d7000 Nikon introduced the d7000, which is the replacement for my camera of choice, the D90. Here are some great resources about it: Dpreview.com‘s tech porn preview, Engadget and Gizmodo weighed in on the announcement as well. My favorite coverage is by an actual photographer, famed Seattle photog Chase Jarvis has a great post about it including sample shots, a sample movie and a behind-the-scenes movie all created on a prototype of the d7000.

Here is the short film he created on it:

Make sure to check out all of the awesome shots he created as well (I don’t want to re-post those here, but you can find them right here).

When new gear comes out like this it’s very difficult for a guy like me to control the urge to figure out a way to justify buying it. The truth is that the D90 is a friggin’ amazing camera, and I have no reason to upgrade it at this time. My next logical camera upgrade if I was going to stick with the DX format (which most of my lenses are designed for) would be the D300s. But the d7000 is for all intents and purposes even better than the D300s! This makes my head spin thinking about what the replacement for the D300s has in store. So my wife can relax, as I have no intentions on buying this camera, but I’m gonna start saving for the D400 now 😉

sb-700The other newsworthy release from Nikon today is the SB-700, which is a replacement for the flashes I use, the SB-600. The best new feature to me is that the SB-700 now can act as a wireless commander – which means you can use it on the camera to control other wireless flashes – something that the SB-600 couldn’t do. If you know what this means then it’s exciting news because you don’t have to use your built-in flash as a commander for the remote flashes and you don’t have to buy the expensive SB-900.

And, so as not to be a completely boring techie post, here is a picture of my happy little dog, Lola:

Happy Lola