The Go Green, Be Green Nikon Coolpix S52 Digital Camera

April 22nd, 2008 | Nikon

If you purchase the Nikon Coolpix S52 digital camera from Ritz, the company will make a donation toward CarbonFund.org’s reforestation efforts to help reduce the harmful effects of carbon emissions. You truly can do a small part to help the environment and show you’ve done your part by owning this exclusive eco-green camera.

Nikon cameras are always known for being top-quality, and the Coolpix S52 is no exception. The camera itself is worth buying even without the environmentally-friendly incentive. Its features include: (more…)

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Nikon Digital SLR’s School on DVD

August 6th, 2007 | Digital Cameras, Nikon

Nikon USA has recently released two educational DVDs that teach how to take great photographs with Nikon SLR digital cameras.

The Nikon school DVD, "Fast, Fun & Easy: Great Digital Pictures" is primarily a digital photography primer. It takes the student on a full day of digital picture taking, and instructs how to use digital cameras in various situations, image transfers, and printing photos.

The Nikon school DVD, entitled "Understanding Digital Photography - Release Your Digital SLR’s Potential" is helps the student harness the power of Nikon’s cameras by taking him/her beyond the basic features. The DVD, which lasts approximately 45 minutes, shows the viewer the advanced features of Nikon cameras, and also provides lessons on photographic techniques. Bob Krist, an award-winning National Geographic travel photographer, narrates the DVDs and shares his own experience for taking outstanding action photos or when composing portraits. He also teaches on the basics of proper exposure and taking great photos in low light. With an informal and easy to understand teaching style, he makes it both simple and enjoyable to explore advanced techniques and features of Nikon cameras.

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New Digital Cameras for 2007

April 3rd, 2007 | Nikon

In the digital camera world, Nikon announced the totally unnecessary Nikon D40x, which — after my exhaustive analysis — seems to be nothing more than a 10.2 megapixel version of the Nikon D40 which was released near the end of 2006. Everything else on this DSLR seems to be the same as its predecessor.

Hasn’t anyone told Nikon that megapixels aren’t the only thing a discrimating photographer looks for? The 6+ megapixels provided by the D40 is suffcient to give photo-quality 8×10 enlargements. Unless Nikon feels there is a large market of people who want a low-end DSLR and want to blow up their photos to poster-size, I don’t see the Nikon D40x being a best-seller.

So, if you are looking for a less-expensive or entry-level digital SLR, save yourself $200 and buy the Nikon D40. I own one. I love it.

Since I am such a big fan of Nikon cameras and lenses, I should also mention that the company has completely revamped its Nikon Coolpix compact cameras for 2007. Nikon quality with the ease of point-and-shoot… you can’t beat it.

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