Happy Hippos

What a lazy day! Munching on hay or lounging in a pool were these two's choices.

OK I'm not much of a hippo guy but still some nice shots. Now if you had a gator or two I'd feel right at home.

BTW two questions about your recent photos of you don'y mind:

1. Are you shooting in RAW format
2. What has been a typical duke size (uncompressed). Rough approximation is sufficient for what I am trying to figure out.

Slydude said:

OK I'm not much of a hippo guy but still some nice shots. Now if you had a gator or two I'd feel right at home.

BTW two questions about your recent photos of you don'y mind:

1. Are you shooting in RAW format
2. What has been a typical duke size (uncompressed). Rough approximation is sufficient for what I am trying to figure out.

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The pure RAW files ring in around 42Meg each. I process to 20"x30" or 30"x20" Jpegs at around 8 Meg, depending on how much processing I do. That's big enough to do any print size I'd desire. I only shoot in RAW.

That answers a lot of questions. The wife and I were trying to figure out what we would do next vacation to not have to take the MB Pro. We were thinking to pull the photos off of the camera's memory card and upload them to iCloud if we started running out of space.

Our current camera is a Canon point and shoot for portability. It does not do RAW (Tiff maybe I don't remember). I don't really need better camera but since when did that stop anybody.

Slydude said:

That answers a lot of questions. The wife and I were trying to figure out what we would do next vacation to not have to take the MB Pro. We were thinking to pull the photos off of the camera's memory card and upload them to iCloud if we started running out of space.

Our current camera is a Canon point and shoot for portability. It does not do RAW (Tiff maybe I don't remember). I don't really need better camera but since when did that stop anybody.

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I'm using my new Nikon D800 camera and good lenses. The camera uses a 36.3MP sensor that creates incredibly detailed, sharp photographs when focused properly. The color saturation at that high pixel count is unreal. I do have some of my work made into 30"x20" gallery wrap canvas prints but mainly simply display them on the web. I make a lot of prints at Christmas time and special occasions. I also own a beautiful Nikon D7000 that I am trying to sell as the D800 is leaps & bounds superior to it.

Nice gear. When we were planning a trip to Arizona I think I looked at both of those as potential cameras. The wife talked me into a point and shoot for portability. She also pointed out that i have absolutely no clue how to make good use of either of the cameras you have. Still thinking I might upgrade soon though.

One can never have too many cameras . . . ..

Razormac said:

One can never have too many cameras . . . ..

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I didn't even mention my pocket Leica V-LUX 20 that takes shots like this:

Very nice!