By Jan Dembowski on January 3, 2010
In September I fooled around with the off camera flash. Since then I have not really taken advantage of it so yesterday I intentionally used it like crazy.
The Nikon family of cameras from the D80 and up support off camera flash using CLS. This takes your pop-up flash and lets it be in commander mode. [...]
Posted in Photo | Tagged Camera flash, CLS, Nikon
By Jan Dembowski on November 8, 2009
I purchased my Nikon D300s for a simple reason: I was sold on the D300 and I’m a stickler for getting the current model. I’ve been very satisfied with it.
Now Canon has come out with the 7D which lines up directly against the D300s. DPReview has a really good in-depth write-up of the Canon 7D. [...]
Posted in Cool, Photo | Tagged Canon, Nikon, photography
By Jan Dembowski on September 27, 2009
I’m playing with my new camera and got to a feature that does not exist on my D60: off camera flash. It’s easy to set up the D300s to use the built in flash solely for commander mode.
On my SB-800 flash, I held down the SEL button for two seconds to get to the next [...]
Posted in Photo | Tagged D300s, lighting, Nikon
By Jan Dembowski on September 26, 2009
So after months of waiting, I finally got a Nikon D300s with the updated 18-200mm VR lens.
I was originally planning on getting a Nikon D90 which would have been a fine upgrade from my existing D60. But Lily intervened and pointed out that getting a D90 now and possibly repeating this in a year in [...]
Posted in Photo | Tagged D300s, D60, Nikon
By Jan Dembowski on August 19, 2009
Going to Washington DC this year was quite an experience. Here’s what I learned.
1. The Acela is more expensive and only saves about 30 minutes. But it’s worth it, the Acela is roomier and more comfortable. We took the Acela on the way there, but on the way home we took the regional. Not really [...]
Posted in Cool, Family, Photo | Tagged D60, Family, Nikon, Washington DC
By Jan Dembowski on August 15, 2009
Over at Planet Neil is a good real life review of the Nikon D5000 w/50mm AF-S lens. The high ISO shots tell it all.
Posted in Asides, Geek, Photo
By Jan Dembowski on August 11, 2009
I’m not a huge Greasemonkey script user, but the one’s I do use are all for Flickr. I just found this Flickr Exif Info for Greasemonkey script which places the info I’m looking for on the photo page. Very cool.
Posted in Asides, Geek, Photo, Software | Tagged Flickr, Greasemonkey
By Jan Dembowski on May 20, 2009
See what you can shoot with the Nikon D60? I took this photo at an aircraft museum. You can see a bigger version of the plane here on Flickr.
I have had the Nikon D60 for more than a year now and it’s been great fun. Last I looked, the shutter count was around 17,000 pictures [...]
Posted in Geek, Photo | Tagged D60, Nikon, photography
By Jan Dembowski on December 21, 2008
Today is slow and almost all of our shopping is done. So I am going through my photos this evening and notices something.
I purchased my Nikon D60 in May 2008 and have been using Photoshop Elements since then. My external 1TB WorldBook is where I keep my photos and PSE keeps a tally of all [...]
Posted in Geek, Photo | Tagged D60, Nikon, photography
By Jan Dembowski on November 6, 2008
I don’t (yet) own a flash so from time to time I use the built in pop-up flash. This produces harsh light so I picked up the Puffer by Gary Fong. It’s a diffuser that softens up the flash and I’ve been thinking of getting is for a week or two.
Here is an example just [...]
Posted in Photo | Tagged D60, Gary Fong, Nikon, Puffer
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