First off, been a while since I posted... my bad on that one, sorry. Got sick then had to catch up on everything else and this took a backseat. Back on track now though!
Managed to get my hands on a new Nikon D300 not too long ago and let me just say it handles like a dream. I've had the D200 for quite a while now and it is an awesome camera that just feels right and Nikon have done all its followers justice by delivering that same feeling in the D300 plus adding in some awesome advancements. Aside from the standard updates the big kicker for me is how well the new CMOS sensor handles the high ISO range. The D200's CCD sensor was not the greatest when you started pushing the boundaries of ISO 400 and was pretty awful for anything over ISO 800. Enter the D300 with it's big brother's, the D3, awesome sensor and Nikon have delivered something that competitors are losing out to.
The above image was shot handheld (1/80th @ f2.8) at ISO 1600 with available light in an dingy office environment that would have otherwise warranted a flash setup or tripod to achieve a similar result.
You can see in this above crop of the top image how little noise there is at this ISO. There is no editing to these images except cropping and resizing and are straight out of camera.
Short of my old Hasselblad 503cx this is one of the best cameras I have ever owned for not only the high ISO handling but just how good it feels in the hand as well as the additional features (which I might go into in another post). I've not had a great deal of time testing it out but hope to do so over the next month or so, so stay tuned for more!!
More ramblings soon...
Managed to get my hands on a new Nikon D300 not too long ago and let me just say it handles like a dream. I've had the D200 for quite a while now and it is an awesome camera that just feels right and Nikon have done all its followers justice by delivering that same feeling in the D300 plus adding in some awesome advancements. Aside from the standard updates the big kicker for me is how well the new CMOS sensor handles the high ISO range. The D200's CCD sensor was not the greatest when you started pushing the boundaries of ISO 400 and was pretty awful for anything over ISO 800. Enter the D300 with it's big brother's, the D3, awesome sensor and Nikon have delivered something that competitors are losing out to.
The above image was shot handheld (1/80th @ f2.8) at ISO 1600 with available light in an dingy office environment that would have otherwise warranted a flash setup or tripod to achieve a similar result.
You can see in this above crop of the top image how little noise there is at this ISO. There is no editing to these images except cropping and resizing and are straight out of camera.Short of my old Hasselblad 503cx this is one of the best cameras I have ever owned for not only the high ISO handling but just how good it feels in the hand as well as the additional features (which I might go into in another post). I've not had a great deal of time testing it out but hope to do so over the next month or so, so stay tuned for more!!
More ramblings soon...
