Here are a few updates to the Nikon D600 Hands-On Review, including a workaround for the lack of an instant zoom button.Face recognition on review. When you zoom in on an image at any zoom level, the camera can recognize faces. When it recognizes a face, you will see an icon on the lower left part of the screen and you can turn the sub-command dial to view the faces identified in the shot. The camera won't zoom to the face, but will be centered on it as you zoom in the face. This function can be used somewhat like a workaround...
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Saturday, 29 September 2012
Missed this announcement at Photokina (saw it mentioned at the Nikon D600 Club).That USB Dock looks interesting. Too bad it appears to work only with newer lenses. The old lenses -- the ones that are in most need of firmware updating -- don't seem to be compatible with the USB dock. Unfortunately for my Sigma 50 1.4 and Sigma 50-150, both of which don't focus in LiveView with the D600. ar...
Friday, 28 September 2012
We're all still waiting for Adobe's raw support for the Nikon D600. To be fair, Nikon should have allowed DNG support either in-camera like Pentax or at least as a conversion option in View NX2, so that we wouldn't have to wait like this no matter how new the camera is.Meanwhile I found out that you can trick Lightroom into reading Nikon D600 raw files by altering the EXIF data to specify that the camera model is a model that is already supported...
Many cameras offer video at a 60fps frame rate, which I find very useful for smooth slow motion. Here is a sample shot with the Nikon D600 (shot at 720p, 60fps).After shooting the video, I edited it in Photoshop CS6. I split the video at the point where I wanted the slow motion to start, then split that second half again at the point where I wanted slow motion to end. Then I right-clicked on the middle slow-mo segment to change the playback speed. (I also had to adjust the ends of the middle and last segments to provide...
Thursday, 27 September 2012
You may know that I recently modified a FlashRight diffuser to use it like a Spinlight 360. Here is that post. The Flashright was $99 but recently has been sometimes discounted to around $27. Meanwhile, the makers of Flashright have since launched a new flash diffuser called Lumaburst, which appears to be a Flashright without the internal shield/flag (I'm not sure why it would be more expensive than the Flashright...). The Lumaburst appears to be usable as a modified Spinlight as long as that transparent dome turns. I haven't used it so I...
DPReview just posted its high ISO studio tests for the Nikon D600, both in raw and JPEG. The results are consistent with what we have seen from the Imaging Resource studio comparison samples. The comparison tool is here: JPEG Raw DPReview also posted more sample photos. What's interesting is that they mentioned that they took the shots in raw and converted them using a "private beta" of ACR 7.3. Hopefully this means that raw support for the D600 is just around the corner for the rest of us....
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
We got a few requests in the recent "Who Are You?" post, below is a quick summary of the requests in no special order:Vanguard Heralder 28Shooting Techniques (2 requests)More about flash photographyLightroom 4 post as I've recently purchased it.Anything on technique is appreciatedIntrigued by the ipad and phone photography future topicsStrobist stuff, so I would be very happy if the planned article on the Yongnuo 560 IIPost Processing Techniques...
One of the photographers I look up to, Jose Antunes, often posts about Craft & Vision e-books. Today he posted about Great Light Easy Light by Kevin Clark. The book discusses how to use flash in a way that looks natural. That is a topic I am always interested in, and the book is only $5 ($4 with discount code EASY4) so I got it. Usually when an ebook is inexpensive and has large nice photos with fancy layouts, I am a little wary because sometimes there's not a lot of substance and the photos are there just to make a prospective reader...
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
10/5/12 update: added info re Adobe raw support for D600. Also added info re using camera profiles from other cameras.I tried to finish the review last night but couldn't. So rather than wait to finish the other parts, I'll break this up into part 2 and 3.Part 1:• Specifications - highlights. Just want to highlight some of the best and worst parts of the specs.• What's in the box. Just so you know.• Body. How the body...
I will be updating Part 1 of the Nikon D600 Hands-On Review with these additional info:Auto ISO. I learned that the Auto ISO can be activated without the menus. Just hold the ISO button and rotate the sub-command dial. Cool!AUTOFOCUSSpeed and accuracy. Autofocus appears to be fast and accurate. The only time I've seen it hunt is when I was trying to focus on a plain black surface with no texture and a texture-less white surface....
Monday, 24 September 2012
2012092112-DSC_3603-Edit.jpg, a photo by mic_ty on Flickr.Did you catch the space shuttle Endeavor's victory run over California? I was fortunate to have watched the flyby.I don't usually take sports or animal photos so I don't have a long lens. My longest is the Sigma 50-150, a DX lens. I had a choice of using the D90 or the D600.If a DX lens is used on a D600, the resolution becomes about 10mp, which is less than the D90's 12mp. Often, for...
I found out that my Sigma 50 1.4 and Sigma 50-150 HSM II (non-OS)cannot autofocus in live view with the D600. I have not tested withother Sigma lenses (sold the 10-20 I had) but I suggest you check tosee if your Sigma lens will work with the D600. I understand there areproblems with Sigma's compatibility with the D800 and possibly theD7000 as well.Anyway, it appears newer copies of Sigma lenses are able to autofocus,and there is a procedure for updating the lenses to allowautofocusing. However, Sigma didn't want to fix mine unless I couldshow...
Sunday, 23 September 2012
This post is a follow up to my earlier post about experiments on the Nikon D600's exposure. In that post my observation was that the Nikon D600 appeared to have a tendency to not give importance to highlights. For some shooters, the resulting image looks fine. For me, I like to protect highlights and there were way too many blown highlights even with ADL (i.e. the exposure is too "aggressive").I posted about this observation...
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