hydrospanner

Pat makes a good point.  Birds (especially such dramatically colored ones as this wood duck drake) need some DR.  It's tough to retain some detail in the white but to not lose the blacks.

Commenting now so I can check out your album later, but at first glance, I agree with donski: exposure looks good, but you've got some blur.  Looks like hand shake, since it's even across the...

Maybe because it's a waterproof, submersible, interchangeable lens camera from Nikon?

And what was the last one to fit that description before this?

It wouldn't surprise me.

Panasonic does similar price crash tactics...I've heard that it's because the Japanese market goes nuts for mirrorless compacts, so they try to make as much money as...

"The Nikon 1 AW1 two lens kit with the 11-27.5mm and 10mm lenses will be available in October 2013 for the suggested retail price (SRP) of $999.957."

It's that last seven tenths of a cent that'll...

Thinking the same thing. This (or, more hopefully, a rugged V-series, to this camera's J3) might just get me to rethink my intentions of going m43.

That's all well and good, but I suspect you'd be in the minority in the market segment this is aimed pretty squarely toward (that being the outdoor adventurer demographic).

These folks want the...

Michael,

Check out the waterproof S4 Active.

Not saying that this isn't compelling new ground for cameras, just that smartphones are slowly getting there too.

Um...guys?

A flash is in the works.

I'm glad you read.

I agree. This is the first camera I've seen that has made me reconsider getting into m43 in the near future. Until this one, Nikon CX represented a system with nothing to...

Don't be lazy. Read.

As an avid fisherman (I actually fished the French Broad, where this project began, in April.) living in the rust belt, a project like this really speaks to me. Though I rarely fish the big...

Jeez, guyfawkes, smug much?

So it's okay to charge double or more for the same guys for a different faceplate...and anyone that doesn't think so is just jealous?

Get over yourself.

"That's not a promotional price, either, as long as you sign up by the end of this year."

Which sounds like a limited time offer, ie. a promotion, to me.

I'd like to set up my D300 such that the AF-ON button will begin autofocus, and when it does this, the shutter-half-press autofocus will be disabled.  Is there a way to set this up to happen...

The E-P5 and GX7 seems to be handling high ISO via very different approaches. While the Oly seems to favor more aggressive NR, a slight contrast boost and significant sharpening, the GX7 seems to...

I've been looking for this exact piece of metal ever since I got a good tripod and head over a year ago. Now I realize that I couldn't find it because it wasn't there.

Gotta get one...

I guess I'm kind of in the middle of the pack here...I'm not married to Nikon's system, but neither am I totally disillusioned either.  Luckily, I got my D300 for a great price, so I could sell my...

Most of this sounds good natured, and I'm sure if you expressed your thoughts/reactions to the family, they'd be more than accomodating.  This point, however, is one I've run into that tends to...

That's me...mostly.  Started with a D80...decided to upgrade...found a D300 on CL for cheap ($400, ~23k clicks) and pounced.  In the end, that decision kept me in dSLR photography, as just two...