Archives for the ‘Hardware’ Category

Geotagging Pictures with Nikon GP-1

By Jeff • Sep 20th, 2009 • Category: Hardware

I’ve been fascinated with the idea of geotagging images for a while now. I am however convinced that more and more applications and therefore more and more interesting uses for this capability will make it an essential feature on your next cameras…why not get going today?



Nikon Announces New Gear

By Jeff • Jul 30th, 2009 • Category: Hardware

Unless you’ve never been to photography website, this is no surprise. As per their usual use of the Cone of Un-Silence, Nikon has made the official announcements that we’ve known about for weeks.



Nikon D5000 Launches

By Jeff • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: Hardware

Nikon is a great camera manufacturer, but a terrible keeper of secrets. D5000 has a 12.3 megapixel camera with HD (720p) and an articulating 2.7″ display. Not bad for $729!



Nikon Announces D3X

By Jeff • Dec 9th, 2008 • Category: Hardware

Nikon has finally introduced another poorly kept secret, the D3X. Its a 25 megapixel D3. So very low nice and very large files! About a 140MB NEF file to be more precise. I am actually very happy to see the news, I was battling my bank book about buying the D300 a few months ago [...]



Nikon D300

By Jeff • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Hardware

For those of you that have not made the jump to the D300, what the heck are you waiting for? I just came back from a week in Vermont photographing the fall spectacular and it was the best color in years. I was with some friends and we all now shoot with the D300 and [...]



Nikon D90

By Jeff • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Hardware

The worst kept secret in camera launch history was made public, the new Nikon D90. Seems pretty normal at 12 megapixels, 3″ screen, 5 frames per second and looks like a D300. Wait, what the!!! This camera shoots video! And its HD too! So, I was thinking OK this must be an the biggest gimmick [...]



Lenovo Photograhers Laptop

By Jeff • Aug 13th, 2008 • Category: Hardware

This is not really my cup of tea for a laptop, but someone was truly thinking of the photographer when they designed this bad boy, holy desktop replacement batman! I mean it has everything that you could ask for and really a not too shabby 8lbs or so.



Nikon Coolpix S60

By Jeff • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Hardware

This looks like a great “pocket camera” for those that want a bit of style with their point and shoot. I have an iphone and so this camera’s touchsceen is very appealing.
An excerpt from the Nikon press release:
“Nikon is proud to announce the introduction of the COOLPIX S60 – an advanced and stylish compact digital [...]



Nikon P6000 P&S Camera

By Jeff • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Hardware

Nikon released a new point and shoot camera the P6000. I have been looking for a quality small camera and when I saw that this camera also shot RAW files, I figured this is it! Well not so fast there my friend. It seems that Nikon has decided on a new proprietory RAW format! Seriously, [...]



New Lens from Tamron

By Jeff • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Hardware

To achieve the spectacular zoom range (billed as the longest in the world),Tamron has used all its design nous, including the use of aspheric elements and low dispersion glass to keep chromatic aberration under control.