JPEG Submarine

Baltic Sea Reflections

The long-awaited holidays I have written about in a previous post started with a visit to my parents, who live at the Baltic Sea. My youngest daughter came with me and while bathing in the aforementioned sea, I became inspired to take aquatic photos.

I got this to do them with.

So, a NIKON Coolpix AW120. Who thinks of these names?

Canola Field

Nikon D3200 with a AF-S Nikkor 70 – 200 mm f/2.8 VR II

Against the Grain

Nikon F6, Nikkor 105 DC at f/2.8, Kodak Tri-X developed in Diafine, scanned with Nikon Coolscan 5000, Nik Silver Efex 2

Ricoh GR (APS-C sized sensor), ISO 400, 18,3 mm lens at f/4.0. 1/40, camera flash as fill-in

These two photos stand for two very distinct modes of photography I’m using currently.

A Simple Box

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

Nikon did something audacious with their D3200:

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…

Aperture and Nikon D7000 Best Friends Again

Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.5

Eagerly expected, this morning Apple finally posted it’s Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.5 in Software Update with RAW conversion for the new Nikon D7000.

The Monster of Loch NAS ( Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED AF-S VR II on Nikon D7000 )

The Camera as Lens Attachment: D7000 on Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED AF-S VR II, tripod foot removed, Sun Sniper Strap attached to tripod socket

26th November 2010: Updated: Added resolution at f/4.0 shots.
NAS* is a terrible disease. One visit to the Nikon demo booth on a photo fair, and you just have to own Nikon’s Pro Tele Zoom, the Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED AF-S VR II. I’ll have to auction off my Ebony SV45U2 large format camera in order to be able to afford it, but whatever.