Nikon D5000 - how to make the darn thing STAY on center focused?

On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:36:02 -0800, nick c
wrote:

On 3/2/2013 12:51 AM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:32:22 -0800, nick c
wrote:

On 3/1/2013 10:42 PM, David Taylor wrote:
On 02/03/2013 02:26, Don Wiss wrote:
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My GH3 body weighs 540g. The 600mm equivalent telephoto weighs 460g. A
neat
1000g total. What does your D800 weigh with a 600mm lens? Looking at
DPreview now I see the D800 is 900g before any lenses.

Don. www.donwiss.com/pictures/ (e-mail link at page bottoms).

I've handled the Nikon D800 with 28-300 mm lens, and while the
viewfinder is superb and the images are excellent, the owner is welcome
to keep that camera and lens - its weight and bulk are not for me (but
he is very pleased with it).

Yes sir, David, I know of others who feel the same way about toting bulk
weight. As for me,
I have more of a difficult time holding my Canon G12 steady than I do my
Nikon D700 with the 17-35 f2.8 lens or the D300 with the Nikon 24-120 f4
lens. Both are heavy setups and tend to help stabilize my shaky right
hand. Aging does that to a person. Recently I bought a small hand
grip to add to the Canon G12 to make it heavier.

I had the same problem with a G12. My solution was to give it to my
wife.


I like the G12 camera though I don't use it as often as I thought I
would. If I were to give to my wife she would probably use it as a door
stopper. No (shrug) ... it's a keeper. When used with Canon's 270EX
Speedlight it could be quite a camera. I just wish it had a better body
design.

I agree with you about the last. I had four main problems with it:

1. It was dumped on me at the beginning of an extensive tour without
a manual of any kind. Not a good start.

2. The logic of it's menu system was different from the Nikon to
which I am accustomed. There maybe nothing wrong with it but I didn't
find my way around it instinctively.

3. (This was a biggy) What you could and couldn't see in the menu
depended on how you had the controls setup. I literally spent hours
trying to find menu functions or variables which had become invisible
for the time being.

4. (This was another biggy) The camera was so crowded with buttons and
controls that I could not carry it in my hand for any time without
inadvertantly changing something.

My wife is happy with it and getting some good pictures out of it.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 3/2/2013 9:57 AM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2013-03-02 07:02:26 -0800, George Kerby said:




On 3/1/13 11:25 AM, in article ,
"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote:

George Kerby wrote:
"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote:
[...]

WHY do your posts, and ONLY your posts come in here dated "Monday"
and it's Wednesday evening Zulu Time?!?

Because the posts were indeed written on the date they carry,
but didn't reach you before Wednesday evening Zulu Time.

Oh. You don't get it yet. Usenet, like email, is NOT a phone
conversation. It's a store and forward medium. Immediate
delivery is not guaranteed, heck, delivery isn't guaranteed.
In case of email, it's "best effort", in case of Usenet, "flood
fill". It's an offline medium. It's not real time at all.

Still no enlightenment? OK. Let's just say that some
component --- in this case on my side --- doesn't (and often
cannot) pull and push usenet postings in near real time, due
to the fact that it doesn't have a connection round the clock.
Syncing is performed when it's opportune.

Any more questions? Ah, yes. No, I don't think a backup
satellite internet connection is worth it just so you get my
postings earlier. After all, you don't read 24/7 either.

-Wolfgang

You need to catch up with technology and/or fix your clock. This ain't
the Pony Express in the 21st century. NO ONE else seems to have your
unique problem in ANY Usenet group I have EVER encountered...

It appears Wolfgang's circumstances do not permit him the luxury of a
24/7 broadband internet connection (My provider is Charter Cable and
serves me well at more than adequate speed 24/7). However his Usenet
client permits him to download new headers and posts for offline
reading. He can then compose his responses offline to send whenever
he rejoins the world.

In late November of 2012, my ISP ("Concentric") informed me that
it was cancelling its dial-up service (on January 21, 2013). Then,
early December found me connected via DSL, with my phone company
("CenturyLink").

However, I still have Concentric, at a greatly-reduced monthly fee.
I want it for e-mail and Usenet ("Eternal September" is my NNTP
news server).

