by Reed Hoffmann | Nov 9, 2012 | Action, Advanced, Camera Gear, Composition, Intermediate
In 1996 I started shooting digital for my newspaper with the latest, greatest digital camera, a Kodak (Nikon) NC2000e. It cost $15,000 and gave me 1.3 megapixel images. The quality wasn’t very good, but it was state of the art at the time. A couple of years later I...
by Reed Hoffmann | Sep 12, 2012 | Advanced, Camera Gear, Education, Filters, Intermediate, Lenses, Travel, Video
Last weekend I was in Lake Tahoe to teach another Popular Photography Mentor Series workshop. This one had a bit of a twist to it – we were going to teach video too. The Nikon D90 was the first DSLR to offer video, and now it’s a given that any new DSLR will have that...
by Reed Hoffmann | Aug 17, 2012 | Beginner, Camera Gear, Exposure, People, Travel
Nikon made a big splash a while back with the announcement of a new entry-level DSLR, the D3200. The biggest news about it was that they were packing 24 million pixels (24MP) onto a DX sized-sensor. And, at $699, it would be the highest resolution camera in their...
by Reed Hoffmann | Aug 11, 2012 | Action, Beginner, Camera Gear, Exposure, Intermediate, Lenses, People
A few months ago I wrote about how much I enjoyed using a 50mm f/1.8 lens on a trip to Peru. It was fun to work with extremely shallow depth of field, and using a fixed lens, instead of a zoom as I usually do, made me shoot differently. But there are other reasons to...
by Reed Hoffmann | Jun 22, 2012 | Action, Advanced, Camera Gear, Intermediate, Lenses
One thing I love about digital photography is how our opportunities to be creative have grown. For instance, there’s a fairly new category of cameras now, called either CSC (compact system cameras) or ILC (interchangeable lens compacts). They have larger sensors than...
by Reed Hoffmann | May 23, 2012 | Advanced, Camera Gear, Intermediate
I’ve had a D800 for about a month now, and I’ve got to say, I’m loving it. As a lifelong Nikon shooter, I expected the camera to be good. But I also figured that with such high resolution (36MP) it would be slow to shoot, not good at high ISOs, have to work on a...
