[Leica] I'm A Nikon Shooter Again - MARK in HNY

Mark Rabiner mark at rabinergroup.com
Tue Jan 15 02:29:21 PST 2019 

Been shooting  exclusively with a D750 for exactly three years, Jayanand. Getting results with it which no camera I've ever used can match. It focuses in the dark and then the pix come out noise free hand held stopped down. Though it's is kind of not fast and a little laid back..  I'm was calling my new D500 a backup camera as the term "backup camera" can mean anything you want it to mean at this point. I think my work will shift to more faster breaking based stuff with this camera we'll just have to see.  
I'll sure not be afraid of being in fast breaking situations. I think it will be propelling me down the sidewalk! 
The D750 by the time I pick it up again I'll have to remind myself how to use it - maybe I should take the battery out? Maybe the D750 will end up being the backup? Perhaps it's nice having two cameras at the same time neither of them an embarrassment.  Maybe it's nice using two cameras at the same time and which are not matched?  
I notice they make these two camera camera straps now and saw a guy using one in Central Park a few weeks back. 
You could have color in one black and white in the other. A thing a digital Leica M shooter could really do!
I'd have my 12-24f4 DX on my D500 and my 70-200f4 FX VR on my D750. And be ready for instantly anything
And I've had the D500 for a few weeks now and have not done one shot at ISO 1,000,00 (one million).
That and glass plates are on my bucket list. 
I'm sure it will come out very "Sunday in the Park with George" (big dots). Pointillisme Philippe!
Maybe it will look good in a nice size print? 
You know what Man Ray said. "Noise is the brush stroke of digital Photography".  
No he didn't he was dead by then.
 
 

-- 

Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 1/15/19, 4:15 AM, "LUG on behalf of Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    Yes, true, but video is hardly the point of the D500. Its an action/spirts/wildlife stills speed freak, a one trick pony, but indispensable if that just happens to be your trick. I advise regular photographers here, all day long, to get a D750 if they do not require raw speed....
    Cheers
    Jayanand
    
    Sent from my iPad
    
    > On 15-Jan-2019, at 12:58, Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
    > 
    > Video?
    > 
    > Amities
    > 
    > Philippe
    > 
    > 
    > 
    >> Le 15 janv. 2019 à 05:21, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
    >> 
    >> Going away from rated numbers, the XQD is far superior to the SD UHS II
    >> cards, both in terms of shooting speed and buffering. In my experience, the
    >> D500 can go up to 170 shots in RAW 12 bit uncompressed mode with the Sony G
    >> series XQD cards, and 70 odd shots with the SanDisk SD UHS II cards before
    >> the buffer fills up. It should really not affect anyone who is not into
    >> long bursts, and if you are taking single shots or short bursts, why waste
    >> money on these cards when the SD UHS I cards will be more than sufficient?
    >> 
    >> Cheers
    >> Jayanand
    >> 
    >>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 8:23 AM Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
    >>> 
    >>> Sorry Mark your read and write speeds for you new XQD cards are  440 MB/s,
    >>> not 200 as you thought you remembered.
    >>> Other Mark.
    >>> 
    >>> Thanks Other Mark! My other slot has a more traditional SD card but a real
    >>> fast and large one:
    >>> SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO UHS-II SDXC Memory Card
    >>> MFR # SDSDXPK-128G-ANCIN
    >>> Its 300 MB/s whole the XQD card in the other slot is 400 MB/s. Comparable
    >>> but not comparable technologies.
    >>> Interestingly the Sandisk SD card cost 50 bucks more than the faster and
    >>> almost same sized XQD Sony. ?!?
    >>> The sony is a 120gb. The Sandisk is a 128gb.
    >>> I think XQD cards being  sold are lonely. People are not ready to accept
    >>> them yet. They think they are upstarts.
    >>> Or they are too cheap to have to buy a new reader.
    >>> My XQD card I use now is this:  Sony 120GB G Series XQD Memory Card  MFR #
    >>> QD-G120F
    >>> 
    >>> The files I’m shooting now are forty something megebites’s each and are a
    >>> smaller than typical 20 megapixels. Typical being I think 24 megapixels.
    >>> The 20 megapixels spec is always used in the Leica priced D5 announced the
    >>> same day three years ago, January.
    >>> 
    >>> Rabs
    >>> Mark William Rabiner
    >>> Photographer
    >>> 
    >>> On 1/14/19, 9:05 PM, "LUG on behalf of Mark Rabiner" <lug-bounces+mark=
    >>> rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of mark at rabinergroup.com>
    >>> wrote:
    >>> 
    >>>   I had to get a reader to read the XQD card both the reader and the
    >>> card are made by Sony. Cost around 75 bucks I think.
    >>>   The second slot in the reader takes SSDs cards but real fast ones like
    >>> the other card a fast and big  Sandisk I got for my new D500 Nikon Camera.
    >>>   My new cards are 200 fast while the ones in my D750 were 95. So it's
    >>> almost as much of a whole new ballgame in that respect.
    >>> 
    >>>   I'm trying to wrap my head around the developing technologies  for
    >>> storage in cameras the SD and compact flash is a twenty year old
    >>> technology. It seems people think that flash and SSD solid state drives are
    >>> the same but it just ain't true. I just read a big thing to try to figure
    >>> it all out.
    >>> 
    >>> https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/storage-hardware/flash-vs-ssd-storage-whats-the-difference.html
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>>   --
    >>> 
    >>>   Mark William Rabiner
    >>>   Photographer
    >>> 
    >>>   On 1/14/19, 6:08 PM, "LUG on behalf of Brian Reid" <lug-bounces+mark=
    >>> rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
    >>> wrote:
    >>> 
    >>>       That is not an SD card, it is a 2.5-inch SATA SSD disk drive,
    >>> designed
    >>>       to go into laptop and server computers.
    >>> 
    >>>>       On 2019-01-14 13:26, Philippe via LUG wrote:
    >>>> 
    >>>> 
    >>>> OTT I saw that a new card can hold up to 1 TB - I’d be frozen to
    >>> death
    >>>> before I’d used all its acreage (as per Mark R)
    >>>> 
    >>> https://shop.hardware.fr/fiche/AR201707210038.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIop2w95ru3wIVaCjTCh3iYAFxEAQYAyABEgIajvD_BwE
    >>>> <
    >>> https://shop.hardware.fr/fiche/AR201707210038.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIop2w95ru3wIVaCjTCh3iYAFxEAQYAyABEgIajvD_BwE
    >>>> 
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