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This week Nikon announced the latest group of compact digital cameras in it’s lineup. Getting ready for the holiday season, these all should start shipping in September sometime. Complete info and spec sheets can be had from the Nikon USA website.
Nikon Coolpix P5100
12.1 megapixel sensor, a 3.5X 35-123mm equiv zoom, and Nikon’s VR optical-stabilization technology. [...]

How many times have you come across a great picture opportunity and had all the wrong settings on your camera? Too many? Yeah. Let’s fix that.
I was reminded of this as I read through some of the comics from the WhatTheDuck site. The author has a great sense of humor and most of the comics [...]

During the past few weeks I’ve been working on a revamp of my photo website www.kpphotography.com and have been looking for various ways to create web galleries. For the time being I’ve settled on a simple approach; Picasa and SimpleViewer from Airtight.
The canned items in Lightroom aren’t bad, but don’t give enough flexibility for my [...]

Over the weekend I went to the Rocky Mountain Balloon Festival here in the Denver area. This was actually the first time I attended one and I will certainly be back again. It was a wonderful event and I met balloon owners from Florida, Nebraska and other parts of the country.
The Saturday night “Lite In [...]

Way back when, I owned a sailboat. It was a nice Catalina 23 footer. Just the right size for an outing with 4-5 people, yet not so big that I couldn’t handle it by myself for a solo sail.
Some sailors I knew were suffering from the “One foot longer” syndrome. They were always looking for [...]

Never to be outdone, Nikon has announced 2 new digital SLRs. The D3 and D300 are the latest additions to the lineup. And so continues the never ending leap frogging of Canon, Nikon, Canon, Nikon, Canon, Nikon…
The D3 is Nikon’s first DSLR with a full frame sensor. The 12 MP CMOS sensor will go from [...]