One year of experience using the NIKON D60 dSLR

Feb/04/10 00:13 Filed in: Technicalities

the good, the bad and the ugly - a photographer's experience report.

So, as pomised here are my thoughts on the (now almost outdated) Nikon D60. I have been using this camera now for just over a year and a pretty good feeling for what it is capable of and what not.
I wanted to share those thoughts with you without writing an extensive review about this camera. Technical reviews can be found here at dpreview.com and at plenty of other places around the internet. What I wanted to share with you is more in the realms of an experience report with the Nikon D60. And this post has no claim of being complete: I simply want to mention a few facts about this camera which stuck out to me while using it over the past twelve months....
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Tags: User review - Hardware, Nikon D60, Camera, Lens, dynamic range

Is the 2009 Mac mini fast enough for photo editing ?

May/22/09 03:55 Filed in: Technicalities

A photographers experience with Apple's small desktop computer.

When the new Mac mini was released in early April of 2009 I was certainly happy about that. Until then I was using the maxed out version of the 2005 G4 mini - 1 GB of RAM and the 1.42 GHz processor. I bought that computer just before my interest in photography and image editing surfaced. A funny coincidence. So, it all started with a 15" screen and Photoshop Elements 2. And this machine was doing its job just fine. Over time I upgraded to PSE 3 and a full HD 23" wide gamut display. Now, I started to run out of hard drive space, used my main drive as a Photoshop scratch disk, more and more tools were open at the same time and finally demanding to run this high screen resolution was a bit to much for the G4. But I think, the main reason why this machine became so slow was, that I was just constantly running out of RAM. So it was time for an update. And along came the 2009 version of the Mac mini. Read More...

Tags: User review - Hardware

Good bye to an old friend...

Jan/17/09 02:11 Filed in: Technicalities

Switching from a Sony Cybershot DSC H2 to a NIKON D60

After almost three years of learning and growing with and close to each other, I decided that it is time to move on. Well, I actually decided that a while ago. Although one could not call it a decision perse - it was more of a mutually growing apart which was ironically a part of growing close. But that how the flow of life takes sometimes it very own turns... Foreseeable, exciting and yet painful at the same time.
But back from the philosophical paths to the real deal: I ordered and received my all spankin' new NIKON D60, as a kit with the NIKKOR 18-55 mm kit lens and the 55-200 mm VR lens on top of it (AF-S DX VR 55-200mm F/4-5.6G IF-ED - holy marketing!). This is one big step up from where I am coming from. The previously owned and used SONY Cybershot DSC-H2 sparked the interest in photography in me and this camera was a great learning tool, which I have been using since early 2006.

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Tags: User review - Hardware, Nikon D60, Camera, Sony Cybershot DSC H2, Lens, dynamic range, image noise

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