Nikon Japan announced the shipping date for the D810a DSLR designed for astrophotography: May 28th,2015. The camera was announced on February 6th and is currently available for pre-order at Amazon, B&H, Adorama, Jessops and WEX. Additional information on the D810a can be found here. You can also read Nikon’s article “Using the D810A DSLR for Deep Space and Nebulae Astrophotography”.
I found a text only cached version of the Nikon D810a article I reported earlier today: 36.3 MP sensor Improved IR filter 4 times more sensitive to H-alpha (Hydrogen alpha, 656.3 nm) New shutter speed improved to 900 seconds (15 minutes) Max ISO: 51,000 Price: €3,699 (around $4,200 – US price will most likely be lower) Full […]
The French website Les Numeriques briefly published their Nikon D810a post online and then quickly removed. Unfortunately I missed it by few minutes. As you can see from the screenshot above, Google already captured the original D810a link, the cached version is still not available is available here. Here is the original link which now redirects to the […]
Here is a rumor that just came in: next week (probably on February 2nd or 3rd), Nikon will announce an all new, special version of D810 DSLR camera designed for deep-sky astrophotography with increased hydrogen-alpha sensitivity. Given the short notice, I do not have enough time to get any confirmation from other sources. Because of […]
In this post Max Seigal (www.maxwilderness.com) will talk about his night photography: It was the most difficult shot I’d ever created. I sat, huddled in the cave, wondering if the stars would ever creep out on that cloudy night. It was the Milky Way, after all, that I was hoping to photograph that night, while […]
This aurora time lapse movie and VR experience guest post is by Göran Strand (Web | Facebook | Twitter): My name is Göran Strand and I work as a photographer in Östersund, Sweden. My main area of photography is astrophotography and landscape photography. I’ve been hunting auroras for several years and on March 17 I had one of the greatest aurora […]
This long video video (25 minutes) by Christoph Malin provides a lot of interesting information on taking photographs from the ISS with Dr. Don Pettit:
In today’s guest post Christoph Malin (see previous articles) talks about his journey during the making of the short documentary film Island in the Sky shot at the Island of La Palma, near the coast of Morocco (click on images for larger view): Imagine yourself resting on a lonesome hiking trail in the middle of an island, 2000 m […]
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