Richard Peters Photography blog

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

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Intervalometers (timer release cables)

What’s an intervalometer I hear you ask? Well, if you want to shoot time-lapse with your Nikon or Canon DSLR, then you need to be able to set your camera to take a photo at set intervals and/or for a set period of time. Depending on your model of Nikon you will have this function already built in but if you are a Canon shooter, at the time of... [Read full article]

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WPOTY 2009 winner disqualified

Some of you may have been following the claims that the winning shot of WPOTY 2009, the leaping wolf, was in fact a captive animal and the shot was staged. The photo was under investigation by the organisers of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition and today, they have made the decision to disqualify the winning image... [Read full article]

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Panasonic Lumix TZ7/ZS3 HD samples [video]

It’s been out a while now but I’ve been asked by a few people on various sites, forums and emails how I find the HD video quality of the Panasonic Lumix TZ7 (ZS3 in the states) as at the time or writing, it’s my only form of video camera. So thought I’d put a rough video together just with random clips to show what I think are... [Read full article]

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Snow, searching for wildlife and a photo on tv [video]

It was -5 outside, I’d just updated to the latest D3 firmware (v2.02), had a couple of spare hours to get out in the snow for the first time AND the weather was perfect. Surely I was going to get loads of snowy wildlife shots…surely…? Nope! Just the one shot, but it did make a brief appearance on Sky News at least. Of course my main... [Read full article]

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New Nikon D3, D3x, D700 and D300s firmware

Quick heads up for any D3, D3x, D700 or D300s shooters out there. Nikon have released new firmware updates for these bodies (v2.02 for the D3, v1.02 for the D700 and v1.01 for the D3x and D300s), offering improvements to Auto ISO implementation as well as support for larger capacity memory cards to name two things. Links to updates as well as full... [Read full article]

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Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010

Photographing otters in the wild, having my D3 fall off the end of my 600mm and actually wanting to get out of the car, in just my underwear to photograph a turtle in the road during a full on tropical storm in Florida (more on that later!)…yep, it’s been a fun year photographically! As we step in to 2010 I thought I’d take a quick... [Read full article]

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