23 August, 2005

Nikon Capture 4.3.1 Released

Darren wrote this at 7:20 pm:

Nikon has released the latest update, version 4.3.1, of its Nikon Capture image management software.

Improvements include:

  • Optimization of RAW (NEF) image processing
  • More efficient use of RAM for image data processing
  • Improved program for creating histograms
  • Faster response for full image display
  • Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) support

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11 August, 2005

New Pages: Nikon D2H/D2Hs Reviews

Darren wrote this at 11:42 pm:

Two new pages have been added to One Stop Under:

If you have any more links to suggest, please add them to the comments section of the appropriate page.

* Filed under: Nikon
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3 August, 2005

‘Corpse Bride’ Filmed With A Digital SLR

Darren wrote this at 7:54 pm:

Canon fans are going to want to see Tim Burton’s next movie ‘Corpse Bride’ – it was filmed completely with an EOS 1D Mark II! Nikon fans will want to see it too – they used Nikon lenses on the 1Ds! And Mac fans will want to see it – post production was done on an Apple PowerMac G5 running Final Cut Pro, QuickTime Pro and Shake.

There’s a great article about the making of this film over at Editors Guild Magazine. From the story:

Representing a remarkable step forward in digital filmmaking, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride is a stop-motion animated feature film created through the innovative use of editing and camera technology. Based on a 19th century Russian folktale of a groom (voiced by Johnny Depp) who marries a zombie (Helena Bonham Carter) by mistake, this groundbreaking work features puppets made from stainless steel armatures covered by a silicon skin. Corpse Bride is co-directed by Burton and stop-motion animation veteran Mike Johnson and is scheduled for release September 23 by Warner Bros.

Technologically, this is a movie of many firsts; it’s the first feature-length, stop-motion film edited using Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP), it’s the first feature shot using commercial digital SLR still photography cameras and, perhaps most significantly, it’s the first movie to choose digital cameras over film cameras based on the criterion of image quality.

The production team set up 24 different sets, so they bought 24 EOS 1D Mark IIs! I multiplied out the 80 minutes of film by 24 frames per second, and figured out the final film would contain 115,200 individual photos. And that’s just the final edit – they’ll probably shoot several times that much footage before they edit it down. Wow!

I loved Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’, so I’m really looking forward to the release of this one. If you know of any additional links or good stories, please post them in the Comments section below.

Other Corpse Bride links:

* Filed under: Canon,Nikon,Technique
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25 July, 2005

Nikon Trademarks ‘D200′

Darren wrote this at 6:51 pm:

Nikon has recently (July 14 2005) registered a US trademark for the term ‘D200′. You can do a search at the US Patent and Trademark Office if you like, but the details are as follows:

Word Mark D200
Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Cameras
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 78670451
Filing Date July 14, 2005
Current Filing Basis 1B
Original Filing Basis 1B
Owner (APPLICANT) NIKON CORPORATION CORPORATION JAPAN 2-3,
    Marunouchi 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo JAPAN
Attorney of Record Mark I. Peroff
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

Nikon people are starting to salivate about the upcoming new DSLR, and are speculating wildly about what features it’ll have and when it’ll arrive. You can join the discussion over at the Nikonians forum.

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22 July, 2005

New Pages – Canon/Nikon DSLR Tips

Darren wrote this at 2:50 pm:

I’ve started a new section of the site to collect tips on various models of cameras. So far I’ve posted the following pages:

If you’d like to suggest more links, please add them to the comments and I’ll build up the list.

Tips pages for more camera models will come as I get time to create them.

* Filed under: Canon,Nikon
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28 June, 2005

Dirkon – The Paper Camera

Darren wrote this at 7:20 am:

Now here’s an interesting project – complete plans for a do-it-yourself pinhole camera, made out of paper, that looks like a standard 35mm SLR. It even takes rolls of 35mm film!

* Filed under: Humor,Nikon
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27 June, 2005

Nikon Releases PictureProject 1.5.2

Darren wrote this at 9:01 pm:

Nikon has released PictureProject version 1.5.2 to fix problems with D50 RAW+JPG images, CD and DVD burning, and proper display of layouts created with older versions of PictureProject.

The downloads are here:

* Filed under: Asset Management,Nikon,Software
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Wide Angle Lenses For DSLRs

Darren wrote this at 1:32 pm:

If you shoot with a small-sensor digital SLR (often called “APS-C” sensors) such as the Canon 10D/20D/300D/350D or Nikon D70/D100/D50, you’ve probably already been frustrated by the difficulty of shooting wide angle.

All these cameras have a 1.5x or 1.6x ‘crop factor’ due to the smaller sensor, so your 24mm lens has a field of view equivalent to a 36mm or 38mm lens on a film camera. It’s nice for the bird photographers working at the long end (cheap 300mm lenses become 480mm!), but it sucks for landscape photographers working at the wide end.

Photo.net has a roundup of ultrawide zooms for Canon and Nikon DSLRs that might help you choose a suitable new lens. Although they don’t review each lens, at least it’ll help you figure out what the options are and you can then Google for technical reviews of those lenses that appeal to you.

* Filed under: Canon,Nikon,Sigma
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24 June, 2005

Nikon View 6.2.6 Released

Darren wrote this at 1:12 am:

Nikon has released Nikon View version 6.2.6, which adds support for RAW images captured by the D50, and allows the Red Eye Correction function to be used on RAW and 16-bit TIFF images.

Nikon also mentions the following problem:

An error occurs and images cannot be opened in Nikon Capture when the following operations are performed with Nikon View version 6.2.x.

  • RAW images have been transferred with the Rotate image(s) (Supported cameras only) option selected in the Transfer panel of Nikon Transfer’s Transfer Options dialog (applicable models: D2H, D70).
  • RAW or NEF-format images have been rotated with Nikon Browser. Do not perform the operations noted above when Nikon View version 6.2.x is used with Nikon Capture 4 version 4.0.0 or Nikon Capture 3 version 3.5.2 and earlier. Images to which the operations described above have been performed can be correctly opened in Nikon View version 6.2.x Nikon Editor.

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19 June, 2005

Two New Free Photography eBooks

Darren wrote this at 4:53 pm:

Edwin over at CameraHobby.com has just compiled his web-based ‘learning modules’ Introduction To Photography and Wedding Photography into two PDF eBooks that can be downloaded for free. Both of these eBooks are worth checking out if you’re interested in those topics.

Edwin also runs NikonLinks, a huge resource for Nikon shooters.

* Filed under: Nikon,Technique
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