S6500fd owners - share your pixs here
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bigwalabig
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is ms colour good? do they honour their prices provided by the e-quotes?
yes saw it at the buy and sell... but he is selling it for 450. hmmm 530 would be a better deal for a new one then....
yes saw it at the buy and sell... but he is selling it for 450. hmmm 530 would be a better deal for a new one then....
shakewellbeforeuse
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Yea i just went down to MS color adjacent to Jubilee. Got the S6500fd at $520 with 2 gig card, and bag. Nice people there.
wiLLy-LucifeR
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hmm, anyone hav an inkling how much a 2 Gb 'H' type xD card currently retails for?
many thanks in advance. =]
many thanks in advance. =]
bigwalabig
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is it necessary to keep this camera in a dry box?
intend to buy a UV filter with it. anything else i should look into?
intend to buy a UV filter with it. anything else i should look into?
bigwalabig
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if im not wrong, this should be a GOOD price. a better price would be depending on your bargaining skills already.
you should get a uv filter, that goes for about 10 for tokina, 12 for hoya.
and eneloop batteries:thumbsup: or maybe another brand u prefer
and also if you could, a tripod.
Clockunder
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Here's a cropped picture taken last Sunday at the WakeBoard World Cup. Would want a tigher crop but the focal length is not long enough most of the time and the subject is quite small in the frame. I still have not processed all the pictures taken yet.
It seems that the focusing accuracy at the long end is not that good for this camera because, while shooting there and zooming in fully on the LCD for review, I already noticed that quite a no. of the shots were out of focus even though I followed the subject closely with the focus cursor and pressed the shutter button half way to lock focus just before I pressed it fully down. Quite a high % (more than 50%) of nice manoeuvres captured were out of focus. No, it wasn't motion blur or handshake blur due to "too slow shutter speed" because it happened even when it's as fast as 1/1000 - 1/1600 which is more than sufficient to prevent both. My previous prosumer camera Nikon 5700 had better focusing accuracy for this event in which I shot for the previous 2 years.
I encountered the same focusing problem numerous times with this S6500fd when I shot the moon at full zoom previously. Focus was apparently locked with a peep sound but sometimes the picture taken was out of focus. The correct focus hit rate is about 85% for the moon at full zoom.
Apparently, this camera doesn't focus well at the long end if there is no very high contrast outlines and/or the subject is small in the frame. The fast focus lock peep gives the impression of fast focusing speed but at the expense of accuracy.
It seems that the focusing accuracy at the long end is not that good for this camera because, while shooting there and zooming in fully on the LCD for review, I already noticed that quite a no. of the shots were out of focus even though I followed the subject closely with the focus cursor and pressed the shutter button half way to lock focus just before I pressed it fully down. Quite a high % (more than 50%) of nice manoeuvres captured were out of focus. No, it wasn't motion blur or handshake blur due to "too slow shutter speed" because it happened even when it's as fast as 1/1000 - 1/1600 which is more than sufficient to prevent both. My previous prosumer camera Nikon 5700 had better focusing accuracy for this event in which I shot for the previous 2 years.
I encountered the same focusing problem numerous times with this S6500fd when I shot the moon at full zoom previously. Focus was apparently locked with a peep sound but sometimes the picture taken was out of focus. The correct focus hit rate is about 85% for the moon at full zoom.
Apparently, this camera doesn't focus well at the long end if there is no very high contrast outlines and/or the subject is small in the frame. The fast focus lock peep gives the impression of fast focusing speed but at the expense of accuracy.
vincecarlo
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Here's a cropped picture taken last Sunday at the WakeBoard World Cup. Would want a tigher crop but the focal length is not long enough most of the time and the subject is quite small in the frame. I still have not processed all the pictures taken yet.
nice shot, great timing:thumbsup:
Clockunder
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Shot in Jpeg. I usually don't shoot in RAW unless I have problem with white balance and/or camera processing artifacts.
Thanks.
Clockunder
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Thanks.
All is needed to do is to use continuous shooting mode (2.3 frames per second), follow the wakeboarder, lock focus with half-pressing shutter button just before he is expected to jump, continue to pan and then press all the way to trigger 3 shots in hope of capturing a nice stunt within the frame.
As nothing is seen in the viewfinder once the shutton button is fully pressed, usually will find the wakeboarder at least partially out of the frame in 1 or 2 of the 3 frames and therefore not usable.
Anyway, have just posted more pictures of the event here :
http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=314175
Clockunder
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u used top 3 or last 3 ? just curious.
Top 3.
Clockunder
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Thanks.
In photoshop CS2,
After I had downsized, I used the lasso tool to select the wakeboarder and the splash and then applied 2 rounds of sharpening with filter/Sharpen/Unsharp Mask :
1) 50%, 1 radius, 0 threshold
2) 30%, 1 radius, 0 threshold
And then, to make the background less well defined so that the wakeboarder and splashes stand out in the picture :
a) inversed the selection so that the background was selected,
b) modified the selection with Select/Modity/Contract 3-5 pixels (so that the immediate small area adjacent to the sharpened area is excluded in order for a smoother transition of sharpness),
c) applied "blur" to the selected area (i.e. background now),
d) modified the selection again with contract 5-10 pixels and then use the lasso tool to adjust the selected area to what I wanted
e) and then applied another round of "blur more".
f) Repeat steps (d) and (e)
If a very long lens (>300mm) on a DSLR is used instead, then there is less need to do so much to blur the background.
shakewellbeforeuse
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Shot this in RAW then processed using Adobe Lightroom1.2.
I'm newbie.
Whats the general stuff you guys do for processing RAW images?
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