The Nikon MB-D11 Battery Grip

2021-02-13 4 min read My stuff Photography Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

So yesterday I mentioned my camera upgrade, and today, I talk about a neat little attachment, who’s primary purpose is pretty cool, and secondary purpose is neat, but ultimately unnecessary (for me).

Upgrading Cameras: D80 to D7000

2021-02-12 5 min read My stuff Photography Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

First: Yeah… new year, long time no see, I get it. I’ve been working on a lot of things here, as well as, well, work, since bills need to get paid, all that fun stuff. Hopefully I can get that all sorted out soon, and I have a massive backlog of things to put up. But for now, we’re starting with this.

In my various other posts, you might have picked up on the fact that I’m a Nikon person. And until now, all product shots you’ve seen here, from item galleries, to Hackintosh shots¹, it’s all been off that camera. Until now.

Megapixels Aren't Everything

2020-06-13 5 min read Photography Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

Phone camera resolution: 64 megapixels, 2020
Current camera (Nikon D80 DSLR) resolution: 10.2 megapixels, 2006
Next camera (Nikon D7000 DSLR) resolution: 16.2 megapixels, 2010
Highest-res Nikon camera I’ve found (Z7, mirrorless): 45.7 Megapixels, 2018 (ish?)

That’s a hmmm from me. But don’t get me wrong, just because the resolution is higher, does not mean that it’s a better camera. There’s so much that actually goes into a camera that just a single number isn’t telling you. Guess that means that today, we’re taking a deep-dive into camera construction, aren’t we?

The Day I Discovered Preset White Balance

2020-03-04 3 min read Photography Today I Learned Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

White balance is the term used in photography to describe either the particular tint that your (intended to be) white lights are, or the camera settings to bring it back closer to pure white. And today, I have something cool… about shifting light source colors. Nice, I guess?

DSLR Raw Editing: Dark Frames and Flat Fields

2020-02-04 6 min read Photography Tech explained Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

So I know I’ve already covered the basics of raw photos, but there’s a few things worth elaborating on that I think deserve a separate post, so here we are.

There’s three things that can be easily solved with raw photos, two of which are obnoxious and annoying and the other is.. less so. These are dead pixels, noise, and lens vignetting, solved by dark frames, and flat fields.

DSLR Raw Photos Explained

2020-02-04 3 min read Photography Tech explained Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

Many good-quality DSLR cameras I’ve seen will have the ability to save your photos in a few different formats, JPEG, TIFF, or some form of raw format.

If you’ve every tried to use one, you’ll quickly realize they’re not like normal photos and don’t quite work the same. So what exactly is this, and what is it used for?