S9000 attends a Halloween Parade

[nickphoto123]

Hello All,

Attended a Halloween Parade with my S9000.

Sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Sunnyside
Featuring the Sunnyside Drum Corps
Saturday, October 29, 2005.

Check out #6, That is 25+ faces in a row in one frame, and each face is fully detailed on my monitor. This makes me very, very happy:

On our way home I forgot to get the flyer announcing the parade. #1 was shot from my driver's seat from the middle of the street ( stopped for a red light), at 300 mm, handheld.

http://nickphoto123.smugmug.com/gallery/922546

Regards, Nicholas

[hercules]

Nice,,,, i just stopped my order on the canon S2 IS and ordered the fuji S9000 and wanted to know it say's it taked two cards which one should i purchase i am thinking on getting a 1GB does it need two cards or can you get one? and what kind of charger would be best for it? one more thing do you think i made a good move dropping the S2 IS for the S9000 Thanks....

[nickphoto123]

Hi Hercules and All,

Congratulations on your coming S9000. You won't be sorry.

I keep the 16 mb XD card that came with the camera in the slot so the contacts are not exposed to the air.

I use only CF cards, only Lexar, Sandisk, Efilm. I have 2 - 1GB, 2- 512MB and two- 256MB cards. None larger than 1 GB ( don't want too many eggs in one baslet), NO MICRODRIVES. I don't use anything that moves except my PC hard drive. Solid State for me. CF is cheap enough. I had trouble with a PNY card, NG.

CF cards are cheaper and bigger to handle. With my fingers I would lose the XD card befoe long.

Get the 2500 Batteries, two sets to start.

IS can be very useful depending on your type of subject.
I don't need it with my S9000. It would slow down its speed.

Regards, Nicholas.

[fuji_freak]

Hey Nick, great pics. Looking at all these photos with S9000/9500 Fuji's I am starting to miss mine already. Sold it to buy the Finepix S3 Pro as I want to turn my hobby into a small business, but am still grappling with all the functionality of the new one. I loved my S9500 for the ease of use it gave me.

Cheers,
Petr

[hercules]

Thanks Nick, looking forward to the S9000 so what you are saying is i can keep the 16mb card in and just put a sandisk ultra 11 1GB card in as well and still work with that automatically,, Thanks..

[nickphoto123]

Thanks Nick, looking forward to the S9000 so what you are saying is i can keep the 16mb card in and just put a sandisk ultra 11 1GB card in as well and still work with that automatically,, Thanks..

Yes, that's it. You do have to select CF card on the menu.

Hercules, One thing I forgot to mention:

As soon as I took my S9000 out of the box, the very first thing I did was screw on my B&W UV 58mm filter. I never take it off unless I want to use my circular polarizer.

The cost of this filter is "mandatory" IMHO.

Let us know when you put the batteries in your S9000. Good shooting.

Regards, Nicholas

[hercules]

Yes, that's it. You do have to select CF card on the menu.

Hercules, One thing I forgot to mention:

As soon as I took my S9000 out of the box, the very first thing I did was screw on my B&W UV 58mm filter. I never take it off unless I want to use my circular polarizer.

The cost of this filter is "mandatory" IMHO.

Let us know when you put the batteries in your S9000. Good shooting.

Regards, NicholasOk Nick thanks,,,