Good day.  Today’s post is about an amazing camera and an amazing principle.  The camera is the 36.6 megapixel Nikon D800 DSLR.  It has been called (mainly by Nikon evangelists) the “medium format camera.”

In the highest settings shooting RAW it produces an image that is 7,360 pixels X 4,912 pixels.  Put another way that would print an image (as it came out of the camera) 31 inches X 21 inches with a resolution of 240 dots per inch (DPI.) A RAW (unprocessed) 16 bit image is 43.8 megabytes.  Compare that to a 10.7 megabyte image from the Nikon D3S.

The image above is only 500 pixels wide (the largest allowed) on this blog.  When you click on the image you can see it at 1,200 pixels, which is pretty large for most screens.  So a 7,360 pixel image is reduced by 6,160 pixels and saved as a JPEG file.  That means lots of data gets thrown out, which is usually okay for a web presentation.

Now why am I boring you with all this useless information?  The point I’m trying to make is the D800 takes such incredibly high-resolution images that you can really crop an image to change the perspective of the entire image.

I shot this scene above (for my photo of the day) with the Nikon 24 – 70 f2.8 (which is a very sharp lens.)  I keep the 24 -70 on the D800 because it is such a sharp lens and I want the image to show as much detail as possible.  However as with most things in life there is a trade-off.

My shooting style tends to be more on the telephoto side and as is the case with this shot, the combine was in a field a fair distance from where I was standing.

I couldn’t get the perspective I wanted with that lens but I knew with all those mega pixels I could crop down to the shot I wanted without any appreciable loss of detail.

So this morning as I was thinking about what images to post (it rained most of yesterday) I was very limited (actually I only had this one.)  I decided to see how far I could go with this image and still maintain a quality image.  Same image as the first one, just cropped to give it a different perspective.

And now for something completely different.  I was conducting a conflict resolution process yesterday and usually conflict results from parties having a different perspective of the same event.

Both parties saw, felt and experienced the same event or stimulus but because of their different perspectives came away with a diametrically different interpretation of the event, which then became their reality.

The process of conflict resolution (in part) is to help each understand (not agree with) the others perspective and how they might interpret the given stimulus from that view-point.

By increasing the understanding of the others viewpoint it helps mitigate the differences and promotes a more unified understanding of the event and each other.  If everything works the way it is supposed to then the conflict is resolved and we all live happily ever after.  🙂

Just like the above image.  Same image as the first one just from a different perspective.  Same stimulus just viewed from a different point of reference.  Shot with a remarkable camera by a less than stellar photographer

If you stuck with me and made it to this part I am amazed and grateful.  Thank you for checking out the blog.  Enjoy your Thursday, it is so close to Friday.  Be careful.