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It seems that actual images of the Nikon D800 has been posted by Nikonrumors and has been attracting tonnes of attention on the online community. For a close comparison between the D700 and the D800, refer to Lumenatic which discusses the details of button placements, markings etc.
For all I see, this could well be the real D800. The images could either be provided by some photographer who is doing testing for Nikon, or they could even be purposely leaked by Nikon to generate interest and free publicity for themselves. They are definitely aware that many have been aching to see a D700 replacement (regardless of whether they will purchase one in the end).
There seems to be an addition of a few buttons and levers. Personally, one change that might affect me and needs some getting used to is the switching in placement of the zoom-in and zoom-out buttons. Perhaps Nikon has a good reason why they switched them after keeping them the same for so many generations?
The following is a list of specs published by Nikonrumors.
- Smaller and lighter than D700
- Resolution: 7360×4912 (36MP)
- CF+SD memory card slots
- Slightly larger display
- Excellent video quality, better than D3s
- Video modes: 1080p/30/25/24 and 720p/60/30/25/24
- AF identical to D3/D700
- As previously mentioned, the resolution will be an astounding 36MP. Whether this large increase in pixels is really necessary is a good debate point.
- Although in comparison the D800 appears to be slightly bulkier than the D700 at the top, it is claimed to be lighter. Perhaps Nikon used some carbon fibre material for the chassis, similar to what was published in some online patents? Or will the carbon fibre only appear in the flagship models?
- The point that the AF is identical to D700 surprised me a little, but the decision to go with 2 memory card slots is a welcome as they provide another source of backup. Dual card slots with the same type (ie 2 CF or 2 SD) would have been better.
No date has been officially announced yet, but it’ll be interesting to see if Nikon will release a camera with these exact specs, or some adjustments will be made with reference to Canon’s EOS-1D X.
Our most recent photography trip was to the Kingdom of Bhutan, The Land of the Thunder Dragon. Bhutan is located between India and China, and lies close to Nepal and Tibet. Some say that Bhutan is the last shangri la on earth, and it is also the only remaining Buddhist Himalayan kingdom. Even after having opened its doors to the outside world in 1974, not much is known of this kingdom shrouded in timeless mystery.
For our trip, we had to fly into Bhutan from Bangkok, one of the few cities which had connecting flights on Bhutan’s national carrier, Drukair.
Our general itinerary was as follows:
Day 1: Bangkok to Paro, Thimphu
Day 2: Thimphu, Wangdue
Day 3: Gangtey, Phobjikha
Day 4: Travelling to Bumthang
Day 5: Bumthang
Day 6: Trongsa
Day 7: Punakha, Thimphu
Day 8: Thimphu, Paro
Day 9: Paro, Tatsang Lhakhang (Tiger’s Nest)
Day 10: Paro to Bangkok
As we were concerned that our flight from Singapore-Bangkok and Paro-Bangkok might be delayed, causing us to miss the connecting flight, we chose to to fly to Bangkok earlier, and also extended our stay in Bangkok at the end.
This post is a follow up to the previous article which addressed issues photographers face during renaming and storing their photographs in an effective and failproof way.
After figuring out how you should name your images, the storage part should be easy and straightforward. For instance, if your file naming convention goes something like TP1110WZ00001.NEF where “1110″ refers to “Year 2011″ and “Month of October”, you could consider sorting your images in folders according to “Month”. For eg, TP1101, TP1102, TP1103 etc.
If you decide to name your files using only the “Year” as in TP2011WZ001.NEF, sorting in folders according to “Year” is another option.
To make locating images even more efficient, you could also consider adding some descriptive text to the folder names so that you can easily identify the content of each folder.
