The Digital Fotographer
sduford on Jan 28 2006 | Filed under: Photography
My new website The Digital Fotographer is off to a reasonably good start with 21 users and 225 posts after one week. Please do go over and register and pass the word around!
Archive for January, 2006
Picture of the week
sduford on Jan 28 2006 | Filed under: Photography
Took this one this morning in the waterfalls near our house.
Cool Encarta/Messenger Integration
sduford on Jan 25 2006 | Filed under: Miscellaneous
Here’s something I Just discovered, no idea how long it’s been up. You can ask questions to the Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia via MSN Messenger. Here’s how it works.
1. Open MSN Messenger and sign in
2. Add the contact encarta@conversagent.com.Â
3. Double click Encarta from your Contact List
4. Ask a question
Here’s an [...]
DxO Optics to support Nikon D200
sduford on Jan 23 2006 | Filed under: Photography
I recently asked DxO when they would offer support for the Nikon D200 and the new 18-200 VRII and this is the response I got:
DxO Optics Pro will provide support the Nikon D200 (for both RAW and JPEG) in the first half of February. The D200 will be included in our Standard [...]
The Digital Fotographer
sduford on Jan 22 2006 | Filed under: Photography
I got the domain name digitalfotographer.com for my photography forum, so you can now access the site via www.digitalfotographer.com.
I invite you all to join and help build this new community from the ground up!
The Imaging Resource Reviews the D200
sduford on Jan 20 2006 | Filed under: Photography
The Imaging Resource, one of my favourite review sites, just posted a preliminary review of the D200. You can find it here.
Here’s an excerpt from the introduction:
“We’ll have our usual full review of the D200 in another few weeks, but from what we’ve seen so far it’s clear that the Nikon D200 is a truly [...]
Adobe Camera Raw 3.3 released
sduford on Jan 19 2006 | Filed under: Photography
Adobe just released version 3.3 of Camera Raw with support for the D200’s RAW (NEF) files. You can get your update at adobe.com.
Minolta getting out of the photography business!
sduford on Jan 19 2006 | Filed under: Photography
Wow, this is shocking news. Minolta was my favourite camera system back when I was in college. And now Konica-Minolta are no longer going to sell any cameras, and they are transferring those assets to Sony who will continue to develop DSLRs based on the Minolta lens system.
The digital era is sure upsetting the industry, [...]
Nikon D200, First Impressions
sduford on Jan 18 2006 | Filed under: Photography
I sarted working on a review of the D200. So far I haven’t been able to do any serious shooting, so I only wrote a first impressions section. Once I;ve done more extensive testing, I will complete the review with some actual shots. You can find the review here.
Neat site on macro photography
sduford on Jan 17 2006 | Filed under: Photography
While researching macro focussing rails, I stumbled on this very nice site with tons of information on macro photography. It is called “OnCloserInspection”, and you can find it in the Photography links list on the right, or right here.
