PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG

Yes - not kidding… Within 25 hours of getting my D3 I can say it has earned it self back…

Got my D3 yestoday noon from a place i ordered from on 24th of august.

Today at noon - i’m leaving the office - waling over to enable the alarm - while I hear some unusual noise from our dining room on gound level.

I go down and investigate - with all my stuff incl. my backpack, the D3 with 14-24 lens and whatever else was attached

and then I see a burgelar is at his game at our patio door at the company. I knock on the window to ask what he thinks he is doing - and he looks at me…

I then remember I have my D3 - and get the lens hood of the leans and just started shooting pictures… while he started running - I run through the building to “catch” him on the other side - and got even more photoes.

Called police and they came - handed them RAW and JPGs and now I think I saved myself at LEAST the price of the D3.. both in repairs and what else a stupid guy could steal and mess up in our offices.

Even with alarm in the building - it still takes alarm company 10-20 min. to turn up…

(and sorry - police told me not to post pictures in public before his is convicted - but got 40 pictures - and police said - best Crime Scene pictures they had ever gotten -

The pictures are not that good “photographic quality” since i just “pointed and shot” at whatever the camera setting was - but it worked…..

Have a great New Year - I know I will and I like my D3 very very much today.

You don’t need to rebut, and you are welcome to keep using cheap 1 gig cards to feed your cameras for all time, as far as I am concerned. How many RAW shots do you get with a 1 gig card on a 10 MP digital camera like Canon 40D? How much card swapping do you have to do in a busy day of shooting? How do you store full cards after you swap them?

If you really own a photo lab, and really see multiple zapped CF cards every week, you support my perspective, even though you are not wiling to think it through.

Recent generation, large capacity cards have a far longer mean time between random failure than older, smaller cards. That is simply a function of the advance in technology (paralleled by the hard drive, and CPU industries), and is not subject to serious debate. It is what it is, and it is a super fine record of longevity that has been built by high capacity cards.

The fact that you claim to see so many zapped CF cards each week (I doubt it, but you claim it to be true) also supports my contention that if you have a highly reliable large capacity card, and don’t mess with it, you will likely never have problems with the card over a lifetime of heavy use.

When you pop CF cards in and out of the camera slot every time you transfer images, or every 80 shots or so that it takes to fill up a small card, you beg for trouble in the form of worn contacts, and zapped cards.

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