I returned from a 5 day trip to Juneau and Sitka, Alaska this week.
I have uploaded photos to my blog and gallery.
Gallery:
- Juneau
- Whale watching
- Sitka Ferry
- Sitka
Panoramas:
- Whale flip 1
- Whale flip 2
- Whale flip 3
- Juneau ferries and mountains
- Mountains of Juneau
Arvind suggested [in the comments] I try Active D-Lighting for high contrast scenes with the D300.
Yes, it makes a huge difference.
First, the photo edited through LR with the default settings:
Edited through lightroom:
The same photo edited through Capture NX with default settings:
Edited through Capture NX.
Capture NX and D300 handle high contrast scenes very very well with Active D-Lighting set to on.
I got the opportunity to fully use and test the Dynamic AF / Auto Area AF and AF-C features of the D300 when I did whale watching in Alaska recently.
Check out the following posts.
http://blog.anands.net/index.php?showimage=565
http://blog.anands.net/index.php?showimage=564
http://blog.anands.net/index.php?showimage=563
http://blog.anands.net/index.php?showimage=562
http://blog.anands.net/index.php?showimage=561
I used AF-C and dynamic area AF / Auto Area AF for these shots with a 70-200 VR and 1.7 TC. I had great light, but that lens + TC combination is not the fastest focusing kit.
I shot about 600 exposures at 6-8 fps over a 20 min period. I was stunned to find 500+ in focus exposures.
I touched upon this a little bit in the d80 comparison post, but I had the most luck when I left the camera handle all the decisions for itself.
D300 totally rocks!
It is a great day in apple land with the announcement of the new brand new 3g iPhone, but even the new iPhone sucks in one way.
The iPhones do NOT work on 802.11n network. If you are like me, who has an all mac household and runs a 802.11n network, this is very bad news. I have an Airport Extreme Base Station 802.11n / Gigabit edition, an iMac, a Macbook Pro, a Macbook and an appleTv, all happily working on the 5 GHz, 802.11n network, until the iPhone puts a spanner in this setup.
Thankfully, I was able to work around this issue by setting up a secondary network with my existing hardware. If you are interested, read on.
- Setup your airport extreme to 802.11n only network.
- Wire one of your mac desktops using ethernet. In my case, my iMac was connected through the ethernet.
- Enable internet sharing by System Preferences - sharing - internet sharing. Choose share ethernet connection to airport. Enable WEP protection for airport sharing.
- Restart iMac. [trust me]
- Now your iPhone sees the secondary wireless network and can use that to browse.
You can also connect other legacy windows computers using this method, however, it just doesn’t work for me, windows sees the network, it connects, but it never gets an IP address. I am free of windows machines, but there is some great help here if you need it.
Awesome presentation in google through a YouTube video.