• Memory cards deals: Lexar CF 32GB for $119, SanDisk 32GB SD card for $159.95, SanDisk 16GB SD card for 79.95, Sandisk 8GB SD card for 39.95.
• This new product from Japan keeps the moisture out of your lenses and cameras – the cartridges have silica gel inside and attach to both sides of the lens or the body..
• The new Coolpix cameras should be released on March 18th in Japan except for the Coolpix S4100 that will be delayed till May, 2011.
• Nikon will have a brand new…

Nikon D3100 Rockin’!!

Nikon D3100 Digital-SLR camera, recipient of Germany’s iF Product Design Award, goes on to win iF Communication Design Award.

More details can be found [here].

Way to go, Nikon D3100!

The new “Area 51” of Singapore – soon to be launched to the public.

D3100 cropped.

Aperture for Highest Resolution – Review Part II

Nikkor 18-200mm F/3.5-5.6G VR II

For range below 100mm, F/5.6 rules. Range above 100mm? F/8. Stay within this boundary, and you are maxing out this lens superb sharpness and resolution from 18mm to 200mm. Avoid shooting it above F/8 unless it’s an absolute necessity. The smaller 72mm diameter also makes filter purchases a more economical proposition.

Nikkor 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6 VR

Being a low-end kit lens, it’s basically one that you will very quickly move away from as soon as you can! Shoot between F/5.6 to F/8 if you can at all range, with this lens performing at her best only at 35mm F/5.6. Avoid 24mm at all cost, and quickly switch to shooting at F/8 from beyond 35mm. Forget about shooting beyond F/8. An emergency lens that is best used in…emergency.

Nikkor 35mm F/1.8G

One of the most wickedly sharp lens in the DX world! A must-have glass for all DX owners. It’s razor sharp at all aperture, beginning even from F/1.8! Now, for cutting-edge resolution, shoot it at F/4. This glass makes the cheapest DX body deliver pro-sharpness output. You don’t call a Nikon prime lens a prime lens for nothing!

Let’s just say I took a trip back to the past…some 40 years ago, where shop and office fronts looks like this. And yes, in those days, the pride of each household is her sewing machine (which they will receive upon marriage).

D3100. Image derived straight from the camera.

“Fat Fat” posing as the “Alien Dada of Ultraman”!

Now, to get this kind of acceptable shot at washed-out afternoon sun of Singapore, simply tone down your EV by as much as two stops before lighting your subject up with a touch of flash compensated also at EV-2.0. 

In this way, you retain significantly more ambient highlights while still capturing color-accurate subjects. For added effects, I dropped in the CP filter on the lens to “suck” more colors out of the otherwise washed-out skies and backdrop.

Did I also say you should stick to Spot metering?

D3100. Image derived straight from the camera.