A Simple Box

The little camera that could… dwarfed by it’s lens

Nikon did something audacious with their D3200:

Error Circle

A smurf tied up in the forest

Sometimes there are so many errors in an image that quality comes round again to being, dare I say, good? Example in case above. I had expired

All Wrong, But Fabulous*

Pensive at the Fast Food Restaurant

These are heady times for photo gear geeks like me. The day before yesterday, Leica announced

Film Swan Song

Lock and load!

See that yellow in the film ID window?

Another Dimension

The Nikon 1 V1 camera body pales in comparison to the huge 1 Nikkor VR 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 PD-Zoom lens. And yes, I black out all my cameras with a sharpie pen. Didn’t stick on the “1″ though

The second lens I got for my Nikon 1 V1 EVIL camera was the Nikkor VR 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 PD-Zoom lens. As you can see, this is no longer a compact camera system now,

Pocket Rocket*

The Nikon 1 V1 really is much smaller than it looks here. That's a mini bottle of mineral water behind it.

Ok, another photographic gadget that has to prove it’s worthiness. First impressions: I think it will!

Uncrapping a Digicam

The object of today's exercise

Got a Nikon CoolPix S1100PJ digicam yesterday. I confess, it was for the gadget factor. Unfortunately, the built-in pico-projector doesn’t work on Mac OS X Lion. Nikon has promised to look into it. The projector works for slideshows straight from the camera’s SD-card, though, and that is kind of nifty.
But what about the camera qualities of this, well … camera? In the default settings, image quality is crap (by the way: all images in this post can be clicked for large versions):

Let's call this rendition of the berries and the leaves "painterly", shall we?

See those JPEG compression artifacts at the limit of the sensor’s resolution? That’s what you get when you cram 14 megapixel on a sensor smaller than your pinkie’s nail.
But…

Digital Knight

A distinctly digital picture style I'm working with recently, using Nik's Color Efex Pro preset "Tonal Contrast"

Exaggerated local contrast and tonal variations are more apparent if you click the pic for a full-size JPEG! Just FYI.

One Month with the Nikon D7000 (Review Part 3)

Snowy Street, Morning Light

After a month with the new Nikon D7000 DSLR one thing stands out. It is demanding of the lens you use to throw an image on it’s sensor.

I’ll Take A Pancake With ぼけ* ( Nikkor 45mm f/2.8 P Review )

A word of warning in advance: Using a small camera like the Nikon D7000 and a diminutive lens like the Nikkor 45mm f/2.8 P makes fat photographers look fat!

Another weekend over, another lens review due. This time around, I’m discussing the Nikkor 45mm f/2.8 P pancake lens.