Nikon D5 and D500 live concert photography


I will be traveling in the next few days and will have limited Internet access. In the meantime enjoy this guest post by Arash Taheri (arashtaheri.com) who is a professional music photographer and an ambassador for Nikon Norway:

My name is Arash Taheri and I am a music photographer based in Oslo, Norway. For the most part I cover the hard rock, progressive rock and metal scene, and work as a photographer and writer for the Norwegian music magazine “Norway Rock Magazine”. In 2001 I grabbed my first Nikon and have been shooting with their pro models ever since.

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Nikon Norway contacted me as soon as their first batch of Nikon D5 and D500 arrived. They know I shoot a lot of concerts in challenging conditions and were eager to get my feedback. When the cameras arrived, there was no holding me back and I shot seven concerts in five days with the D5, and one with D500. The bands I photographed were Baroness, ChrisCornell, Wolfmother, Motorpsycho, Cult of Luna and Amaranthe”.

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Nikon offers free exchange of older EN-EL15 batteries for D500 owners

Nikon offers free exchange of older EN-EL15 batteries for D500 owners
If you own the D500 camera, Nikon is now offering a free exchange of older EN-EL15 Li-ion01 batteries with the new EN-EL15 Li-ion20 version (retails for $48). The older model can show a wrong number of shots remaining on the D500 camera. Here are the details:

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Firmware update C 1.01 for the Nikon D500 released

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Nikon released firmware update C 1.01 for the Nikon D500DSLR camera with only small issue fixed:

  • Fixed an issue that sometimes resulted in the options for SETUP MENU > Language not displaying correctly.
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Top 10 NikonRumors posts for May 2016

Nikon D5 vs Leica SL vs Canon EOS 1Dx comparison Nikon-Roadshow-in-Poland-got-cancelled Nikon D5 camera review
Nauticam NA-D500 underwater housing for Nikon D500 camera Nikon mirrorless camera concept4 Nikon-2017-financial-sstimation
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These are the top 10 most visited NikonRumors posts for May, 2016:

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More Nikon mirrorless camera talk

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Nikon mirrorless camera concept

The online chatter about a new Nikon mirrorless camera has definitely increased in the past few weeks, but I still have nothing interesting to report. Either Nikon is keeping this new camera under very close supervision, or the official announcement will not take place at the Photokina show in September – both are a plausible scenarios. The only specification we know for sure is that the new camera will have a “large sensor”. Some older rumors also suggested F-mount, but for now I cannot even confirm that. There could be two different models announced at the same time – one prosumer and one professional.

A new Nikon digital camera was just registered at the at the Indonesian communications agency:

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Weekly Nikon news flash #369

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→ Confirmed: new Sigma 85mm f/1.4 Art lens is coming soon.

Nikon Nikkor 6mm f2.8 AIs fisheye lens
Nikon Nikkor 6mm f2.8 AIs fisheye lens listed on eBay for $84,995.

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→ Meike announced four new mirrorless lenses for Nikon 1 cameras.

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15% off at AdoramaPix with coupon code “PXWALL15”.

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Photographing a JNU protest march, Delhi, India

Photographing a JNU protest march, Delhi, India by Harvinder Sunila (website | tumblr | instagram):

My name is Harv, I’m a photographer in the UK, some of you may have seen my guest post on NikonRumors last year about the school under the bridge in Delhi.

Earlier this year I had the chance to go to India again, these opportunities don’t come around too often so I went. On a side note, if you do get the chance to travel and see new places, whether close or far, then just go. Do things while you can, convincing yourself that you can go another time usually means you never actually go.

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