Just a quick warning: I removed my fake D600 battery grip to take a picture for the GGS post and when I put the grip back, none of the grip controls work any more (dials, directional pad). The camera continues to get power from the grip but otherwise doesn't work. I don't know if it's permanently broken or what. But just wanted to get the word out there right away.UPDATE 1/6/13: tried the fake D600 grip again and it works again just like it did befo...
Sunday, 30 December 2012
The GGS LCD protector for the Nikon D600 is finally here! I ordered mine through ebay. There was a sticker on it that said "D600" so I am supposing it was really designed for the D600. Hit the jump.I'm a big fan of GGS, even more so when it saved my S5's butt. I've used a GGS LCD protector on all my cameras whenever there is one available. For the D600 I held off on buying one for the D800 because the D600 and D800 use...
Thursday, 27 December 2012
I didn't expect the comments I got on my previous post, it seems there a lot of people interested in the change, some people thought full frame was a bust, that it doesn't differ from crop sensors, some thought that I finally saw the light and will move to Nikon, and others are interested in learning from my experience in order to avoid my mistakes.To all, here I tell the full details of the story, the morals, and my advice to recent camera owners,...
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
When a top-of-the-line lens performs very well, it's easy to praise it. But when a budget-priced lens shows great performance, it's harder to shower praise upon it because lens snobs who've invested thousands of dollars on their lenses would be so ready to heckle and criticize you. After all, such an observation goes completely against conventional wisdom. But in this blog we try to be as objective as possible. This is just...
Saturday, 22 December 2012
The only picture I have for "my" 5D Mark III Farewell my 5D Mark III, you've served me well, actually, more than well, you had the best, snappiest, most accurate auto-focusing system I have ever seen, you shot high ISOs like a champ, you were always live and ready for action even before I touched the trigger, something that no camera I have used to date was able to match, you gave me the shallow depth of field that everyone craves with complete...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
My brother-in-law is selling some of his gear at very low prices.Nikon D3S - $3300Nikon 70-200 VR II - $1600 SoldNikon SB-900 - $350Nikon SD-9 - $125Hit the jump for details.1. Nikon 70-200 VR II in great condition for just $1600.2. Nikon D3S $3300. Shutter count: Just 15071.3. Nikon SB-900 $350.4. Nikon SD-9 High-performance battery pack for SB-900 or SB-910. $125.He is the first owner of all of these equipment, and he is an amateur (not a pro) therefore the equipment is in good condition and hasn't been used much. All of the...
Lightroom 4.3 recently became available for download. One of the new camera profiles is the final version of the Nikon D600 raw support, which, I was happy to learn, fixes the oversaturated pinks and reds. Hit the jump for samples.Merely installing LR 4.3 will not change your images. Instead you have to change the camera profile from beta to one of the other profiles.Beta raw support:Adobe Standard:Camera Standard:Camera Neutral:The...
Monday, 17 December 2012
The previous week our daughter got sick. She got well then my wife got sick. Then my son. I thought I could dodge a bullet but we got exposed to the cold rain on Friday night, so yes I got sick too, but I think the fever broke last night.Anyway, a couple of weeks ago my wife wanted a "fashion-style" portrait. I looked at the examples she gave me and I interpreted it to mean slightly edgy portraits. What tools would you...
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Yesterday I took the day off to watch our kids' holiday recital and to take them to Disneyland, so I didn't read or listen to the news or check my e-mails. It was only much later in the day when I found out about the atrocity in Newtown.My initial reaction was horror that something like that could even be contemplated by anyone and could befall any of us. I don't pretend to understand how or why it happened. I thought at first to keep silent. In the face of the senseless murder of innocents, words seem so futile.As I had...
Yashica Electro 35 GTN + Yashica ST-7 How many of you know the above camera? Have you seen such a tripod before? Hit the jump for a flash back in time. The first camera I have ever used, and learned to take photos with, was my father's Yashica Electro 35 GSN, it is not the one shown above, but it is identical in almost everything, and the top part has a silver color instead of black as the one in the picture, which is a GTN by the way. Aperture,...
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