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- Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:30 pm
- Forum: Other stuff
- Topic: Fuji S3
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10347
Fuji S3
Doesn't really belong in the Nikon section, although it uses a Nikon body, and it's a bit too modern anyway, but I recently bought a Fuji S3. It's based on a Nikon F80 - with a portrait grip, and Fuji's bulky back and orange control screen - but unlike most of all the digital SLRs that have been rel...
- Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:24 pm
- Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
- Topic: Blog post: Nikon D Family 1999 – 2011
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17037
Re: Blog post: Nikon D Family 1999 – 2011
Concerning the use of Canon or Nikon by sports journalists I have seen (over the last ten years) that though Canon was a bit late with its pro-digi-SLR, it had a wide range of IS-lenses, when Nikon had none (VR). http://www.nicovandijk.net/nikond1.htm I get the impression that the EOS system in gen...
- Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:57 pm
- Forum: Other stuff
- Topic: New technology: take shots first, focus later
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6524
Re: New technology: take shots first, focus later
I always wondered how Deckard in Blade Runner could navigate around a still photograph as if it was 3D; obviously it must have been taken with an advanced version of this technology. Another mystery solved!
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 5:11 pm
- Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
- Topic: Blog post: Nikon D Family 1999 – 2011
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17037
Re: Blog post: Nikon D Family 1999 – 2011
The original post suggests that the extra pixels were there for redundancy, in case one or more failed during inspection, and so I assume it was cheaper to have a design with lots of pixels than to throw away lots of defective sensors. I remember reading that one of the biggest reasons full-frame se...
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:46 pm
- Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
- Topic: Blog post: Nikon D Family 1999 – 2011
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17037
Re: Blog post: Nikon D Family 1999 – 2011
Coo - and the family photo is striking. By coincidence I'm writing a similar post specifically about the D1, because I bought one recently and I'm exploring this fantastic toy that I couldn't possibly have afforded back in 2000. Wikipedia's new headline image of the D1 is now my very camera, serial ...
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:21 pm
- Forum: Vintage Kodak DSLRs
- Topic: DCS-200 Monochrome on eBay
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9661
DCS-200 Monochrome on eBay
One of the monochrome DCS-200s has popped up on eBay, minus a few bits: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/KODAK-DCS-200-MI-MONOCHROME-RARE-SHIP-WORLDWIDE-/120737548126 There's a sticker with BEHC on the front, which makes me wonder what the British Eagle Hawking Club needed with a monochrome camera. It's a 200M...
- Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:09 pm
- Forum: Vintage Kodak DSLRs
- Topic: Fixing DCS Colour Casts
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7609
Fixing DCS Colour Casts
It's mentioned here and elsewhere that the original Nikon D1 had odd, slightly magenta-ish colours, because it used NTSC rather than something more sensible. There were various fixes floating around at the time - Digital Photography Review came up with the simplest, which involved assigning an NTSC ...
- Tue May 31, 2011 9:39 pm
- Forum: Other stuff
- Topic: Leica 0 series camera sold for $1.900.000 (world record)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7984
Re: Leica 0 series camera sold for $1.900.000 (world record)
The text also mentions a Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7, which sold for 90,000 euros. Apparently not the lens that Stanley Kubrick used on Barry Lyndon, but a lens of the same type.
- Sun May 22, 2011 7:42 pm
- Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
- Topic: QV-1000C: The history of Nikon's first electronic camera
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11886
Re: QV-1000C: The history of Nikon's first electronic camera
That was a fascinating read. All that talk of photojournalists having to develop film in hotel rooms and the backs of trucks makes me think of all those films from the 1980s where no-one has a mobile phone - there's a huge gulf between then and now. I've just spent an hour looking at pictures of Lat...
- Fri May 13, 2011 5:32 pm
- Forum: Other stuff
- Topic: Iscorama-rama
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6201
Iscorama-rama
Now, I've seen fads come and go, and over the last year or so one of the biggest seems to have been anamorphic lenses for shooting video with digital SLRs, specifically old Iscorama models (as well as old C-mount lenses, but that's another fad). The prices on eBay are astonishing - £2999 or so - but...
- Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:03 pm
- Forum: Other stuff
- Topic: "Zeiss SLR Lens Set with Case"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10009
Re: "Zeiss SLR Lens Set with Case"
I wonder if Leica would mind if you called it the "Leica Mate". It's a cute name; sounds like Yashicamat or something. They used to have cute names, like OESBO and SEOOM and so forth. Along similar lines there's a fantastic Contax N Digital outfit on eBay.co.uk right now, with a free Conta...
- Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:02 pm
- Forum: Other stuff
- Topic: "Zeiss SLR Lens Set with Case"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10009
"Zeiss SLR Lens Set with Case"
I've ordered a couple already - not for the lenses, which I will throw away, but for the cases, because I need a case: http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Press-Release/Zeiss-SLR-Lens-Set-with-Case.aspx "Carl Zeiss will introduce an attractive bundled lens set offer for its SLR lenses. The set c...
- Wed Mar 09, 2011 7:48 pm
- Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
- Topic: E series -- very first purpose-built DSLRs?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13076
Re: E series -- very first purpose-built DSLRs?
Google Books has a few excerpts from Digital War Reporting - based on the ever-shrinking size of the cases that journalists have to carry, I suspect that in a few months they will be issued with an iPhone and that will be their video capture / editing / uploading / text entry do-everything device. I...
- Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:07 pm
- Forum: Other stuff
- Topic: Iconic "tank man" photo NOT captured with a Sony Mavica
- Replies: 5
- Views: 26743
Re: Iconic "tank man" photo NOT captured with a Sony Mavica
"It would be interesting to find/search for the first digital combat photographer." I think it's been posted before, but this article is interesting: http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/sceneonroad/2008/10/12-week/ The one from October 13. It starts off talking about how Kodak DCS 100s an...
- Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:39 am
- Forum: Vintage Nikon DSLRs
- Topic: Must see: Rare Nikon QV-1000C video on Youtube
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18403
Re: Must see: Rare Nikon QV-1000C video on Youtube
"I was just playing with a micro-micro card, which had to be stuck into an adapter to make it a micro-card, which was stuck into an adapter to make it a mini-card, which was stuck into an adapter to make it a CF card, which was stuck into an adapter to make it a PCMCIA card so I could stick it ...