Eligibility: Legal residents of the 50 United States and Washington, D.C. 21 years and older are eligible to participate. For official rules, visit www.nationalgeographic.com/nikonaspire.
Nikon Teams With National Geographic Offering Opportunity To Win An Exclusive Photo Excursion With Renowned Photographer
Sweepstakes Winner Will Also Receive a New Nikon D7000 Digital SLR Camera
MELVILLE, NY (December 15, 2010) – Nikon Inc. today announced the launch of the “Nikon Aspire” Sweepstakes (www.nationalgeographic.com/nikonaspire) offering the chance to win an exclusive photo excursion with renowned National Geographic photographer, Annie Griffiths. The lucky winner will also receive the new award winning Nikon D7000 digital SLR camera and a private tutorial from a Nikon product specialist.
The “Nikon Aspire” Sweepstakes is the latest in a series of programs created by Nikon to inspire users to capture and share their photos and videos. Earlier this year, the first ever “Nikon Festival” challenged budding filmmakers to upload their short-form videos online to The Nikon Festival website, which received more than 590,000 unique visitors and generated more than 1.9 million page views across Nikon’s social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and Festival blogs.
“We are excited to launch this new sweepstakes as another vehicle for engaging with photography enthusiasts that have a passion for capturing the world around them with great photography and videos,” said Lisa Baxt, Senior Communications Manager for Nikon Inc. “Working with National Geographic, a brand with a rich history as a trusted source of content, stunning imagery, and education, we hope to continue to encourage aspiring photographers to go out, capture and share their memorable moments every day.”
Consumers can enter one time per day at www.nationalgeographic.com/nikonaspire from December 15, 2010 – January 26, 2011. The winner of the “Nikon Aspire” Sweepstakes will be announced in February, 2011. National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths will host the winner in an exclusive photo excursion during the spring of 2011.
Annie Griffiths was one of the first women photographers to work for National Geographic. She began assignment work for the National Geographic Society in 1978 and has since worked on dozens of magazine and book projects for National Geographic, including National Geographic magazine stories on Lawrence of Arabia, Baja California, Israel’s Galilee, Petra, Vancouver, England’s Lake District, and Jerusalem. She has worked on assignments in the Middle East, North America, and the Pacific and creates an annual photographic calendar for Habitat for Humanity. Griffiths’ work has also appeared in Life, GEO, Smithsonian, Fortune, American Photo, Merian, Stern, and many other publications. Book projects include the A Day in the Life series, Baseball in America, The Power to Heal, Women In the Material World, One Digital Day and most recently National Geographic’s Simply Beautiful Photographs, published in October, 2010.
Nikon’s D7000 features a 16.2 MP DX-format CMOS sensor, 6 fps continuous shooting and breathtaking Full 1080p HD Movies with full time autofocus Engineered as an ideal balance of durability and functionality, the D7000 is designed to fulfill the needs of passionate photographers who demand exceptional performance, reliability, and unprecedented levels of control and versatility in a compact form factor.
Canon and Nikon may have recently made significant strides with their 2010 DLSR models, but they can’t compete with the GH2. The ability to continuously auto-focus during recording is faster on the GH2 than on Nikon’s cameras, with Canon lagging even further behind, and the sheer quality is visibly better than the GH2’s main rivals. click here to read the full review
Panasonic GH2 versus Canon 60D at EOSHD
IMAGE QUALITY
Canon 60D – 7/10
Panasonic GH2 – 9/10
NOTES ON IMAGE QUALITY VERUS 5D MARK II and GH2
Image quality is subjective. Some have valid reasons for liking the 5D Mark II and it’s full frame sensor. Some will love the 60D’s image. But Canon are now significantly behind Panasonic in terms of the overall video performance.
The Panasonic GH2 resolves significantly more detail with less noise than even the 5D Mark II at ISO 3200.
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Nikon working on a D7000 firmware update, this firmware upadet will cure the occasional occurrence of bright spots while recording videos at night with D7000 DSLR.
We have received reports from some users of the Nikon D7000 digital SLR camera regarding the occurrence of noticeable bright spots with movie recording under certain conditions.
Nikon believes that these bright spots are not normally noticeable, and therefore do not indicate a problem with practical use. However, with further investigation of the reports received, we have confirmed that bright spots may be noticeable when recording movies of especially dark scenes or subjects.
In order to provide our customers with better products, Nikon is currently preparing to release a firmware upgrade with measures to reduce the occurrence of these bright spots for the D7000. Further details will be announced at a later date.
I did test again (earlier one here: http://vimeo.com/16196365) to address two complaints about the earlier test, the white balance and the focus. The white balance was set to Auto before, leading to two different color temperatures. This time I set the white balance on both to 3300k (3330k on the Nikon, because it doesn’t have 3300k). Also, some people thought that the Canon looked improbably soft in comparison to the Nikon, so I made sure to triple check the focus this time. Both lenses are set to infinity and looked focused through the viewfinder and when zoomed in on the LCD.
The lenses are the same Zeiss Distagon 35mm f/2 on each camera. The tripods are also the same.
Thanks to Marco for taking the time to provide his technical expertise.
I posted more thoughts about the test on Adorama’s blog (http://bit.ly/9OEOzu) and my own Tumblr (nathanleebush.tumblr.com).
This video was made possible by Adorama Rental Co.
DxO just tested the New Nikon D7000 DSLR, the overall score of D7000 is 80 (better than Sony SLT Alpha 55). Nikon D7000 Replaces Sony from its second position and Pentax Remains the clear winners of APS-C category.
Luminous-landscape written a very informative article on DSLR unexpected ISO behavior, Major camera manufacturers DSLRs are silently increasing the ISO without photographer’s knowledge. The data for whole analysis is given by DxO lab.
The above graph show the light loss at the sensor for different Canon and Nikon cameras when using a f/1.4 lens. For example the Canon EOS5D has -0.25 the D3s has -0.30 EV light loss…click on the image to see the larger version. In order to compensate for this light loss and produce correctly exposed images, camera manufacturers are compensating by silently increasing the ISO.
Modifications that apply to both the Windows and Macintosh versions
Support for the D7000 has been added. However, remote camera settings cannot be used.
The default application for the Open destination folder with other application after transfer option in the Preferences panel has been changed from ViewNX to ViewNX 2.
Modifications that apply to both the Windows and Macintosh versions
Support for the D7000 has been added.
Support for Nikon Message Center 2 has been added.
The Show it with ViewNX option in the WT-4 Setup Utility’s Setup picture folder dialog has been changed to Show it with ViewNX 2.
When attempting to create a profile for a computer with a name that exceeded 40 characters, the error message The Profile could not be saved was sometimes displayed and setup could not be completed. This issue has been resolved.
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Nikon Teams With National Geographic Offering Opportunity To Win An Exclusive Photo Excursion With Renowned Photographer
