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D3 Questions
Michael Myers, Photographer
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Miami Beach | FL | USA | Posted: 12:25 AM on 09.19.08 |
->> There are two things I'd like to be able to do with my D3, but I'm not sure if they are possible.
First, when I have two memory cards in the camera, and I've taken enough images to make it use both cards, is there any way to get Nikon Transfer to automatically download "all" images as seamlessly as the camera used this technology to take them? I've found that on the standard settings, only the first memory card got downloaded. By switching to "mass storage mode" I was able to download all my images, one card at a time. I'd like to do it all in one operation.
WARNING: Don't do as I almost did, download what you think is all your images, press the "format" buttons to empty your memory cards, and go on shooting, or you might find you've deleted the images on card #2 without them having been downloaded. I almost made this mistake.
Second question, I know that with the current version of Nikon Capture, images taken with a D2 and the 10.5mm fisheye can be selected for "correction" to remove the fisheye appearance. I've found that helpful in the past.
Using the D3 and the 16mm fisheye I bought ages ago produces almost the same image as the D2 with 10.5 lens. Is there any way to "trick" the current version of Nikon Capture into allowing this operation with the 16mm fisheye? (I was told by Nikon that the newer version of Capture does allow this, but I haven't installed it yet.) I was wondering if I could edit the EXIF data, to fool the software into thinking I had used the 10.5 lens...
While I'm talking fisheye lenses, I learned one trick that was very helpful to me. I often shoot radio control car racetracks from the driver's stand, and I like to take one photo that shows the entire track. The fisheye is the only lens that lets me do this. To get the widest possible field of view, I've been able to use the 10.5 lens on the D3, but put the camera in the mode that shows the full frame. It's true that lots of parts of the frame have no image at all, but when I crop the image, I can get a little wider field of view than when I use the 10.5 in the regular mode, where the camera only shows the reduced frame image area, or had I used the 16mm lens on the D3. It's just a little bit more coverage, but it helps! |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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McCall | ID | US | Posted: 3:27 AM on 09.19.08 |
->> I don't know much about Nikon's file format, but I'm guessing it's a variant of the TIF or JPEG standards, like pretty much every format out there.
There's nothing out there made for easy editing of EXIF information, though it is doable. Editing the text of the file will only corrupt the file, as the length of the text fields is encoded into the headers of each field and section. It's not hard to decode/re-encode if you know something about coding; otherwise, it's a nightmare and isn't worth trying. |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 8:41 AM on 09.19.08 |
->> Re: Correction
Nikon capture might not be able to do it, but the excellent PTLens plug-in for photoshop might let you do what you describe. If not PTLens, there are several non-exif reading plug-ins that could do the trick... |
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Grant Blankenship, Photographer
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Macon | GA | USA | Posted: 10:43 AM on 09.19.08 |
->> Michael,
The PhotoMechanic ingest function will simultaneously take in as many cards as you can connect to your computer. |
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Scott Mallon, Photographer
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Bangkok | N/A | Thailand | Posted: 1:32 PM on 09.19.08 |
| ->> I made the mistake at the Olympics - I managed to retrieve the photos but I was sweating for a bit... |
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Michael Myers, Photographer
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Miami Beach | FL | USA | Posted: 2:29 PM on 09.19.08 |
->> Scott, I know how you felt. Had I not had my laptop handy that day, so I was downloading quite frequently, I'm sure I would have lost a ton of images. I wonder how many people are aware of this, or how many are going to get hurt when things don't work as expected? (Nikon should provide a message or warning, to avoid this from hurting users, but maybe they weren't aware of it until now...)
Regarding software, I really don't need or want different software, as I now know how to force Nikon Transfer to do what I want, but I was hoping there was a way to make it work automatically. Maybe there's some trick someone has found to accomplish this?
Editing the EXIF data - it's not all that hard. One program to do it can be found here, along with their very useful EXIF viewer: http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/download.htm My question was if anyone had tried doing this, and did it fool the Nikon Capture program into thinking the correction program could be used. I suppose I'll eventually get the newer version, which does allow this correction to be used.
I got a fascinating email from Hassel Weems about the 10.5 usage, and he's got a wonderful website which goes way beyond what I was thinking. Check out http://www.hasselweems.com/photographers/fisheye/index.html for a very useful modification to the 10.5 lens for use on the D3! |
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