If at First You Don't Succeed

Hot on the heels of firmware update 1.03, stated to improve the D4's autofocus, comes firmware update 1.04 released today. To improve the autofocus.

The Last Roll of Kodachrome

This very interesting film tells the story of photographer Steve McCurry shooting the last roll of Kodachrome 64.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUL6MBVKVLI

Feeding Swans, Bosham Harbour

© Tom Parkes

While we wait for the promised snow, the Sunday afternoon tradition of a bracing walk goes on.

This image also marks a move from making raw conversions in Nikon Capture NX2 to the Adobe raw converter in Photoshop CS6. I've long preferred the conversions in NX2 over those offered by Adobe's converter built into Photoshop, Lightroom and Bridge, while at the same time admiring the workflow offered by those applications. I'm currently evaluating CS6 and while I can see some areas where NX2 offers a smother rendering, Camera Raw has moved ahead in others, notably sharpening.

The acid test will be the quality of Adobe's rendering of images created in mixed lighting.