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8. May 2014

Nikon V1 Slomos – Sessan-Cup 2014

The old Nikon 1 V1 of the one-inch sensor series that Nikon called just the „1“ was likely one of the strangest newcomers for the Nikon camera system for a while when it surfaced in 2011. The camera had/s the leading AF performance for the small sensor compact type of cameras. It also shoots raw in very fast series although...

Allgemein/Regatta Fotografie/Review/Workflow

18. March 2014

Slomo Footage with Nikons 1 …

Schon eine Weile auf der Agenda, aber immer wieder wg fehlenden schnellen (und bezahlbaren) 4K Kameras auf die Bank gestellt. Neuer Anlauf mit der Nikon 1. Die macht immerhin 30 oder 60 Bilder/s in 4k. Klaro das geht nur lächerliche 1 oder 0,5 Sekunden lang, aber mit Stabilisierung und Interpolation (Adobe AfterEffects Warp + Twixtor) kann man durchaus 2-4 Sekunden Slomo...

Lens Tests/Regatta Fotografie/Review

25. October 2013

The Sharpness & Darkness Queen – the Nikkor AFS 14-24 mm f2.8G

Nikon AFS 14-24 mm f2.8G: This lens is the end of the (endless) search for the perfect wide angle lens. Its as simple as that. Get this one and stop (and forget) all the testing : ). Since photography went digital a sharp wide angle has been like the mythical unicorn – it just wasnt there anywhere. The 14-24 is the...

Lens Tests/Review/Workflow

12. September 2013

Small and Powerful? The GoPro Hero3 Black Edition

The GoPro Hero3 Black Edition for Yacht Photography: Within the action camera segment “GoPro” is successful since a while marketing their cameras for swarm like applications. They also started a very successful marketing campaign when they introduced the GoPro Hero3 and launched the camera with a mind blowing teaser video. Nikon did an attempt to position the Nikon 1 System in a comparable...

Lens Tests/Regatta Fotografie/Review/Workflow

16. April 2013

D800 – Pixels vers Speed II

Some (somewhat surprising) findings from shooting with the D800. Did about 2000 exposures with this camera lately. Mostly LBIF (large birds in flight) and snowy : ) landscapes and Kids and the 36MP definitely deliver nicely. Though I found myself shooting often in 1.2x crop mode and one of the surprises is buffer capacity there. Surprise: THE BUFFER: in RAW 12Bit...

Nikon/Review

27. March 2013

Nikon D800 – Pixels vers. Speed?

The Nikon D800 arrived at my door steps some days ago. As a late adopter none of the classic problems whatsoever (no left sensor issue, 10pin seems sturdy so far, no freezing of the software). Serial is 6097xxxx. Will do some testing at the next weekend (Eastern). Might be the next illusion of “the last camera” we buy. But first...

Allgemein/Fotografie/Nikon/Review/Workflow

9. February 2013

Nikkor AIS lenses on FX

Some of the old Nikkor lens legends seem to work very well on the digital FX format. Here is summary of some findings just collected from my digital notepad: *** Nikon 50 mm f1.2 AIS on D3 FX *** : Perfect handling due to well damped focus construction, big and heavy but very solid classic Nikkor AIS build quality with...

Lens Tests/Nikon/Review

27. November 2011

Sample variation with lenses

Nice read concerning sample variation when buying new lenses: http://www.dpreview.com/articles/7333489584/variation-facts-and-fallacies

Fotografie/Naturfotografie/Review/Workflow

20. November 2011

Lens Power for the Flower

The Nikon AF-S VR Micro Nikkor 105 mm f2.8G ED Since a while I was monitoring the macro lens market for a good new lens for macro flower work . So far the Micro Nikkor 60 mm AF-D f2.8 wasnt that bad at all for most of what I did. It was a compact sharp lens in the mm-range of...

Fotografie/Naturfotografie/Review

28. December 2010

Switching to Mac OS X

Hier mal eine knappe Zusammenfassung meiner Erfahrungen als neuer Mac/OS X Nutzer mit einem MacBook Pro i7 System. Als langjähriger Linux/Windows Nutzer hat mich vor allem ein gewisser Frust mit der unschönen Qualität der PC Notebooks und die Sehnsucht nach der UnixShell immer wieder nach den MBPro Geräten gucken lassen. Der eigentliche Betriebssystemwechsel hat mir die meisten Sorgen gemacht, da...

MacBook Pro/Review/Workflow

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