Last summer, I'd begun using Mozilla "Thunderbird" (after some 16
years of "Netscape" happiness). My favorite e-mail/Usenet program
(Netscape "Communicator" 4.8) won't install on any Windows version
newer than XP, unfortunately.

I'm currently on Vista 64-bit and so, was forced to to make a
move. Alas, Thunderbird is so damned unintuitive and illogical,
compared to Communicator!

The unfortunate thing for us is, his Usenet client date & time
stamps them at the date and time of composition, not the time
of actual posting. So by he time he has come back online many
of us have move on. I imagine that many here don't see some of
his delayed posts. I occasionally come across a cluster of his
posts weeks old and long ignored by all.

Thunderbird does precisely as you've stated. (But, there are
ways around this issue.)

Immediacy does not seem to be a concern for him.

Obviously, I easily understand Wolfgang Weisselberg's posting
problems.

John

On 3/2/2013 10:39 AM, PeterN wrote:

heavily edited for brevity

If I felt I could get the image quality I like, with a lighter weight
camera, I would do so in a flash.


Pun intended?

John

Savageduck wrote:
On 2013-03-02 05:45:56 -0800, Wolfgang Weisselberg

| Let's just say that some
| component --- in this case on my side --- doesn't (and often
| cannot) pull and push usenet postings in near real time, due
| to the fact that it doesn't have a connection round the clock.
| Syncing is performed when it's opportune.

Doesn't that answer the question?

Finally! The mystery of the delayed Wolfgang posts explained. So all
you are doing is offline reading and composition of your post. Then
come on line at your convenience to post your responses on the dates
and times of their composition, and refresh your message cache.
I guess not all of us have 24/7 broadband, and we tend to forget that
others might have to resort methods we have no need of.

I tried to get the cable company to lay a broadband connection
to the trains and planes I use, but *they* say the cable
would rip off if they moved ...

-Wolfgang

George Kerby wrote:
"Wolfgang Weisselberg" wrote:

Any more questions? Ah, yes. No, I don't think a backup
satellite internet connection is worth it just so you get my
postings earlier. After all, you don't read 24/7 either.

You need to catch up with technology and/or fix your clock.

The clock is synced to the correct time. Automatically.
Whenever there's an Internet connection. Which means it may
be off 2 minutes if I don't have Internet for a whole month.

This ain't the
Pony Express in the 21st century.

Sure. Usenet started in the 20th century, and not even in
the final decades of it.

NO ONE else seems to have your unique
problem in ANY Usenet group I have EVER encountered...

You haven't encountered anyone who posts while travelling?
It seems you're still stuck in the mid 20'th century where
laptops, nettops, notebooks, tablets, smartphones and even PDAs
SIMPLY DON'T EXIST? Do computers still weight at least 25 kg
and use a heavy CRT in your world and therefore won't travel?

-Wolfgang

Savageduck wrote:

It appears Wolfgang's circumstances do not permit him the luxury of a
24/7 broadband internet connection (My provider is Charter Cable and
serves me well at more than adequate speed 24/7).

How do they manage to supply planes and trains?

However his Usenet
client permits him to download new headers and posts for offline
reading. He can then compose his responses offline to send whenever he
rejoins the world. The unfortunate thing for us is, his Usenet client
date & time stamps them at the date and time of composition, not the
time of actual posting.

Technically, you're wrong. There is a usenet server between
the client and the upstream servers, which lives on the laptop.
The client therefore can't add the date stamp of whenever the
server uplinks to his server, and of course the server is not
allowed to change such info.

Immediacy does not seem to be a concern for him.

If you want immediate, go use a phone or a chat of some sort.
Email is store and forward, Usenet is flood fill, both are
only bet effort.

-Wolfgang

On 3/4/2013 6:08 PM, John Turco wrote:
On 3/2/2013 10:39 AM, PeterN wrote:

heavily edited for brevity

If I felt I could get the image quality I like, with a lighter weight
camera, I would do so in a flash.


Pun intended?

John

No. I gave up punning, ever since I tried to make ten people laugh by
making ten different puns, and no pun in ten did.

--
PeterN