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Nikon designs some of their sensors that are then manufactured by Sony (and Toshiba, if the last info I heard is true), and the ones that aren't completely designed by them, are tweaked.

For...

Not that hard, actually. I mean, that's pretty much what Knoll did with PS 1.0. It's certainly doable.

Making your own digital camera from scratch, though, that's much harder ;)

On the other...

"You rely on a plethora of software engineers and programmers for your images. I don't."

Unless you built your camera from the ground up, you do too.

JWest - and by stick you mean a stick he actually cut himself from a tree, by ink you mean pigments he mixed himself from egg whites and rocks. Because that's how real artists do it, and if you're...

Complex composites are a matter of mixing techniques. Gradient masks are awesome as a rough starter - you can get most stuff out of the way with a few clicks, with very good results.

You can then...

Complex composites are a matter of mixing techniques. Gradient masks are awesome as a rough starter - you can get most stuff out of the way with a few clicks, with very good results.

You can then...

"Have you tried, say, removing that small annoying seagull that just happen you fly into your shot ruining your sky. On a colour RA4 print it's impossible (apart from actually 'airbrushing' over...

There isn't, mainly because they're not creating it. They want to push me into FX. I don't want FX.And yeah, sure as hell I'd pay even 3k for a quality DX UWA.

I was a bit harsh, ok. It's certainly a nice lens that has quite a fair share of uses. For landscape use it's a perfectly fine lens, indeed.For MY use case, architectural photography, it's not. Too...

One thing DX truly lacks is UWAs. 12mm is great for FX, but for DX it's 18mm. The 10-24mm is complete bull, so I won't even talk about it.Sigma has the 8-16mm and well, that's what I'm talking...

To be fair, people said the same thing about the FM2.

While we don't need a camera with less features, as we can just opt not to use the features ours have, it is always nice to go back to a simpler approach to photography.Every once in a while I...

Ideally, noise reduction should be the first thing you do to your photographs, before any kind of enhancement, as you're changing the underlying data. You should NEVER use NR after contrast and...

Took a brief look through your photographs and, indeed, the top of both images seems to be quite similar, but the bottom of the PDAF one gets increasingly worse. That's... weird. I mean, I can find...

My D5100 has been on Auto-ISO (ISO 1600 | 1/30) and Manual pretty much since I got it. I'll just change to Shutter Priority when shooting something that requires more attention to the Shutter...

Because I'm pretty sure Nikon decides on the colors thinking about the stands they will be using at Photokina.

It just struck me that Nikon doesn't sell Nikon Yellow cameras. I mean, they even got red entry-level DSLRs, they surely could reinforce their branding with yellow ones =D

Of all the companies that could acquire Nik, Google is probably the best option. I can see El Goog folding a lot of the softwares Nik has into Picasa, Google+ and probably developing a neat app...

As suggested, reduce to the minimum the amount of variables in your testing:If you can do it without wind at all, that's much better.Try to get a fairly fast Shutter Speed, like 1/250 or, even...

I can't really tell from your samples, but I'm under the impression that the D5100 one has no area in actual sharp focus, what means it's not a focus issue. Seeing both were taken with the same...