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Shaggy

Shaggy

Zoinks!!!!
My wife doesn’t really internet and has never participated in online forums before. She’s looking for an online forum for photography. I know there are a ton of photo geeks here, so can anyone recommend a good forum for photography enthusiasts?

She’s a Nikon user if that matters and she mostly does landscape and wildlife photography.
 
scootergmc

scootergmc

old and slow
She may find a FB group an easier route, but I know of none, because I don't FB. My help here is complete. :D
 
kiwi_outdoors

kiwi_outdoors

Well-known member
DX or full frame

DX (crop sensor) or full frame?

My gear is all Nikon DX - lighter and less $$.

Except for one astrophotography lens which is not a Nikon.

BTW - the new Nikon Coolpix A APS-C is a sweet looking camera for hiking with. Just keep sand out of the lens barrel system.
 
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kiwi_outdoors

kiwi_outdoors

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trouble with most forums is that they are a dump - lots of "shoeboxes" - full of stuff - no ties between them, no common threads, no useful compendium.

Unlike the old Ninja 250 forum which was magnificent for being easily useful.
 
Shaggy

Shaggy

Zoinks!!!!
kiwi_outdoors said:
DX (crop sensor) or full frame?

My gear is all Nikon DX - lighter and less $$.

Except for one astrophotography lens which is not a Nikon.

BTW - the new Nikon Coolpix A APS-C is a sweet looking camera for hiking with. Just keep sand out of the lens barrel system.
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She currently has two Nikon D7000 SLR bodies that she rotates, but she wants a D850.
 
FLH03RIDER

FLH03RIDER

Recedite, plebes!
Might want to checkout Nikon Cafe if she doesn't know about it.
https://www.nikoncafe.com/

As for D850, is she wanting a full frame, mirror less camera, high iso, pixel count camera, etc.? Are her lenses the DX type? If so, pretty sure the D850 will switch over to DX Crop Mode reducing image size down to about 20 megapixels from 45 megapixels.

Check the Nikon site for lens compatibility.
 
ctwo

ctwo

Merely Rhetorical
My experience was with a model specific forum. It was great while it lasted as the topics were focused on both general photography and specific use of the camera, accessories, hacks, and etc. I also visited dpreview, but not sure how the landscape has changed since.
 
Shaggy

Shaggy

Zoinks!!!!
FLH03RIDER said:
Might want to checkout Nikon Cafe if she doesn't know about it.
https://www.nikoncafe.com/

As for D850, is she wanting a full frame, mirror less camera, high iso, pixel count camera, etc.? Are her lenses the DX type? If so, pretty sure the D850 will switch over to DX Crop Mode reducing image size down to about 20 megapixels from 45 megapixels.

Check the Nikon site for lens compatibility.
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I have no idea what any of this means, but this was her response:

She shoots in RAW so the megapixels apparently don’t degrade. All of her current lenses are compatible and she does not want mirrorless.

That’s all a foreign language to me. :dunno
 
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TylerW

Agitator
Shaggy said:
I have no idea what any of this means, but this was her response:

She shoots in RAW so the megapixels apparently don’t degrade. All of her current lenses are compatible and she does not want mirrorless.

That’s all a foreign language to me. :dunno
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I'm not sure how much you care, but if you have any familiarity with film photography, but RAW is pretty analogous to processing negatives. It's a dump off all the data that was collected by the sensor at the time of the capture, but it's not an image yet. You need to process that data to turn it into a final image, but you'll be able to have more control of elements like exposure, color balance, contrast, skin tones, without the image falling apart.

I can totally understand why someone doesn't want to go mirrorless, the direct connection of looking through the viewfinder is pretty irreplaceable. For me I'm shooting video primarily. Having a mirrorless camera that can do both brought photography back into my life because it's all there in the same camera.
 
Shaggy

Shaggy

Zoinks!!!!
TylerW said:
I'm not sure how much you care, but if you have any familiarity with film photography, but RAW is pretty analogous to processing negatives. It's a dump off all the data that was collected by the sensor at the time of the capture, but it's not an image yet. You need to process that data to turn it into a final image, but you'll be able to have more control of elements like exposure, color balance, contrast, skin tones, without the image falling apart.

I can totally understand why someone doesn't want to go mirrorless, the direct connection of looking through the viewfinder is pretty irreplaceable. For me I'm shooting video primarily. Having a mirrorless camera that can do both brought photography back into my life because it's all there in the same camera.
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TylerW

Agitator
Shaggy said:
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Awright, it's like crank HP vs. wheel HP. Crank HP is the purer output from the engine, but you can't actually use it. you gotta modify it, chain drive, shaft drive, etc, to get that power to the ground. That raw power gets compromised, but you get to decide *how* it gets compromised based on what you want from it.
 
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