Beginning of December I was booked for a wedding ceremony at Aachen townhall. The ceremony and subsequent toast with friends took about 1.5 hours and I pressed the shutter button 600+ times (If I was a soldier the applicable word for me would be...
This night Nikon released a new product, the Speedlight SB-910 flash unit. We were all waiting for the D800, but it seems as it will be next year before the camera is announced. Instead Nikon announced an updated version of the SB-900 Speedlight. I did a side-by-side...
…is a question I hear regularly. Honestly. This year it is the 5th or 6th time I was asked to advise on the choice of a camera. Previously I wrote an entry about that, but that was written with a bit of annoyance and therefore not very much helpful. Today I want...
During the night (the German night, daytime in the US :-)) NikonRumors published a front and back shot of the new D800 body (thank you to Peter from Nikonrumors.com for letting me use these images !). The images show the D800 body with a battery grip attached (I hope...
Nikon Rumors just released the information that they received a sample picture taken with the D800 and that the EXIF data really says it will have 36 Megapixels. That is 7360×4912 Pixels. Hell. I am still very confused about the 36 MP issue. I can’t get my...
A few weeks ago a brilliant plan of mine, a cunning plan so to say, backfired. While eagerly waiting for the D800 to arrive on the stage of photographic enjoyables I thought about making room for the new toy which is hopefully to be announced on October 26th. So I...
