Here is the Nikon D7100. Nikon today introduced the successor to the D7000, an APS-C prosumer DSLR that borrows its predecessor’s general philosophy while making some important changes as a new 24-megapixel image sensor without low-pass optical filter, a new processor EXPEED 3 and 51 autofocus points. Get acquainted with the Nikon D7100. Nikon D7100: [...]
According to the financial news source Bloombergs, Nikon is seeing their stock values dip in value after they announced lower results in sales than they had initially projected. This is the largest loss of Nikon Corp.’s trading value on the Tokyo stock market since 1985. The origin of these lackluster results stems from a weak [...]
The Nikon D5200 is about to start its career. I am currently working on the Nikon D5200 review, a camera featuring an APS-C sensor of 24 megapixels. It refreshes the D5100. How does the new sensor behave ? Are the high dynamic range and high sensibility still the strengths of the new Nikon 24 megapixel [...]
Chipworks, a website mastering the dissecting the of consumer electronics products has teared the Nikon D5200 digital SLR into pieces. The open-heart surgery has unveiled an APS-C sensor of 24 megapixels from Toshiba. A surprise to those who thought that the D5200 and D3200 shared the same sensor. The site Chipworks has disassembled the Nikon [...]
ifixit.com took care of the Nikon D600 recently and teared the DSLR into pieces. The destruction operation is interesting because it can tell us a few things about the camera. First of all, we can see how tricky the tear down can be : you have to unweld several cables in order to be able [...]
The Nikon D5200 really is a fusion camera that gets the best of some of its brother DSLRs and it is is going to be a best-seller just like its predecessor has been, and still is according to the Nikon DSLR product manager I talked to last week while I was discovering the D200 for [...]
Nikon France has published a full sample image gallery of photos shot with the Nikon D5200 DSLR announed earlier this week. I could get my hands on the D5200 at Paris Photoshow which takes place this week-end and I have to say that it is quite surprising to see the powerful D7000′s 39-points AF system [...]
I barely doubt on that : this is certainly the same 24MP APS-C CMOS sensor as we discovered in the D3200 which is reused by Nikon in the today announced D5200, an important D5100 evolution of which it takes a new position midway between an entry level DSLR and an advanced camera. This new 24-megapixel Digital [...]
You probably remember Usain Bolt celebrating its victory at the London 2012 Olympics last Summer and grabbing a Nikon D4 from one of the sports photographer at the end of the running track, Jimmy Witröm, and taking photographs of his mate Yohan Blake. It was fun to watch and really he was acting like a [...]
The Nikon D600 is now available since last Monday. I took my test sample for a photography tour in Lyon, in the Confluence estate where architects did an outstanding job. Ahead of the full review of the Nikon D600, here is a little low ISO image gallery of JPEGs straight out of the camera. Today, [...]
After the record high score obtained by the Nikon D800 sensor review, I had some doubts about the D600′s ability to reach such great performances. I was suspecting Nikon would be able to cut down the performance level of the D600 in order to let its bigger brother D800 an advantage. The first images I [...]
Here is a composite image of Nikon D600 images shot at all ISO settings, from ISO 100 to ISO 12,800, then at the extended sensibilities till ISO 102,400 equivalent. These 100% crops were cut out from the JPG files directly from the camera (Picture Control “SD” / JPEG quality on “Fine”). I may be mistaken, [...]
Rumors often come true in our digital fast pace environment. The iPhone 5 turned to be exactly what we expected. So is the Nikon D600 launched today by Nikon. The D600 will be THE ONLY new camera announced by Nikon at the Photokina 2012. As expected, the D600 gets Sony’s full frame 24-megapixel CMOS sensor [...]
Usain Bolt is the fastest man on Earth. We know that. Usain Bolt is a total show-man. We know that as well. But what we’ve learnt yesterday after the 200m final at the London 2012 Olympic Games is that Usain Bolt can turn into a pretty tralented photographer ! Usain Bolt is always cool before [...]
last update (V7.5) of DxO Optics Pro 7 brought the support of the Nikon D800 RAW files (in addition to native 64-bit). Today, DxO comes with a new software update (V7.5.1) that will be able to process the Nikon D800E RAW files with an improved moiré correction algorithm, designed for the D800E as this camera [...]
Ahead of the full review of the Nikon D3200 DSLR that I am planning to publish tomorrow, here is an image gallery of images from the camera review shooting session. Clicking on each thumbnail will lead you to my Flickr D3200 album where you can download the full resolution JPEG images straight from the camera. [...]
5 star rating, “Essential”, the NIkon D800E did great for its review among the British photographyblog.com editors team. The key is : will a D800E do really better than a D800 ? Talking about resolution, the review answers a definite yes. You know that when I tested the D800 vs the D800E, I was not [...]
My friends at DxOMark just released the test results of the Nikon D3200 24MP CMOS sensor. And guess what ? They are good ! How good did the high-definition sensor of the Nikon D3200 on DxO’s benchmark ? Well here are the results : The Nikon D3200 is 9th on DxO’s historical chart of [...]
Prior to the Nikon D800 and D800E review, here is a gallery where you can download the original RAW (NEF) files right straitght out from the cameras. I had the opportunity to test both cameras together. Nikon D800 vs D800E : extra details On this image shot with both the Nikon D800 (left) and the [...]
I do fully agree with the Japanese journalists jury of the Camera Grand Prix 2012 which have given the Nikon D800 the title of Camera of year 2012. The has won the Camera Grand Prix 2012 but also the public votes, and that means a lot. I know that Canon has improved a lot with the [...]
