Photography
D60 RGB Histogram workaround
It’s commonly noted that the D60 dropped the RGB histogram as per the D80 due to it’s intended audience, being deemed more confusing than helpful and voila, the combined histogram… which is pretty useless to determine clipping in each colour…
Networkable Trigger for the D60
I’m not 100% on the use of this yet…. but in the simplest possible way, I can fire the D60 via Ethernet. Whilst playing about with the Arduino, Ethernet Shield and an IR LED, I’ve managed to slap together some code that fires the D60 ( and anything else that the ML-L3 remote can trigger ) in response to a network ping…
Nikons…just work
Got the F401s ( also called the N4004 in the states, N series = american, F Series = elsewhere, but the model numbers don’t correlate to each other ), and after cleaning it up a bit, even although it was in good nick when it arrived, I still cleaned out the mirror both, focus screen and [...]
Lightroom Presets
Thought i’d share this collection of Lightroom Presets with you, will add more as time goes on…
http://www.640pixels.com/articles/free-adobe-lightroom-presets.aspx - 3 Good B&W plus 4 split tones for each…
http://digitalfreak.net/2008/12/22/lightroom-600-free-presets-to-download/ - over 600 presets – never be stuck again… you’ll no doubt find a large portion of these to be not your taste, but you can remove what you don’t need [...]
Adobe Lightroom
Found my first major annoyance with Lightroom / Adobe Camera Raw.
If I shoot raw ( .nef ) with my D60, it incorporates all the settings from the camera, such as saturation, sharpness etc, which it would apply if you are shooting JPEG or RAW+JPEG ( it also uses them to create the embedded jpeg preview [...]
Anonymise your Camera
Following a few articles I’ve seen lately, plus some practical advice from www.jamessolly.com ( blog at http://jamessolly.blogspot.com ) I sat last night, blacking out all Nikon logos and symbols on both my body and lens.
Nikon F401s
Managed to get a Nikon F401s 35mm Film SLR from ebay… broke the bank at £1.40
A Good Photographer
Right, been reading everywhere, that a good photographer, is a good photographer, regardless of the camera, which I appreciate, however, I noticed a huge improvement in my own photos going from Bridge, to Compact, then to DSLR, a BIG difference.
Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX Lens
Nikons second latest lens in the AF-S range, quite a reasonably fast lens for the price thats being asked, and on the DX sensors, it equates to nearer the ‘normal’ equivalent of a 35mm film camera ( 35mm x 1.5 crop = 52.5mm )
I’m aiming for this and the 55-200mm AF-S DX VR lens to cover all [...]
Trap Focus on the D40/D40x/D60 ( also called Focus Priority )
I don’t really remember reading about this in the manual, but I stumbled across it, and thought i’d share it… you no doubt know about shutter priority and aperture priority if your into photography to any degree, where, in idiot terms, priority is giving to your choice of shutter speed or aperture. Focus Priority it [...]
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