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Join Mark Ellwood as he sits down with Steve Heiner from Nikon while they discuss some of Nikon's most recent product offerings. Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

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Join Mark Ellwood as he sits down with Susan Stripling, who partnered with Carson Kressley in some great episodes for Nikon's Look Good in Pictures series. Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

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Join our host Mark Ellwood as he captures the sights, sounds and excitement surrounding Nikon's booth at this year's PhotoPlus Expo. Features interviews with booth attendees, media, professional photographers and more! Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

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Join Mark Ellwood as he sits down with John Harrington, professional photographer. They talk about photography on the campaign trail, at White House events, debates, etc. - how to get the best photos at rallies and other political events. Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

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Join Mark Ellwood as he sits down with Cliff Mautner, one of American PHOTO Magazine's "top ten wedding photographers in the world." Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

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Join Mark Ellwood as he sits down with David Parmet, a participant from the "Picture This!" program while they discuss the camera and how the program went. Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

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Viewers who tuned into yesterday's Primetime Emmy Awards and the New York Yankee's final game in the historic Yankee Stadium got a first look at the new Nikon television commercials featuring Ashton Kutcher. These commercials, promoting the Nikon COOLPIX S60 compact digital camera and D90 D-SLR, debuted nationally on September 21, with a national print and interactive online campaign to follow.

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Viewers who tuned into yesterday's Primetime Emmy Awards and the New York Yankee's final game in the historic Yankee Stadium got a first look at the new Nikon television commercials featuring Ashton Kutcher. These commercials, promoting the Nikon COOLPIX S60 compact digital camera and D90 D-SLR, debuted nationally on September 21, with a national print and interactive online campaign to follow.

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Join Mark Ellwood as he sits down with Adam Kuban from Serious Eats while they discuss the relationship between food and photography. Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

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Join Mark Ellwood as he sits down with Steve Heiner from Nikon while they discuss some of Nikon's most recent product offerings. Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

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NEW YORK (May 23, 2008) - Calling all shutterbugs! Nikon today announced the "Nikon D60 Moving Moments Photo Contest" in conjunction with the D60 D-SLR advertising campaign featuring Ashton Kutcher. Beginning May 23, 2008, consumers can upload an image with an accompanying description to www.ashtonsd60.com for a chance to win the grand prize of a trip for two to Los Angeles to attend The Hollywood Style Awards sponsored by Nikon and a new D60 camera kit to capture all of the action. Sixty first prize winners will also receive a new D60 camera kit allowing them to capture their "moving moments" with incredible ease.

"We are very excited to engage consumers through the 'Moving Moments Photo Contest'," said Lisa Baxt, senior communications manager for Nikon Inc. "This contest is a fantastic way for people to share their favorite memories and the moments that move them for a chance to win some great prizes."

One-hundred and twenty semi-finalists in the "Nikon D60 Moving Moments Photo Contest" will be chosen beginning June 21st by a panel of judges based on the interpretation of the "moving moments" theme, their accompanying description and photo quality. The sixty D60 winners will be determined by consumers visiting and voting on their preferred picture on ashtonsd60.com between June 25 and July 15, 2008. The image that receives the most consumer votes will win the grand prize.

In addition to the photo contest, visitors to ashtonsd60.com can view images taken by the D60, learn more about the D60 with Ashton and watch the television commercial. For more information on the photo contest and the D60 D-SLR camera, please visit www.ashtonsd60.com.

About Nikon
Nikon, At the Heart of the Image™. Nikon Inc. is the world leader in digital imaging, precision optics and photo imaging technology and is globally recognized for setting new standards in product design and performance for its award-winning consumer and professional photographic equipment. Nikon Inc. distributes consumer and professional digital SLR cameras, NIKKOR optics, Speedlights and system accessories; Nikon COOLPIX® compact digital cameras; COOLSCAN® digital film scanners; 35mm film SLR cameras; Nikon software products and Nikon sports and recreational optics. Nikon D Series digital SLR cameras are recognized as “Highest in Customer Satisfaction with Digital SLR cameras,” according to the latest J.D. Power and Associates 2007 Digital Camera Satisfaction Study. Nikon Corporation, the parent company of Nikon Inc., recently celebrated its 90th anniversary and announced the production of over 40 million NIKKOR SLR interchangeable lenses. For more information, dial (800) NIKON-US or visit www.nikonusa.com, which links all levels of photographers to the Web's most comprehensive photo learning and sharing communities.

