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Using Nikon D800 for flying birds

Over the last three weeks, I’ve been using the Nikon D800 to shoot birds on my vacation in Florida. Here are my unscientific and personal findings for shooting birds in flight from tripod and hand-held with some example photos below: … Continue reading

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Nikon D800: Beware of the 36 Megapixels

Have you ever laughed at the TV shows where they use a photo to investigate a crime and with the use of some piece of software they just can press the enhance button and then suddenly some detail appears magically … Continue reading

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My First (Bird) Photos with Nikon D800 and 600mm f4

Only few talked about it being good for wildlife, most said it’s only for landscape, architecture or studio. Many would have preferred a lower pixel count and questioned whether it’s going to be of any use. But when shooting birds, … Continue reading

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REST with dojo and PHP: Notes on using dgrid with a caching store

I would like to share some (personal) pitfalls I came across when creating the demo REST with dojo and PHP: Demo of a dgrid observing changes to the JsonRest store: dojo/store/Observable only works correctly when the object has an id. … Continue reading

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Canon vs. Nikon Telephoto Lenses: If weight plays a major role

The table (sortable) and charts on this page may help you decide which telephoto lens to buy if the weight plays a major role. It is kind of frustrating that the Canon lenses are about half to a full kilo … Continue reading

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Canon vs. Nikon Teleobjektive: Wenn das Gewicht eine Hauptrolle spielt

Die Tabelle (sortierbar) und Grafiken auf dieser Seite können als Entscheidungshilfe beim Kauf eines Teleobjektivs dienen, wenn das Gewicht eine Hauptrolle spielt. Schon erstaunlich, dass die Canon Objektive bei gleicher Lichtstärke rund ein halbes bis ganzes Kilo leichter als die … Continue reading

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Yay, my first patch to the dojotoolkit got checked in !

While I’ve been working on my remote file explorer I noticed that the dijit tree remembers the state of opened/closed nodes but not of selections. So I filed a bug and created a patch, which got checked in yesterday.

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How to read a Mac-formatted disk from Windows

More of a note to myself: Just download and install the free tool HFSExplorer from Catacombae. Then select “Load file system from file”. Please remember you need to be logged in as an administrator on Windows 7 or have elevated … Continue reading

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