01.2.2006
Rumors have been circulating about the Canon 20D replacement; the Canon 30D and one of the speculations is whether it will have a crop factor of 1.3X or remain with the current crop factor of 1.6X. You see by going to a lower crop factor, it maintains the noise when the mega pixels density increases [...]
12.28.2005
A Spanish website www.caborian.com, has a 26 page review on the Nikon D200. Here is the conclusion of their review (translated from Spanish to English).
“After making and analyzing many photographies we only can congratulate to Nikon by the work made with this camera. By a price that goes up to around 1700€ a [...]
12.18.2005
The Nikon D200 is now slowly starting to arrive at the homes of eagerly awaiting Nikon Fans. Some will be placed under the Christmas tress whilst others are being quickly opened with the feeling that Christmas is already here. For those who purchased their camera overseas with the user manual in different language other than [...]
12.14.2005
A Japanese website Handy3.com has a review on the new Nikon D200. Although the review is in Japanese, the English translation can be viewed here.
Interestingly, regarding the ISO performance, they say from ISO 100 to 800, the picture is “sufficiently beautiful”, however noise starts to appear from ISO 1600 - 3200. Although noise is [...]
12.6.2005
The initial Nikon D200 presentation released during the November 2005 announcement had 23 pages. The latest version now has a whooping45 pages! with more important details and information put into a very nice package. It looks like a massive input from the marketing department.
Read all the latest information in the pdf file and find [...]
12.4.2005
There is a very good article about the uses of GPS technology in photography in the Microsoft website. The article is called “The importance of place - GPS and photography” by Ruth Happel, Wild Portraits.
Ruth Happel has had many years of experience with GPS and photography. The article discusses the experiences and the application of [...]
11.30.2005
Chasseur d’images, a French Magazine has a 20 page in depth review (21st Nov 05) on the Nikon D200 (Pre-production only). Unfortunately the article is in French and is only available as a hardcopy. The preview, not review can be viewed on the Chasseur d’images website.
Below are snippets of information translated and [...]
11.28.2005
Below are two images, one taken previously by a pre-production Nikon D200 and the other a Nikon D50. These images were posted by “EYANDA”, a member in the dpreview forum.
The images are claimed to highlight the difference between the two cameras using them as a side by side comparison. Unfortunately there are too [...]
11.26.2005
Below are great night shots taken with the Nikon D200. These were taken using an 18 - 700mm DX Nikkor lens.
DX ED 18-70mm F3.5-4.5G
F11 9 second ISO100
46mm EV0.0
DX ED 18-70mm F3.5-4.5G
F5.6 1.1 second ISO100
56mm EV0.7
DX ED 18-70mm F3.5-4.5G
F5.6 2 second ISO100
55mm EV0.3
DX ED 18-70mm F3.5-4.5G
F11 6 second ISO100
22mm EV0.7
DX [...]
11.25.2005
Here is a Japanese a website that has plenty of images using the Nikon D200 with the noise reduction turned on and off.
Below is a 100%crop of the images taken at ISO 3200 with noise reduction turned on and turned off. The image is a bit underexposed.With the settings the same, that is [...]