26 Oct

100% View

To check to see if one of your images is in focus you will generally zoom in the image on your camera. But this can often be a slow process especially if you are under the pump to shoot images fast. But there is a quick way around this for Nikon D700, D300, D300s,D3,...
15 Jul

Nikon D5 AF Fine Tune

Achieving perfect focus has always been the Achilles Heal of DSLR’s, like many other photographers I have always relied on the fine-tuning lens system called Lens Align. Though a good product, it is not the easiest or quickest way to calibrate a lens. Step up the latest from Nikon to rectify this issue. Among...
14 Jul

Nikon Df – Photographic Pleasure

It’s pretty obviously too most people that I have a passion for manual cameras, I’ve always been a Leica fan and they are the ultimate manual cameras. But for the past twenty plus years most of my work is carried out with Nikons, from the early days with film in the F5, the coming...
13 Jul

AF DC Nikkor 105mm f/2D

There’s something about older lenses, their sold build and lack of plastic make them just a pleasure to use and admire. Unfortunately nowadays this craftsmanship is disappearing fast with only the traditional companies like Zeiss, Voigtländer and Leica still making beautiful machined handcrafted lenses. For the Nikon system all the older manual lenses still...
12 Jul

Light Meters – the most essential tool for perfect exposure

Today’s digital cameras can almost achieve ideal exposure results easily, though in many cases they are not so good. The introduction of TTL metering saw the massive decline of the use of one photography’s most important tools, the Lightmeter. For the majority of photographers especially the younger generation have only ever-used digital capture and...