Best lenses for the Nikon D800E camera

By [NR] admin | Published: May 26, 2014

Nikon-D800E-camera
DxoMark published a series of articles on the best lenses for the Nikon D800E camera ($3,296.95). This would be an interesting feedback for anyone that already has the D800E or is planning to purchase the new D800s (or D810?) when it gets released next month (the D800E and its successor do/will not have an AA filter). Here is a quick recap of DxOMark’s findings:

With certain lenses, the Nikon D800E is up to 30% sharper than the regular D800:

Nikon-D800E-vs.-D800-sharpness
Next, the best lenses measured on a D800E camera based on the optical metric scores:

Read More »

Posted in Nikon D800, Nikon Lenses | Tagged | 191 Comments

Weekly Nikon news flash #264

By [NR] admin | Published: May 25, 2014

Lexar-memory-card-savings
→ Lexar SD memory cards sale.

Nikon-1-V3-mirrorless-camera-questionnaire
→ Tell Nikon what you think about the V3 mirrorless camera.

Nikon-Camera-GP-Japan-2014-award
→ 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.

Nikon-1-AW1-camera-underwater
→ New article from Nikon support: how to maintain the waterproof performance of the Nikon 1 AW1 camera.

Nikon-Image-Space-apps
→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:

Read More »

Posted in Weekly Nikon News Flash | 50 Comments

Landscape photography in the Mountain of Montserrat (and what I learned from it)

By [NR] admin | Published: May 24, 2014

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.

DB_Post_Pic1
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.

Read More »

Posted in Other Nikon stuff | Tagged | 17 Comments

The Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens for Nikon mount is finally shipping

By [NR] admin | Published: May 23, 2014

Sigma-50mm-f1.4-DG-HSM-Art-lens-for-Nikon-mount

credit: Erich Satran from Austria


Sigma-50mm-f1.4-DG-HSM-Art-lens-on-a-Nikon-D800
The new Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens for Nikon mount is finally shipping to existing Amazon and B&H pre-orders:

Read More »

Posted in Nikon Lenses | Tagged , | 131 Comments

Third party battery grip BG-2P for Nikon Df camera

By [NR] admin | Published: May 22, 2014

Third party battery grip BG-2P for Nikon Df camera
Battery grip BG-2P for Nikon Df camera
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:

Read More »

Posted in Nikon Df | 85 Comments

What exactly is the new Nikon sRAW file format?

By [NR] admin | Published: May 21, 2014
Nikon-D4s-RAW-S-small-file-format

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):

Read More »

Posted in Nikon D4s, Nikon D810 | Tagged | 176 Comments

Rumors: Nikon D800/D800E replacement coming in June *UPDATED*

By [NR] admin | Published: May 20, 2014

Nikon-D800s-coming-soon
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:

Read More »

Posted in Nikon D810 | 648 Comments