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Nikon D850 Review

  • 21/03/2018/
  • Posted By : Russ Barnes/
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  • Under : Gear, Reviews

On paper, the Nikon D850 promises much, it’s certainly a camera that I think Nikon have aimed to disrupt the whole market with by seemingly packing in as much as it possibly can. There are one or two other manufacturers out there lately who have fallen into the rather questionable habit of trying to pass off ageing tech in a ‘new’ body but with the D850 Nikon feels like they are going all out to deliver a dynamite combination of speed, resolution and flexibility. Amongst the questions I will attempt to answer here is does that spec sheet deliver real world improved outcomes over what has come before, and how?

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Nikon, Mirrorless And The Future of Development

  • 08/07/2017/
  • Posted By : Russ Barnes/
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  • Under : Gear

A lot of photographers don’t like talking about gear. I think many would call it a distraction and while it’s all very lovely to consider oneself entirely as an artist, eventually you have to buy a camera and lenses to carry on. In truth, I think it’s become very cool to dismiss such discussion as if all output comes solely from fresh air carried on the wings of divine inspiration or something. We all know that the camera these days accounts for a lot more than that – in fact some of the functions within the modern DSLR would render some of the more ‘artistic’ output today impossible. Like it or not, gear is important.

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Managing Risk In The Field

  • 20/04/2017/
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  • Under : Feature, Gear

A big part of my day job is about managing risk and while I’ve learned to bring a lot of that discipline to my photography, it hasn’t been without hard lessons along the way. This piece isn’t going to focus in on data backups because others have more than covered that off, this is about how and why I buy the kit I do and what can happen when you haven’t entirely thought it all through. The is actually my 100th blog post on this site and while I should probably use that opportunity to fanfare some images or something I’m going to use it instead to pass on what I feel is some pretty sage advice…

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Damage Limitation – Nikon D810 Top Plate Repair

  • 06/11/2016/
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  • Under : Feature, Gear

If you read my last blog post, you’ll know that I managed to fall over recently. This in itself isn’t unusual for me in the field, it’s a past time that is part and parcel of landscape photography – I’ve lost count of how many times it’s happened. This time was different however, I tripped on a cobbled path while my Nikon D810 and 70-200mm was hanging around my neck and managed to land on top of it face down on the stone…

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500cc – Revving Up With The Nikon D500

  • 31/07/2016/
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  • Under : Gear, Photographs, Reviews

I’m always looking for ways to improve or evolve my photography. As much as the application of photographic technique very much depends on the individual, their interpretation and level of creativity, it is unfair to think all cameras are equal and offer the same opportunities. The D500 provides some complimentary options to a full-frame landscape kit that I wasn’t expecting and it’s now been in my hands for the last 24 hours…

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Nikon Old Skool – Vintage glass without antique prices

  • 08/07/2016/
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  • Under : Gear, Reviews

You’d have to be blind as to what has happened to the UK in the last couple of weeks or so. If the news of Britain’s seeming imminent departure from the EU doesn’t bother you one way or other then what has happened to Sterling and the Japanese Yen recently might.

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Project X – Lessons in futility with the Fuji system

  • 04/07/2016/
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  • Under : Gear, Reviews

We’d all like every photography discussion to be about art and personal interpretation (I’ll do another blog post soon on this subject to balance things up) but you can’t get around the fact that without cameras there is simply is no photography at all (unless you’re someone like Paul Kenny!) so to conveniently ignore this fact seems both futile and a bit silly. In fact you’d have to be blind to the equipment allegiances that we form as photographers, I maintain that my own quest is that of product and image quality over any particular brand – it just so happens to be that Nikon seem to provide almost everything I need in spades for landscape photography.

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Amateur Photographer – What’s In The Bag – January 2016

  • 16/01/2016/
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  • Under : Feature, Gear, Magazine, Reviews, Technique

New Year, and the first magazine feature of 2016 in Amateur Photographer Magazine on 16th January…

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What’s In The Bag 2016 – Part 4 of 4 – Cameras

  • 13/01/2016/
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  • Under : Gear, Reviews

Although there won’t be any surprises in here from those that follow my ramblings, I’m still going to provide a few words here for reference on the 2016 camera bodies and what each one brings to my photography…

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What’s In The Bag 2016 – Part 3 of 4 – Telephotos

  • 12/01/2016/
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In this part it gets to what I think is the most interesting stuff in my kit – my telephotos.

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