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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm — 1/125 sec, f/4, ISO 3600 —
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Connections Through Time
Me, with my son, his mom, her dad, and his mom
(though not in that order!)
When I started to take photography somewhat seriously (circa January 2006 when I got
a Nikon D200), a long-time [...]
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm — 1/400 sec, f/18, ISO 1800 —
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This is a Dragonfly Wing
and it has nothing to do with this post
Apple has just released the first major upgrade in a long time to Aperture, its photo-workflow
application that fights against Adobe
Lightroom for market [...]
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — 1/100 sec, f/2.8, ISO 6400 —
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Shou and Ricoh
Photo by Zak Braverman
As I mentioned [...]
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As soon as I switched to a Nikon D700 from a Nikon D200, I started getting
corrupt memory cards. I brought the camera to the Nikon Service Center in Osaka,
but they said that it's probably the memory card that's the problem.
I used only Transcend
compact flash cards, which are not on the official supported list,
so they suggested [...]
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I've got a horrible cold at the moment, but my days of misery have been
punctuated by news of two glorious events. Yesterday there was news of my niece
Felicity's birth, and today there was an email from Katz Eye Optics that
they now have a model available
for the D700. Woohoo! I couldn't type fast enough to order [...]
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm — 1 sec handheld (braced), f/7.1, ISO 2000 —
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One-Second Exposure, Handheld
Hotel Bar · the Atta Terrace Hotel · Okinawa Japan
After getting my Nikon D700 and putting its low-light capabilities to the test
(see:
“Impossible Photography: No Light, No Tripod, No Hope. D700 [...]
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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm, cropped — 1/200 sec, f/2.8, ISO 4500 —
full exif
LensAlign In Action
with my Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 zoom
Almost two years ago I created and released my autofocus test
chart, for testing the autofocus accuracy of a camera/lens combination.
Accompanied by a detailed discussion about how to test autofocus, and of
issues [...]
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My “Nikon D3 Shutter
Release in Super Slow Motion” post from two weeks ago, in which I
offered a nice presentation of the ingenious work by Marianne Oelund, garnered
quite a lot of attention, quickly becoming the most popular post on my blog
(which perhaps doesn't say much, but in any case, it's still – two
weeks later – getting [...]
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Woo-hoo, as the rumor mill has been buzzing about for the last two
weeks, Nikon officially announced the “D700” professional SLR today, just
10 months after announcing
the D3 and D300 followups to the D200 that I have.
Last year, I got to play
with the D3 & D300 before they went on sale, and despite lusting
after “shiny & new” [...]
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The photo below, of pizza at a cafe, appeared on my previous post. It was
taken with a polarizing filter on the lens adjusted to block glare from the
window in the background. Mouseover the “Without Polarizer” button below
for the same scene two seconds later, without the filter...
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document.getElementById(letter + "2").style.visibility = [...]
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Sigma APO 200-500mm F2.8 EX DG
11 months after being announced, Sigma's 200-500mm f/2.8, 35-pound
monster is finally available for purchase. When it was announced almost a
year ago, I
naïvely
speculated that it might run $6,000, so it was a shock when I found it
at a retailer
in Japan for about 2.6 million yen (US $25,000). I haven't seen it [...]
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I reported a couple of months ago about a Black Frame Syndrome
affecting my D200, whereby the raw image data was fine, but the embedded
jpg previews were all black. (A NEF file has two embedded JPGs.)
Because I shoot raw,
the only practical effect for me is that I get a black frame when I try to
review the [...]
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Nikon D200 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 — 1/250 sec, f/1.2, ISO 100 —
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Me @ f/1.2
Photo by Zak Braverman
Zak kindly offered to loan
me his Nikkor
50mm f/1.2 for a while, so
I took a walk down to the Starbucks on Sanjo (eastern Kyoto, Japan) for the
pickup.
f/1.2 is an extremely big aperture. I've [...]
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Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 @ 19mm — 1/15 sec, f/3.5, ISO 400 —
full exif
Schweeeeet!
A bad photo of my new multiple-monitor goodness
I found myself suddenly lusting for a second monitor (Lightroom 2
supports two monitors), and with visions of a tax writeoff dancing in my
head, I opted for the mid-level Eizo FlexScan SX2461W,
a 24" widescreen [...]
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I've been meaning to write about and recommend the 16" FotoSharp Camera Rain
Cover I picked up last summer. It's a remarkably simple little cover
that scrunches up into a tiny ball in my camera bag when not in use,
yet provides rain protection even with my big Nikkor 70-200 VR
zoom on my D200.
The pictures on its web
site [...]
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Japanese Banknote at 35 × Magnification
A couple of months ago I posted about basics of reverse-lens Macro
photography, where I showed some items photographed with some
magnification that is considered fairly extreme by macro-photography
standards. I threw around “true but misleading” big numbers like “45,000
×” in jest, but in the normal nomenclature of macro photography where
magnification is represented [...]
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I love my Nikon D200, but yesterday added a new woe to the “Dead Battery
Syndrome” I experienced a couple of months ago: “Black Frame
Syndrome”
Yesterday, Kyoto was a cold and heavily overcast, with sporadic misty
rain. Occasionally and all too briefly, the sun would poke out in brilliant
fashion to set the foliage momentarily on fire, so on [...]
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Lighting a scene to photograph in a pleasing way is either a matter of
luck, or the combination of two skills: knowing the physics of light
(that is, knowing the results you'll get from lighting decisions), and
having the creative sense to use that knowledge toward an
aesthetically-pleasing end.
For my part, I generally go with the “luck” option, but [...]
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Update: Nikon has issued a firmware update to address this situation. See the “D200” row on
this page.
Today was “Sports Day” at Anthony's preschool, which is a
fun event full of play, silliness, and dance. Like last year's Sports Day, it
was very hot — 90s in the shade, but the entire event was in the sun
— but [...]
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