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Nikon Rumors « NEW CAMERA Interesting article showing EXIF found online for Nikon D850 and D900. The D850 is apparently using the same sensor as the Sony AR7II. This is the body I'm waiting for, if it's real. The article says EXIF is easy to fake.

Maybe this was obvious to everyone except me, but I've always considered "pano" shots on mobile phones to be those long unwieldy horizon shots. Then I figured out how to use the pano feature to make a "normal" wide-angle photo with the phone. Holding the phone vertically and rotating it only a...

Decided to try some product photography in the basement tonight using an off camera strobe and Phottix flash triggers. I had not touched these flash triggers for a few months. The Phottix transmitter screen was acting wacky and would not connect to the receiver. When I opened the battery...

I was camping at a farm with a big group of friends this weekend. My D800 with a Nikon 28-300mm lens was along for the ride. Normally I'm old school, never shooting ISO above 800 and making adjustments to shutter and aperture as I go. This weekend was different, with lots of stuff going on...

I bought an 11"x14" metal print from Costco for $33. It was an image of my father-in-law I took with my Samsung Galaxy Note 5 while having lunch at a Mexican restaurant. The window light was perfect, and the phone was all I had. Anyway, for $33, the print turned out fantastic. The colors in...

The folks at Perfectly Clear made a great video about how to record an action in Photoshop, and then apply that action to every photo inside a certain folder. I didn't know this was possible. Although the video is about how to batch process with the Perfectly Clear plug-in, you can do this...

Same again with my 105mm 2.8. Same procedures as last time. (It's so much easier to open 13 RAW files from my D800 since I quadrupled the RAM in my PC.) 7 to 11 is the magic zone (though I suspect camera shake at f9).

I watched some great Joel Grimes videos about shooting on location with artificial light, but he also made a big deal about sharpness. He uses a tripod for everything, and he had a good discussion about finding each lens's sweet spot aperture for sharpness. Aberration is a problem at open...

I got a marketing email from MZED for this 7 part video tutorial from photographer Joel Grimes. It purports to be about how to shoot portraits with strobes on location (instead of in a studio). Here's the link: FULL Portrait Photography on Location 7 - Video Bundle - MZed I spent $189 to...

There have been some used Sony A7ii's floating around my market lately. Very tempting, but I already have full Nikon kit with lenses and speedlights, including old manual-focus lenses. Is there any chance someone (Nikon!) will produce a mirrorless FX body that accepts the current Nikon mount...

In many movies the names on the DSLRs are always blacked out. The other night I watched "Dirty Grandpa" with Robert DeNiro and Zac Efron (VERY RAUNCHY MOVIE) and was surprised to see two different Nikons, including a D800 (name on the strap) in the final scene. The funny thing, however, is...

Going gulf-stream fishing all day Saturday with 5 guys on a 32 foot open-console fishing boat. Even though my waterproof Nikon AW-120 gets good shots, I want big RAW files to work with later. I have a waterproof "pickle bag" and will take my cheaper D600 body (FX) and only one lens. That's...

Céline's New Spring Ads Are Every Fashion Girl's Dream | WhoWhatWear My wife's copy of Bazaar showed up today. The front ads for Celine demonstrate deliberately horrible Photoshop technique in separating the model from the background.

If trying to calibrate my gear wasn't hard enough already, I discovered last night that, in certain situations, my left eye and right eye see different color temperatures. We were sitting on the deck, and I was looking at our white vertical rails. The background was black. When I crossed my...

After shooting more than 1,000 pics in RAW on a D800 last week, I realized I needed better storage and backup. I bought an 8 Terrabyte Western Digital "DuoBook" external hard drive set for $350 on Amazon. It has two 4 TB hard drives built in. It seems to work great. First I configured it to...

Yesterday was the Carolina Ballet's dress rehearsal for their new show based on Gustav Holst's "The Planets." Turns out there was a photography class through perconline.org where students could shoot the ballet during the dress rehearsal, even with noisy SLRs. (No flash allowed at all... had...

In the past, I've shot parties by bouncing my speedlight off the ceiling. This weekend, the venue is a small outdoor patio. There is no ceiling, though I could bounce off the wall of the building, but that would mean bringing people to me rather than shooting them where they are. I prefer...

We got a catalog from Cashs of Ireland today, a company that sells fine crystal decanters, snifters, and other glassware. The photography was great, so I tried my hand with the D800 and the Nikon 70-200 2.8. The first thing that you learn is that everything has to be REALLY CLEAN. Also, don't...

Thought the Nikonites might get a kick out of this: Here's a link to actual video I shot and processed, but I say up front someone was trying to hoax me, so I believe you are seeing a regular man wearing a ghillie suit who was trying to pose as the famous Sasquatch or Bigfoot of Lore...

In tourist spots I'm always checking out the DSLRs the tourists carry. Normally there is a pretty even distribution of Canon and Nikon, but in LA this week (Santa Monica, specifically), I saw at least 4 times more Canon shooters. Strange.