Good Day and happy Friday.  I will follow yesterday’s post about the Nikon D800 36.6 megapixel DSLR for two reasons.  I have no new images for you today and a couple of my readers thought that post was interesting.

I have found with most things in life, there are positives and negatives.  The glass is half full or it is half empty.  Or as an engineer friend of mine once said the glass is improperly designed for the volume of liquid it is supposed to contain.

Yesterday I pointed out many of the positives of the D800.  Some of the negatives are it has a very slow “burst rate” of only 4 fps compared to the 11 fps of the D3S.  That means even with all its glorious detail it is not a good camera for capturing wildlife (as they tend to move a lot.)

Additionally the image file it produces is so large that it slows down my computer just doing simple processing.  I have a one year old Mac Book Pro with intel core I7 processors and 8 GB of RAM.  It smokes, until I try to process a D800 image and then it slows down noticeably.

Speaking of file size that translates into huge disk space usage.  The images of the D800 run on average of 48 MB per image.  When I typically shoot any one subject I may take as many as 10 – 20 images per subject.  So you can see that it eats up a lot of disk space in a hurry.

Finally it is an unforgiving camera.  In that if the depth of field, shutter speed, or aperture are not set precisely the softness of the subject is very apparent.  Last night for example I was attempting to photograph a shrub in front of our house (I was desperate for a photo of the day.) 🙂  It was dark, raining, and there was a little wind.  Hey, does that sound familiar?  “It was a dark and stormy night…” Sorry I digress.  Anyway as a result much of the image was softer than if I would have used a lower resolution camera.

But isn’t that life in general?  We can spend our time focusing on the negatives of anything or we can understand the negatives but focus on the positive things and get the best results with what we have.  Concentrating on the negatives causes cognitive blindness to the variety of possibilities available.

Focusing on the positives (while acknowledging the negatives) allows us to have a broader, clearer vision of what we can achieve.  And then we all live happily ever after.  🙂

Enjoy your Friday.  Thank you for supporting the blog and be careful.