New Lensbabies Are In
I was downstairs playing with some new equipment while waiting for the next batch of Raw Footage clips to render, and I caught this shot of our own Jody Grober. It was shot with our display D90, newest...
View ArticleIndustrial Design, Anyone Remember This?
So, month’s ago when the new Sony digital camera, the A900, was being introduced I wrote a blog where I started touching lightly on my love of industrial design and the different approaches to camera...
View ArticleElements of Design (and Art): Color
Color is pretty darn important to most people, and for most photographers it is probably the most consistent element to deal with. But, most people don’t really know how the aspects of color work....
View ArticleThat thing got HD in it?
So we all remember the “That Got a Hemi” Commercials right? Well this years “Hemi” in digital cameras is High Definition output. The higher end DSLR’s have HDMI slots on them along with standard...
View ArticleNikon D5000: What’s Up With It
D6000 (Body Only) Well, because Jody in his infinite brilliance managed to accidentally delete the first version of this post, here we go again: There it is kiddies! The D5000! I’ve seen this bouncing...
View ArticleNew Nikon
Everybody talkin’ at me, but I don’t hear a word they’re saying. At least not until I can actually handle the new D5000 Nikon Digital SLR camera offering myself. The previews do look good for this...
View ArticleMemory’s cheap, kid
I have a steal for you – for $149.97 (plus shipping) you get a Hitachi Microdrive equipped with a cyclopean 2 gigabytes of storage. That’s a basement price $.074 a megabyte. Shudder. I’m not kidding...
View ArticleKodak Discontinues Kodachrome, No One Under 25 Cares
1935 - 2009 Kodachrome, which I have of course heard of but never even had to use myself (being quite the young whelp), has given up the ghost and put another nail in the nice little coffin film...
View ArticleNikon Product Support Pages: 85 Micro and 1001 nights
What to do if you’ve got a D90 and an 18-200 VR II but you want to get closer than 20in to a flower, a grape, or the crud collecting on the charging base of your electric toothbrush? What about that...
View ArticleNikon Upgrades D90 Quite A Lot: New D7000
Nikon this morning has finally updated it’s D90, apparently cleaning up the line name so that it fits in with the rest of their consumer line. They’ve also apparently pushed the quality of the camera...
View ArticleNew Nikon Digital SLR Camera announcement
Today, Nikon announced the D90 Nikon digital SLR camera. Looks pretty cool. Has the same chip capabilities as the D300 and has the same screen size (3 inch). Uses an SD memory card. The really cool...
View ArticleGetting Deep (Or, How to Be Shallow)
Bokeh the Fifth Let me get this out of the way right off the bat: to the best of my knowledge bokeh isn't directly affected by sensor size. I say "to the best of my knowledge" because, despite popular...
View ArticleNiftiness Built In
This is the age of feature-lust. Every forum I look on seems to be people bemoaning the absence (or in weird cases the inclusion) of various features which are apparently the Single Most Critical...
View ArticleYour Vote Counts
This year we are in a very heated race, with many worthy candidates. If you are looking for change it is here now. You have a chance for a better system, more efficient use of available resources and...
View ArticleBokeh Power!
Alright, I'm way over-due on this. I apologize, I've been buried the past week adding some new top-level categories to or site (it is however a lot easier to find bags, memory cards, filters, and...
View ArticleConsumer Guide: LCDs
It's that time of the year here in the Midwest. Temperatures are dropping, the days are short, and everyone's starting to wonder what they should get the loved ones in their lives for gifts this year....
View ArticleThis Isn't Official
This isn't official, or at least it hasn't been confirmed as such with us yet, maybe I'll have a chance to check here in a bit, but I picked this up on the DPReview forums and found corroborating info...
View ArticleGood news for Apple and Nikon P6000
The big gripe has been RAW compatibility for the Nikon digital camera P6000. Up until now, the RAW file was only supported by Windows, or the new plug-in for Photoshop on the Apple platform. Today,...
View ArticleRoberts Raw Footage and the D90
Nikon Days continue on here at Roberts, and true to my word I'm back with another special Raw Footage video. New video introduction, and another hot piece of tehcnology, the Nikon digital SLR camera...
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