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01/15/2004 12:34:47 PM · #1 |
Hi I am Dani.
I live in Spain and next June I will go to USA for a month, I wanna buy sony dsc-f717 I love this camera! it´s the best of all I have seen. And I want some advices about what accesories I should buy. Thanks and I am looking forward to reading some replies.
PS: Sorry about my mistakes but I don´t already speak english perfectly.
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01/15/2004 12:48:59 PM · #2 |
1. Some kind of glass filter to protect the precious lens (I use an NC filter)
2. A lens hood (either the proprietary and expensive Sony one or a WIDE generic one - WIDE to avoid vignetting. I use a rubber one.)
3. A camera bag (I use a LoewePro Stealth. It's roomier and accomodates any additional accessories you will collect in time. It also has dual raincovers.)
4. A sturdy but not very heavy tripod with quick release (snap-on) adapter (I use a Manfotto digi719B tripod)
5. A spare battery
6. Memory Stick® or Memory Stick Pro® (I use 128s and 256 MB exclusively. If I should ever loose one, I'm not out of house and home, i.e. price/module)
7. A lenspen® for cleaning and a blow brush
8. A polarizer, especially in your climes
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01/15/2004 01:19:03 PM · #3 |
plus, on top of that list :
9. an x-drive if you want to take a lot of picture and don't want to have many memory sticks.
10. a close-up filter to do macro without getting really close to the subjects
11. in Infrared and Neutral density filter if you want to do infrared.
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01/15/2004 01:20:23 PM · #4 |
> willem
Why the ND for infrared?
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01/15/2004 04:24:25 PM · #5 |
| I think you'd want a new flash also. |
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01/15/2004 04:30:11 PM · #6 |
| AC-SQ950 Adapter so you can charge up to 2 batteries while you are still taking pictures. |
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01/15/2004 05:07:47 PM · #7 |
thanks for the suggestions but I have a little problem, my budget is quite limited. I am only a begginer and I have saved $1300, and I'll go to Tulsa, and actually I don't know a cheap place where I can buy it.
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01/15/2004 05:59:08 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
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Why the ND for infrared? |
With the F7x7 series you can take infrared images in two different ways :
1) use auto mode with nightshot switched on.
Since it is auto mode it does limit your shutterspeed. Nightshot moves the internal IR blocking filter out of the way. You then need an IR filter (passes IR, blocks visible) on the lens to remove the visible light. And you need an ND8 filter to bring the shutterspeed within the range of the auto mode, otherwise it is just too bright to use during daytime. The picture turns out with black and green tones.
2) using manual mode
The internal IR blocking filter is in place, you will need long shutterspeeds to record IR, you only need the IR filter, again to pass IR but block visible light. The picture turns out with black and red tones.
I prefer the nightshot mode, with its limitations, since it is much easier to focus (you actually see a sort of B&W image on the LCD/EVF) and in windy conditions you still get foliage sharp. The manual mode is difficult to focus because it is so dark and it blurs the foliage because of the long (seconds) shutterspeed. Both need leveling and processing in PS. Here are some examples
I also like to blend color and IR images together in PS, IR layer on top of color layer and then luminosity blending mode, like this blend
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