I could talk around it, but there is no way other than to say it straight: I set something wrong, and I was too complacent to notice it! Usually I use a preset "bank" of settings with auto ISO for such kind of shooting, and somehow something was set wrong. I was stunned and angry with myself as I saw this ISO setting on every each of these images. I am lucky that D300 has a just about acceptable high-ISO behavior, for this purpose that is. Of course the quality suffers, but this here is about sailing!
I just saw remarks by Michael Reichman's of Luminous Landscapes, that modern cameras resemble computers with lenses attached to them, with 300-400 pages manuals. So is the D300 as well. The manual is 400 pages filled up with crap a photographer will never really need, and can only make mistakes...
Justin Curious
04-Oct-2009 01:59
At the risk of being "obnoxious" let me ask: Why would you shoot ISO-1600 in broad day light?
