Costumes

Summer in pictures

Retake for Hellmet shoot

Exhibition

I was asked to participate small exhibition with theme about Finnish heroes or heroism. I chose this work and ordered the print, mounting and laminating from Dialab. Good service & quality from their side. I think somebody thought my work to be a painting :)

D700

My D300 broke and got some constant mirror problems during last shoot so I had to send it for check & repair. Somewhat annoying to get black viewfinder about 20 times during the important shoot when you should be focusing to other things than fixing camera. And repair ain't cheap either, estimate was around 300€. During the repair they open the whole camera and some of the grip rubbers need to be torn away which means extra expenses to replace those parts :/

This feels about the worst time to buy new Nikon DSRL semi-pro body, as everybody are waiting the D3s/D700 successors to be announced. As I need to have the working camera soon, I couldn't wait for next week or next month. So decided to get the D700 as all D300 my accessories (like batteries and CF memory cards) will work with it. I was thinking to get D7000, but it would have required to buy pile of SD cards, battery grip etc. 

This is first time I am not overly excited about the new camera. Absolutely nothing wrong with the camera but I feel it as more of tool than toy. I just put the custom menu settings as they were in D300, tested that all my most frequently used lenses are focusing ok with this body and stored the camera to bag to wait next shoots.

 

First impressions after taking 1000+ frames with camera. Bigger viewfinder is very nice and one of the reasons I chose FX-body. Vignetting when shooting wide open with primes is clearly more visible but easily fixed with LR/PS. High ISO IQ is improved compared to D300 (ISO 3200 and sometimes even 6400 are usable) but I might be one of the rare persons who still thinks that even D70 delivers usable results with ISO 800.
Shooting 14bit RAW files made the D300 considerably slower than with 12bit files so I kept using 12bit files. With D700, you can shoot 14bit RAWs without noticeable shutter lag. Changing to FX made me to rethink what lenses I need to carry around in camera bag. With D300, 85mm prime was long enough for tight headshots, but it feels a bit short for that when attached to D700.

Update: now after about three months of using D700, there are finally new rumors that D4 and/or D800 are coming next year. Maybe :)