Canada in 2013 Technical Details
All pictures, unless otherwise noted, are copyright 2013 by
John A. and Elizabeth B. Lucas. All rights reserved.
Introduction Vancouver/Victoria Kamloops/Banff/Lake Louise/Jasper Toronto/Niagara Falls Montreal Quebec/Baie
St. Paul Halifax Wildlife Second Thoughts Technical Details
John has been using Nikon equipment for 45 years after taking the
advice of a professional photographer who was a friend of the
family.
Beth's and John's cameras were deliberately set differently to
hedge our bets. This was a trip in which "shoot now or never" was
a frequent constraint, often under difficult light and weather
conditions. Photographs were chosen, without ego, based upon which
of us had the better settings and composition at that time and
place.
This is the equipment we chose to take:
John
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Beth
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Nikon D80 DSLR with the following usual
settings:
- Aperture priority with occasional shutter priority
- Daylight white balance
- Autofocus (occasional overriding to manual)
- Exposure bracketing in three-shot continuous mode,
+1/0/-1 EV
- Continuous mode, three-shot bursts
- Raw format (10 megapixel)
- ISO 200-400
- Nikon 18-200mm Zoom (DX format), lens hood, filters
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Nikon D70 DSLR with the following usual
settings:
- Program (camera chooses aperature and shutter)
- Automatic white balance
- Autofocus
- Single shot
- Raw format (6 megapixel)
- ISO 200
- Nikon 18-135mm Zoom (DX format), lens hood, filters
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Additional Lenses:
- Nikon 60mm MicroNikkor (FX format, effectively
96mm), lens hood, filters
- Nikon 80-400mm Zoom (FX format, effectively
128mm-640mm), lens hood, filters
Other equipment carried:
- monopod
- mini/tabletop Tripod
- cable release for D80
- Nikon SB-800 flash unit set for wireless remote from
D80
- spare rechargeable batteries for camera and
recharger
- four memory cards for each camera
- photographer's vest (on John, used about half the
time in reasonable weather)
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Workflow:
- All memory cards used were transferred to network attached
storage using Nikon Transfer 2 and USB connection.
- The folders containing the raw images were then immediately
written to DVDs for disaster backup third copies.
- The folders containing the raw images were then read into
Extensis Portfolio 8.5.6.0 and three galleries created:
- D70 images
- D80 images
- both cameras together, sorted by date/time (the working
copy)
- Copyright metadata was added to all images.
- The raw images selected for inclusion were processed using
Adobe Photoshop CSS 12.1 x64
- Most images were simply rendered to low quality JPG files
(long dimension 800 pixels, about 1/16 full area) to reduce
webpage loading time.
- Horizon correction, exposure correction and cropping were
used occasionally as needed.
Higher resolution images or prints available on request.