Nikon D850 Review

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

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

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

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

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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Project X – Lessons in futility with the Fuji system

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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