D750 hand-held in poor light

On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 01:39:59 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

On Monday, 22 June 2015 05:30:26 UTC-4, Eric Stevens wrote:
I've only just started processing some 1200 shots from a river cruise
and these are the ones with which I was only just starting to come to
grips with the camera. These three shots were made in the Maritime
Museum in Amsterdam. All objects were within dimly lit glass cabinets:

Ship's figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500335.jpg

More figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500337.jpg

Decorative carvings
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500339.jpg

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Regards,

Eric Stevens

Very sharp, clean images. I remember years ago sneaking a monopod into a museum because I didn't want to have to shoot at 1600 ISO for fear of noise.

That's one of my first impressions of the D750: when the termor of my
aging hands doesn't take over, the behaviour of the stabilised Tamron
24~70mm lens lets me get away with exposures which previously would
have been over the limit. Further these three shots were made at 1000
ISO and under exposed by 1/2 a stop (I was trying to avoid burning out
highlights). I was expecting some sign of noise but there was
virtually none. Later I went to ISO 1250 with much the same result. I
could have pushed harder but being so far from a decent display I
didn't want to push things. Now that I'm back home I will see how much
further I can go.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:30:20 +1200, Eric Stevens
wrote:

I've only just started processing some 1200 shots from a river cruise
and these are the ones with which I was only just starting to come to
grips with the camera. These three shots were made in the Maritime
Museum in Amsterdam. All objects were within dimly lit glass cabinets:

Ship's figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500335.jpg

More figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500337.jpg

Decorative carvings
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500339.jpg


About 50% of the original taken at 1/10 sec hand held at f/2.8 in poor
light. 1250 ISO.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500383.jpg

Not really good enough.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 6/27/2015 12:33 AM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:30:20 +1200, Eric Stevens
wrote:

I've only just started processing some 1200 shots from a river cruise
and these are the ones with which I was only just starting to come to
grips with the camera. These three shots were made in the Maritime
Museum in Amsterdam. All objects were within dimly lit glass cabinets:

Ship's figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500335.jpg

More figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500337.jpg

Decorative carvings
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500339.jpg


About 50% of the original taken at 1/10 sec hand held at f/2.8 in poor
light. 1250 ISO.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500383.jpg

Not really good enough.


Not bad. Have you tried pushing the ISO to 50k?
The articulating viewfinder has me excited.



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PeterN

Eric Stevens wrote:
I've only just started processing some 1200 shots from a river cruise
and these are the ones with which I was only just starting to come to
grips with the camera. These three shots were made in the Maritime
Museum in Amsterdam. All objects were within dimly lit glass cabinets:

Ship's figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500335.jpg

More figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500337.jpg

Decorative carvings
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500339.jpg


Hi,

Nice images. The last one, the lion's head, looks quite similar to one
that I took many years ago in Stockholm. The sailing warship Vasa had
been found and raised,and was housed in a waterproof quonset hut while
being sprayed with ethylene glycol to prevent the fragile wood from
falling apart after several hundred years under water. I wonder if that
was a naval symbol, or just a symbol of courage and strength.

Mort Linder

On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:55:37 -0400, PeterN
wrote:

On 6/27/2015 12:33 AM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:30:20 +1200, Eric Stevens
wrote:

I've only just started processing some 1200 shots from a river cruise
and these are the ones with which I was only just starting to come to
grips with the camera. These three shots were made in the Maritime
Museum in Amsterdam. All objects were within dimly lit glass cabinets:

Ship's figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500335.jpg

More figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500337.jpg

Decorative carvings
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500339.jpg


About 50% of the original taken at 1/10 sec hand held at f/2.8 in poor
light. 1250 ISO.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500383.jpg

Not really good enough.


Not bad. Have you tried pushing the ISO to 50k?
The articulating viewfinder has me excited.

