Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 11th, 2009
The book in reivew: Michael Freeman: The Photographer’s Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos
To maximize the quality / visual impact of a photograph, solid composition is essential. The figure on the left, “composition triangle”, illustrates my understanding to major aspects of a solid photo composition after reading Michael Freeman’s book “The Photographer’s Eye: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2009
Many people are talking about F100fd’s performance on dpreview’s forum, especially low light performance. Well, instead of endlessly contemplating and discussing, I took my F100fd out and did test shots and found some tricks. F100fd has a very weak flash. You can make use of its weakness. Normally, you don’t want to fire the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2009
Dear new friend,
photodose lost my D80 and offered a D90. I asked them whether I could have you by paying the price difference. Without much ado, the deal was done. You traveled across half world and arrived in my hand, in a busy railway station. There are a lot of adventures and ordinary days ahead, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2009
Today a service shop sent me a letter saying that the Nikon D80 I sent to them for sensor cleaning was lost during transportation. They are unable to find it and I could go to their shop with this letter and get a new D90 for compensation. I was totally down the whole evening.
There [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2009
There was some dust on the sensor of my Nikon D80 so I sent it to a camera shop for cleaning up. They said I would be able to get the camera back in at least four weeks. Oh well. I was thinking for long about getting an ultra-compact camera which could be carried full-time. [...]
Posted in gallery, imaging, life, photography, the Netherlands, travel on Jun 3rd, 2007
On May 18th Dirk and I visited the tulip park in Keukenhof. The weather was not bad but the sky was washed out most of the time. It took us 2.5 hours to reach the park. Most tulips were already languished. We saw fields of leaves of tulips. But it was still a highly interesting [...]
Posted in hardware, photography on Jan 10th, 2007
Here are two features I hope for the Nikon D400:
1. HDR sensor. In November 2006 I saw HDR CMOS sensors were exhibited in the Vision Messe 2006, Stuttgart. Currently the targeted clients are not consumers but I hope the consumer market will adopt this kind of sensors in the near future. HDR images have been [...]
Posted in photography on Dec 30th, 2006
Delivers Superb Images If You dont Mind Babysitting the Exposure Compensation All the Time
I’ve owned a Nikon D80 for over two months and made 1200+ shots with the D80 so far. My experience with the image performance of the D80 reveals that: Pros of this camera (most important in my opinions):
1. Nearly instant start up.
2. [...]
Posted in photography on Dec 24th, 2006
Shortly before I went to South Italy I got a Nikon D80. In Italy I tried it out with different settings and I guess after 1000+ shots, I know the typical graphical behaviour of Nikon D80 under various settings.
The “automatic” setting on the main setting wheel would usually keep the aperture at f 5.6 [...]
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