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Location: big island | i've got a like-new ovation elite 2078T with ohsc that i would be interested in trading for a nice digital slr camera. looking for a camera with at least 8 megapixels, preferably a nikon, canon, sony or olympus. must be slr with a similar market value of around $600. please pm me if interested. mahalo! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Hey Randy, see if you can get Damon to sell you one of his. His cameras all take really good pics. |
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Location: Jet City | Don't have an SLR. Don't have 8mp+ either. My setup cost around $1200 new, but it's 4 years old now. Worthless in the technology market. You could get my setup pretty cheap now.
I just found the camera for $140 BIN on eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/Nikon-Coolpix-5700-5-0-Megapixel-Excellent-Cond...
And the flash for $85
http://cgi.ebay.com/NIKON-SB-50-DX-flash_W0QQitemZ310060754202QQihZ...
$225 for both, what a bargain. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | So it's not the equipment that makes for good pictures. It must be talent. Sort of like when someone else plays my guitars, they sound much better. |
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Location: big island | i meant SLR type, rather than a pocket digital camera. and one with an adjustable hot shoe flash.
i'm cash poor and have a few more guitars than i really need. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Originally posted by lanaki:
i'm cash poor and have a few more guitars than i really need. No such thing Randy. |
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Location: big island | which part? |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | the guitar part. |
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Location: big island | well...i said "need". which has nothing in common with "want". |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by lanaki:
well...i said "need". which has nothing in common with "want". True. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | spoken by 2 people who know!
I'll bow out now...better late than never. |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
So it's not the equipment that makes for good pictures. It must be talent. Mixture of everything. If you don't have the "eyes" for the motive, how would the cam have them?
But it's easier to take "good" pictures with a ritsch-ratsch-click than with a SLR. "Good" means good in the eyes of the normal viewer.
Pocket cams are built to show everything sharp, from the guitar in the front up to the mountains and trees in the back. They have algorythms built in and other stuff I don't understand, that sharpen the picture "right out of the cam", so the average user and viewer says "Wow, this picture is great". Because regular meaning is "sharp is good".
And even if you have the possibility to stop the aperture on your pocket, the camera inside will do stuff, a SLR - and I am speaking of a SLR in a NON-MOTIVE-PROGRAMM - won't do.
That's why people often wonder - after years of digital pocketing - when they buy a DSLR, the pics look like S#%t to them. Because not everything in the picture is sharp.
But if you learn to understand the cam, don't let "her" decide, what the photographer should decide - and accept, that sharp is not the only quality attribute - a DSLR can be great!
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Location: Munich, Germany | For example...
I doubt you would be able to make a picture like this with a pocket.
So, now you say, this picture is crap? Everything but the guitar is blurry and not sharp?
Okay, then, buy a pocket.
Best regards,
Kurt |
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Great Kurt, now I've got to clean the drool out of my keyboard. Thanks a lot! ;) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Oh the pain .... |
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Location: SoCal | I never used to like that color, but it's seriously growing on me.
With the new digital cameras, if you take the time to learn them, you can do almost anything that you used to do with a 35mm SLR. But reading thru that instruction manual...... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Kick, Kick, Kick ... |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
So it's not the equipment that makes for good pictures. It must be talent. Sort of like when someone else plays my guitars, they sound much better. That's good equipment I listed it's just older. I'm saying you don't have to spend a whole freakin' guitar's worth on your stuff.
And unless you plan on printing poster sized prints, 8 MP is overkill. |
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Location: big island | i need the 8 mp for A/V services that i am offering in my video production business, like poster-sized prints.
and that -9 is amazing, kurt. did you buy it from dave, or is he just kicking himself for selling one like it? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Lots to be said for framing shots as well.
This is my 1688-7 in my back yard as photographed w/the wife's Nikon D-40X (10.2 meg.)
This was shot with my Kodak 7.2 meg:
I like both camera's; the Nikon has capablities I have not explored yet.
Randy, ebay might be the best shot for you... |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Originally posted by lanaki:
did you buy it from dave, or is he just kicking himself for selling one like it? I really don't know what's bothering Gallerina.
I bought the 1687-9 from a very nice guy. No, two guys. Or was it three...? Can't remember exactly.
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Ah, that's better.
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Muzz, nice photoshop, but I prefer the broccoli. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | If I ever happened to somehow own one of these, the headstock would end up looking like the one I'm checking out for you this afternoon.
I can't tell you how much I hate them. |
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Location: SoCal | Some people have way too much time on their hands.... |
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Location: big island | i think the broccoli (acanthus) headstocks on a six stringer would look better if they were more tapered towards the top, similar to a twelve string. i'm not sure how to describe it, but i've always thought the adamas 1 headstocks on a six stringer look rather stark. there's a bit too much barren space between the pegs in relation to the rest of the headstock. the sound and playability more than makes up for the aesthetics though. |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Randy, a good thing about the huge amount of chunky, unuseful wood on the A I headstock: You could easily make a slothead out of it.
Regards, Kurt |
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wanna trade my nearly new ovation for your camera?