For J.D. Power and Associates award information go to jdpower.com

Join Mark Ellwood as he sits down with Steve Heiner from Nikon. They discuss Nikon's most recent COOLPIX product offerings as well as really getting creative with your photography. Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

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Hollywood's A-list actor and producer, Ashton Kutcher, is lending his photogenic qualities to Nikon to promote the manufacturer's new COOLPIX Style series cameras. The campaign will debut nationally on March 25th with a television commercial, which precedes the print advertisements and an interactive online component. Taking place in trendy locales such as boutique hotels and upscale shopping destinations, the campaign highlights the exquisite styling, fashionable colors, simplicity and great performance of Nikon's Style series compact digital cameras.

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Join Mark Ellwood as he sits down with Steve Heiner from Nikon. They discuss Nikon's most recent COOLPIX and D-SLR product offerings as well as the re-designed NikonUSA.com. Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

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Join Mark Ellwood as he sits down with Chris Chute, IDC analyst, and Steve Heiner from Nikon. They discuss Nikon's leading wireless imaging technologies and a recent IDC white paper that examines the wireless imaging industry as a whole. Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

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To help familiarize yourself with the Nikon COOLPIX S700 camera, here’s a short video which offers descriptions of a few of the camera’s coolest features, as well as tips for taking great pictures. Topics in the video include:

-Taking steady shots

-Ensuring the subject is in focus

-Capture bright images

-Utilizing the movie mode

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To help familiarize yourself with the Nikon COOLPIX S51 or S51c camera, here’s a short video which offers descriptions of a few of these camera’s coolest features, tips for taking great pictures and an explanation of how to use the incredibly cool wireless feature of the S51c camera. Topics in the video include:

-Taking steady shots

-Ensuring the subject is in focus

-Capture bright images

-Utilizing the movie mode

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Join Mark Ellwood as he sits down with Peter Rojas, CEO of RCRD LBL, and Joe Ventura from Nikon . They discuss Nikon's sponsorship of RCRD LBL as well as the connected worlds of music and photography. Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

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Highlights include a recap of the world's-firsts in terms of technological imaging advancements from Nikon Corporation as well as their desire to see the Earth; it's most remote locations and capture the world's greatest moments. This video also features some of Nikon's latest innovations on their newest products that all aim to make creating better images more fun and exciting.

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Join our host Mark Ellwood as he captures the sights, sounds and excitement surrounding Nikon's booth at this year's PhotoPlus Expo. Features interviews with booth attendees, media, professional photographers and more! Music composed by Frank Ferrucci.

00:00 Mark Ellwood introduces the extended session where he and Steve will cover, in more detail, Nikon’s new D-SLR announcements.

01:00 Steve gives a solid overview of the D3’s major features.

2:00 Mark and Steve goes over the advantages and differences between the D3 & D300.

3:00 Mark asks Steve to really explain how Nikon was able to achieve such wide ISO sensitivity ranges and extremely fast shutter speed in the D3.

7:00 Steve explains the concept behind the new Nikon Expeed image processing engine and the great things it does across Nikon’s new line of products.

8:00 Mark and Steve go through the re-vamped Picture Control System that is in both cameras (D3 & D300).

10:00 Steve describes what the new Auto-Focus system in the D3 and D300 mean for the photographer.

11:00 Scene Recognition System, being a new technology, is explained by Steve.

15:00 After talking about the Virtual Horizon Indicator, Steve and Mark go in detail about Nikon’s Live View modes.

18:00 More of the D3 & D300’s in-camera revolutions. Steve describes Active D-Lighting levels adjustments.

20:00 Mark touches on one of the most important aspects of the camera, the Nikon ergonomics of their D-SLR cameras

25:00 Steve and Mark close this session by covering all of the five new lenses that Nikon introduced for the D3.

00:00 Host Mark Ellwood greets the audience and covers the topics he’s done podcasts for previously.

01:00 Mark mentions this podcast’s topic of covering Nikon’s recent new product announcements. Steve gives a rundown of all the different products announced.

2:00 Steve Heiner, Senior Technical Manager @ Nikon, Inc., talks about the announcement press conference in Japan and the media they brought over.

3:00 Steve and Mark discuss the evolution of Nikon’s D-SLR cameras to the most recent D3 and what this new technology brings to the table.

7:00 Mark asks Steve about the top five things people should know about the D3.

8:00 Steve goes over some practical uses for Live View and why it’s important to have.

10:00 Mark introduces and Steve explains Nikon’s new Expeed processing engine.

11:00 With the advent of Nikon’s FX format, Steve and Mark discuss the differences between FX and DX formats.

15:00 Basic overview of the D300 as well as its similarities and differences from the D3.

