Archive for December, 2007

Nikon D300的風格

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Nikon D300的菜单风格与之前的机型没有太大差异,比较起来,有以下几个特点值得一提:

菜单条例清楚,分类细致。D300的菜单分为几个大项,分别对拍摄、控制、回放等内容进行了区分。而个人设定下面的子菜单,更是以不同的色彩进行区分,条理更加明晰。

Nikon D300提供了菜单帮助功能,对于不太了解相机的用户来说,非常方便。Nikon D300为大多数菜单项目提供了帮助内容,用户只要在相应的状态下按下“?”按钮,就可以获得相应的帮助,便于用户更好地使用相机。

为了获得更加适合个人使用习惯的设置,Nikon D300提供了多个个人设定菜单,用来对各种控制进行设置。这项菜单里的子项使用了不同色彩,并且对默认设置进行更改后还会显示提醒。Nikon D300也提供了4个个人设定库和4个拍摄菜单库,用来保存不同的设置,使得相机能够更加方便地在不同用户习惯或者场景间切换。

 除了以上的功能,Nikon D300还提供了“我的菜单”,相当于一个快捷菜单的功能,用户可以向这个菜单里添加菜单项目,并对它们进行管理。

Nikon D300也提供了润饰菜单功能,用以对照片进行风格转换、合成和曝光修正等。

作为定位于专业用户和高端玩家的产品,高速响应是一项必备的素质,响应速度包含了开机、快门时滞、连拍、对焦等多个项目。

Nikon D300的开机响应非常迅速,一般用户感觉不到时滞,不会影响抓拍。此外,Nikon D300的快门时滞也非常短暂,我们测试的结果大概在0.04秒-0.05秒之间。

对焦速度是高速响应机型的一个重要表现方面,为了测试Nikon D300的自动对焦速度,我们为它搭配Nikkor AF-S 80-200mm 1:2.8D镜头,使用长焦端拍摄2.5米对焦距离的液晶显示器黑白画面。测试时我们分别手动将镜头的聚焦环调整至对焦于无穷远(测试结果计为“始于远端”)和最近对焦状态(测试结果计为“始于近端”),然后记录从按下快门到拍摄瞬间的时间(已扣除快门时滞)。

此外,Nikon D300也提供了51个自动对焦点和多种自动对焦模式,在连续自动对焦模式下,可以对区域内运动对象进行快速跟踪。由于连续自动对焦测试的标准不太容易固定,所以有机会我们将会用相关机型进行对比测试,不在本文列举单机测试结果。但通过试用发现,Nikon D300的追焦性能会给人非常准确、智能的印象,使得Nikon D300可以胜任生态、体育等题材的拍摄。

连拍速度是很多用户比较关心的技术参数,也是最容易对比的一项技术指标。Nikon D300在使用标配EN-EL3e电池的时候,可以达到最高6幅/秒的连拍速度(存储为JPG L F);据官方资料显示,如果使用多功能电池匣 MB-D10时可以实现8幅/秒的连拍速度。而我们使用Sandisk Extreme II 2GB存储卡测试的14位NEF格式连拍,前20幅的平均速度为2.6幅/秒,20幅之后连拍速度明显下降。

Nikon D300的销售包装里提供了一块EN-EL3e电池,容量为1500mAh,我们测试过程中,新的EN-EL3e支持了大约600幅照片拍摄,其中有约50幅照片使用了内置闪光灯,约100幅照片使用了高于ISO 1000的感光度。

Relative links about Nikon D300

 Discuss about Nikon D300 Digital Camera

Nikon New Introduce D300 Digital Camera

Fierce Competitor Nikon D300

D300 is a Dream to Use and Hold

 Nikon D300 Aggressively Competing in Market

Feel the True Love

Monday, December 17th, 2007

My husband is an engineer. Since the day we met, he has always been the rock in my life. I know he had his feet firmly planted on the ground, and it seemed that no matter what else went crazy, he would be the one constant.

Three years of romance and two years of marriage later, I tired of him. He is the most unromantic man I know. He never bought me flowers, he never surprised me, and nothing had changed in our marriage.

After some time, I finally found the courage to tell him that I wanted out. He just sat there, speechless. My heart froze: what kind of man was I married to who didn’t even know what to say to make me stay? After a while, he spoke. “What can I do to change your mind?”

“I will stay if you can give me a good answer to this question,” I replied coldly. “If I asked for a flower that grew on a cliff, and you knew that getting it for me meant certain death, would you still get it for me?”

His face grew troubled. “Can I give you the answer tomorrow morning?” with that, my heart sank. I knew that I could never be happy with a man who couldn’t even give me an answer straight away.

The next morning, when I woke up, he was missing. In the living room, under a warm glass of milk, was a note. My eyes grew misty as I read it.

“Dear, I have my answer. I will never pick the flower for you if it meant certain death.

But before you leave, I hope you will give me a chance to give you my reasons.

You always sit in front of the computer and type the whole day. But you always end up in tears because your format goes all over the place. I need my fingers to do the formatting for you, so that your tears will become smiles.

You like to travel but always get lost. I need my eyes to take you to the nicest places on earth. Every time you leave the house, you forget your keys. I need my legs to run home and open the door for you.

You never know how to take care of yourself. I need my hands to help you get rid of the pesky white hair you hate so much when you grow old, to trim your nails and to feed you.

So you see, that’s why I cannot pick the flower for you. Until I find someone who loves you more than I do, I will need my body to take care of you.

If you accept my reasons, then open the door and I will be waiting with you favorite muffin.”

With tears streaming from my eyes, I opened the door. And there he was with an extremely worried look on his face. He still had nothing to say; he just stood there, waving the packet he had in his hand in front of me.

I knew then that I would never find another man who will love me as much as my husband does.

Success Story for Speed Dating

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

It wasn’t my first time. Actually I attended SpeedDating 4 times and had fun, just didn’t meet anyone special. I met my fiance Alon at an LA event in March 2002. He was the only guy I said “yes” to because we clicked right away. I asked all of the right questions to get the right information during those 7 minutes (something I had learned to do from attending events before).

The day after the event, Alon went to visit his family in England so we e-mailed and spoke on the phone until he got back (he even told his mother during his visit that he met his wife!). On August 10, 2003, Alon surprised me and proposed! We went to a beautiful Italian restaurant on the beach (of course, I had decided to start that no carb diet just that morning) and he ordered a chocolate dessert. I didn’t notice the card with the dessert and the maitre-de had to point it out! After I opened the card, Alon got down on one knee and proposed. Of course, I said “YES!” (he later told me that he had already asked my parents for their blessing). Thank you Speed Dating for introducing me to my future husband. (Everyone should try this at least once. For example, we don’t give up on our job if we had a bad day so why give up on this great way to meet people if you had a 6/10 experience instead of a a 9/10.)

Relative Speed Dating Story