I have yet to try a really high ISO. At the time I was at the
beginning of the tour and new to the camera (still struggling to come
to grips with the focussing/exposure system). I had a long way to go
(more than a thousand more exposures it turned out). I had decided I
was going to come back with pictures, not just test images, so I
didn't push anything.

I arrived back with congested lungs (hawk-spit) and then a power
glitch took out my network printer. I've only managed to do
intermittent editing since. I will try something more extreme soon.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 6/27/2015 5:51 PM, Mort wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:
I've only just started processing some 1200 shots from a river cruise
and these are the ones with which I was only just starting to come to
grips with the camera. These three shots were made in the Maritime
Museum in Amsterdam. All objects were within dimly lit glass cabinets:

Ship's figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500335.jpg

More figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500337.jpg

Decorative carvings
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500339.jpg


Hi,

Nice images. The last one, the lion's head, looks quite similar to one
that I took many years ago in Stockholm. The sailing warship Vasa had
been found and raised,and was housed in a waterproof quonset hut while
being sprayed with ethylene glycol to prevent the fragile wood from
falling apart after several hundred years under water. I wonder if that
was a naval symbol, or just a symbol of courage and strength.

Interesting observation: I had no recollection of a lion in Norse
mythology, so I Googled this page:

http://www.viking-mythology.com/animals.php

The closest I came was this, which states the possibility that the
Vikings involved may have been Athenian.

http://www.vikingrune.com/2008/11/piraeus-lion/

I then Googled Lion norse mythology, I found no comparable image:

https://www.google.com/search?q=lion+norse+mythology&biw=1280&bih=650&tbm =isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=diaPVaOYMouQyAS9uI D4Aw&ved=0CCoQsAQ

http://tinyurl.com/pscyxgc

My conclusion is that it was most probably intended to be a decorative
symbol, most likely not an official symbol.

http://www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/collections/by-type/figureheads

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PeterN

On 6/27/2015 6:35 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:55:37 -0400, PeterN
wrote:

On 6/27/2015 12:33 AM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 21:30:20 +1200, Eric Stevens
wrote:

I've only just started processing some 1200 shots from a river cruise
and these are the ones with which I was only just starting to come to
grips with the camera. These three shots were made in the Maritime
Museum in Amsterdam. All objects were within dimly lit glass cabinets:

Ship's figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500335.jpg

More figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500337.jpg

Decorative carvings
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500339.jpg


About 50% of the original taken at 1/10 sec hand held at f/2.8 in poor
light. 1250 ISO.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500383.jpg

Not really good enough.


Not bad. Have you tried pushing the ISO to 50k?
The articulating viewfinder has me excited.

I have yet to try a really high ISO. At the time I was at the
beginning of the tour and new to the camera (still struggling to come
to grips with the focussing/exposure system). I had a long way to go
(more than a thousand more exposures it turned out). I had decided I
was going to come back with pictures, not just test images, so I
didn't push anything.

I arrived back with congested lungs (hawk-spit) and then a power
glitch took out my network printer. I've only managed to do
intermittent editing since. I will try something more extreme soon.


In about 3 week, I hope to get my hands on one for some real world testing

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PeterN

PeterN wrote:
On 6/27/2015 5:51 PM, Mort wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:
I've only just started processing some 1200 shots from a river cruise
and these are the ones with which I was only just starting to come to
grips with the camera. These three shots were made in the Maritime
Museum in Amsterdam. All objects were within dimly lit glass cabinets:

Ship's figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500335.jpg

More figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500337.jpg

Decorative carvings
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500339.jpg


Hi,

Nice images. The last one, the lion's head, looks quite similar to one
that I took many years ago in Stockholm. The sailing warship Vasa had
been found and raised,and was housed in a waterproof quonset hut while
being sprayed with ethylene glycol to prevent the fragile wood from
falling apart after several hundred years under water. I wonder if that
was a naval symbol, or just a symbol of courage and strength.

