Nikon out of the film game

I’m a Nikon user, have been for years, both film and digital. In the last 18 months however its been strictly digital, man how I love my D70. Nikon has just broken the news that it is to concentrate its efforts on the digital market.

“Nikon will discontinue production of all lenses for large format cameras and enlarging lenses. This also applies to most of our film camera bodies, interchangeable manual focus lenses and related accessories,” it said in a statement on its British website.

It will keep on a few of the higher end professional film cameras such as the F6. Nikon are currently the second largest producer of dSLR cameras (behind Canon) but my devotion remains with them. 95% of their sales last year was in the digital market (where cameras are concerned anyway) and I can understand why. Built to last, drive them into the ground, superb picture quality and processing. Sign of the times when one of the biggest camera manufacturers turns its back on film. Beginning of the ultimate end of film cameras?

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Back to Business

January 4th… been back at work since yesterday in a flurry of activity around the office, time to get the blog back in shape. I’ve been losing out to one of my other blogs which I might reveal over here and here.

Most people who know me know that I’m a huge fan of the NFL (American Football, not Gaelic) and I started blogging the NFL over Christmas including the running of a fantasy football league (I had developed an ASP-based online fantasy football application about 2 years ago through the college so this might be the start of it’s revival…). So I present to you, to those who are interested, NFLView.com and it’s Fantasy Football wing.

Christmas was great - such a perfect time to relax and do nothing. I finally caught up on about a year’s worth of rest, a lifetime supply of books, more cups of tea than you can shake a stick at, a few walks up the mountains.

Most likely going to change up the dress code around here now that I’ve launched the other two blogs. They serve as representing an interest of mine but also a test in themselves in a little more targetting blogging as there genuinely isn’t a massive Irish interest, at least in comparison to the US… so that’s what I’m at!

Multimedia Merger Completed

So the big merger is finally complete. Only dawned on me today (happened at the weekend)!Adobe has officially eaten up Microsoft…. err… Macromedia. Yes… thats it.

There’s the simplest of lessons in there - if you can’t beat the opposition, make sure and bloody well buy them out! At least they’re keeping Dreamweaver and Flash alive! Through WIT I had the chance to work on a daily basis (and nightly basis) for over 4 years solid on the whole family of Adobe and Macromedia products… but you always had your favourites. You could always say that one was better than the other at something… but now there’s no competition! If Adobe screw something up, who’s gonna argue, or try beat their product off the shelf?

A little hint of Microsoft off this one? I think so…

Anyone interested can read a full PDF of details on the acquisition here.

When Business Becomes A Pleasure

When business becomes a pleasure.

People say you should never mix both - keep them apart at all times. Unless of course you’re in a job that you love doing things that you love. Needless to say the business world has its pressures - demands from clients, demands from yourself, constantly trying to raise the bar and improve your own game while raising the standard of others.

So today I had the pleasure of asking a good friend of mine to become a part of our small but expanding business. No greater pleasure than working with friends, doing what you do best, day in day out.

The business started out from a friendship, developing to a partnership that works effectively and when you have the strength and resources in friends to further strengthen and add value to your own business then you’ve got to smile.

So two will become three as the workload has increased a lot more than we possibly anticipated with new avenues opening up daily, new ideas being tossed around and developed and a firm direction being put on what we’ve started.

Early days, but great days.

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