john michael white
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John B.,
Funny you mention long exposures. As I was thinking about this late last night after my initial post, I realized that the images I was seeing this in were all images with long exposures 10 – 30 seconds. So, I think you hit the nail on the head and this is the culprit. The specs don’t show up as well on my work monitor either, but at home on my calibrated monitor, they are very bright: red or whitish green, and they look like the size of actual pixels. What can be done, other than a lot of cloning to edit these hotspots out of the image? Is this charateristic of most digital camera’s when taking long exposures? Is there anything else I should be doing that will help eliminate this?
Ahhh. I was wondering if that might be it….but it looks a lot like East Tennessee to me. One of these days, I am going to have to make it up to the LMF.
I’ve been to Broken Bow once for a weekend retreat back in ’85.
I deleted #6 and #8 after my initial post, while Chad was probably writing his post, becasue I didn’t like them either.
Thanks for your time and input Chad.
Having been through this on a limited budget about a year and a half ago, here are my thoughts for what it’s worth.
If I had a way to save up and could afford new, I would probably do that…realizing that the latest and greatest that I bought may be obsolete in the next year or two (doesn’t mean its not a great camera, just the technological advances are very rapid these days). You might be better served buying used, from a reputable source, and this may be a way to get into a nice DSLR that you otherwise couldn’t. Such was my case.
I kept putting off the switch from my film SLR until a) I could affford it and b) I felt like the camera technology in my price range was worth it. At the time, about 1 1/2 years ago, I decided to make the switch and my budget could only afford about $450 for a new body. I ended up getting a used Canon 10D from the origional owner off of ebay. It has been a great camera, and was extremely well taken care of…basicaly just like new. So, if you have good ebay skills at sizing up the seller and the item they are selling, and only buy from people with 100% ratings, you will probably be o.k. I have heard that you should not buy lenses on ebay because people try to get rid of soft copies there, so I wouldn’t buy a lense there.
Today, I love my 10D, but as I have progressed, I can appreciate the rapid advancements in digital technology that have come out over the last several years. My 10 D is now “obsolete” by 3 later models. I am really wanting to upgrade to the Canon 40D body that has the latest and greatest and is a big improvement, but don’t know that I can afford to anytime in the near future. But the bottom line is that even thought the 40D would make things “easier”, my 10D still takes great images….I may just have to work a little more and have a little less flexibilty (which is frustrating) but by the same token, that is just the facts at present.
You may want to find a good, affordable, DSLR that has a little older technolgy (3-4 years 🙁 ) and see if you enjoy it. That way you don’t break the bank and come to find out you don’t really use it that much. Just keep in mind that in a year or two, you may very well want to upgrade.
