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Light & shadows
.....under the azure sky.
San Gimignano, Siena, Italy.
Taken with the 10.2mp Nikon D60, refreshed from JPEG with my latest post processing workflow, for nostalgia. Loved the series of shots I took at this location, this one as I was making my way to the medieval town center in the late afternoon hence the sun was low, peeping through from above the roofs on the left side thus partially illuminating the buildings on the right and the bell tower ahead. Regrettably I did not shoot RAW back then.
I've always loved the colors coming from this humble camera with CCD sensor. Personally Nikon dropped the ball when they 1st moved from CCD sensors to CMOS, never warmed up to the colors from my subsequent D7000 and sold it after a brief ownership. This mostly boils down to different color filter arrays being used when Nikon shifted from CCD to CMOS. Modern CMOS sensors are usually optimized for high ISO and high resolution (instead of color) which is typically what the market wants.
Newest is not universally the greatest as shills will like us to believe.
Gear forums can be a good place for learning but it is such a minefield for beginners these days as forums get infiltrated with insufferable fanboi shills.
You get Nikon shills proclaiming that the Nikon Z7ii autofocus is at least as good as the A9ii which has a stacked sensor! This was coming from a fanboi shill who shot mostly landscape and hardly anything else that moves even moderately. It's like saying the Toyota 7-seater MPV is as fast as a Ferrari just because the driver never drove the Ferrari beyond 1st gear!
For beginners, best way to protect ourselves when we peruse gear forums is to look at the uploaded photos from forum participants. Oftentimes the quality of the photos and their seemingly expert proclamations do not match! Way too much "hot air" in gear forums! Fanboi shills typically only worship their preferred brand like totems with a severe lack of ability to say anything good about competing brands. After a while it’s not difficult to identify the shills from the truly skilled, honest hobbyists whom we can learn from.
Light & shadows
.....under the azure sky.
San Gimignano, Siena, Italy.
Taken with the 10.2mp Nikon D60, refreshed from JPEG with my latest post processing workflow, for nostalgia. Loved the series of shots I took at this location, this one as I was making my way to the medieval town center in the late afternoon hence the sun was low, peeping through from above the roofs on the left side thus partially illuminating the buildings on the right and the bell tower ahead. Regrettably I did not shoot RAW back then.
I've always loved the colors coming from this humble camera with CCD sensor. Personally Nikon dropped the ball when they 1st moved from CCD sensors to CMOS, never warmed up to the colors from my subsequent D7000 and sold it after a brief ownership. This mostly boils down to different color filter arrays being used when Nikon shifted from CCD to CMOS. Modern CMOS sensors are usually optimized for high ISO and high resolution (instead of color) which is typically what the market wants.
Newest is not universally the greatest as shills will like us to believe.
Gear forums can be a good place for learning but it is such a minefield for beginners these days as forums get infiltrated with insufferable fanboi shills.
You get Nikon shills proclaiming that the Nikon Z7ii autofocus is at least as good as the A9ii which has a stacked sensor! This was coming from a fanboi shill who shot mostly landscape and hardly anything else that moves even moderately. It's like saying the Toyota 7-seater MPV is as fast as a Ferrari just because the driver never drove the Ferrari beyond 1st gear!
For beginners, best way to protect ourselves when we peruse gear forums is to look at the uploaded photos from forum participants. Oftentimes the quality of the photos and their seemingly expert proclamations do not match! Way too much "hot air" in gear forums! Fanboi shills typically only worship their preferred brand like totems with a severe lack of ability to say anything good about competing brands. After a while it’s not difficult to identify the shills from the truly skilled, honest hobbyists whom we can learn from.