D7000 Discussion Thread II

[jackychua]

it is a long thread, doesn't help that there are people spamming repeated cries of outrage like a broken record.

could you help him answer, since you have been in the know?

i am aware that iso1600 for longer exposures is used for star/astrophotography, where you don't want star movement, so you try to limit the exposure timing.

as far as i know, this is not possible in singapore, because of light pollution, so i'm wondering if our dear member takes long treks in china or the himalayas to actually warrant the use of such obscure, rarely used settings.

I am not shooting star/astrophotography. but as you said movement and sensitivity , but in my case, movement of vehicles lights and coverage of lights over darker area.

 

[night86mare]

I am not shooting star/astrophotography. but as you said movement and sensitivity , but in my case, movement of vehicles lights and coverage of lights over darker area.

.... are you always so convoluted?

i give up, i think you would transform a simple sentence such as "i am eating bread" to

"this personage of mine is in the ardous, complex process to assimilate nutrition and energy required for daily processes via the movement of my jaw".

 

[art2d3d]

Can anyone please explain , how to check for hot pixel?
Thanks.

I'm a new owner of D7000 bought at iPhoto on 13 nov 2010.

Thanks again.

 

[jackychua]

within a timeframe - why?

gradient light effect, not sure what you're talking about.... but i'm sure f/22 is not needed.

could you just... use plain, simple english to describe what was in your frame?

i am not spamming. If you read futher up. you can see the desciption of the exmaple scene that I am taking.

f/22 is needed to prevent over burst of vehicle headlights, but still, creating star effect from a street lampose.

gosh. I feel like I am attemping an exam?!

 

[night86mare]

i am not spamming. If you read futher up. you can see the desciption of the exmaple scene that I am taking.

f/22 is needed to prevent over burst of vehicle headlights, but still, creating star effect from a street lampose.

gosh. I feel like I am attemping an exam?!

so you want the star effect leading to f/22.

ok, 5 seconds is for? you don't want the vehicle to move? but the vehicle will move after 5 seconds?

you are shooting vehicles at a traffic junction?

 

[jackychua]

.... are you always so convoluted?

i give up, i think you would transform a simple sentence such as "i am eating bread" to

"this personage of mine is in the ardous, complex process to assimilate nutrition and energy required for daily processes via the movement of my jaw".

have a nice day.

it is great that you give up. I feel like I am attemping an exam from you.

 

[night86mare]

it is great that you give up. I feel like I am attemping an exam from you.

i'm sure your english teacher had a field day marking your essays.

 

[jackychua]

so you want the star effect leading to f/22.

ok, 5 seconds is for? you don't want the vehicle to move? but the vehicle will move after 5 seconds?

you are shooting vehicles at a traffic junction?

yes. a traffic junction. the vehicle might move when the traffic light turn green.
I dun want to capture the light trails from vehicles.

why dun you just read back my post?

 

[LBL2009]

Two of you better meet and have a shoot out at iso1600, f22, 5 secs at the scene of your choice and share the results with us.

We can learn or unlearn something from this exercise. :bsmilie::bsmilie::bsmilie:

 

[jackychua]

i'm sure your english teacher had a field day marking your essays.

they had their hard days teaching me english, because I am really so bad at all languages over the passed 20 yrs. I admit it.

 

[night86mare]

yes. a traffic junction. the vehicle might move when the traffic light turn green.
I dun want to capture the light trails from vehicles.

why dun you just read back my post?

because i tried to, and i went past like.... 20 or so posts of the same people making the same noise... like hello, we get it, you don't like the d7k, sucks to be you, fyl.

do you know that f/11 onwards will have rather pronounced starburst effect?

 

[night86mare]

Two of you better meet and have a shoot out at iso16000, f22, 5 secs at the scene of your choice and share the results with us.

We can learn or unlearn something from this exercise. :bsmilie::bsmilie::bsmilie:

i really can't think of any reason why i would want to do that... so i think i'll pass.

 

[jackychua]

because i tried to, and i went past like.... 20 or so posts of the same people making the same noise... like hello, we get it, you don't like the d7k, sucks to be you, fyl.

do you know that f/11 onwards will have rather pronounced starburst effect?

f/11 burst out too much from the car headlights. making the photo become purely starburst photo.

f22 is used when i plug in tokina uwa.
i used f32 when i plug in tamron or nikon lens.

starburst a little bit is nice. but if burst out too much. :thumbsd:

 

[Daoyin]

There are bits and pieces of this that escapes me. What I can summise is:

• He is trying to shoot a night scene at a traffic junction.
• He wants a star effect from the lamp post but is afraid of over exposing the light from the car lamp nor does he want light trails (so he tries to shorten the exposure time down to 5 secs estimating the cars will not have moved by then).
• He also wants the inevitable dark areas within the picture to have some details (so he jacks up the iso to 1600 in order to achieve this).

