D600\D610 vs D800
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Get C++ compiler and use it to create image processing software for your own use. I do it for processing large mosaics of satellite images. As a family my sons and I have been assembling computer for ages, and last one is a dual xeon (4 core) system with umpteen HDD and three monitors (now over 4 years old)
Based on what you are shooting, the D800 seems a given. Consider that if you do not need to bump up the ISO (ie: shooting wider aperture or use a tripod) then the D800 is able to grab detail from dark areas as well as render color in dark like no other DSLR on the planet.
Can check my threads below for examples in low light:
http://nikonites.com/low-light-nigh...-under-zakim-bridge-boston.html#axzz2kLy2SU2K
The train tracks shot was done with a 4 second exposure.
http://nikonites.com/low-light-night/13643-boston-skyline-low-light.html#axzz2kLy2SU2K
And with models against skyline at night (models lit with flash).
http://nikonites.com/portrait/16760-evening-model-photo-shoot-charles-river.html#axzz2kLy2SU2K
The first two threads were tripod shots the last one was all hand-held. For all these shots I was between 400-800 ISO. Even if I went to 1600, the images would still be superbly sharp. And this website does nothing to show the original resolution. You sound like a perfect candidate for a D800E.
Can check my threads below for examples in low light:
http://nikonites.com/low-light-nigh...-under-zakim-bridge-boston.html#axzz2kLy2SU2K
The train tracks shot was done with a 4 second exposure.
http://nikonites.com/low-light-night/13643-boston-skyline-low-light.html#axzz2kLy2SU2K
And with models against skyline at night (models lit with flash).
http://nikonites.com/portrait/16760-evening-model-photo-shoot-charles-river.html#axzz2kLy2SU2K
The first two threads were tripod shots the last one was all hand-held. For all these shots I was between 400-800 ISO. Even if I went to 1600, the images would still be superbly sharp. And this website does nothing to show the original resolution. You sound like a perfect candidate for a D800E.
I've been using assembly language for most of my personal programming. Used C and C++ and assembly during my stint as a computer programmer in firmware and app development.
I have been playing around with 216 mexapixel files, and don't need to write anything special to handle them. I'm tired of programming anyway. My focus is on photography now.
I used to be a huge audiophile too. I used to play electric and acoustic guitar, bass, and keyboards. I was a huge fan of Stephen Stills who did the same. On two separate occasions I set up two small recording studios. I was a perfectionist in that arena too, and it cost me dearly! But I couldn't afford an automated recording console, so I designed and built my own, using my experience as a computer\electrical engineer.
I told you guys I was an odd duck!
I have been playing around with 216 mexapixel files, and don't need to write anything special to handle them. I'm tired of programming anyway. My focus is on photography now.
I used to be a huge audiophile too. I used to play electric and acoustic guitar, bass, and keyboards. I was a huge fan of Stephen Stills who did the same. On two separate occasions I set up two small recording studios. I was a perfectionist in that arena too, and it cost me dearly! But I couldn't afford an automated recording console, so I designed and built my own, using my experience as a computer\electrical engineer.
I told you guys I was an odd duck!
Um, what? Why? If one fails then you're screwed. I would go get a 2TB drive and just copy it over...
BackdoorArts
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In a RAID setup across 6 discs you should be fine if one goes, and there's less to recover on a per-failure basis.
The Zeiss 55 mm 1.4 distagon Otus is, from what I've read and heard, a superb lens. And will certainly consider it to replace the Voigtlander in the future.
John, I use the RAID 0 for speed only, obviously, and not for redundancy. And if the RAID fails, I maintain backups. I don't do mission critical work, though my former wedding clients would totally disagree with that!
John, I use the RAID 0 for speed only, obviously, and not for redundancy. And if the RAID fails, I maintain backups. I don't do mission critical work, though my former wedding clients would totally disagree with that!
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Not with RAID 0 you aren't. That is basically a stripe set. Lose a drive and you are screwed. If you have 6 drives set them up as a RAID 5.
True! In a RAID 0 setup, if one drive goes, the whole RAID fails. Why? Because the data is not written to one place. It is distributed over several drives. You can retrieve much of your data. I know. I've done it. And I have written software to do just that. But it isn't fun.
If you guys think my idea of creating high definition photos is crazy, my perfectionism is really exposed with the idea that along with shooting up to 30 frames of combined rows and columns to create a single photograph, I will be doing exposure blending via bracketing, and focus blending for each frame. Insane!!!!!!! Well, not all frames will be focus blended, just those areas that show foreground details.
The number of frames per resulting photo could reach well over 100! Though, this is trivial compared to what I've seen others do. Max Lyons has done some far larger. It was his work that inspired me to pursue this.
And I'm NOT going to attempt to break the world's largest photograph record, that's for sure! Currently, it is the 320 gigapixel photograph of London. If printed at normal resolution, it would be 98 x 24 meters! Larger than Buckingham Palace! It took 3 days to shoot, using four Canon (Boo!) EOS 7D cameras with 400mm lenses, mounted on Rodeon automated pano heads at a rate of four frames per second. It took months to put the resulting photos together. Wow! It's fun looking for stitching errors in it, and there are quite a few!
Of course it was all a Canon publicity stunt.
The number of frames per resulting photo could reach well over 100! Though, this is trivial compared to what I've seen others do. Max Lyons has done some far larger. It was his work that inspired me to pursue this.
And I'm NOT going to attempt to break the world's largest photograph record, that's for sure! Currently, it is the 320 gigapixel photograph of London. If printed at normal resolution, it would be 98 x 24 meters! Larger than Buckingham Palace! It took 3 days to shoot, using four Canon (Boo!) EOS 7D cameras with 400mm lenses, mounted on Rodeon automated pano heads at a rate of four frames per second. It took months to put the resulting photos together. Wow! It's fun looking for stitching errors in it, and there are quite a few!
Of course it was all a Canon publicity stunt.
I would not use RAID0 except for working storage, as I have seen plenty of critical data lost. Yes it gives you tremendous read/write speed but at the expense of loosing data just when you do not want it. What I have found is that RAID10 with a lot of disks solves most of the speed and data corruption problems. Better still use each arm of the array with dedicated ECC (12 drives) and you are set up for extreme high speed and redundancy.