→ Tell Nikon what you think about the V3 mirrorless camera.
→ Nikon Df won the Camera GP 2014 camera of the year and readers awards. The Nikkor 58mm f/1.4G won the lens of the year award. More info is available here.
→ New article from Nikon support: how to maintain the waterproof performance of the Nikon 1 AW1 camera.
→Nikon will delete your Nikon Image Space account if you don’t use it – make sure you don’t store anything important there. This is the email I received recently:
My name is David Balcells and I work as a Chemistry Researcher at the University of Oslo (Norway). Besides science, photography is my big passion. After reading a few inspirational books, like Chris Weston’s Nature Photography, I found the perfect school in my hometown’s backyard: the mountain of Montserrat (Catalunya, Spain). In this post I want to share with you 7 useful tips that I learned in this unique location.
Use perspective and scale. They introduce a strong 3D-character. For this picture, I carefully placed the tripod in the SW corner of La Roca Foradada (meaning “The Pierced Rock”, a popular rock feature of Montserrat) to get the best perspective. I introduced scale and extra depth by placing myself on the opposite corner and waited for the sunrise to finally shoot at f/16 with my favorite Tokina f/2.8 wide-angle set at 16mm.
credit: Erich Satran from Austria
Nikon does not offer an optional battery grip for the retro-styled Df camera. There are, however, several eBay listings for this third party battery grip BG-2P specially designed for the Nikon Df camera.
Additional images:
Image credit: WEX Photographic
The D4s was the first Nikon camera to support the new sRAW format (aka NEF RAW size S file format) and the rumored D800/D800E replacement is also expected to have it. In the latest [NR] blog’s discussions there were some confusion on what exactly sRAW is. Here are some interesting findings on the new Nikon sRAW format from rawdigger.com (there is much more detailed technical information on their website):
Nikon will announce a new full frame DSLR camera this summer (I call it D800s, but the name could be different). As previously reported, the new camera will be based on the D800E (without AA filter) and will contain few small updates (similar to the D4->D4s refresh). Here is an updated list of specifications:
Today Nikon released firmware updates for five different Coolpix cameras that include various fixes:
