14
May
2009
Upgrading your Nikon firmware
If you are a proud oowner of a Nikon camera and want to know a little more about what version of firmware is installed oon your system and ify ou need to upgrade have a look here.
9
May
2009
Thoughtful approach to photography by Andrew Kornylak
A great article about a leap and following what you love. Andrew talks about his journey in becoming a pro photographer while working as a Software Developer.
The article talks aobut taking your time and loosing your self in the moment. I absoltuely agree with the statement “it’s not enough to just snap away wildly”; I find my self more often taking my time with the subjects that I shoot.
It’s true, it’s not what you see it’s how you see it.
2
May
2006
New Hardware DSLR
The dawn of the new era has come to pass, that’s right ladies and gentlemen my expanding collection of gadgets has gotten a brand new member.
I can tell you right now that even thinking about it makes me jitter from excitement. Alright, alright ill get to the point, it is a DSLR camera.
Here are some specs:
Camera: Nikon D70
Effective Pixels: 6.0 millions
Max Resolution: 3008 X 2000
Max Shutter: 1/8000 sec
Weight: 670g
For more information check out this site, it’s a great source of all kinds of interesting facts about digital cameras.
[http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Nikon/nikon_d70.asp]
Along with the camera I also got two lenses:
28-80mm, 58mm Tamron lens
70-300mm, 62mm Tamron lens
This camera is something that I wanted to get for quite a while now, about a year ago I considered it but thought that it would be too expensive and decided to go with a cheaper substitute Fuji Finepix 510. That was a very good camera, and I am still planning to use it when ever I don’t have Nikon with me. It’s small size make it a perfect candidate for transpiration, actually, even now I have it sitting in the right pocket of my jacket. It is always with me.
Any who lets get back to Nikon. First of all I would like to point out that I’ve ordered camera and the memory card in two different places and they happened to arrive at my place in exactly the same time. As a result I started playing with it as soon as it was out of the box.
Nikon D70 has a standard array of controls, figuring things out is not a challenge either; I was able to get my way around in matter of minutes.
While examining picture taking capabilities I quickly noted something that I wasn’t very found off: flash turned out to be an automatic tool. I was hoping it would be one of those manual functions. I guess I just have to turn it off by tinkering with the settings.
I still yet to try this camera in the wilderness, but from pictures that I’ve taken in my room the results are spectacular. The noise/clarity levels are outstanding; it is silly to even compare them to regular cameras. The same can be said about zoom capabilities that I achieve from the 300mm lens. One of the best things that makes SLR such a desirable item is the capability of taking multiple continues shots. I am sure everyone hates the loading time present in regular cameras. In simpler terms we can compare regular camera to an SLR as a public bus to a F1 racer.
There are a ton of other things that I still have to try out. Keep a look out for new pictures in the gallery section.
