Photospots

Nikon just annonced that they will release two new lenses that seems very interesting. Both I would consider to be in the semi-professional or professional league. Both are for the full frame format, but they seem to have dropped their FX thing on the lenses and are going back to what where normal before their first full frame camera.

The AF-S Nikkor 16-35mm f/4G ED VR is the first f/4 zoom lens that Nikon have produced in a long time and one can only hope that it the start of something that has been missing in the Nikon lens line for a very long time and that Canon has have and that is a f/4 line. It is as far as I recall also the first wide-angle lens with VR, which is a nice thing, but you really don't need the VR that much in wide-angle lenses. This is a lens that is on my wishlist, but a bit way down as I already have the AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED, which is a very good lens, but needs the filter option that the new lens have. There is a alot of things I need for my camera equipment before I buy this wide-angle, but I think (haven't seen any tests yet) that this is going to be a great lens for semi-professionals.

The AF-S Nikkor 24mm f/1.4G ED is another step for Nikon to release all their old lenses without zoom with new ones that have AF-S in them. This a very expensive lens and are only for professionals and it is most likely going to be a very awesome lens. Unless I win in lotto or something like that then this is a lens that I am not going to get.    

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This is as much a documentation for my own use as it is a blog entry about metadata use in Bibble 5. I think it would be nice to document how I am going to use it as there usually might be some time between I am putting metadata on my pictures and this way I will be able to see my thoughts and update them as I get new ideas. It might be some inspiration for others...

I am going to use the Keywords to add information about what is in the picture and here I am going to use the possibility to have a hierarchy of keywords, so I might have a keyword called family and under this I will have my family members. This should be easy to maintain as Bibble 5 does this for me, so over time I will have a very interesting hierarchy, which I at some point later might be able to use for an update of my Photoshots website. The way you create a hierarchy keyword is by using the ";" seperator.

I am also going to use the stars to indicate how I overall think of the picture. There are the following levels:

• 1 star --> A bad picture that I want to keep to maintain some history of the pictures that I have taken
• 2 stars --> A okay picture that I want to keep to maintain some history of the pictures that I have taken
• 3 stars --> A okay picture that I might want to share based on the content and if I have some other pictures on the same subject that is better
• 4 stars --> I good picture that I like to share with other people on the internet
• 5 stars --> I great picture that is good enough to hang on my walls

In the IPTC metadata I would like to fill out the folloing metadata:

• City --> the city where the picture where taken
• Country --> the country where the picture where taken
• Location --> a called name of where the picture where taken. This might be "Yosemite National Park" or something like this
• State --> a state or bigger area in the country. In the USA is is just the state, in Denmark it is the regions, in Sweden the län and so on
• GPS Latitude and longtitude --> The spot where the picture was taken. Sadly this isn't possible in Bibble at the moment, but one can how it will come 

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Well it is time to blog about my great interest which is photography. This blog will be about this interest. There will be blog entries about my experience with photography, about new equipment that I am considering buying, about my research for places I visit and maybe some other stuff. Time will tell...

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