- The new PocketWizard MiniTT1 transmitter for Nikon is already on eBay.
- Nikon Coolpix S8100 is now available in Europe.
- Reallyrightstuff now offers a L-plate that will fit Nikon D7000 and the optional Nikon MB-D11 battery grip.
- Nikon P7000 price drops to $349.
- Nikon prototype made by... Panasonic.
- Nikon's direct online store offers 20% discount on all accessories (the offer ends today, January 16th):
- Big Nikon discounts are also ongoing in Romania: buy D3s or D3x and get a SB-900 for free or buy 14-24, 24-70 or 70-200 lens and get a free 50mm 1.4G lens:
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nice viscera – D7000.
manual for low-pass filter removing/replacing will be appreciated.
Is the low-pass filter that bad?
yes, every low pas filter it bad if you are not fashion photographer.
Isn’t a low pass filter a must have? I mean, to meet the Nyquist frequency. If you don’t filter out the high frequencies you’ll get the moire? So, why would you want to have moires? Or am i misunderstanding something?
Thanks
moire is a problem only if you take a picture of rhythmic structure (such as net, detail of cloth…). in the nature it cannot be a problem. so for nature photographer only disatvantages of low-pass filter apply – less sharpness.
//moire is a problem only if you take a picture of
//rhythmic structure (such as net, detail of cloth…).
Yes. But if you take a picture of a nonrhythmic, but detailed structure (grass lawn, lots of small leaves of a tree, bubbly ocean waves) potentially leads to artifacts (noise like).
//in the nature it cannot be a problem. so for //nature photographer only disatvantages of
// low-pass filter apply – less sharpness.
For nature currently its not a problem because the sharpness (btw, any lens is a low-pass filter as well) of modern lenses is not enough to take full advantage of current sensors. So, when a super sharp lens will be developed you will have a lot (IMHO) of artifacts if you use it with a sensor omitting a low-pass filter, even when you take picture of nature.
Is this the same as the anti-alia filter? If so then this isn’t anything new, right?
Yes, the low-pass filter and the anti-alias filter are the same thing.
//If so then this isn’t anything new, right?
Nothing new, moreover, that’s how in theory an analog signal is to be transformed into a digital: you apply a filter (it can be a low-pass, band-pass or high-pass filter depending on what is considered to be needed information in the signal) that suffices the Nyquist frequency and only then do you sample.
For those, who doing infrared photography low-pass filter is bad.
Why is it bad? How will the low-pass filter in the spacial domain affect the infrared photography. Does it have to do with specific task that is done in infrared?
Thanks.
No, you mix up low-pass filter and IR filter…
The free 50mm with purchase is a nice offer. Wish it was valid in the states when I purchased my set.
because 50G is GARBAGE
they should give it for free when you buy 18-55 kit lens
Why do you believe the 50 1.4G is garbage? Do you prefer the 50 1.4D instead?
The 50g is a pretty nice lens, but is probably the worst of the modern primes. Relative value puts it too close to the 30/2 and 50/1.8 — but Nikon for some reason jacks up the price.
If the 50/1.4 was $300 it would be a great value. $400 is questionable. $500 was kind of insane. Good, sharp lens though. Has problems with some filters due to angle of light.
What people WISH is that Nikon had made it a 72mm/77mm cream machine. Instead, Nikon went for cheap quality and slightly too high of a price. It didn’t make sense. They neither made a small pocketable lens, NOR a most excellent lens.
They should have made it smaller and $300 bucks. Or they should have made it larger, SUPER CREAMY and could have gotten away easily with $600 bucks. Instead they let Sigma taunt them with a slightly creamier version (but Sigmas has far too many focusing problems — the Nikon 50g nails focus every time).
i tried the sigma briefly.. its bad. my 50 1.2 AIS was sharper and had less CA both wide open. i din get a chance to compare the bokeh side by side though i think the 1.2 would still be nicer.
Try Zeiss 50 1.4 ZF instead.
what, are, you, talking, about.
More BS from people who don’t own the gear or know how to use it. I’ll admit it doesn’t focus like lightning, but that’s still a non issue. It’s a killer lens in the right hands. It’s just as bad as any lens in the wrong hands.
Nikon P7000 is at $349.95 now.
This camera has dropped in price rather dramatically.
oh, this was fast – it was 379 this morning
looking at the review from all sites, I’m not surprised at all!!!!
The P7000 has already dropped to $349.
20% off “all” accessories…but MB-D11 is missing!! I guess it’s not “all” after all.
I don’t understand these pocketwizard things… all this CLS junk is the last frontier for me.
pocket wizards are easier then cls, better, more reliable. CLS is still awesome though.
have you ever heard about RadioPopper PX system? far better than pocket wizards because you can rely entirely on CLS and live happy ever after
I was totally shocked to see the D7000 so cheap.
Then I noticed it’s a P not a D.
LOL
The D7000 actually has gone down in price in some UK places. Some places like Jessops are now selling it at £999 for Body Only, and this is with the new VAT prices, not bad I say!
Omg ! How could someone dismember a D7000 like that. huhuh. Poor thing. Thats DSLR cruelty !
Were they able to put it back ? Did the D7000 survive ?
Which wire do I cut.. black or red?
This is the famous camera shop in Thailand. They are the independent repair shop for all kind of camera, quite professional. So I guess, that is normal for them to learn how to fix this camera. Or that could be one of their customer’s sent for repair.
Do I understand correctly that the new PZ Mins will allow flash sync up to 1/8000th? If so that opens up a whole new world of creative posibilities.
A new version of the 50 1.4 with some faster AF and all niceties discussed above would in fact be very welcome.
The ControlTL units are CE units and may not be compatible with the USA versions
Wow, cool deals Romania!
Why the hell are L-plates so expensive? How can they justify those kind of prices for such simple thingies?!?! Pisses me off.
Probably because it has hand made in United States.
If it were made in China then it would probably cost 1/10th of the price.
They’re actually CNC machined, not hand-made. It’s the low quantities that are the real killer. They’re cutting from a solid block of aluminum, which means a lot of material waste and a lot of cutting time because the quantity of each model doesn’t justify sourcing an extruded profile (possibly some of the smaller ones could be cut from standard angle profiles)…having an aluminum extrusion company make a die is somewhere above a $10,000 investment, and that’s not counting the cost of then actually making the part.
Plus, each model takes a modest amount of time designing to fit the target camera (the good fit, obviously, is part of the selling point), and then a machinist to program the CNC to cut it.
If I needed one myself, I could make my own for probably about $15 in materials, but I’d spend probably and hour or two figuring out the exact shape I wanted, and a couple hours cutting it, and it still wouldn’t be quite as slick as the RRS version.
I had my eye on a P7000 for my daughter’s xmas present. I opted for the P100 instead. I would have rather purchased the P7000 with it’s hotshoe and RAW capabilities, but $500 was a bit steep for a PS. Now, with its adjusted price it seems reasonable
Maybe next time don’t post unless you care to contribute something. Unless you’re 12, in which case I apologize.