Tag: Nikon

  • SLR lenses: Best gear for wildlife photo – Conclusion

    SLR lenses: Best gear for wildlife photo – Conclusion

    These recent days, we spent time evaluating the possibilities offered by each of the major photo SLR brands for the wildlife/nature photographer, but I would now like to also add a few wider comments. First, it appears clear that the already existing equipment of a photographer has an inordinate weight in everybody’s choice (you can…

  • Best Nikon SLR lenses for wildlife photo

    Best Nikon SLR lenses for wildlife photo

    Nikon: The biggest digital camera seller in the world (mostly because of its sales of compact photo cameras), an internationally famous reference for the quality of its lens and it SLR cameras. Wildlife photographers (professionals as well as amateurs) must take this offering very seriously. But the fame did not come from nothing, and the…

  • SLR lenses: Best gear for wildlife photo

    SLR lenses: Best gear for wildlife photo

    Some photography specialties are more demanding than others for the hardware equipment (mostly photo lenses). Animal wildlife photography (African safari, photographic hunting in Asia or bird watching in Europe, for example) is the perfect example: Your subject is nearly always too far. Photo Marc Wunderlich – I’m on the left, along with Alain Saunier, our…

  • Aperture v3.1.1, with more RAW support

    Aperture v3.1.1, with more RAW support

    This new update to Apple Aperture software addresses overall stability and performance issues, and also includes specific fixes that: address compatibility with the iLife Media Browser improve reliability when upgrading existing Aperture libraries address issues with publishing photos to MobileMe, Facebook and Flickr It should be complemented with the new update to Digital Camera RAW…

  • Nikon in space

    Nikon in space

    Photography and space: Two adventures sharing one sense of passion. Nikon has been going to space for years and they want us to know in this video. YouTube link

  • Nikon works on a replacement for the 80-400mm/4.5-5.6

    Nikon works on a replacement for the 80-400mm/4.5-5.6

    The Nikon users will want to see some improvements on the (already) old 80-400mm/4.5-5.6 telephoto zoom will probably be satisfied soon. Nikon recently issued two patents (1 & 2) for a zoom in this category. It does not tell us when it will be available, but according to the yellow brand habits, the end of…

  • DxOMark: Now with Nikon D7000

    DxOMark: Now with Nikon D7000

    At DxO Labs, there is one hell of a director of special effects. One after the other, there are news exploding in front of observers. First, there was a Sony Alpha 55 marginally better than the other cameras, then a Pentax K-5 which jumped ahead everybody else with 82 points. Here comes the Nikon D7000…

  • 24MP/FF for Nikon and Sony

    24MP/FF for Nikon and Sony

    photo credit: Edur8 There is currently a Full Frame digital sensor being developed by Sony. Or more precisely, Sony currently works on a 24 mega-pixel technology in the Full Frame form factor (FX in the Nikon local language) and the two applications actually forecast are at Nikon for building the Nikon D800 and at Sony…

  • Nikon D7000: Available or not?

    Nikon D7000: Available or not?

    This is becoming the hot question for November 2010: When will the Nikon D7000 be really available? First, people noticed the difficulty (in October) to get the new camera even on pre-order (and Amazon started offering a small amount to their impatient customers). And, we assumed that this was just normal (after all, Nikon had…