Photographers love blogs – but can’t find them!
About one month ago, I bought a new DSLR camera. I’m the proud new owner of a Nikon’s newest camera the D300, the SB-800 speedlight and the new Tamron 24-75 f/2.8 lens. Beauty Kit.
Blogs are still new to me. Before I purchased the pro camera ensemble, I would have loved to read other peoples blogs about Nikon’s latest release. Alas, all I could find is people posting examples of pictures (which were taken at photo shows).
The one time I could have benefited from reading blogs I couldn’t find one. So in this posting, I’d like to accomplish two things. 1) Share my thoughts on finding the right blog 2) blog about the D300
1) I wish there was a search engine just for blogs. Maybe there is. Can someone show it to me to it if such a luxury exists? I’m showing a moderate interest in blogs now, but I’m finding it difficult to truly participate in this medium. It’s almost like blogging is underground. That bloggers only know about the right blogs, because they blog.
The Internet is filled with a lot of waste. Unfinished & ancient sites plague the waves. Looking for blogs about PR or photography or about great grilled cheese recipes is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Can someone shed some light on blog searching for me?
2) My D300 is awesome. It feels, sounds and acts like a professional camera. The cameras ISO can drop to 100 and rise to 6400. In my opinion, ISO 200 gives the sharpest image. There’s lots of chatter going around that the D300 is just the D200 re-released (and is $500 more expensive). Go D300 for sure. 51 auto focus points? So good.
The one thing I wish I knew about the camera before I bought it is the RAW files it takes aren’t viewable with the Camera Raw file that associates with CS2 – you must have CS3. So if you’re in the market for a D300 or a D3, keep CS3 on your birthday list. Lightroom apparently can view them, but I haven’t figured it out yet.
Now, if Nikon (the manufacturer of the D300) released a blog about their new release, would you find it convincing? Or would you see through the transparency and realize their comments are bias? Can a company successfully and convincingly blog about their own products and services?
Hey Colin, http://technorati.com/ is a pretty useful Google of the blogophere.
Also, you might enjoy this photoblogging site: http://www.photoblog.com/
Here is my favourite photographer’s photoblog, if you want to take a look: http://lechampiondumonde.com/ He recently completed an International Photojournalism program at the Danish School of Journalism as the only Canadian to ever be accepted!
I came to you through WordPress tags.
I have a D3 and use that tag whenever I post about the camera, I came to your blog by clicking that tag, which took me to a listing of WordPress blogs relating to that tag.
Might be worth a look.