You have another month to upgrade your Nikon D3 buffer

By [NR] admin | Published: June 20, 2011

The Nikon D3 buffer upgrade was introduced back in July of 2008. Today Nikon announced that the service will be discontinued on July 20th, 2011. If you own a D3, you have another month to perform the upgrade:

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Nikon D4 with 32MP, D400 with 24MP sensors from Sony?

By [NR] admin | Published: June 19, 2011

I received a tip about Sony’s new a920 full frame camera with a 32MP sensor to be announced this August. If this turns out to be true, there is a good chance that the Nikon D3s replacement (D4?) will also use this 32MP sensor (given that Nikon continues to use Sony sensors).

On the APS-C side, Sony is expected to release a 24MP a77 camera in July. This could become the base of the Nikon D300s replacement (D400?).

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Weekly Nikon news flash #115

By [NR] admin | Published: June 19, 2011
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DIY wireless tethering for Nikon D300s

By [NR] admin | Published: June 17, 2011

This DIY wireless tethering for Nikon D300s was created by Jamie Carl.

“As you can see, I have it mounted inside my MB-D10 vertical grip. To do this I used my spare MS-D10 battery holder which holds 8xAA batteries. I then cut off the battery mounts from one side so that I could fit the Trulink device board inside but still be able to mount 4xAA batteries, which is what is required to power the Trulink board. I then modified the battery circuit by pulling out the top connector plate at the back of the battery holder and effectively cutting it in half. At the same time I cut off the top contacts so that the batteries would no longer supply power to the camera and become a completely independent circuit. I then soldered a wire to the remaining part of the back plate, ran it up the front to a switch, then soldered the last wire to the bottom contact plate to connect the positive.

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Guest post: Time-lapse Landscape Astrophotography

By [NR] admin | Published: June 14, 2011

This guest post about time-lapse landscape astrophotography is written by Christoph Malin from Austria. He has been a Nikon NPS Photographer for many years doing mainly outdoor, landscape and sports (bicycles) photography for various international magazines and bicycle manufacturers:


Last year I got myself into landscape astrophotography as I was invited to do a story about that topic for a German Nature Magazine. As I dug deeper into the astrophotography scene and all the dedicated international websites, conferences and events, I got to know many interesting astrophotographers. Some of them often do time-lapse astrophotography with a second or even third camera whenever they do skywatching and deep space imaging. For the latter, they use special astronomic mounted telescopes with dedicated cooled CCD cameras and computerized GOTO software to follow and find stars… very hardware intense…

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Weekly Nikon news flash #114

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

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Nikon AF-S 105mm f/2 lens patent

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

Back in December of 2010 I reported on a rumor for a new Nikon AF-S 105mm f/2 VRII Nano lens:

“2011 fall no more DC but VR and 77mm filter size min. focusing to 3.6 feet and max magnification of 1:3.4 priced at $2199 no more 135DC”

Yesterday a patent for a new Nikon 105mm f/2 lens appeared in the JPO (Japan Patent Office):

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