A Nature Lovers Thread....

Absolutely georgeous!!!

 

that's fucking awesome!

pictures of Kugluktuk in fall colours

 

I have used a Canon EOS 400D for about 2 years now. I´m still not all happy with the digital. Before i had a Pentax SF7 and sometimes i think that analog is better when using a good film quality.

 

Don't know much about it but I can say the quality of Riv's pics are far superior to my digital camera which is a Nikon 5.1 megapixel.

 

my camera is a canon powershot a460 5 megapixel. have it on the highest setting for pictures too.

 

Yes, they are great !
It is not so much the camera but very often a fine lens does a lot for getting better pics.

 

i chose the D40 intentionally (6,1mp). first it was a bargain (phase-out-model), second it´s not all about mega-pixel. quite often the more mp you have the worse the pics are - more mp means smaller sensors = less light.

and i still haven´t found a reasonably priced digital SLR that can top my Nikon F801s (aka 8008s)/Kodak ektar100 - combo (for slides it´s the ektachrome 100)

 

why is that? I would tend to think that the technology would be greater just like computers - this isn't the case with cameras?

 

Here i can`t get a full sized sensor digital camera under 2500.- euros and that is a little too much for a hobby photographer as i am.
Would be nice to try out sometime and see the difference.

 

well, i´ll try. would be easier in german

the size of the CCD, especially in compact cameras, is limited. so the more megapixel, the smaller the pixel. means less light-sensitive. also noise etc. is increasing.


pixel increase from left to right. the best part is ~6mp.

some additional terms: chromatic aberration, diffraction, processing of mass of data.

in short: if you want megapixel you need the tools to serve them. lenses, electronics, chips.

a computer with lots of GHz but without RAM, HD... well.
a muscle car without tires... well.

 

:shock:

http://www.alternate.de/html/produc...=Bild/Foto&l2=Digitalkameras&l3=Spiegelreflex is what i have... body, 2 lenses (18-55mm, 55-200mm) - <500 €

 

Thanks - Actually you explained that rather well.

 

Some great info there River, thanks !

Here something i would love to try out ...

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0703/07030805sigma200500mm.asp

 

I may be wrong but i think with a great turntable and a LP you get a much better sound than with a CD-player. Ok, as River said, the rest has to be good too.... speakers and so on

 

I don't know - I just see the world of computers and automatically inserted all electronics when I shouldn't have. I just would have thought with new you always have better and that's not the case.

 

Nice price, but still not a full size sensor.
For ex. Nikon D700 is and only the body is about 2650.- euros here...

 

lol @ the Sigma... into your neighbours bedroom-window?

just to avoid too much technical hijacking (it´s about nature lovers ) - i always find it quite useful to set the camera on highest available pic-size and downsize the pic on the computer. i usually take the pictures in 3000px and save them as 2000px. no filters, no photoshopping, just downsizing. looks much more crispier.

 

I´m not against new things... there is a lot of very fine things now !
Sometimes it`s just the feeling about things that makes them good in my eyes... but that`s just me.

 

Enough talk... back to the pics !

I wonder how that beaver felt after this bite ....




Here some pics from "Hoverberget" (= Hovermountain) south of Östersund, Sweden.
A great view over the "Storsjön" (= Big lake)

 

Thanks Magge, beautiful bud.