After years of speculation, the much awaited Nikon D3 comes to being today. Although the company officially released the test drive, the Nikon D3 will be available in stores by November 2007 (per the company estimates).
 
Here’s a brief of what the D3 has to offer:
 

12.1 MP CMOS sensor
FX format (thats a full frame 36 x 24 format)
Continuous 9 fps in FX mode and high speed 11 fps in DX crop
Noise reduction in extreme 25,600 ISO
51 point auto focus with 3D focus tracking and improved Scene Recognition System

Here is …

 
Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com
Lei plays a variation of the traditional Chinese Suona, a shorter version for the high pitched notes, popularly called the Haidi (or sea-flute). The Suona, also known as laba, is a wind instrument with particularly discrete notes, designed and used to mimic numerous birds’ music.
 
Lei playing the Suona @ photoduniya.com
 

 
Lei carries 2 of these instruments with him, one for the high and one for the graver notes. That apart, he also plays the Ehru, an extremely common 2 stringed instrument, passed onto the …

Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com
I had posted this artist before. He preferred to remain anonymous and puts on a heavy pair of sunglasses to shield his eyes. The images were taken with his permission though.
The Ehru is a sort of a fiddle and is one of the oldest Chinese stringed instruments thats played with a bow. Ancient Mongolian tribes were also known to have played the Ehru. You could probably place the Ehru in the Huqin (string bowed instruments) family. The one showed here has 2 …

Update: Faces from San Francisco (0607-001) on Photoduniya.com
 
I did not meet Frank Chu in China Town of San Francisco, but I did meet a china man, who seemed to be tremendously influenced by Frank’s self promotional techniques and proclaimed a busy corner of China Town all to himself and unveiled his Bush bashing.
 
 
China Man @ photoduniya.com

 
Since Frank Chu now appears in most of the tourist books including Lonely Planet and Frommer’s as an attraction, this china man was obviously mistaken for him and a constant line of tourists …

Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com
Little Italy is a nice place with quite some opportunities to photograph tourists and visitors enjoying the liveliness of music, food and wine. There are several street musicians in and around the place, with one dedicated corner for Craig.
 
Craig on his Clarinet @ photoduniya.com
 

 
Quite an unusual visitor stops by to listen to Craig at the corner of Stockton! Shot with Nikon D200 on Lexar Pro. I shall be uploading Craig (and Steven’s) images on photoduniya.com over the next few weeks.
 
I have been …