I’d like to be able to put a photo in my Nikon D90 that I shot with it in the past (five minutes ago or six months ago) and have it extract camera settings from that photograph. For example, picture settings, flash +-, exposure compensation, ISO, etc.
Nikon D700 Hands-on
This past Saturday, I spent about an hour and a half with a borrowed D700. Gaby’s mom swapped with me for my D90 at Diego’s seventh birthday party.
I shot it with my 50mm f/1.4 AF-S G and she kept her 28-105 AF thing.
After twenty minutes, my neck hurt. Okay, there’s a strap for that.
Why is this thing so darned big? To make it a good fit with larger lenses, I expect. I’d love a full-frame DSLR the size of an F100, but Nikon doesn’t make one for some reason.
I basically hated it. Until I got it dialed in, then it was time to go. So who knows.
The photo preview took forever to display after pushing {Play}. Weird. I think it was her Kingston 133X card just sucking, or perhaps it needed to be formatted. Dunno. Same thing most times I pushed {Menu}. Occasionally the menu would appear instantly.
Finally found Auto ISO, pretty much too late.
A few comments for my future self:
- No rush now. But I still want something FX.
- Maybe FX isn’t a silver bullet.
- I need to sit down and A/B this with my D90 to really see how much better it is.
- The 50mm had a much better field of view — it wasn’t as restrictive as it is on my D90 — I only had to step back to take a group shot, not for any other shots. I usually have a lot of attention on my position when shooting 50mm on my D90. Though I don’t know if I’ve ever shot a birthday part with my 50mm.
I’ll probably get a D800 or a D800E. For the phenomenal detail.
Fuji X100 Second Go: What I’m Looking Forward To
I’ll probably buy my second Fuji X100 in mid-June 2012, about a month from now. Here’s what I’m looking forward to:
- Perfect fill flash, in pretty much any setting
- Nearly silent shutter
- Flash photos that are not overexposed.
- Never having to (for what I do) meddle with exposure compensation to get a good result.
- Being able to leave it in my bag without worrying about it or without it adding a lot of size and weight.
And when Fuji comes out with a full-frame (or even still APS-C) follow-up that has the following things fixed, I’ll buy the crap out of it:
- Automatic macro kick-in
- A two-stop ND filter instead of the 3-stop of the X100
- No weird restrictions like maximum flash sync only in certain arbitrary circumstances
- Manual focus that works
- A third function button
- An ISO dial, with “Auto” on it as a choice