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Blog 5 is now complete,, well just too long, so,, time to start Blog 6. On sunday I had a Western Digital complete Meltdown fail, the local repair shop could not even save any images.. which is exactly why you always run dual separate external drives as a backup. This should be an absolute...

5100 down to 479! and noticed 3200 is also down a 100 dollars, so good deals still coming, D7000 also down below 1000, D800/d800e are holding their price, but they are agressively priced already.

I was using the 18-55 lens that came with my D7000 because it was actually quite sharp. but after about 10 months it started to loose its ability to focus on all subjects. and manually focusing this lens is a pain, so,, switched to the 24-85 lens which is definitely built a notch up, I...

Was picking up some candy for Wednesday, and I noticed a pile of D600 kits up front, They included the 24-85 lens and the 70-300 for around 2890, which seems like a great price, considering that the 24-85 is listed at 599, and the 70-300 is listed at 589, and the D600 is at 2100, which puts it...

got a smile out of this video Irwin Wong feat. Mijonju: "I wanna be a cameraman" (Billionaire parody) - YouTube

well, blog 4 is not complete,, once they get to a certain lenght, they become a pain to scroll down. I really enjoyed instructing at an all day class/photo shoot starting at sunrise. We all got into position, and caught the rising sun. I am fascinated at the shortness of the window of when...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of teaching for a day long photo shot day. Part the the session was lens selection, so I demo the ancient Nikkor fisheye. Not a lens to use every day, but fun to play with.

so,, I hiked with my D800 with just my old glass primes. Mostly, because I get tired of weight, and these lens are almost tiny in scale. I was comparing the shots after, and was pleased on the look of the old 35 2.8 lens, not a famous lens, but it rendered the image nicely in the light. Lens...

I had a credit available, and so decided to cash it toward a Nikkor 105 2.0 DC lens, this lens belongs to what I call the legacy lens series. the crinkle metal, the built like a tank lens, that have awesome optics. the lens is still available, but probably a matter of time, before these type...

I was hiking in pouring rain, and even though I had the lens in a baggy, and a pouch, all the movement, and such, must have open the plastic bag, and moisture got into my 100 mm 2.8. I carried this lens because worse case, its fairly cheap to replace (around 80 dollars), I did the oven dry...

bravo to Nikon for still making this lens, what a beauty, fully manual, and the pleasure of the brightness of the viewfinder with this lens on, really a joy to use, The focus is so smooth, focus ring plenty large, with the right viscuous feel. I shot at 1.2 and got a nice sharp image with...

The lens desease is terminal, once you get thinking about a lens, it just gets a hold of you, you can run, but the lens will find you. Once you have searched for it on the larger retailer, or perhaps the auction site, they will know, and pop ups galore will remind you of your desire...

The lens desease is terminal, once you get thinking about a lens, it just gets a hold of you, you can run, but the lens will find you. Once you have searched for it on the larger retailer, or perhaps the auction site, they will know, and pop ups galore will remind you of your desire. you...

How time has changed, I remember when Nikon first started to release the G lens series (lens with built in auto focus motors built in in support of the low cost film SLRs). I remember my first G lens came with this cheap 28mm film SLR that Nikon made. junky camera, and even worse lens. Once...

so tempted to add this lens, even though I already have 105s, so have the old gaus 105 that is supposed to be one of the sharpest 105 ever, and then the 105 Macro which I love for its macro shots, but,, the D800 is making me assess every category of which lens would really make the grade, and...

A couple of thoughts come to mind, The first is the yield of a FX sensor to a DX sensor, the FX is twice the size in actual area, and it has more transistors, not quite the same density of the D7000, but yield across a silicon wafer is on a log curve when the chips get large, In the end, some...

what an enticing package, finnally a lightweight FX SLR, very reasonable price, and I am sure awesome image quality. most of the compromise are reasonable to the pro cameras, essentially a lower quality shutter for 150K, slower max shutter speed, slow flash sync,, less af points, less light...

I got to use the D800 as a wedding camera (not the primary photographer,, yuck), but as the filler shooter, and let me say that it shined! I first shot indoors at ISO 2000 no flash, and beautiful shots, low noise, super. I find the burst rate is plenty deep, can take a quick burst, and...

Continuation of the series.. I wonder about resolution and what it means for increasing density, So,, for example when sensor goes from 12 million to 36 million, how much resolution gain is there? so for example,, 12 million is 3K by 4K,, now if you doubled the resolution to say 6K by 8K...

I get a kick out reading the shootouts in the magazines, and always seems to be puzzling,, clearly they state the increased dynamic range and sharpness, but in all categories, they gave the win to the Canon, basically giving the D800 a 8/10. I suspect that one becomes splitting hairs, but I...