Category Archives: Other Nikon stuff

Guest post: Different angles of Mademoiselle Eiffel by Patrik Banas

The guest post “Different angles of Mademoiselle Eiffel” is by Patrik Banas (Web | Blog | Facebook): If you have only a limited opportunity to take pictures during your occasional travels, do not hesitate and take this as a possibility to train your eye, find more angles, try something new… aka “work it, work it, work it”. Even one […]

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CES 2014: Nikon captures 3D model of a person and inserts it into a video game

  The 2014 CES  is now over. On the show’s floor Nikon had a 64 cameras setup for creating detailed 3D model of a person that was later inserted into a video game. The clips you are seeing are not post processed and are not displayed at full resolution. The total image size from the 64 cameras […]

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Guest post: Shark Photography

Today’s guest post on Shark Photography is by Brook Ward (Website|Facebook|Google+|500px|Flickr): Shark photography….really???? I know that’s what you’re asking at this very moment. Let me come back to that question. My interest in photography and scuba diving was engrained in me early by my father. In the 1960’s he was scuba diving on shipwrecks in […]

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Wagner Araujo: behind the scenes story on the shot that won the National Geographic Travel Photo Contest

This is the behind the scenes story about the shot “Brazilian Aquathlon” by Wagner Araujo (www.waguinhoa.com.br) that won the first prize at the 2013 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest: I’m a professional photographer form Brazil and also editor of the main Triathlon website and online magazine in Brazil: www.mundotri.com.br I live at the airport. No, just […]

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Thank you all for being part of the NikonRumors community. The [NR] blog that I started back in 2008 now has over 3,300 posts with 315,000 comments and between 4 and 6 million pageviews generated by 1 million unique visitors every month from every corner of the world. Here is the break […]

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Guest post: switching from Nikon to Canon

Today’s guest post on switching from Nikon to Canon is by Tatsu Ikeda (Website | Flickr | Facebook | Twitter): I bought a Nikon D80 in 2008 for a vacation trip, because I simply didn’t own a camera, not even a cellphone one. Looking back, I probably bought it against Canon’s offerings because the Rebels looked pretty low-rent and the 50D […]

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Guest post: Nikon D800 captures underwater color explosions

Hi NikonRumors. I’m Heath from jacandheath.com (Facebook, Instagram). When Art Fairs Australia commissioned me to photograph clouds of colour underwater, I had a long learning curve ahead. I’d done a reasonable amount of in water surf photography with an Aquatech housing I’d purchase years ago for my D2x (which fits the D800 nicely with extra space for radio […]

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