Nikon DSLR "Picture Of The Day"

[tim11]

DPRoberts,
That's good family portrait. Unfortunately you are not in there as well.
Lucky you got 41°C, I had 46°C and that sent the train service into disarray. Typical of CityRail. I always say its infrastructure was designed to run at room temperature.

[tim11]

It's truely amazing what ancient cultures (both Aisia, and Europe) could do with stone, brick, mud, and no power machinery.
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It's true D70Fan. We couldn't help but bewildered: how did they do it?
Personally, while I admire and bewildered by Asian monuments for their artistic statues and bas reliefs, I always look at the pictures of ancient European grand castles in awe. It's their grand size that makes me wonder - how did they drag the stones to build on a cliff? Unlike the Asian builders of the time, the Europeans wouldn't have elephants either.

[Sir Les]

Question: Does the shot above look a little fuzzy? I'm still having some issues with the D7000. Not so much focus, but lack of definition.

Thanks.

Yes it does, especially at its original size (1510 x 1000). A touch of unsharp mask helps, but I would have thought at f/8 and 1/360, things should have looked a bit sharper all round.

[D70FAN]

This seems to be happening on a regular basis. Sometimes the majority of shots look, for lack of a better description, noisy, with noise reduction applied. i.e. soft, but processed soft.

Anyway, frustrating and it's going back to Nikon asap.

[Rooz]

How do you know it's not the lens ?

[K1W1]

[K1W1]

How do you know it's not the lens ?

With a Sigma lens that is where I would be looking first.

[Rooz]

That's a great shot !

[K1W1]

That's a great shot !

Thanks. Take one camera, tripod and 10.5mm lens a km into the forest then take 5 shots and edit in Nik HDR Efex and low and behold! Easy really.

[Rooz]

I've forgotten what software looks like. lol