Why he does not use a larger aperture and where is he metering? Only he knows.

 

[Leong23]

within a timeframe - why?

gradient light effect, not sure what you're talking about.... but i'm sure f/22 is not needed.

could you just... use plain, simple english to describe what was in your frame?

Most people blame everything under the sky except themselves. Understanding on technical aspect and skill in photography seen to be history.

All my photo damn sucks because I need to compose myself, I still waiting Nikon to produce a camera that can float up in the air and compose for me. All I need is to press the shutter with a remote. Oh ya, the floating camera and VR in the lens must be stable enough to shoot at f/22 at 30sec.....and I will not tolerate any hot pixel.

 

[LBL2009]

There are bits and pieces of this that escapes me. What I can summise is:

• He is trying to shoot a night scene at a traffic junction.
• He wants a star effect from the lamp post but is afraid of over exposing the light from the car lamp nor does he want light trails (so he tries to shorten the exposure time down to 5 secs estimating the cars will not have moved by then).
• He also wants the inevitable dark areas within the picture to have some details (so he jacks up the iso to 1600 in order to achieve this).

Why he does not use a larger aperture and where is he metering? Only he knows.

You are doing a General Paper. I thought you have done enough in school. :bsmilie:

 

[Daoyin]

You are doing a General Paper. I thought you have done enough in school. :bsmilie:

Hey ! Don't OT here.

 

[burboy]

comparing the situation with iPhone 4, what do you think Nikon should take action with the D7000 situtation?

Steve Job pulled up a whole lot of statistic stating that its less than 0.5% *est. of the user that are affected by the "death grip" problem. Following up by giving away FOC bumper casing.

 

[PaulKami]

Wa piang eh! This is a series of 4 for 'shooting each other in this thread' already. Seriously, I'm rather sickened of it.

I'm a D7000 and yes, I see hot pixel during video shooting at low light condition, and detected a few hot pixel during long exposure (ISO 400, 8 sec, Aperture F3.5 at dark room (w/o light). But that was it.

Guys, I hope I could emphasize this one, Nothing is perfect in this World. Even if you're seeking for perfection (perfectionist) and constantly take your trip down to NSC, you'll never be able to get a camera w/o hot pixel. At the most you can bear with it is a hot pixel at a location where you don't mind.

Like one of the discussion earlier about people being 'stupid' getting the first batch, I hope I could disagree but many of the times what they said are true. Frankly, even if you go and get a 1-1 exchange at this point of time, you'll still get the same batch. So what for?

Even so, customer's right should still be there, and if you wish to, you can just bring it down to have it checked. Of course, Nikon's service attitude is a whole different topic altogether (deserves a thread by itself imo).

Last but not least, if I could actually see a show of hands, new D7000 owners who are enjoy their photoshooting now? I find this thread depressing to read (and type in, including reading my own post previously) because of so many emphasis on flaw of a camera, and not the good point itself, and it really shouldn't have coincide with my personal enjoyment (something that'll make me happy), and that's photography.

 

[116520]

I am very happy with my D7000 over D70.... really great improvement over the years...

Wa piang eh! This is a series of 4 for 'shooting each other in this thread' already. Seriously, I'm rather sickened of it.

I'm a D7000 and yes, I see hot pixel during video shooting at low light condition, and detected a few hot pixel during long exposure (ISO 400, 8 sec, Aperture F3.5 at dark room (w/o light). But that was it.

Guys, I hope I could emphasize this one, Nothing is perfect in this World. Even if you're seeking for perfection (perfectionist) and constantly take your trip down to NSC, you'll never be able to get a camera w/o hot pixel. At the most you can bear with it is a hot pixel at a location where you don't mind.

Like one of the discussion earlier about people being 'stupid' getting the first batch, I hope I could disagree but many of the times what they said are true. Frankly, even if you go and get a 1-1 exchange at this point of time, you'll still get the same batch. So what for?

Even so, customer's right should still be there, and if you wish to, you can just bring it down to have it checked. Of course, Nikon's service attitude is a whole different topic altogether (deserves a thread by itself imo).

Last but not least, if I could actually see a show of hands, new D7000 owners who are enjoy their photoshooting now? I find this thread depressing to read (and type in, including reading my own post previously) because of so many emphasis on flaw of a camera, and not the good point itself, and it really shouldn't have coincide with my personal enjoyment (something that'll make me happy), and that's photography.