- UK deal: when you buy the Nikon D3100 + 18-55mm + 55-200mm lens kit for £429.95, you will get a free Nikon 10×25 Sportstar EX binoculars worth £139.99.
- US deal: refurbished Nikon D5100 kit for $464.95. Update: refurbished Nikon D800 for $2,5999.
- Check out this Nikon C1 camera concept created by a dpreview reader.
- Nikon press release: Winning photos from one of the world’s most prestigious international photo contests, Nikon Photo Contest International 2010–2011, to be exhibited in Brazil and India.
- Nikon UK and NME have teamed up for the NME Music Photography Awards with Nikon exhibition at the famous Getty Images Gallery in London.
- Check Christoph Malin’s latest time-lapse video (see his previous guest posts and videos):
Do you remember 1982’s “TRON” movie? The plot: A computer programmer (epic: Jeff Bridges) is digitized inside the software world of a mainframe computer, where he interacts with various programs in his attempt to get back out. I loved the light cycle races and strange solar wind ships…
Back in the real word the ISS is in a way one of these solar ships, constantly rotating around us. A tiny white spot, as it can be seen racing over the sky from time to time, when illuminated by the sunset (and sunrise ;).
This Video was achieved by “stacking” image sequences provided by NASA from the Crew at International Space Station (see also http://www.fragileoasis.org/blog/2012/3/on-the-trails-of-stars). These “stacks” create the Star Trails, but furthermore make interesting patterns visible. For example lightning corridors within clouds, but they also show occasional satellite tracks (or Iridium Flashes) as well as meteors – patterns that interrupt the main Star Trails, and thus are immediately visible.
The many oversaturated hot pixels in some of the scenes are the inevitable result of ultrahigh ISO settings the Nikon D3s in ISS-use are pushed to for keeping exposure times short by all means (owed to the dramatic speed the ISS travels). As there are no dark frames or RAW data currently available, hot pixels are not easy to remove.
After the initial stacking, all images have been sequenced with Apple Motion and the Video cut and edited with Final Cut Pro X. Stacking done with StarStaX, get it here.
