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Happy Holidays.
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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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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)
byThom mitigates flight, vehicle, and office energy use via several methods, including purchasing offsets. Reduce your energy use, use renewable sources where possible. We're looking at our systems and trying to reduce our footprint. This includes using local production for both printing and disc creation, and using virtual proofing instead of hard proofs where possible.
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