Nikon's 6mm extreme wideangle fisheye lens.

NIKON's 6mm fisheye lens is a wonder, upgrading from 8mm...fisheye lens.With its 220 degree field of view, you cannot hide your feet or tripod legs....Maximum light passing capability is the f2.8 aperture, goes upto minimum f22.....

2) It is world's most extreme wideangle lens.....171mm long and lens dia of 236mm....weight? just 5.2kg. It was considered best for commercial and industrial photography, landscape, portraits,interiors for dramatic effect. It has TTL viewing and focusing to cover full frame 24x36mm size....Diaphragm is automatic...Lens has five built in filters (skylight,medium yellow, deep yellow, orange and red). The protruding lens will not allow any outside filters....The lens comes with a slip-on lens cap.

3) 180 degree coverage is of standard fish eye lens, but this beast has 40 degree more wider(i.e.220degree)....Close focusing is from 0.25m to infinity....The lens has 12 glass elements in 9 groups.....Price in England is $160,000....The lens was originally introduced in 1970 Photokina,Cologne, Germany....

Nikon Coolpix P7100

In the design of mirrorless cameras, Nikon introduces its new Coolpix P7100----a 10 MP CCD sensor camera. The lens is good--a fixed 28-200, f2.8-5.6, capable of covering most of the subjects....Can do a pro's work, as it has a build-in flash and hot-shoe for external flash.....I have heard that in villages, the villagers do not bother about the camera make...they shd understand that flash is shining....and the image is looking good on LCD....Results in 5x7 size cannot be bad. Besides it has a Nikon tag...so do not bother....it has 3'' FLIP OUT LCD PANEL with 921k dots--good resolution.

2) It consists of  real image zoom optical viewfinder, necessary for outdoor work....It has two command dials.....first time introduced front command dial, can be easily operated by the index finger and second as usual, at the rear right side on the back panel...It has lithium-ion battery and memory card compartment beneath the right hand grip.....weighting 395gms it will cost nearly $399/-.

Can be a supportive camera with DSLRs...however not pocketable because of slightly bigger size........All the best.

Still Life in Photography.

Life has many shades....there is bright light, there are shadows....And from the birth of a child to the end, it has to go with many facets....The leaf I shot in still life is in the last phase, since it saw all the weathers  when it first came under the spell of sunlight.....Yes depiction of subject  is depiction of philosophy of life in photography and that is more intriguing in still life photography.

2) As Bernard Shaw wrote in 1902 that 'communicability was one of the first principles of a fine art. The ability of an artist to convey his ideas or impressions to the beholder'; and he went on to show that pictorialists could do this at least as well as the worker in any of the other arts.

3) Many has opined that the picture is a thing to be judged 'in its own right'....and not simply as a record of something...this is more relevant in still life photography rather than landscapes or portraiture.

4) Still life photography is depiction of inanimate objects, whether single or groups. The subject provides lots of scope in the arrangements of design elements within a composition....Still Life PHOTOGRAPHERS MAKE PICTURES RATHER TAKE THEM.