Monthly Archives: August 2011

Nikon School also doesn’t list the D700

By [NR] admin | Published: August 12, 2011

Maybe just another typo, but the Nikon School US website doesn’t include the D700 camera:

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Samyang coming up with a new full frame 24mm f/1.4 lens for Nikon mount

By [NR] admin | Published: August 12, 2011

Samyang just announced a new full frame 24mm f/1.4 lens that will be available in Nikon mount as well.

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Nikon’s Tetsuro Goto at Ricoh GR camera party in Tokyo

By [NR] admin | Published: August 12, 2011

DCwatch reports that Tetsuro Goto (Director of Laboratory Research and Development at Nikon Japan) made a surprise appearance and created “lot of excitement” at a recent Ricoh GR party in Tokyo celebrating the camera’s 5th anniversary. After blowing out the birthday cake candles, Mr. Goto said (Google translation): “GR Digital camera is like a jealous love, I am afraid of go [...]

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Rumors: laser AF was one of the projects recently cancelled by Nikon; next wave of DSLRs will have new and improved phase-detection AF

By [NR] admin | Published: August 11, 2011

I received this email describing recently canceled Nikon projects: Nikon were working on a method of embedding camera motion data, as detected by VRII lens data, in a video file. The idea was to record .nev video at resolutions higher than standard (upwards of 500 pixels on all 4 sides) and remove motion shifts by extrapolating the [...]

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Guest post: Digiscoping with Nikon Fieldscope EDG85 via FSA-L2 DSLR Photo Adapter on Nikon D300s

By [NR] admin | Published: August 11, 2011

I was always curious to see the Nikon Fieldscope EDG85 in action. Few days ago I was contacted by Jason Bugay Reyes Azahari who shared some images with me taken with the EDG85 and Nikon D300s (plus the FSA-L2 adapter). This is his guest post: Busy with my new born baby, I took the opportunity to test my [...]

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Another coincidence

By [NR] admin | Published: August 10, 2011

A week ago Joe McNally tweeted about a new cool campaign shot he did recently that will be launching this fall. There is some more interesting information on his blog: Mr. McNally will have a new exhibition at the Time Warner Center called “Faces Of Ground Zero: 10 Years Later” that will open on… August 24th, the [...]

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