With all of the focus on the election, there was one very welcome bit of non-election news yesterday. Apple released Digital Camera Raw Compatibility 2.3, which finally adds RAW support for the Nikon D90 to Aperture, iPhoto, and other applications.
Apple adds Nikon D90 RAW support
November 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Macintosh, Photography
Music video created with Nikon D90
October 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Photography
Bee Ng has created a music video shot entirely with a Nikon D90. The quality really looks great.
As this demonstrates, the time & size limit for D90 video isn’t really a problem if you’re going to be doing any editing. You can shoot separate scenes, which will fit easily in the time limit, and join [...]
The D90 is selling fast
September 28th, 2008 · Comments Off · Programming
I like to check Flickr’s camera finder page every few days to see how popular the D90 is. As I write this, the D90 is ranked 15 of 102 Nikon models. Less than a week ago, it wasn’t even listed. Yesterday it was #19, a jump of 4 places in one day.
Here’s a shot I [...]
The D90’s Eye-Fi Surprise
September 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Photography
I haven’t been using my Eye-Fi card because I prefer using a higher capacity 8G card with the D40x & D90’s large file sizes. I also prefer to choose which pictures to upload and do any necessary touchups rather than just upload everything immediately.
When I heard about the D90’s Eye-Fi support I decided to [...]
D90 Real World Performance
September 13th, 2008 · Comments Off · Photography
Today I went to Lauderdale-by-the-sea, the same place we had the photowalk, with my D90 to compare it with the D40x’s performance in a similar situation. I find that the move from the D40x to the D90 is as big a jump as switching from a point & shoot camera to the D40x.
In general, the [...]
HDR photos with a D90
September 12th, 2008 · Comments Off · Photography
The D90’s exposure bracketing feature is great for HDR imaging. When you turn on bracketing, 2 or 3 consecutive shots will automatically use different exposures. If you use continuous mode, simply press and hold the shutter release to take the 2 or 3 bracketed shots. The resulting shots are exactly what you need to merge [...]
D90 in low light
September 9th, 2008 · Comments Off · Photography
After using the D90 for a few days, I’m very impressed with it. Live view is a lot better than I expected and I really like having dedicated buttons for settings like white balance, quality, and ISO so I don’t have to keep going to the menu as I did on the D40x.
This evening I [...]
D90 seems to use a new RAW format
September 8th, 2008 · Comments Off · Photography
The D90 seems to have changed the RAW format. Neither Aperture 2.1 or Adobe Camera Raw can open NEF files from my D90. Fortunately the JPEG quality is excellent, so I don’t have to use RAW.
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