dlsrs

 

Cameras

Best Husband Ever Bakes Wife Nikon D700 Cake...With a Surprise

Posted by Sean Fallon at 6:20 AM on December 9, 2008

Flickr user fsumaria has herself a great husband. After all, only a great husband would bake a Nikon D700 cake for his wife's birthday then follow it up by giving her the real thing.

Read More »

Cameras

Watch a US$5000 Nikon D3 DSLR Fire in Ultra Slow Motion

Posted by Matt Buchanan at 5:40 AM on September 5, 2008

Ever wondered exactly how honking DSLRs work vs. your pocket point-and-shoot? Photographer Marianne Oelund shot an incredibly high speed sequence (more incredibly, not with a high speed camera!) of Nikon's US$5000 flagship, the D3, popping a 1/62 second exposure, which Jeffrey Friedl has turned into a mini web movie. In 87.8 milliseconds, you see the mirror flip up, the shutter curtain drop to expose the image sensor—at 35kph!—and everything move back into place. Truly amazing: [Regex, Marianne Oeuland via Daring Fireball]


Read More »