Archive for April, 2008

WD Velociraptor: the first SATA drive to beat many SAS drives

April 21st, 2008

Western Digital has announced a new generation of their high end SATA drives called Raptor: Velociraptor.

According to a Velociraptor test at Toms Hardware they are not only the  fastest SATA drives available and the best hard drive choice for high-end PCs, they even beat many SAS drives (known for their performance and used in servers)!

Nikon D3 review on Dpreview

April 19th, 2008

I quote

“From an image quality and performance point of view the D3 raises the bar by a fair degree. For a sports camera it’s also a surprisingly good studio and landscape camera, and if there’s a better DSLR out there for photojournalists and red carpet paps we’ve yet to meet it. Image quality (especially at higher ISOs) is stunning, the camera a joy to use and the speed and responsiveness breathtaking. If there is an EOS-1Ds Mark III – bating ‘D3X’ coming this year it will have quite a job to do to better the D3; possibly the most compelling, capable and well-rounded professional digital SLR ever made.”

But read the full article.

New features for Nikon D3 via new firmware

April 16th, 2008

Nikon has released a new D3 firmware giving the D3 new features:

  • new Vignette control in the shooting menu
  • new Focus point brightness item in the a6 setting
  • range of settings available for ISO sensitivity settings>ISO sensitivity auto control>Minimum shutter speed in the shooting menu has been increased from 1/250–1 s to 1/4000–1 s