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  • Thanks, man.

  • Support for an 800mm lens..

  • Was on the fence between the D600 and 6D, the dust/oil thing was a major deciding factor... And the 40mm pancake.

    Also flickr is awful.

  • oh god flickr looks like photobucket.

    It looks like they took a bunch of templates and stylesheets and mixed them up.
    Margins and padding and colours and stuff are all over the shop. Not to mention there is a background image on every fucking element. Why?!

  • Support for an 800mm lens..

    I read that [on the Nikon site] after downloading, and mid-update. I could have spent that five minutes dicking around on facebook.

  • New Flickr looks so wank. Time to make my own hosting site maybe. Always wanted to.

  • It is a bit hard to look at other peoples streams because everything is so dense.
    No space to take in individual pictures.

  • the dust/oil thing

    ?

  • Was on the fence between the D600 and 6D, the dust/oil thing was a major deciding factor... And the 40mm pancake.

    Also flickr is awful.

    I am not sure how truful this actually is, I know just about every single review and blog and forum have mentioned / discussed the dust / oil problem, but I am still hopeful that people just like amplifying stuff on the Internet. I am going to pay another visit to Fixation to have a chat with them. Didn't Nikon issue a statment that they will clean the sensor for free for as long as the problem presists? If that's the case then I think it's worth the risk. Espeically I am only 10 mins from Fixation and they do a same day service.

    I like the Canon, but Canon seems to have purposefully held back a lot of features that is on the higher end model, mark 3 for example, understandbly. Also Nikon lenses are cheaper in a long run, as I was told...

  • Yes, Nikon will clean it for free but its a real issue. A photographer we use at work regularly shoots with a D800 and I constantly have to clone-stamp any photos with sky in them. The extra resolution on the D600 is nice and the low is dynamic range is as good as it gets if you constantly pull-up shadows but the 6D has the best high iso of any camera other than a 1dx... Have a look at the dpreview comparison thingy.
    Its all swings and roundabouts and if you have any Nikon lenses then you might as well get the D600.

  • Also the WiFi live view using a phone is a nice touch.

  • So the D800 has the same problem??

  • Nah. Just it's 36mp so you can see EVERYTHING. I'd stay get a 2nd hand D700 rather than a new D600.

  • D7000, D600 & D800 all do it...

    D700 is really really nice.

  • Very, very long shot, but I'm looking to borrow (or rent for next to nothing) a Nikon fit 70-200mm 2.8 or thereabouts for a work event on Thursday in Cambridge. Nikon, Sigma, Tamron - I'll take anything fast with autofocus!

    I was a semi-pro tog but since packing in I sold my tele set-up which was a D300 and Sigma 50-150 2.8. I'm left with my D700, a couple of wide and normal zooms and primes, but nothing long.

    If not, I'll make it work with what I've got!

  • Love it.
    What did you promise them in return for that sitting?

  • Dude, I've just put my 70-200 into service! Soz. Check out lensesforhire.co.uk

  • ^ Cheers, fella. Lending a lens of that calibre and cost would be nerve-racking for both owner and borrower. I'll see if I can squeeze some money out of my boss.

  • Renting from fixation is about £30 a day... £40 with insurance.

  • That's a winner. Lovely picture.

  • I'm obsessed with Google street view. Abandoned houses in St Louis.

  • This site, of Detroit, sparked my interest in depopulated US cities.

  • I agree, they're fascinating pictures. I remember seeing a photographic series of such houses a few years ago. There would once have been full terraces into which these individual houses used to be integrated.

    Strictly speaking, the city, within the city limits, is depopulated; however, the same cannot be said of the wider metropolitan area, which is still very large and to which many of the former residents of the urban core have migrated.

    In the age of mass motorisation, American cities were de-cored by policies of 'decentralisation'. Prevalent ideas of the time included worries about quality of life in traditional cities (which at the time consisted of old houses without mod cons which often didn't get much light and unsanitary conditions, similar worries as in London, of course). The hope was that higher mobility would enable great flexibility of where people lived and where they worked, so that they could live on more land per person and in larger houses, driving their cars to wherever they needed to go. The hope was that economic activity could take place anywhere, as geographic centralisation was no longer seen as important as before for defining potential markets. Thus, you might have seven out-of-town shopping centres within half an hour's drive of a million people, and people would vote with their wheels where they wanted to go. City authorities would no longer have to invest heavily in public transportation to congested city cores (it is always important to stress that congestion is actually a symptom of success of cities), and orbital travel would take precedence over radial travel.

    To a limited extent, such policies could be beneficial; it is perfectly conceivable for a city to be over-centralised and for a little bit of loosening of the distribution of activity to be a good idea. However, in many places the policies went too far and ended up taking away the economic vitality of the core. The actual result was that the unique function of the urban centre in being able to combine many specialist activities that made not only the city but also the surrounding area vibrant and attractive was undermined by fewer people coming together there. In some places, like Detroit City, there was obviously also problems like racial segregation and industrial decline; deeply ironically in the case of Detroit, as it obviously used to be the world's largest manufacturer of the very same motor vehicles that drove decentralisation.

    The upshot are houses like these ones; probably the result of a very few people choosing to stay on while the terraces around them were demolished, although they themselves appear to have been long gone.

    The Government's disastrous 'Pathfinder' programmes enable quite a few StreetView/photographic opportunities in areas awaiting demolition in this country, too, usually still fully integrated into undemolished terraces.

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