Nikon
Good news! The long awaited Nikon D7000 DX format DSLR camera are being shipped out to customers yesterday in U.S., eventually. Exactly 1 full month after the launch of Nikon D7000, people can now holding and using it! Travel Feeder is not a tech site. I’m posting this here is because I’m going to use it for my future travel, to replace my worthy workhorse, the Nikon D60! 
My D60 was immediately put up for sale when I first read the announcement of D7000 launching and talked to myself: “I’ve just found a perfect camera for travel!!” Yes. It’s definitely true for me. I’ve been traveling around with my Nikon D60 for 2 years hanging on my waist belt inside the Lowepro Cirrus TLZ15. They are perfect match to each other as the compact sized D60 was weightless on my waist! It would be great to be able to carry a waist camera bag so I could free up both of my hands to do other stuffs such as holding a map in my left hand and a cup of coffee in my right hand! And you can also climb up stairs of the Eiffel Tower without much worry on your camera of being knocked by walls or stairs if you were to hang it around your neck!
But the downside of D60 is its limited functionality and operational speed which I’m demanding more and more currently. So I need an upgrade! I need a camera that can capture higher resolution images easier and faster with reasonable robust for rough use while weighing less than the Nikon D300s. Nikon D7000 is the answer!
Counterparts in US is unboxing it started since yesterday! Here is one of the many videos of unBoxing…
D7000 Unboxing+ Video Sample from Geoff Bassett on Vimeo.
Updated: Added below another set of High ISO photos, with comparison to Nikon D5000
These are some of the very first images captured with a Nikon D7000, showing off its ability and usability in high ISO shots.
Technology advancement has proofed that with the same amount of money, you can now get better equipped camera DSLR bodies, though its image quality is still remained to be seen, only when I get mine here in Malaysia. The sad news is, there is still no news on its delivery date here, even though we are immediate neighbour to Thailand, the country where Nikon D7000′s are being manufactured. 
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Yesterday was my birthday. It also marked as the official launch date of my photography blog! I’ve created Cecil Lee Photography as a sub-blog of Travel Feeder to feature my general photography tips, guides, experience and knowledge. The idea to have this additional blog was when I wished to talk more on general photography tips that beyond the scope of travel photography and Travel Feeder is not the appropriate platform for me to voice out, such as What camera can outdo our eyes and Why buying Nikon D3100, and etc.
I love photography. I learnt how to take photo when I was in university in London and my friend taught me how to shoot photos with his Nikon F70 film camera. I bought a Nikon F70 as my first film SLR then and started to take photos during my post graduate time in Europe. It was like 15 years ago. But I virtually stop shooting films when digital cameras stormed the consumer market and my Nikon F70 was stolen. I was then shooting digital photos with my tiny Nikon E4100 compact camera on my travel to Gold Coast and Bali. I was so reluctant to switch from film to digital DSLR as I thought digital cameras were still inferior to film cameras. Only until year 2008 when technology advancement had eventually came to a stage where digital cameras could shoot photos as clean as film and with high resolution, I reckoned digital cameras are good for travel photography and had bought my 1st DSLR after 10 years, the Nikon D60.
Digital Photography is different from film in terms of colour reproduction. Digital cameras use RGB sensor to sense colour temperature of receiving lights and fix a White Balance to calculate the rest of the colours in the image, unlike film camera where it relies on chemical reactions of the film itself towards receiving lights. So in digital photography, camera itself is the one who controls the resultant colour of an image, while film itself is the one who controls the same in film photography. This has made camera bodies (the image processor) and image sensor so important in digital photography (that’s why I’ve sold my D60 and am waiting to buy D7000! ).
Because of this, White Balance is so critical in digital photography in order to create a perfect coloured image of the scene. Incorrect WB will result in funny colour rendering of an image, either becoming too blueish or too yellowish, too cool or too warm. This is a complicated issue in digital photography and I will elaborate more in my Photography Blog, instead of the Travel Blog here.
So, my Birthday wish this year is to share more of my photography tips in my new Cecil Lee Photography blog and wish it could be another success in my blogging journey. Come and support me now! Though it has only a couple of articles now but I’m sure it will grow as fast as my travel blog. – Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog.
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Good news! Travel photo wallpaper calendar for October 2010 is now available here to download FREE! If you still haven’t got the other 2010 wallpaper calendar, Download them first. As usual, 2 sizes are available here: 1920 x 1080 px for Full HD wide screen LCD and 1280 x 1024 px for conventional monitor screen [...]
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A full 12 months gone since my last update on my selected top 5 digital camera for travel 2009. Towards the end of the year, it’s time now to pick my top 5 choices of digital cameras particularly for travel. For this year, my shortlisted digital cameras of the year are all DSLR (Digital Single [...]
