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There are no updates for Capture 4x for the newer bodies. I agree that NX is less useful in a high-volume workflow, although it does a very good job of conversion in its more recent versions. It is very hard to work with a large number of images efficiently due to the way the software interface is put together.

Still, it is better for use with the newer bodies than Lightroom in my experience, and better than a combination of Photoshop and AdobeRAW. The closest results to NX comes from the use of Capture One Pro, and that is my default software option for use with Canon bodies -- for someone with both Canon and Nikon bodies, it is probably the best overall option.

With the newer Nikon bodies, I'd say that you should work with NX and suck up the loss of efficiency to gain the quality of output (hoping that some day the software engineers will consider the needs of photographers who regularly work several hundred images in a single session).

Ron
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Those images were mostly shot with D2h, D2Hs and D2x, although there are some from the D1x and D1h and even a few from the original D1. The images with X in the shot number are D2x shots. Any images with HS in the shot number are D2Hs shots. Other images have no designator, and you'd have to use an EXIF reader to see which camera body was used. For the Yosemite pages, it's pretty easy for me to ID the images for you:

Images shot during the summer were taken with the original D1.
Images shot during March were taken with a D1x, except for two portrait images
of Sentinel Rock, which were taken with the D1h.
Images taken in May were D2h shots, except for those with designators.

Ron
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Ron Reznick
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Hope things are well with you. Its been a long time since I've see you post. Drop me a mail, It would be great to hear how you've been.

Pete
 
Just got back from a camping trip or I'd have posted sooner, great to see you back in the thick of things!!!
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Kevin in CT
'and the years are gambled and lost, like summer wages' - Ian Tyson
 
Great stuff Ron. It has been quite a while since I visited your site and either I remember incorrectly or you have added many images since then. Regardless, great job on both the photos and the site. Not only are your photos very well executed but your choices with subject matter are excellent also. Things and places I'm interested in as well in other words.

The Antelope Canyon and the Sequoia shots being a couple of things that caught my eye in particular, such as the 2,000+ year old "Grizzly Giant". It has been a long, long time since I have been to CA (I was around 9-10 years of age) but I do remember we visited both Sequoia National Park and a Redwood Park. Not sure what the names of them were in the late 1960's or exactly what locations we visited but I do remember being very impressed, even as a child. Didn't there used to be some sort of nightly firefall ritual in Yosemite?. I have a faint recollection of that and I think I had a postcard of it at one time.

I'm also old enough to remember when park rangers were allowing tourists feed the bears by hand at Yellowstone NP. The bears wore ribbons that were supposed to give people an idea of their temperament. Man, how things have changed since then...

Enjoyed the commentary accompanying the photos as well, I wish more folks would follow suit there.

Thanks again Ron and I will continue to visit your site in the future, hopefully it benefits you in some way eventually ;)

Keith
 
Hi Keith,

There did used to be a firefall every night. It started in 1872 when James McCauley pushed his campfire off of Glacier Point. He owned the hotel on Glacier Point, and was the guy who built the Four Mile Trail up to the point from the valley. Anyway, it became a ritual, and they even tossed some gunny sacks soaked with kerosene and the occasional dynamite bomb. Later (around 1900), the Currys made it a nightly thing until it was abolished temporarily between 1913 and 1917. It was finally discontinued for good in 1968.

They used to use garbage to attract the bears so people could see them up close. They don't do that any more either...

Thanks for the compliments, Keith. I definitely have done a LOT of work on the site since you were there last.

Ron
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Ron Reznick said:
Hi Keith,

There did used to be a firefall every night. It started in 1872 when James McCauley pushed his campfire off of Glacier Point. He owned the hotel on Glacier Point, and was the guy who built the Four Mile Trail up to the point from the valley. Anyway, it became a ritual, and they even tossed some gunny sacks soaked with kerosene and the occasional dynamite bomb. Later (around 1900), the Currys made it a nightly thing until it was abolished temporarily between 1913 and 1917. It was finally discontinued for good in 1968.
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Yes, I looked it up on the internet tonight, our family must have been there one of the last (or very last) years they did it.
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They used to use garbage to attract the bears so people could see them up close. They don't do that any more either...
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I also looked up the history of bear feeding at Yellowstone, evidently they began to discourage that in 1970. What I said about tagging the bears is the truth as far as I can remember. I remember asking a ranger what the ribbons meant and his response was something along the lines of: blue - tame and approachable, red - caution, feeding not recommended. So I must have been out there for one of the last years of that as well.

Something else I will never forget about that trip - we were feeding bears outside of our automobile (probably not a great idea looking back :)) and my sister had a bag of marshmellows, She was feeding a cub when the cub decided it wanted the entire bag. At the same time my sister decided she didn't want to give up the bag. As my sister and the cub were wrestling with this bag of my marshmellows a larger bear (probably the mother) started lumbering towards the action. I can still remember my mother screaming, "Give it the &!#@! marshmellows!". I'm serious, that actually happened. And there were rangers around too, it wasn't like we were renegade bear feeders :) Yes, I realize now that feeding wild bears was not a very good idea, for humans or the bears.

Check this out while I have your attention; I was in Colorado a few weeks ago and I overheard someone on a trail say something about a wolverine being spotted in Rocky Mountain National Park. I didn't really believe that this could be possible that far south, so didn't think much about it until I came home. I then found some articles on the internet about it.

http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/estes_park_news/EPN_07-03-09_webfile/2009070201/13.html
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Thanks for the compliments, Keith. I definitely have done a LOT of work on the site since you were there last.
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It shows, great job. I enjoy your lens review section too by the way.

Keith
 
Just Eastern CT but we rented a popup camper. These old bones are done sleeping on the ground :))
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Kevin in CT
'and the years are gambled and lost, like summer wages' - Ian Tyson
 
Here Here!!
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Kevin in CT
'and the years are gambled and lost, like summer wages' - Ian Tyson
 
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