I’ve been chewing this subject over recently with Sam Morgan Moore who is an experienced pro stills photographer turned videographer. “What sony are doing at the moment – first with the FS100 and some appaerenly competent stills glass – is opening up an unheard of possibility… A professional stills shooter who does not use Canon or Nikon but uses cameras made by the company that brought you the Walkman and the…
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[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/24024769[/vimeo] Above: Footage shot with the Samyang 35mm F1.4 on a Canon 550D. Buy it now – $575 Reviews have started to come in about Samyang’s promising 35mm F1.4 lens, which is a full frame lens that can be used on the 5D Mark II, APS-C and Micro Four Thirds.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKeuwnWWiLQ[/youtube] Nikon have just shot their D5100 TV commercial on the D5100 itself. A few years late to this game but at least they are doing it properly. No jumpsuited gimps in this one like the GH2 commercial shot on a 5D, just Ashton Kutcher… Oh wait. But behind the camera was one of my favourite DPs of all time – Matthew Libatique, none other than Darron Aronofsky’s Director of Photography.…
What kind of DSLR will be the successor to the Nikon D3 series? Here’s a clue, it won’t be the D4. A quick glance at other models confirms the fact. Panasonic have the LX3, and skip to the LX5. Olympus have the E-3 and E-5, but no E-4. Sony have a NEX3 and NEX5. A quick scan through all the recent camera releases at DPReview reveals a few 40’s and…
We told them but they didn’t listen! The D5100 has all the same live view problems as the D7000, one bug has even been around since the D300 and they haven’t fixed it. The D7000 meanwhile just had a firmware update, which doesn’t fix anything.
Above – the first ever Nikon SLR capable of producing digital images, in 1988 First a bit of history – on the genesis of Nikon’s digital camera division.
Above: Nikon D7000 mainboard Nikon’s director of lab research in Japan has just conducted a very candid interview with Focus Numerique where we learn many inside facts. Now that is a good interview candidate!
There are signs that a lack new product releases are hurting Canon and Nikon’s sales. First sign comes from Japan (thanks 1001NoisyCameras), ever a forward looking market. Here Canon and Nikon’s duopoly on DSLR sales is no longer what it once was, down to just 60% of the market – roughly 32% to Canon and 28% to Nikon.