Posts Tagged ‘nikon’

Could Nikon be about to enter digital cinema market?

Wednesday, 17 April, 2013 23:37

Today sees the announcement of a new DSLR sensor from one of Nikon’s recent sensor supplier’s Aptina which has a headline spec of 4K video at up to 80fps.

The highly rated company says it is ‘combining DSLR image quality and 4K digital cinema’ with the new AR1411HS sensor. Along with Nikon being on the record for wanting to add 4K video to future Nikon 1 mirrorless cameras, could the new Super 16mm sized Aptina sensor pave the way for them to do a Cinema EOS style range and 4K on DSLRs?

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GoPro to replace Nikon as NASA camera supplier

Monday, 01 April, 2013 17:19

Thanks to low weight and small size GoPro cameras will be part of the next NASA manned space flight, possibly to Mars.

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Nikon D5200 review

Sunday, 17 February, 2013 18:42

UPDATE: The HDMI output on this camera is uncompressed 4:2:2, for a leap in image quality over the internal 24Mbit codec! Check the forum for my ProRes noise grain sample shots

The Nikon D5200 is the best mid-range Nikon yet for video. What is more of a surprise is the relish in which it takes on the much more expensive 5D Mark III, Panasonic GH3 and Nikon’s own flagship the D800 and D4.

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Is this bone chilling timelapse shot in space onboard ISS the best ever?

Saturday, 21 July, 2012 14:41

Set to the theme of Danny Boyle’s Sunshine here is what I think could well be the best timelapse ever shot.

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Mosaic Engineering working on Nikon D800 anti-moire filter

Tuesday, 10 April, 2012 20:06

D800 and Mosaic Engineer anti-aliasing filter

Good news for Nikon D800 owners. Mosaic Engineering are currently working on anti-aliasing filter for the camera. Because the sensor line-skips to produce HD video, the custom-designed optical low pass filter should almost eliminate any moire and aliasing on the D800 if it works as well as it did on the Canon 5D Mark II.

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