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I did something yesterday that I'd never done: I went out shooting with two camera bodies. I often go out shooting with one body and many lenses, changing lenses upwards of 70 times on a long and interesting outing, and this works well for what I like to do, but when I added the Nikon [...]
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You might not particularly notice it the first time you see the photo above, but once I point it out, you won't be able to miss it: my skin has a decidedly green tint. 質が悪い蛍光灯を使うと、肌は緑ぽいになってしまう。 This is a classic side effect of fluorescent lighting not specifically designed for photography, which is apparently what Stéphane and [...]
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As I mentioned the other day on the impromptu portraits post, I picked up a Nikon D4. 説明書を読まずに、買ったばかりニコンD4で夜の撮影遊び。 I actually ordered it the day it was announced, but ended up canceling the order for lack of excitement about what I'd get over the Nikon D700 I've been happy with for years. But despite having canceled [...]
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Let me say up front that I know the photos on this post are ridiculous. I think the type is ridiculous even when done seriously (e.g. in a "fashion" catalog), but all the more so when done by someone my age. I'm just trying to learn to cut loose a little while also learning about [...]
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Back again to the mossy temple visit from "Tag Along With Me on a Photo Shoot at Kyoto’s Gioji Temple", with an orange followup counterpart to the "Gioji Temple Photo Shoot: Nicolas’s White Little Mushrooms" post. The temple's entrance gate is covered by a little roof of bamboo and decaying moss-covered wood. For context, here's [...]
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I mentioned the other day in a post about a minor heart episode that a local restaurant, Togiya, serves Prucia, a plum wine (umeshu -- 梅酒) from France. I'd never seen a plum wine from outside Japan. Well, in the store the other day to pick up some of the fiesta-in-a-bottle Sangria Peñasol that I [...]
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Two months I posted the report "Adding a CPU Chip to a Nikon-Mount Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 Lens", using a "Dandelion" CPU. After posting the report, I spent some time actually using the lens, and could not get a consistent exposure. I thought that perhaps the aperture was not linear (that is, when the camera moved [...]
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Why is it that no matter what kind of special lens-cleaning this or expensive micro-fibre that that I buy, the most lint-free and absorbent cloth for cleaning my lenses remains my T-shirt?
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This post is about a new camera-bag solution I'm trying, and so far like, involving an unconventional use of a Think Tank Photo Retrospective® Lens Changer 3 shoulder bag. You can see it at my side in the photos above. I usually bring just a few lenses when I'm out with the camera, often a [...]
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UPDATE: Sadly, the procedures reported on this post ended up not working. More info here. I'll leave the whole post, including the inline updates, but be warned that it was all for nothing. )-: As most folks guessed correctly in my golden bumpy "What am I?" quiz, the object is a lens CPU chip/contacts set. [...]
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I'm looking for recommendations for a photo-viewing app for my iPad; Apple's "Photos" app has too many bugs and limitations for my needs. What I want seems simple -- an elegant way with which to impose my photos onto someone hapless to come within an eyeball's reach of me -- but I haven't found it [...]
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In the comments of a recent post about GPS receivers, it was suggested that the GPS receiver in the iPhone was useful for keeping tracklogs. I had bad experiences with iPhone location services when I tested in 2009, but perhaps my test wasn't good, or perhaps the old iPhone 3 wasn't good, so I thought [...]
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Now that Nikon has announced its next flagship pro SLR, the Nikon D4, with much flowery prose but few hard details, discussion and debate and speculation and flames and praise have filled camera circles. This post is long, but here's the two-sentence summary for the "tl;dr" crowd: As with most any technology release (hardware or [...]
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Nikon announced their new flagship SLR, the Nikon D4, to much anticipation made long unfulfilled by last year's tragedies (Japan earthquake, Thailand flooding). I would, of course, love one, but with a price in Japan close to US$8,000 and Santa not scheduled for another 11.5 months, it looks doubtful. Anyway, I'm in the process of [...]
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Since writing "A Few Polarization-Filter Examples" several years ago, I've been meaning to do a post on a polarization filter's effects when shooting fall foliage. Over the years I've mentioned some effect or other of a polarization filer on my blog (such as here, here, and here), but I'm only now getting to filling in [...]
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Having finally obtained a manual for the lens I got last week, I've learned a few things. One, it seems that it actually has a built-in slide-out lens hood in addition to the big detachable hood I'd been using. You're supposed to deploy both. Also, for some reason, it says that proper focus can't be [...]
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So, as evidenced by "Street Photography (Sort of) In Roppongi Hills" and its followups (parts two and three), I got a new lens last week. Some have asked to see a photo of me with it, so it's fortuitous that Kyoto friend Stéphane Barbery (he of the oft-different artistic sense and some killer Festival of [...]
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If you shoot with a Nikon D3, D700, or D300, and use Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop, you'll want to know about the "Camera v3" beta camera-calibration profiles described in this Adobe-forum thread. (The actual profiles are in this ZIP file.) This is important because in some cases, the standard "Camera" profiles that come with Lightroom [...]
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This post is about the aftermarket GGS Glass LCD Screen Protector, and about the store I bought mine from. First about the protector itself... Nikon cameras come with a cheap thick plastic LCD screen protector that easily scratches, scuffs, and just looks ugly. When it scuffs enough, it becomes cloudy and makes it worse than [...]
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The lens on the left is a new AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G lens, and on the right is a circa-1969 Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f/1.4. The modern version has autofocus and a built-in CPU that communicates details about settings to the camera body, but is also made of plastic rather than the steel of the original, [...]
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