I ordered this 8x20" print from Nations Photo Lab and I'm quite happy with the results. I'll link the scanned photo with all the details below. I wanted to try the printing service from Nations Photo Lab since they offered an 8x20" size rather than the closest 8x24" size offering from Mpix which caused some cropping on the top and bottom of the original. NPL also came in quite a bit cheaper than Mpix's 8x24 print. I asked for luster coating, color, and no color correction since I had applied a Pt/Pd toning curve to the scanned image and did not want to lose that in the B&W lab print.

Apologies for the glare from the overhead lights.

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Video of detail in 8x24” print of fence on former farm in Gettysburg. Printed through Mpix with the “True B&W” option. Negative was made on Carestream Ektascan B/RA single-sided X-Ray film developed in Pyrocat HD 1:1:100 using 20th Century prototype 4-sheet 4x10 reel for Jobo multitank 5. Canham wood 4x10 camera with Fujinon-W 210mm F5.6 lens and Hoya Y/G filter.

Pardon the hotspot in the video from the overhead light.

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A first attempt at shooting wildlife video and editing it. Man, there is so much more stuff to learn with this process. I'm not even really sure I exported this out correctly but I think it gives some indication of what you can get out of a Nikon D7000 in terms of video.

The birds were not cooperating at Middle Creek. Only the Canada Geese were staying around. Most of the Hooded Mergansers chose to stay on the far side of the smaller pond. There were some Black Ducks close to the road on the lake side. I got some video of them as well. As things get warmer and the lake ice melts some more, I hope to see more of the Snow Geese and Tundra Swans come a little closer.

D7000 body
Sigma 50-500mm lens with Sigma 1.4X teleonverter which left me with about F9.
24 fps
Auto ISO on and it selected ISO 1600 for much of the sequence.
Manual focus with Zacuto Z-Finder Pro 3X viewfinder.
Audio is from Rode VideoMic Pro external mono-directional microphone which did a better than descent job of filtering out the wind noise.
Edited with Adobe Premier Elements 9.
File exported as MPEG.

The learning process continues......

Tags:   D7000 Video Middle Creek WMA wildlife Canada Goose

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