Nikon Owner Magazine

13/12/2025

The Secrets to Success With: Photographing Birds in Flight 🦅📸 with

Join renowned photographer and Nikon expert Simon Stafford for an in-depth online webinar on Thursday 8 January 2026 at 7 pm GMT. Suitable for all experience levels, this session covers everything you need to capture stunning birds-in-flight images: camera settings, autofocus techniques for DSLR and mirrorless systems, subject tracking, composition, field craft, and making the most of light and weather. Drawing on 40+ years of experience, Simon will share practical tips to help you photograph birds-in-flight with confidence. Limited places available so book early!

For more details on how to register please email 📩 [email protected] 📩

ABOUT SIMON:

Simon Stafford is a self-taught award winning photographer with over 40 years’ experience in film and digital photography. He's a published photographer, Technical Editor of Nikon Owner, and author of 25+ books on Nikon camera system. An experienced tutor who presents a wide range of photography seminars and workshops, he also leads landscape, travel, and wildlife photography tours regularly in the UK, Europe, Africa and Asia.

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10/12/2025

This beautiful black and white capture of Manhattan from Brooklyn Bridge Park was shared with us by our subscriber, Paul Fields, as an entry to our recent photo challenge. It's so crisp and perfectly framed. It instantly became one of our favourite Nikon shots.

📸 Nikon Z7ii, Nikon 24 - 120 mm f4, ISO 100, f/9, 25 seconds with 10-stop ND filter

04/12/2025

Here I am in my office with a blow-up of the next cover of Nikon Owner magazine featuring a stunning shot by Simon Stafford.

02/12/2025

📖 Inside Issue 87 – FOR JIM: A TRIBUTE, written by Neil Lucas

We honour the life and legacy of Jim Brandenburg, the multi-award-winning nature photographer, filmmaker, and environmentalist who sadly passed away in April this year. Jim’s influence on the world of nature photography is immeasurable.

In this moving tribute, Neil Lucas, a producer with the BBC’s world-renowned Natural History Unit for more than 20 years, reflects on Jim’s remarkable career, passion, and the lasting impact he leaves behind.

Issue 87 is now on SALE, available through subscription or as an individual magazine.

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27/11/2025

TOMORROW! Friday, 28th November 2025, at 7pm GMT
Nikon Owner Evening Webinar: ‘Rural, Coastal & Astrophotography’ by Tony North

You can still register to this fantastic online seminar by award-winning photographer Tony North. In this session, Tony will share his finest landscape and astrophotography images, offer practical tips and techniques, and discuss the challenges he faces in landscape photography and how he overcomes them. It will be another entertaining but also instructional talk, with plenty of inspirational images.

For more information about Tony North visit his website: artofmacro.com.

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The cost of the event will be £15 per person, payable in advance, for current Nikon Owner subscribers and £45 for non-Nikon Owner subscribers.

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Only a limited number of places are available, so please book early to avoid disappointment!

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26/11/2025

Nikon F5 Body 50th Anniversary Model, featured in Nikon Owner Issue 54!

The Nikon F5 50th Anniversary camera is a special model which was made in only very limited numbers (2000 for Japan and 1000 for the rest of the world) commemorating Nikon’s 50th anniversary of camera manufacture! The F5 was fitted with an RGB meter (basically 3 meters working in the Red, Green and Blue ends of the spectrum) and could take the standard multi-meter DP-30, DA-30 Action, DW-30 Waist Level and DW-31 High-Magnification finders and a vast range of focusing screens. On the front of the viewfinder was inscribed the same Nikon logo as adopted in Nikon I, and the back of body was marked with the former company marking of Nippon Kogaku K.K. with the marking for the 50th Anniversary of Nikon Camera. This was the only variation model of the F5.

Beautifully photographed by Tony Hurst

Read more about in in issue 54! All previous issues are available for download.

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23/11/2025

This beautifully captured sun rays in the clouds are part of our recent photo challenge and became one of our favourite shots. It was taken by Adam Sharp () whose photo grabbed our attention with gorgeously seized contrast of light and dark stormy clouds. It's attractiveness lays in an optimistic emotion it evokes. It just emanates “promise” of something better up ahead. But what do you think?

📸Nikon Z5 Z24-200 mm

21/11/2025

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Photographers after editing for fourteen hours.

16/11/2025

Here's another selection from our recent photo challenge!

This shot was taken by Nick Harrison () at Brockwell Park in Lodon. It caught our attention with its theme and the light and darkness play the photographer captured on it . It draws the attention of the viewer and instantly stirrs up imagination into a story, scnece from a film or a theathre play.

But what do you think?

📸 Nikonz8 + nikkor 70-20 mm f2.8 S

12/11/2025

Nikon Owner Evening Webinar: ‘Rural, Coastal & Astrophotography’
by Tony North

7PM, Friday, 28th November 2025

Michael Eleftheriades, coordinator of the Nikon Owner London Group, invites you to a webinar titled “Rural, Coastal & Astrophotography” by award-winning photographer Tony North on Friday, 28th November 2025. This will be Tony’s third presentation for Nikon Owner subscribers, following his successful talks on Ultra-Macro and the Art of Macro.

In this session, Tony will share his finest landscape and astrophotography images, offer practical tips and techniques, and discuss the challenges he faces in landscape photography and how he overcomes them. It will be another entertaining but also instructional talk, with plenty of inspirational images, so book your places early!

About Tony North:

Tony North is a Manchester-based photographer specializing in macro and landscape, particularly astrophotography. He has won major awards, including International Garden Photographer of the Year 2023, and holds the MPAGB distinction. Tony also runs workshops, gives talks, and teaches an eleven-week online macro photography course. Website: artofmacro.com.

REGISTRATION

The cost of the event will be £15 per person, payable in advance, for current Nikon Owner subscribers and £45 for non-Nikon Owner subscribers.

For more details on how to book the webinar please email [email protected].

Only a limited number of places are available, so please book early to avoid disappointment!

If you're not yet Nikon Owner subscriber visit for subscription options:

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Use discount code Kat10 at the checkout to get £10 off the subscription price.

Grays of Westminster

10/11/2025

This dark yet beautiful photograph is one of our “hand picked” selections from this years Summer Photo Challenge.

It was taken by Alisa Zuniga (known on Instagram as ) in San Juan Mountains in Colorado, where she usually ventures to scout and capture some of the most beautiful sights and photo set ups.

This particular photograph was her first attempt at using astrophotography techniques portraying star trails and we think she did brilliantly! Her image grabbed our attention with it's arrangment of elements and colours she captured on it, which simply reminded us of one of Van Gough's paintings. Can you guess which one?

📸 Stacked image: star trails Z6II / ground layer Z8

09/11/2025

A little bit of Nikon history!

This photo appeared in issue 61, page 46, as part of Tony Hurst Gallery series.

Here's an extract from the article "Nikon F3: The Gold Standard", written by Gray Levett

“Introduced in 1980 and the culmination of more than 30 years of experience in 35mm camera design, the Nikon F3 stayed in production until 2001, the longest production run of any of their flagship 35mm SLR cameras. In the opinion of many photographers it is the finest camera that Nikon has ever built. The design goal was simple: to create the first truly professional-quality electrically controlled camera […].”

Photo: by master photographer Tony Hurst

Grays of Westminster