Blade Magazine 2012 Knife Collaboration Of The Year®: ZT 0600

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Through the kindness and patience of all the great people at the Kershaw Knives/Zero Tolerance/Shun booth at Blade Show 2012, I was able to spend a fair bit of time photographing this years prototypes.
The first knife I've completed editing is the RJ Martin/ZT Knives Collaboration ZT 0600 (which won Blade Magazine 2012 Knife Collaboration Of The Year®).
The knife has a fairly strong detent and flips with a really nice pop. It is a large knife, but does not feel like it is large in the hand. The blade really doesn't seem its length when holding it.
I really can't wait for this one to hit the streets. I'll keep editing the other knives (work getting in the way), in the meantime, enjoy!


































Compared to - ZT 0560CBCF Prototype - Rick Hinderer.

Compared to - ZT 0560CBCF Prototype - Rick Hinderer.
ZT0600-12 by gbkneedeep, on Flickr
 
great pics! They really show the high level of design and execution. If only it weren't a recurve, sigh.
 
Very nicely done! Gotta love a nice DSLR set up, did you use HDR for those [it looks like it but I can't differentiate as well here]. Did you bring a small white box, or did you use the powers of PS? Irregardless, love the details shown. Can't wait for more! [Have any 777 teasers?]
 
Great photography on a beautiful knife. Thank you for the effort in putting this together.
 
Really hope both new models 0600 and 0560cf will get to market Q4 this year :thumbup:
 
Really nice pictures of some really nice knife's.
Could you maybe tell us what kind of equipment (camera, lens, flash) that you used?
 
phrenik said:
Very nicely done! Gotta love a nice DSLR set up, did you use HDR for those [it looks like it but I can't differentiate as well here]. Did you bring a small white box, or did you use the powers of PS? Irregardless, love the details shown. Can't wait for more! [Have any 777 teasers?]
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Thanks, no HDR involved. I used two speedlights, off camera with mini-octaboxes (one of the speedlights was bare, as necessary. Sadly, no 0777 pics, I felt like I spent way too much time taking up space in the booth, so I concentrated on this years proto's.

ViperAUG said:
Really nice pictures of some really nice knife's.
Could you maybe tell us what kind of equipment (camera, lens, flash) that you used?
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A Nikon D3S with two speedlights, one in commander mode off camera using an SC-29 and the other set as a remote. Lens was an old 55mm AF Micro-Nikkor. The camera body wasn't as important as the lights and the lens though. Anything that could have fired the flashes would have worked. (Honestly thinking a Nikon D3200 might have been nice to use, at a 1/3 the weight of the D3S and double the MP.)
 
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