February 19th, 2010
Shooting with a D300, D300s, D3, D3s or D3x? Ever use the D2X? The skin tones on the D2x were claimed to be the best Nikon ever came out with. Because of this, Nikon has made available a download from their global site where you can load the Picture Control settings into your current camera. They have provided a Landscape download, a Portrait download (my favorite) and a general (modes 1, 2 and 3) download - all free from Nikon. These are all available at the Nikon Global Site.
These have actually been available for some time and I’ve had them in my D300 since I first heard of them but wanted to really check them out thoroughly before passing the word around.
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February 17th, 2010
I was showing a SONY Cybershot DSC-WX1 camera to a customer yesterday and he asked how fast the hi speed capture is on that one. To tell you the truth, I had been so entranced by the “Sweep Panorama” feature on this one, I hadn’t even checked out some of the other cool things it will do.
Setting the continuous shooting through the menu to hi caused the camera to take 10 pictures in about 1 second at the full 10mp resolution. It took a few seconds for the camera to record all 10 to the card afterword but . . . wow! Nikon put a similar feature in the P90 (24X optical zoom) but at a lower resolution when it’s set to hi speed shooting. I guess the only down side to the Cybershot is it only has a 5X zoom (fine for most - not enough for some).
I’ll fill you in on any other things I trip across while playing at this.
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November 2nd, 2009
What a beautiful weekend we just had here in the Mohawk Valley. I got to go out for a little while Saturday to roam around downtown Schenectady and about an hour at lock 8 on the Mohawk with my new SONY Alpha 900. So far I’ve got nothing but Kudos for SONY for what they’ve put into this camera. At the top of my list is “Intelligent Preview” where the camera brings up a preview of the picture to be taken on the LCD complete with histograms. The user (me) can then adjust Exposure compensation, D-Range, white balance and depth of field to get the shot as it should be before creating the file. Here’s a sample of before and after the “Intelligent Preview” was used.
The first picture was shot with all settings at center, aperture priority with the aperture set at f11. The second shot was after using Intelligent Preview. I didn’t have to make any adjustments in the computer to get the pictures as I wanted them. It’s almost like making RAW adjustments in the camera.
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October 8th, 2009
Haven’t had a chance to get back to the high peaks but we’re seeing more and more color here in the Mohawk Valley every morning. For those of you who want to get some foliage this year, better get out there soon. If your camera has a vivid color mode in the menu, now is the time to activate it. Just make sure to put it back to normal before moving back inside to take pictures of friends and loved ones. Vivid is great for the leaves but mean at reproducing nice skin tones.
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September 23rd, 2009
A little something we just got in. This is a stand alone DVD burner/player that can work with video, audio and digital files from an assortment of media cards. I just ran a test DVD and got 2 gb burned in about 10 minutes. No fuss, no muss.
I also reset the machine to record multiple cards and it’s doing it for me as I write this. I think I want one of these for me. 
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