| D1X Tip: breaking in the EN-4 battery |
| My first experience with a high-capacity NiMH battery pack was in 1995, and the experience was not good. The pack powered the NC 2000 digital cameras issued to each of us then on the photo staff at the Calgary Herald. It quickly became apparent that some cameras could run all day on a single charge, while others were lucky to limp through a single assignment. |
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| D1X Tip: undocumented feature keeps camera awake |
| A common complaint among Nikon D1 sports shooters, especially those using two cameras, is that the second camera is often asleep when grabbed to take a quick sidelines photo. And because the D1's inactivity timer can be dialed up to a maximum of no more than 16 seconds, for some the result has been an unwelcome effective shutter lag of about 1/2 second when a sleeping D1 is pressed into shooting an incoming receiver or other fast-moving object. This lag is longer still with certain CompactFlash cards. |
| June 26, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Sports Illustrated's "Leading Off" shot with Nikon D1X |
| David Bergman spent the weekend covering golf for Sports Illustrated with the Nikon D1X. |
| June 22, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| DCS 720x list price set at US$6995 |
| Kodak today set the list price of the upcoming DCS 720x at US$6995. The camera is expected to ship in late July. |
| June 19, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| JobMinder 6.0 to run native in Mac OS X |
| Version 6.0 of JobMinder, the Mac/Windows photo assignment system built on FileMaker Pro, is set to go native. A Mac OS X-compatible version of the client/server package from Northern Light DataSystems is to be released on September 1. Meanwhile, v6.0 of JobMinder for pre-OS X Mac systems, as well as Windows, is available now (web site not updated). |
| June 16, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Firmware update plan for D1X-Microdrive incompatibility announced in Europe |
| Nikon service centres in Europe will, upon request, install a firmware update into any D1X cameras already in the hands of photographers, to ensure that the latest revision of 512MB and 1GB Microdrives will be compatible with Nikon's newest digital SLR. |
| June 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Server, forums software upgrade complete |
| The server move and forums software upgrade is now complete. The new server should enable both faster page display and zippier full-res photo downloads during peak times, as well as more reliable forums performance. |
| June 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Where's the D1X review? |
| Thanks to all who've sent an email inquiring about the posting date for a review of the D1X on this site. Please know that I intend to publish a number of articles about or related to Nikon's just-released digital SLR, including a report that will assess the suitability of the D1X to daily news photography. |
| June 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| D1X-Microdrive incompatibility to be solved with camera firmware update |
| Nikon and IBM have discovered an incompatibility between a certain revision of the latest IBM Microdrive and the Nikon D1X. The incompatibility prevents the affected Microdrive models from functioning at all in Nikon's latest digital SLR - the camera's top LCD will blink "CHA", and the counter will read "0". |
| June 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Bibble supports D1X RAWs |
| Bibble 2.99c for Windows adds support for the Nikon D1X's RAW .NEF format, plus provides improvements to a number of image processing routines for other cameras, in the US$99 program. Both it, and QImage Pro 2001 v1.7 for Windows (currently in beta; download here) perform the interpolation of the D1X's... |
| June 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Bibble reviewed |
| Uwe Steinmueller has posted an overview of Bibble 2.99.... |
| June 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| D1X photos posted |
| Imaging Resource has posted photos taken with a production Nikon D1X.... |
| June 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon's digital role examined |
| A Reuters story examines Canon's position in the fast-growing digital photography market.... |
| June 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Multiplier available for Palm OS |
| Multiplier 1.1, a freeware Palm OS application, helps "digital photojournalists to determine equivalent fields of view using digital SLR cameras." Also for Palm from author Baron Sekiya is Reprint 1.0, a US$10 database application that enables photographers to keep track of photo reprint orders.... |
| June 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak posts standard for inkjet prints |
| Kodak Research and Development has posted a white paper entitled New Standard for Professional Inkjet Prints that discusses the lightfastness of inkjet ink and media. Though it reads a bit too much like a Kodak marketing piece, it still contains lots of interesting information about professional inkjet printing.... |
| June 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Coolpix 950 used in infared photos |
| Nick Didlick notes a Coolpix 950 was used by Carl Scholfield to shoot stunning infrared landscape photos.... |
| June 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Site moving to new server |
| This web site will be migrating to a new, higher-performance server in the days ahead, a move that will result in a brief period offline for the entire site, and as much as several days of downtime for the forums, which require a major overhaul and software upgrade in conjunction... |
| June 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Sports Photography Workshop goes digital |
| Rich Clarkson's Sports Photography Workshop, which kicks off in less than two weeks, has 10 slots remaining for the all-digital, week-long event for up-and-coming shooters of sports. |
| June 12, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Digital Camera Battery powers cameras, flashes and more |
| Over the past dozen years, my camera bag has been graced with no fewer than eight different external battery packs, most of them from Quantum, and all with a single purpose for me: to power a specific digital camera, or to boost the capacity and shorten the recycling time of an electronic flash. |
| June 8, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Hoodcap Hood HD-1 commences shipping |
| The Hoodcap Hood HD-1 is as good at cutting glare as it is funny to look at. The soft rubber, collapsible hood for the Nikon D1/X/H rear LCD monitor, the latest digital camera accessory from Hoodman in Redondo, CA, is effective at knocking down the unwelcome effects of moderately bright ambient light on the camera's 2-inch viewing screen, even outdoors. It's sure to be equally effective at attracting attention to the photographer using it. |
| June 8, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak announces discontinuation of 300, 500 and 600 series cameras |
| Kodak today has announced the discontinuation of all 300, 500, and 600 series cameras from their pro DCS product line. With Kodak now producing no digital cameras on the Canon platform, professional photographers looking for a Canon-based digital SLR have but a single choice of cameras currently in production - Canon's own EOS D30. |
| June 7, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Photo Mechanic 2.0r14 for Mac posted |
| In what should be a boon for news organizations with strict photo naming conventions, or any photographer looking to accelerate the image captioning process, Photo Mechanic 2.0r14 Lite and Pro for Mac add the ability to use variable substitution for both file renaming and IPTC captioning. That's the most noticeable change in a software revision filled with under-the-hood changes to fix bugs, markedly improve the handling of large files, add support for the Nikon D1X's JPEGs and TIFFs, and provide near-seamless integration with the JobMinder photo assignment tracking system (Pro version only). |
| June 5, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Nature photographer looks at DCS 760 |
| Nature photographer Uwe Steinmueller has posted a first look at the DCS 760 at his Digital Outback Photo web site.... |
| June 5, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| QImage tackles D1X RAWs |
| QImage Pro 2001 v1.7 beta 1 is Mike Chaney's first crack at processing Nikon D1X RAW files.The software is not linked to off the QImage Pro site; click here to download.... |
| June 5, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| NikonNet relaunches |
| Nikon this week is re-launching the NikonNet photo sharing site. Pro photographers featured on the site currently include photojournalist Essdras Suarez and underwater photographer David Doubilet.... |
| June 5, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak announces DCS 720x |
| Kodak this morning announced the DCS 720x, a follow-on to the now-discontinued DCS 620x that improves upon the high ISO prowess of that camera while incorporating the interface design and key image processing components of the DCS 760. |
| June 4, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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