文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for the 'Camera Stuff' CategoryAbout cameras, equipment, and postprocessing techniques As I mentioned the other day, my camera was in the shop to repair poor autofocus. It's back now, and my first quick tests show that its autofocus is now excellent. I'd first run into problems with the Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 that I got in November. I posted about it on the Nikon SLR Lens forum on Phil Askey's Digital Photography Review (this thread) and was told that the problem could well be my fault for not understanding what I should expect from the autofocus system. In hindsight, considering the test photos I sent, those comments were fair. [...] 
View full post » In case you haven't noticed a cute little feature I added to my blog last month, click on one of the "Index of Photos" links in the right-hand nav bar of the main page, such as "Appearing in 2006." These indices show a small, square thumbnail for every photo that appeared on my blog during the year in question. Clicking on one brings you to the corresponding post, so it's a quick way to find a post when you can remember only the photo. (I'm probably the only one who would find this useful, but it's a pretty [...]
It is with a mix of fondness and sadness that I greet today's one-year anniversary of having gotten my Nikon D200. The sadness is because it and all my lenses are in the shop again. )-: The problems started when I got my new Nikkor 70-200 zoom and found that it had focus issues. So, I brought it and all my kit to the Nikon Service Center in Osaka. ("kit" is geeky-photographer speak for "photography equipment" -- doesn't it make me sound like such a pro? :-)). They accepted the lens and the body for repair, sending it [...]
Kodak just announced a new product, to be available in March, that has the potential to be really interesting. They announced new Wifi enabled digital picture frames that can apparently auto-update from an online source. This means that once you set it up for someone who is perhaps "techno-challenged," you can update the pictures from afar. For the only somewhat-challenged, they can perhaps pick and choose from among images in the online gallery themselves, but you can still add to the list of images from afar. I can imagine my folks having one of these, and my [...]
The Japanese word boke (ぼけ) in Japanese photography refers to the out-of-focusness of some objects in a scene, such as the foreground and background leaves of the image above. Although the word's rominization as "boke" makes it look like a one-syllable word like the English "poke", it's a two syllable word that sounds similar to "bouquet" (i.e., like "bow-keh"). When this word is used by English-speaking photographers, it's often written as "bokeh" so as to make its pronunciation more apparent to, well, other English-speaking photographers. When used in English, the meaning changes a bit as well..... While in Japanese [...] 
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