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David,
Looks like USB3 may be coming to mac.

“Next year’s Ivy Bridge will bring more Display options to Macs (and likely USB 3 since the controller is built into the Intel chipset).”

In my decision is the fact that I have already owned the #2 since before S2
and spending another $800+ for the #3 isn't motivating. On David's trip I may learn otherwise. If I were starting fresh, I would buy the #3.

I will try the test at those speeds tonight if it is clear. The star trails in a way help seeing the movement as one is observing any deviation from a straight line. Unless the camera motion happens to be on the same axis as the star movement. I'll see.

Of course there is a difference in height with a larger than #2 tripod which may make a difference in getting the angle one wishes.

Roger,
After telling you to do a test, I decided I should also. Especially after David expressed a bit of surprise that I would be going on his fall trip with such a light tripod as the Gitzo#2
Maybe if I had a 180mm I would go for the #3.

I merely did an 8 second test shot of a star on a very heavy tripod that I would never hike with…[Read more]

Roger,
I suggest you do a little testing yourself with the tripods and lenses you have. Shoot with your 5 vs the 3 and see if for your S2 lenses you notice any difference.
Recall that David has shot time exposures with truely compact tripods.
I have a series 2 Gitzo which does fit in carry on luggage. I have seen no gains using a heavier…[Read more]

Air in use:
So far very satisfied.
1.Tethering with LR3 is very nifty and fast.
Might be the best way to download images to the computer, skipping the SD slot, or CF external reader, until a CF thunderbolt reader is available. Any concerns?

2. For moving LR files/catalogs from the Air back to my iMac, I am using a 16 gig SD card for…[Read more]

Nick,
I quite agree. There were so many early postings in 2010 by S2 triers, rather than S2 owners who set up the expectation that only ISO 160 was going to be any good with the S2. But as Leica has worked with Adobe LR, the facts come out that shooting at ISO 640 is no hardship. Next they will complain that there still is no ISO…[Read more]

I saw your reach for it shot first and wondered where you were to shoot it. Perhaps this explains it as you were laying down on the job.

Kurt,
Great self portrait!
Jack

David,
You could buy this:
http://gizmodo.com/5807015/asus-ux21-matches-macbook-airs-sizes-and-scorches-its-specs

If you use your laptop as your desktop I give you a pass on my weightlifting crack.

I think Dell is terrific, there are dell products that are as light as the Air, not as well promoted, but excellent choices. A Latitude E6320 is a nice…[Read more]

Mark,
I think David wants to do weightlifting. Since he is both his own very good IT dept. and Dale has an IT dept. he can work very well with a PC. Apple is a good choice for those of us without those skills and departments.

So if he was willing to give up 8 to 16 Gig RAM capabilities with all the rest that he needs to have with him at…[Read more]

Mark,
The only noise reduction was via the Dale S2 presets for 1250.
Had I wanted to use that shot, I might have played with it a bit more, but I liked what the preset did this time.

Regarding hand holding, I thought I didn't have much more movement than the friend's shot at 1/400th, so thanks for the compliment. I did one shot at 1/25th…[Read more]

I was shooting some portraits in the deep shade with another photographer last weekend. Handheld, I had to go to 1250 to keep camera shake out of a 120mm lens. He was shooting another camera and he was amazed at what the S2 could do. He also loved the simplicity of the S controls versus his camera. The only control he missed was a dial that could…[Read more]

I like both.
That's always been a plus to extra resolution. You can create so many photographs from one scene.

I recently sold from my website what I had posted as a panorama shot, and off my website, which allows for custom cropping, the buyer cbose to crop it to a rectangle and it still had enough resolution for them to order it as a…[Read more]

Let's see if they do the other suggestions as fast as they did the bracketing suggestion. That was turn around in less than five days? Gee David, what a powerful forum.:)

Kurt,
Nice.
That was a crop down from what?
I ask since the 120 is not 1to1 as your bee would suggest.

Jack

Stuart,
Your SSD solution sounds smart.
In my case I have an iMac for studio, and the Air will be for the road.
I thought I could avoid a laptop on the road, but on every photo trip I missed it, and my old MacBook Pro is heavy, slow, maxed at 3Gig, battery that lasts 5 minutes, etc. I have given it a new battery, new hard drive, more Ram,…[Read more]

What's the advantage of the i7 vs i5 David?