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Not sure whether any of you D700 users have seen issue. Today I got my new Sandisk 16GB UDMA Card (Extreame CF 60MB/s UDMA) and used it on D700. The “frames remaining” showed my previous card’s  (Sandisk 12GB Extreame 3) number (some where around 400+ frames left in that card).  The camera was firing fine without any issue. Then I just formatted 16GB card – still D700 showed the same number previous number which was there just before formatting. Again I fired a few frames and then formatted again. Now the framecount decreased (number of remaining frames). I then thought this new UDMA card might not have been supported and then tried by 12GB card and formatted it. The problem now persisted with 12GB card too ! I fire few frames, format it, number of remaining frames was not getting reset to max capacity of the card. Now the frame count was at around 300+. I then decided to fire away all the remaining frames – fired shutter to bring it to 0. Guess what ? Even after formatting card now my D700 shows “Full”. Reformatting does not help – I tried 16GB/12GB/2GB/4GB cards.

**As of now my D700 is dead showing “Full” on any formatted empty CF cards**.

I googled around to find whether this issue is reported, but I could not find one. Please let me know if any of you have a solution to this issue.

I tried removing both batteries  (I use MB-D10 with my D700 too) and upgrading firmware to the new version. It does not help. Looks like I need to take my D700 to support center now

BTW, I don’t see this issue with my D300 ! 16GB UDMA card seem to work just fine without “loosing” remaining frame counts..

Thanks in advance for any solution to resolve this issue…

– Ganesh H. Shankar

Looks like we are bidding farewell to monsoon in this part of the world. Misty mornings are extending nights of butterflies. Link to a few macro images from today’s effort here –

Macro Photography

Recently a friend of mine wanted a set of images of birds for making a calendar for his organization. I went with a collection of about hundred odd images of birds. My friend showed those images to another person in their organization (looked like a person in their marketing department) and asked his views on what images to select. This person browsed through my collection spending a second or less on a few of my images and gave a quick judgment on what is a “beautiful image” and what is not ! In his scale the above image does not look good and the below one is a good image because he felt two birds is frame is better than one. While I don’t have a preference or great liking for both of these images (now), my first reaction was this person needs a course on “appreciation of images”. My second reaction was – who am I to dictate right taste for him ? He is right based on his scale of reference, more so being a potential customer. While I don’t make my living from nature photography today I immediately realized the challenge of professional nature photographers who live on nature photography alone.

Several of us do nature photography since it is a passion for us. My belief is one produces quality work if her mind and soul is in that work. Can it happen if I have to make images to suit others taste ? I think this can become an interesting challenge in making nature photography as a profession. To pay school fee of his daughter I would not be surprised if a professional nature photographer resort to extensive digital editing to suit needs of his clients. I am not at all saying every professional nature photographer will do this but I won’t be surprised if some of them do especially when there are floods of “low” cost images of nature available for potential buyers !

Some time back Journal of Landscape Architecture requested me to write an article on Landscape Photography for their 8th anniversary issue. Just received the new issue with my article on landscape photography.