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The 2011 Gathering of Overly Competitive People Summer Ride
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Keith Curtis making the gates
This has to be seen!!!
Jenkins stuck... or at least in the process of getting there.
Duck Dan, Duck
Burandt looking for a Christmas tree.
Near miss. Dave McClure.
Dan Adams
Keep the pics coming Mr. Harris.
So what is the deal with Mr. Cowett working with Mr. Burandt, and not Mr. Skinner?
Not sure on how it all works out, but Sahen still works with him, too.
Ryan,
Awesome pics and a great thread to keep em happy!!
Who organized this ride and got em all together??
Phatty and Jenkins... Gotta get some pics of Mr. Harris up here.
Awesome pics and a great thread to keep em happy!!
Who organized this ride and got em all together??
Phatty and Jenkins... Gotta get some pics of Mr. Harris up here.
And I forgot another rider who joined the group for the dirt ride. Sorry Luke.
Luke Rainey
Star Valley, WY
RMSHA Racer for Ski-Doo
Luke Rainey
Star Valley, WY
RMSHA Racer for Ski-Doo
It started out with Burandt and Rasmussen wanting to get a late season ride in with Boondocker. It was going to be in Colorado to begin with, but Afton worked out better for the majority of who wound up coming.
Burandt likes to drive anyway.
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What does one of these set you back with all the extras needed to be usefull??
What do you use to haul it all around in the backcountry?
Hows the learning curve?
How much do you use the auto mode or do you do a lot of tweaking?
How is the Video mode for quality?
Do you find that the VR lens' really eliminate the need for a tripod?
What do you use to haul it all around in the backcountry?
Hows the learning curve?
How much do you use the auto mode or do you do a lot of tweaking?
How is the Video mode for quality?
Do you find that the VR lens' really eliminate the need for a tripod?
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1. It's about a $2,700 body with a vertical grip add-on ($150) that turns it into a poor-man's version of the D3. The 24-70 lens is $1,700 and the 70-300 is about $600. That's the package I shoot with, so I'm about $5k into it. That's cheap compared to a full-on pro DSLR, which is around $7,000 just for the camera body. But I will say you get what you pay for. There is a big difference between the Sub-$1,000 DSLR kits and this setup, and even this compared to the D3.
2. I carry it in a Lowepro all-weather backpack. Sometimes I just use a Clik chest harness when I'm only taking the camera and one lens.
3. The learning curve is steep I guess. My wife has gone through the self-teaching process with it for portraits. I went through classes in college, plus had a lot of hands-on guidance from a pro photographer. You have to manually adjust for every parameter, so it's a long learning process.
4. I shoot in full manual. Auto never produces the right exposure. Every shot gets tweaked a little in photoshop.
5. The D700 doesn't record video. It just has outputs so you can view images on a TV. However, DLSR video is on par with feature film equipment. But it's an entirely different process and learning curve, and very time consuming. That's why any photographer is either into stills or video, rarely both.
6. I don't use VR. The 24-70 doesn't have it, and the 70-300 is too big of a zoom to be shooting anywhere that you'd need the VR on. Plus, any action shot will have to be at least shot at a 1/125 second shutter speed (usually closer to 1/1000), and you can hold the camera steady enough at that speed that it wouldn't make a difference.
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The Image end is not the problem (composition, framing, exposure)...nor is knowing my way around a camera... but that looks to be a serious piece of hardware with a lot of menu driven setups... how was that end of it?
Sounds like something that a few workshops could handle???
Sounds like something that a few workshops could handle???
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it's just one of those things where you breeze through the manual and start shooting. You figure it out as you go.
Out of curiosity, how often do you actually use the full zoom of the 70-300 lens? Do you shot everything free hand or do you carry a tri-pod out with you? I'm hoping to start taking some decent pics next year but there isn't a whole lot of info out there about winter action sport photography, so any tips or links would be great.
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