Impressions of the d300
Yes I bit the bullet and bought a d300. It was $1995 on ebay, how could I resist that? my main reason was I have been dabbling more in portraiture these days and I have to manually focus everything, which is a pain. I wanted a camera that could focus better.
Though I have only had the camera a few days and not had much time to play with it, I have taken a couple of test shots with it that I will upload.
My first few pictures were taken to see if the high iso is as good as people have been saying.
Below is the same image taken at f1.8 with the nikkor 50mm at night under tungsten light. Note the differences in colour, they were all taken with the camera's auto everything, however I manually adjusted iso and shutter speed. I've cropped the original as they would of been too large, click on the images to see a larger version.
iso 3200, f1.8 1/10
iso1600 f1.8 1/5
iso 640, f1.8, 1/5
iso200, f1.8, 1.6 secs
Note there is slight noise visible at iso200, though the shutter speed was 1.6 seconds.
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Though I have only had the camera a few days and not had much time to play with it, I have taken a couple of test shots with it that I will upload.
My first few pictures were taken to see if the high iso is as good as people have been saying.
Below is the same image taken at f1.8 with the nikkor 50mm at night under tungsten light. Note the differences in colour, they were all taken with the camera's auto everything, however I manually adjusted iso and shutter speed. I've cropped the original as they would of been too large, click on the images to see a larger version.
iso 3200, f1.8 1/10
iso1600 f1.8 1/5
iso 640, f1.8, 1/5
iso200, f1.8, 1.6 secs
Note there is slight noise visible at iso200, though the shutter speed was 1.6 seconds.
Written by atre on March 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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