Shooting in the old slaughterhouse

Shooting in the old slaughterhouse

I reported a lot about the tech specs of the Nikon D800 and about issues with this new model. But what is it all about ? The pictures. It is all about the pictures. This sunday I went on a photoshoot with friends and we conducted a session inside an old industrial...
D800 and Kingston memory cards

D800 and Kingston memory cards

The 36 Megapixels of the D800 produce large files. One click equals 38-59 MB (RAW, 14-bit, lossless compressed). This means that with a 4 GB-card I use as secondary card in my D300s only 60-80 images can be taken. That’s about two rolls of film. Therefore I...
D800 – thoughts and experiences

D800 – thoughts and experiences

Today I would like to sum up some experienced and personal opinions on this camera in a telegram-style. The files are large, who would have thought that. Each image is between 38-45 MB in size (14-bit RAW, lossless compressed). This means that a 16GB memory card lasts...
D800 – thoughts and experiences

D800 and wireless flash photography problems

************UPDATE, September 17th 2013*************** The CLS problem has been solved. On some early D800 cameras a circuit board which controls the popup flash must be replaced. That is what Nikon did with my camera. Read the full story here and a summary here. With...