Tom_Bruno

The SpiderPro holster changed my whole attitude towards using my DSLR's. I also hate the neck straps, can't stand how they feel, unresponsive and all that. So I too wrapped the neck strap around my wrist, and that got me through the day, but also not comfortable and made my wrist ache after a few hours. I do use a hand strap for my compact camera, but the DSLR puts too much strain on the wrist to use all day.

Then -- music, please -- I discovered the SpiderPro belt holster. Wow! It's on a belt around my waist, much easier on my body than a neck or wrist strap. Can rotate it left or right, keep it comfortable. The DSLR clicks into the holster, leaves hands free, and when you want to shoot, you just grab the camera and bingo! it's out of the holster and up in your hand.

Genius! In my photo activities, it was, and is, life changing!

Terrific article. And of course it's true. For quite some time now, cameras and lenses have been excellent, more than enough for all but a few special needs. Great images are possible with any of the current offerings, used skillfully.

My D750 handles everything I use it for. The limit is me, not the camera. On any day, I would love new gear, but at some point using what I've already got, which is of high quality, makes more sense.

I suspected that coffee machines are filled with friendly spirits. Now my instincts have been confirmed! Good work!

Agree completely. "Man in air at distance," sums up the boring, posed nature of nearly all these shots. For me, especially annoying was the moron flipping a skateboard within a body's length of a sheer 1,000 foot cliff. It appears staged, or created in Photoshop, and may well have been.

Hmmm: Creative? Beautiful? Original? Genius? Well, naaa.

Interesting, and somewhat disappointing. Specifically, the noise reduction! The first thing I noticed when watching this video is that the NR is so heavy-handed the skin has no pores, and looks like flesh-colored ceramic. Like an AI animation. The effect jumps out at you! It might not be so bad if there's a way to adjust it to more sane, semi-realistic levels.

So where's the Canon G9Xii?

I have that camera, and I love it. I compared its output with that of the RX100vii, and it was close enough that for me the Sony wasn't worth the extra premium. Plus, I prefer the skin tones, for all nationalities that I've shot, as well as landscape tones. And, for me the menu and ease of use of the G9X is far more user friendly than the Sony.
Last, and by no means least, the G9xii is truly pocket size! It's the smallest 1" camera with advanced settings on the market. I love it! It should have been included here.

Nice! Okay, I want it!!

Mind-blowing detail and color depth. Simply amazing images.
For my next billboard commission, I'll get one of these. Until then, this level of technology -- commercially available! -- qualifies as art and beauty, and I'll appreciate it on that level. Thanks for posting these.

Great video! Very informative, top tips from a top pro that you can actually use. His ability to communicate and teach these basic but incredibly useful techniques is awesome. Loved it! Thanks for posting this.

It's a closed group. Can't view any pictures. Do you know any other examples?

Ummm - so what? Another big yawwnnnn here. New York from above. I do believe I've seen that before. Once or twice. At least once daily if you watch TV. Hi res? I suppose, although on a computer monitor it looks about the same.
That's the problem with ultra-high res: It doesn't say anything different, all by itself. Technology alone is not involving. CGI graphics have looked sharper for years. What's needed is creativity, and an aerial shot of NYC is markedly un-creative.

Yawwwnnn. I'm sorry, but this picture is like, so what? Just because you can do it?
It's London, day and night. I've seen that before. So what's new here? Are we impressed at its gigapixel size? Again, yawnnn. Who is going to actually look at this? Maybe it's of some use as advertising for the virtual reality sponsor, but come on. Art? A machine made it. Compelling? No.

Musical bands, for years now, have to pay the NFL huge amounts of money to play as the half-time entertainers at the Super Bowl. You'd think the NFL would have to pay for their talent and abilities -- but instead they're ripping off the artists. Here too.
Sheesh.

Right. These are more to show the abilities of the camera in difficult and extreme lighting conditions. There are useful pairings of ooc jpegs coupled with files edited to taste in camera raw, which show a fairly enormous DR on this camera. I'm impressed! Your average snapshooting character (me, for example) can rescue descent shots out of horrendous contrasty shadows with the 7500. A good and useful group of samples.

"Unless it's a picture of Elvis stepping out of a UFO ~ in perfect focus, expertly composed and with beautiful bokeh, mind you..."
...And unless there's high rez audio, with him singing 'All Shook Up" with girl aliens doing backup, nobody's gonna care. Too many too many snaps and selfies already, arrgghhh.

Terrific shot! Very engaging. The elephants look like they're having a lot of fun.

There are some nonsense posts here, about animals being "tortured." No, no. These guys are lovingly pampered by their handlers. The real risk for elephants is when they're in their "natural" setting in the wild, and being killed by poachers. These guys have a terrific, safe, loving home. And they're very clever, agile and photogenic. Good stuff!

It's getting pret-ty wild. Pretty soon you'll be able to make anything look like anything else, and anybody to look like who you want. Cameras? Who needs 'em?

Check out this link about a "neural photo editor." Play the short video to get the idea:

http://petapixel.com/2016/09/27/neural-photo-editor-like-fully-automatic-photoshop/

It's a wild world, in that there Photoshop place.

Yes, Thom was instrumental here. On his own website, bythom.com, he has been presenting knowledgeable business analyses of the compelling need for a D300s replacement, for years. He has met with top Nikon executives. They know him. They respect him.

I'm sure all the folks here have made a compelling case for Nikon to make the D500. DPR forum members have been vocal and unanimous in clamoring for a true D300s replacement. Nikon has surely been motivated by all of us here. After all, we're the ones spending the money that keeps them in business!

The only mystery is -- why didn't Nikon figure this out themselves? Why should it take years of customers vocal insistence to come out with a camera that's bound to be a big seller? Even more mysterious, why did Nikon opt instead for a camera no one was asking for, the One series?

Ah, the mysterious East. But they are making great cameras still. Congrats to Nikon -- and to us.

I LOVE my D750! I love it more than my D800E. A lot more, actually. It's powerful, compact, feels great in the hands, solid strong build, so far quite weatherproof, very quick focus, phenomenal detail in the images, amazing DR, amazing in low light, full bracketing options. And a flippy screen, which one day I might actually use.

Negatives? Nothing serious I can think of. It's easily the best camera I've ever owned. And, I repeat, that includes the D800E.

I would agree on the D750 being the best of the year. And not just because I own it. The D750 has (temporarily) calmed my gear lust. It's that good. It's a pure delight. You just want to keep using it!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR,
to all DPR staff and members!

As you said on the front page, it was obviously a slow news day.