Posted on Jul 20, 2018

Pixels for Geeks: A peek inside Nikon’s super-secret sensor design lab

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Nice story about Nikon camera sensor design - relevant to surveillance & intelligence folks. Warmest Regards, Sandy :)

Pixels for Geeks: A peek inside Nikon’s super-secret sensor design lab

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SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint PO1 William "Chip" Nagel thought you might be interested

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Lt Col Charlie Brown 1LT Sandy Annala Just Mind Blowing the Capabilities of Modern Electronic Photography especially for us Old School Military Photographers.

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I have always enjoyed photography - particularly under challenging lighting conditions. I have some beautiful old black & white photos around Bennington College environs taken with my Nikon F. I shot a bunch of push processed (ASA 3200 to 6400) traditional & motion picture film stock in my Nikon F2 and F3. My tiny little Minox cameras with the 18 inch measuring chain were helpful in photographing numerous documents. My F4, F5, and F6 cameras were even easier to used. But, I have to say with the introduction of the D1x, D2x, D3s, D4s, and D5 everything changed for me. Battery life kept getting longer and longer, relatively clean film speeds approached 102,400 ISO - usable film speed under low light high contrast conditions approach 3,280,000 ISO with significant appreciable noise. Autofocus down to -4ev (effectively moonlight) made long range handheld photography practical. I don’t know where 35mm camera technology will go next - but the 408,600 ISO and 3,280,000 ISO photos (attached) suggest that even though these speeds don’t work well under low contrast they have decent utility in high contrast situations. My folks generally shoot RAW (1.2K images per 64GB XQD card) and max out at 102,400 ISO for routine low light photos. Warmest Regards, Sandy :)

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen

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1LT Sandy Annala Thankfully I Never had to deal with the Challenges of Using a Minox LOL! I had a Lot of Fun with my Cannon 35 MM Equipment. Now if I can get around to transferring all my Slides to Digital I'll be doing Better.

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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Using the Minox was not the problem - physically hiding the camera and film was uncomfortable when crossing political borders and security sensitive checkpoints. At least the camera and film had smooth edges. Warmest Regards, Sandy :)

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1LT Sandy Annala great photos, never much of a photographer myself. My first 35mm camera was a Nikon that I bought at the BX at UTapao during Vietnam. Don't remember what model it was but did spend a lot, by my standards, on it. Plain old Kodak cameras were what I used before that and digital point and shoot work for me now..