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Nikon D5100 – Order it now!
The Nikon D5100 has just been announced (it is not yet available) and you can already pre-order to be one of the very first to receive it when it will be available (around May 2011). You will be part of a very select club. Amazon USA Nikon D5100 (pre-order) B&H Nikon D5100 Digital SLR Camera…
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Nikon D5100 Press Presentation
Photography Blog shares the whole press presentation of the Nikon D5100 is a long series of copies of the marketing slides.
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Canon to suffer 27% from earthquake
Bloomberg news agency disclosed their estimate of reduced Operating Profits at Canon, the world’s largest camera maker: They may drop to 400 billion yen – 27% lower than previously estimated. No information about how they computed these figures, but the readers of YLovePhoto know what it is all about the Japan earthquake and its consequences.…
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Nikon D5100 – Night vision
Let’s come back to the issue of Night Vision around the new Nikon D5100. You certainly noticed that there was some talk about it before the launch and that this has been toned down at the announcement by Nikon. It appears that its an issue of trying to avoid discomfiture for the new or prospective…
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Sigma and the Japan earthquake
Sigma is one photo company which did not tell us much about the damages from the March 11 earthquake. Apparently (according to talks with people who where actually working in the plant at quake time), their Fukushima Yamagun/Aizu factory is mostly undamaged (and nearly 100 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant). It is…
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Nikon D5100, now official [updated]
Here it is! The Nikon D5100 has been revealed to the press and the world. For less than $900 or 900€ in kit with the 18-55mm VR, you get a 16MP sensor, Full HD video recording, a 3″ titl-and-swivel LCD scren and software filters to touch up the pictures in the camera. But contrary to…
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America in Color from 1939-1943
This come directly from the archives of the Library of Congress and it is one of the color photopgraphs captured by the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information. There were very few photographers using color at this time and they document Depression Era for the farmers’ communities. Source: Denver Post blog. The photographs and captions…
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Nikon D5100: Big ISOs under
$1000$900With what we have been hearing of the upcoming Nikon D5100, it is already possible to give some indications about the importance of this new Digital SLR camera. Of course, this is going to be everything that we came to expect from a DSLR camera: 16+ MP resolution and Full HD video capture. But under…
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Nikon: Delays on D4, D800
The impact of the earthquake on 11 March in Japan on the Nikon Sendai plant will have significant consequences for the launches of the Nikon D4 and Nikon D800. They were to be launched before Summer to be manufacturer in Sendai. The manufacturing process will not be ready until the production is transferred to Malaysia.…