Category Archives: Nikon

Batmobile Assembly Time-Lapse

August 14, 2007 – 9:37 am

While on vacation, I finally had a chance to do a little project I had been planning for a while. A few months ago I got the UCS Lego Batmobile (Set 7784) for about a third of msrp. I had also been playing with Nikon Camera Control for a little while and had been trying [...]

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Promaster 278DNP AF 80-210mm Lens

December 19, 2006 – 7:51 pm

Before I go any further, I want to state loudly, clearly, and with out question the following statements.

If you are looking for top-notch photos from your slr, put up the money for the glass on front.
Most of the time, this means, use the manufacturer lenses for said slr.
Most of the time you get what you [...]

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Photos: D40 v.s. D70

December 15, 2006 – 6:13 pm

For this review, I took a few photos for comparison with the D40 and the D70. I set up a tripod roughly 80 inches from our Christmas tree and cycled through the zoom levels on each lens. I set both cameras to auto mode, allowing each camera to take the picture as it wishes, which [...]

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Help System: D40 dSLR

December 12, 2006 – 6:57 pm

One of the interesting features of the D40 is it’s display of settings like shutter speed and aperture. Above you can see a close-up of the screen. For the photo, I set the camera into aperture priority mode. This means I can set how much light is allowed in through the lens. The left concentric [...]

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Aesthetics: Nikon D40 dSLR

December 12, 2006 – 7:15 am

Let me start off by saying, I am not a professional photographer. Or for some of you, that’s request.getParameter(”Mike”) != “Pro Photographer”. (BTW, I know that’s not a correct string comparison, so don’t write me.) In college I majored in New Media, with a focus in web development. That offered me the unique opportunity to [...]

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New Toy: Nikon D40 dSLR

December 11, 2006 – 7:59 pm

A while back I came to the realization that my compact Nikon Coolpix 4100, though nice, just wasn’t working out for me anymore. The deciding factor was a series of weddings where out of very many pictures I attempted to take, only a very few came out clear. I had, had enough of the lackluster [...]

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