flying below me carrying dinner back. Not sure what this other ugly bird is, but he was interesting.

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Brine Flies - There are literally billions of these around the Great Salt Lake. They are in great part why the lake is a stopover for many migratory birds.

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