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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…

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 [...]

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

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 [...]