D700 first pics... Great travel camera

Thanks Waynepd,
That pic of Luna Park was really the second pic taken with the camera. (Shot number 58 according to the counter but did loads of loungeroom shots checking the settings).

Yes
Thats Ditto for me, exceptional work,

Park that Excavator you operate, and do Photography full time,


Cheers
Daza

Thanks Alex.
Daza, I so wish I could park the bloody things up but unfortuanetly the bank won't allow me to do that until the end of next year if my plan comes together. Then sell them all and become a photo bum :)

Thanjs jdwynn, seriously it is the camera. I just push the button when required :)

thanks cackles, I get a lurgy every now and then....... but most of the time I fix it myself

thanks willem,
This camera is so much better than that last one..........

Hi Mad Cowz,
Unfortuanetly I do not know alot about pocket point and shoot cameras but 8mp is good for printing pics.
main thing you have to look out for is optical zoom. don't let them talk you into digital zoom.........

no worries, thanks, been doing a bit of a search and there looks to be some cameras trying to be in the middle of the really simple ones and a SLR, some now boasting 20x optical and 10 or 11mp, something like that might be a goer, still like my film camera but it is hard to not look at the capabilities of digitals these days.

MC

yep panasonic are the leaders in that segment.
either the 8meg fz18 soon to be superseded by the fz28
or the larger sensore better built (and larger camera) fz 50
BEWARE many places charge ripoff prices for cameras an FZ 50 should be got for $600-$650 (shop prices ) and FZ 18 for considerably less
BEWARE places still ask $900 for the 50 and $700 for the 18
YOU CAN GET ALOT BETTER and thats in Perth.
some manafactures offer betterspecs but fail in image quality compared to the Pannys

Hey john, don't know about the rain....... we would have been there for a few days longer........ would have been out of beer :(
(note to self, take extra beer in case of rain) And am still trying to get through all the paperwork from that trip. But it was all worth it.

Nice Micheal, although would have thought it got a little pixelated. but it is all good
Peter

I still maintain it is the camera :)

talent...can i buy some

one day i might be able to take just 1 great pic like those

Geez Gary,
Some seriously professional quality pics, mate.
Very nice.
Cheers,

Hey Gary,
what's the deal with the cop with the gun??????

That was at the Vatican....Italian COPS think they are super cool and love getting their guns out...must've been chasing someone as they blocked off streets and stuff... Gun in hand and talking on phone. I laughed at him and he got the bleep s :)

Thanks Borgy,
They really only quick test shots as I was on my way to the Bledisloe cup........ Bloody good game too. Best union game i have seen
Peter

G'day Rob,
The pic of Luna Park was taken with a 14mm lens and the bridge was a 20mm lens. The only zoom I use is the 70 to 200mm f2.8.
All my lenses are 2.8 and very fast lenses. I tend to use prime lenses only. 14mm, 20mm, 28mm, 50mm and the 70 to 200mm. I am looking at getting a 300mm f2.8 shortly and I also find the only other lense that I am missing is a 35mm. All lenses are Nikon and they have all carried on from film days. So some of the lenses I have now are over 10 years old. That is the best thing with Nikon. Unlike Canon every lense will fit todays SLRs even the manual lenses.
I never use filters not even the protective filters. I find the light just needs to go through another piece of glass and a polarisor 2 extra pieces of glass.