Interesting observation: I had no recollection of a lion in Norse
mythology, so I Googled this page:

http://www.viking-mythology.com/animals.php

The closest I came was this, which states the possibility that the
Vikings involved may have been Athenian.

http://www.vikingrune.com/2008/11/piraeus-lion/

I then Googled Lion norse mythology, I found no comparable image:

https://www.google.com/search?q=lion+norse+mythology&biw=1280&bih=650&tbm =isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=diaPVaOYMouQyAS9uI D4Aw&ved=0CCoQsAQ


http://tinyurl.com/pscyxgc

My conclusion is that it was most probably intended to be a decorative
symbol, most likely not an official symbol.

http://www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/collections/by-type/figureheads

--
PeterN


Did you try to Google the ship "Vasa" in Stockholm? There are several
sites, including the official museum site. The ship started out on its
maiden voyage, and almost immediately , it sank right in the harbor, in
full view of families and friends on the shore.

Mort Linder

On 6/27/2015 9:38 PM, Mort wrote:
PeterN wrote:
On 6/27/2015 5:51 PM, Mort wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:
I've only just started processing some 1200 shots from a river cruise
and these are the ones with which I was only just starting to come to
grips with the camera. These three shots were made in the Maritime
Museum in Amsterdam. All objects were within dimly lit glass cabinets:

Ship's figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500335.jpg

More figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500337.jpg

Decorative carvings
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500339.jpg


Hi,

Nice images. The last one, the lion's head, looks quite similar to one
that I took many years ago in Stockholm. The sailing warship Vasa had
been found and raised,and was housed in a waterproof quonset hut while
being sprayed with ethylene glycol to prevent the fragile wood from
falling apart after several hundred years under water. I wonder if that
was a naval symbol, or just a symbol of courage and strength.

Interesting observation: I had no recollection of a lion in Norse
mythology, so I Googled this page:

http://www.viking-mythology.com/animals.php

The closest I came was this, which states the possibility that the
Vikings involved may have been Athenian.

http://www.vikingrune.com/2008/11/piraeus-lion/

I then Googled Lion norse mythology, I found no comparable image:

https://www.google.com/search?q=lion+norse+mythology&biw=1280&bih=650&tbm =isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=diaPVaOYMouQyAS9uI D4Aw&ved=0CCoQsAQ



http://tinyurl.com/pscyxgc

My conclusion is that it was most probably intended to be a decorative
symbol, most likely not an official symbol.

http://www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/collections/by-type/figureheads

--
PeterN


Did you try to Google the ship "Vasa" in Stockholm? There are several
sites, including the official museum site. The ship started out on its
maiden voyage, and almost immediately , it sank right in the harbor, in
full view of families and friends on the shore.

Mort Linder

I saw that.
Is it conincidental that one of the translations of "Vasa" from Swedish
to English is "fizzle"?

From Google Translate:
Translations of väsa

verb
hiss väsa, fräsa, utvissla, vina
wheeze kikna, väsa, pipa
fizz fräsa, väsa, pärla, moussera
fizzle fräsa, väsa


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PeterN

On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:51:44 -0400, Mort wrote:

Eric Stevens wrote:
I've only just started processing some 1200 shots from a river cruise
and these are the ones with which I was only just starting to come to
grips with the camera. These three shots were made in the Maritime
Museum in Amsterdam. All objects were within dimly lit glass cabinets:

Ship's figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500335.jpg

More figureheads
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500337.jpg

Decorative carvings
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500339.jpg


Hi,

Nice images. The last one, the lion's head, looks quite similar to one
that I took many years ago in Stockholm. The sailing warship Vasa had
been found and raised,and was housed in a waterproof quonset hut while
being sprayed with ethylene glycol to prevent the fragile wood from
falling apart after several hundred years under water. I wonder if that
was a naval symbol, or just a symbol of courage and strength.


Do you mean the Lion as shown in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbxqiodbjTI ?
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Regards,

Eric Stevens