After my prior investigation into SD card performance, I wondered if shooting JPEG instead of RAW would make a meaningful difference on both “buffer capacity” and write rates. What I found was rather interesting, for many reasons. All the following use “JPEG Fine” except where otherwise stated. At ISO 100, with noise reduction & distortion… Read more
SanDisk Ultra 32 GB vs Lexar Professional 600x 32 GB. On paper the Lexar is at least twice as fast for writes, thrice as fast for reads. Test setup: Nikon 55-300 @ 55/4.5 switched to manual focus (and slightly out of focus), VR on, in Program mode in a dimly lit room, framed roughly the… Read more
In the J3 & S1‘s favour: In the V1‘s favour: Other notes of interest: These new additions are odd, to me. No flash. At all. That’s just weird. Compact cameras live and die on the quality of their night photos, and it’s hard to see where else Nikon is going with the Nikon 1 line… Read more
In the D5200‘s favour (in roughly decreasing order of importance): In the D3200‘s favour: In neither’s favour: Other notes of interest: What’s not known yet: Update: Nikon have stated it’s an “all new” sensor, from Toshiba (as opposed to the Sony sensor in the D3200). So it could be interesting. There’s no particular reason to believe it’s… Read more
I’ve had a circular polarising filter on my 55-300 since I got it, since it came with one. It also came with a UV filter, which I’ve never used. I also bought a circular polarising filter for my 18-55, on the assumption that the filter made everything unequivocally better. But then I started to pay… Read more
A few weeks back I went on a white-water rafting trip, taking with my Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-TX10. It worked pretty well the whole trip, but at the end of the day I discovered that there was a crack in the case, with a small chunk missing. Well shit. I’d babied it the whole day, being… Read more
I bought some extension tubes from Cameta Camera, via Amazon, about two weeks ago. The product page was titled: Vivitar Professional Metal Macro Automatic Extension Tube Set of 3 for Nikon (13mm, 21mm & 31mm) I suppose I should have caught on that something was wrong by the fact that the description for the same… Read more