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Welcome to writer and photographer Thom Hogan's site.
Here you'll find extensive information about Nikon photographic equipment and support for all of Thom's Nikon-related books. Click on the Nikon tab at the top of the screen to see an expanded table of contents for the Nikon section.


Last site update: 12/24/2008

Recent Additions


Nikon D3x Comments

Recession Pep Talk 2
2009 Predictions
Nikon D90 Review
Compact Shootout

High Rez Nikon DSLR
Photokina 2008
Nikon D700 Review
26 Concise Reviews
Did We Get What We Expected?
Speedlight SB-900 Review
D700 Announced
Film to Digital Transition
How to Get Better
Dressing the Part
Rational Lens Choices


User Repair Experiences

Getting the Pixels Right
Nikon Zoom Lenses
Charging in the Wild
Tip of the Iceberg
Quick and Dirty Color
Sensor Cleaning
How Big Can You Print?
Digital Lens Kits
Making Sense of Lens Naming

For more photo articles,
click the Nikon tab
at the top of the window.


Camera Reviews


Nikon D40 & D40x
Nikon D50
Nikon D70 & D70s
Nikon D80
Nikon D90
Nikon D100
Nikon D200
Nikon D300
Nikon D700
Nikon D1, D1h, & D1x
Nikon D2h
Nikon D2x & D2xs
Nikon D3
Kodak Pro 14n
Fujifilm S2 Pro
Fujifilm S3 Pro
Fujifilm S5 Pro
Nikon N65
Nikon N75
Nikon N80
Nikon N90s
Nikon F100
Nikon F5
Nikon F6

Waiting for Nikon List


The following items are ones that serious Nikon shooters have been patiently waiting for (a basic month count from when it went on my list is in parenthesis after each item).

Any APS Coolpix (9)
Small High Res FX body (1)
D60 with Liveview/video (4)
17-35mm f/2.8 redesign (3)
28mm f/2G AF-S (or faster) (6)
35mm f/2G AF-S (or faster) (6)
85mm f/1.4G AF-S (or faster) (6)
70-200mm f/2.8 redesign (6)
80-400mm f/4-5.6G AF-S VR (9)
300mm f/4G AF-S VR (9)
400mm f/5.6G AF-S VR (9)
28-200mm for FX (6)
Any DX prime, esp. wide (15)
35-135mm f/2.8G AF-S DX VR (9)
200mm Micro-Nikkor AF-S VR (15)
Any FX f/4 zoom (9)
Metadata standards compliance (4)
Lens production meets demand (15)





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Member: NPS

 

Copyright 2008 Thom Hogan
Happy Holidays.




Quick Links & Comments
News and commentary of interest to Nikon and Nikon F-mount users

byThom Closed Until January 5th
Dec 24
--It's time for me to take a rest. There won't be any new posts or reviews until I return next year. Thanks for your continued support in 2008; I hope you have a safe and happy holiday season.

Software Updates
Dec 24
--More updates:

  • FixerBundle version 2.0.3 adds universal binary, CS4 compatibility, and latest LensFIT camera profiles.
  • Iridient Raw Developer adds D3x and P6000 support.
  • AKVIS ArtWork turns your photos into oil paintings. Version 1.5 fixes issues.
  • FocalBlade 1.05 fixes issues for the Windows version.

New Tethered Option
Dec 24
--D90 and D300 owners now have another tethered shooting option, D90 Remote and D300 Remote, from Breeze Systems, makers of the popular Breezebrowser program. The new programs are Windows only, and US$95 each.

Price Alert?
Dec 24
--The D300 gets some special dealer incentives for the short period after Christmas and before New Years in the US. That likely means a drop in street price, at least temporarily.

Just a Reminder
The short articles on the front page of this site change as often as every couple of days, as little as once every two weeks. Right now, however, we're coming into a period where there's been rapid change. So if you're not checking the site often, be sure to check out the Archived 2008 link, below, as there may be a handful of items you missed. (Yes, I know about RSS. But won't offer that until the site redesign is done.)

Archived Front Page News and Articles
Archived 2008 byThom comments and news
Archived 2007 byThom comments and news
Archived pre-2007 byThom comments and news
Nikon announcements summary 2001-2008


 
Books by Thom Hogan


Digital SLR Complete Guide eBooks

Nikon D40 and D40x
Nikon D50
Nikon D70/D70s, 2nd Ed
Nikon D1 Series, 3rd Ed
Nikon D100, 3rd Ed
Nikon D200
Nikon D2h/D2hs, 2nd Ed
Nikon D2x/D2xs, 2nd Ed
Fujifilm S2 Pro
Fujifilm S5 Pro


To order updates, click here.

Digital SLR Complete Guide + To Go Guide
Complete Guide to Nikon D80
Complete Guide to Nikon D90
Complete Guide to Nikon D300
Complete Guide to the Nikon D700
Complete Guide to the Nikon D3

35mm Film SLR eBooks
Complete Guide to the Nikon N65
Complete Guide to the Nikon N75
Complete Guide to the Nikon N80

Complete Guide to the Nikon F100
Complete Guide to the Nikon F5

Complete Guide to the Nikon F6

Other Books
Nikon Field Guide out of print
Nikon Flash Guide out of print

Note: Normally, orders received by the end of business each Tuesday are shipped on Wednesday and email confirmations are sent to that effect as they're shipped.

Errata pages for books are at www.bythom.com/XXguideerrata.htm where XX is the camera model (e.g., D100, D1, S2, etc.)

Recommended Books



What's Thom Working on?

 

In progress: D60 review and book, updated flash book, twenty-four lens reviews, lots more recommended books, more tutorials, more articles, Web site redesign. Please don't ask when any of these will appear. I'm working on things as fast as I can, enlisting help where it makes sense.

Thom is currently planning another three-week Patagonia workshop starting just after Christmas 2010. If you're interested in this workshop, drop me an email so that I can put you on the mailing list. At present, this is the only workshop I've scheduled for the future, though it's likely that I'll have a few additional ones eventually scheduled in 2010. What happened to 2009? Stay tuned for what I'm doing next year.




Caring and Sharing


Two Percent to Charity. This site contributes a minimum of 2% of its annual sales to non-profit organizations:

2004 recipient--Galen Rowell National Trails Trust Fund at American Hiking Society. This fund continues to provide small yearly grants to trail associations.

2005 recipients--Bird Migration and Wolf Tracking programs at Denali Institute. Big City Mountaineers.

2006 recipient--NANPA Foundation (scholarships for future nature photographers).

2007 recipients--Big City Mountaineers. Masai Mara carnivore monitoring station (Michigan State Univ Dept of Zoology).

2008 recipients--Masai Mara carnivore monitoring station. (I'll be documenting this station and its work sometime next year)

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