18:00 Steve and Mark talk about the new COOLPIX announcements and some of the great technology behind them, such as VR, Wi-Fi and face detection.

20:00 Steve covers the stand-out products from this new line of COOLPIX cameras and gets into detail with their features for Mark.

23:00 Mark is pretty excited about the sharing features behind the COOLPIX cameras and Steve goes into detail about Nikon’s my Picturetown service before closing this session’s podcast with a heads-up about Nikon’s Digital Learning Center on Flickr.

00:00 Mark introduces John Mayer and talks about the Nikon Live blog John has been keeping all summer, while on tour.

1:00 John talks about his summer tour up until this point and how he prepares for each show.

2:00 Mark asks John about photography in his life and how he approaches it and why he enjoys it so much.

3:00 John talks about the process of taking pictures and what makes up a great photograph to him.

5:00 Mark and John talk about why he loves taking portraits so much over other types of photos and the advantages with digital cameras.

6:00 John reveals his favorite photographers and why he enjoys them so much as well as some of his favorite images of himself.

8:00 John is inspired by great images that give their audience access to places that they haven't gotten to before.

9:00 Mark asks John when the best time to take a picture of him during a show and during music concerts in general.

11:00 John tells Mark how music inspires his photography.

12:30 Mark and John talk about people on the tour who take pictures and if John always has a camera with him.

14:00 John offers his tips on how to get great photographs of him and in general.

16:00 John explains how he's been using his D80 lately and the neat ways he documents his life.

18:00 Mark closes the interview by talking to John about the Nikon Live blog and what he's doing with it this summer.

00:00 Host Mark Ellwood covers previous podcast topics and introduces the special events and group photography topic.

2:00 Mark introduces Steve Heiner, Senior Technical Manager @ Nikon, Inc. and they talk about what it takes to get fantastic images while traveling.

4:30 Steve discusses the situations where you might not always having to bring a D-SLR with you on vacation and times where a D-SLR really helps.

5:30 Mark asks Steve about the best way to instantly share those group and special events photos instantly.

6:30 Steve covers best practices for getting quality group shots each and every time.

8:00 Mark asks about tripods and other ways to steady his photos, reduce blur and keep everything sharp.

9:30 Steve reassures Mark that breaking photography "rules" is okay and he usually refers to them as guidelines.

11:00 Steve talks about the "Golden Hour" and when to get the best light of the day.

12:00 Steve and Mark talk about the advantages D-SLR cameras give you when traveling as well as neat ways to use point-and-shoot cameras at different events.

14:00 Steve goes over and revisits his best tips for group and special event shooting as well as traveling with cameras.

17:00 Mark asks Steve about Nikon's history over the past 90 years and some of the great technological advancements and noteworthy accomplishments over that time.

20:00 Mark is fascinated by and talks to Steve about Nikon's optics history and how it's not only used in cameras but microscopes, etc.

22:30 Mark wraps-up this podcast and goes over ways for people to reach Steve and MWW.

00:00 Host Mark Ellwood introduces himself and the purpose behind these brand new Nikon podcasts.

01:00 Mark talks about July/August issue of American Photo making the claim that new D-SLR cameras can make an artist about any photographers. This podcast is talking about what makes D-SLR photography so special.

2:00 Mark introduces Steve Heiner, Senior Technical Manager @ Nikon, Inc.

3:00 Steve breaks down the details about digital SLR cameras and easily explains what they mean to Mark. Talks about advantages vs. point & shoot cameras.

7:00 Mark asks about why he should think about taking a SLR with him instead of a point & shoot and Steve gives some great examples.

8:00 Steve explains the difference between pixels and sensors in D-SLR cameras as opposed to other cameras.

10:00 Mark and Steve talk about the differences between all of Nikon's current digital SLR cameras.

11:00 Mark wants to get easy explanations behind many jargon-like photography terms and Steve explains things like shutter speed, ISO, etc.

15:00 Steve and Mark go over some of the best questions you might want to ask yourself before going into a store to buy a camera: usage determines pixel-amount you might need, budget, lenses, etc.

18:00 Steve describes the kinds of lenses he uses and how they work with this camera as well as why flashes, as an accessory, are a great investment.

20:00 Steve gives Mark some great tips to create some special photographs: changing white balance controls, manual settings, PictMotion, panning, night-time photography, etc.

27:00 Mark and Steve talk about ways that Nikon offer help for anyone using their cameras: Nikon School, instructional DVDs, in-camera help, etc.

30:00 Steve tells the story behind Nikon's Picturetown advertising campaign and Mark tells everyone ways to get in touch with Steve or learn more about Nikon's cameras.