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Subject: [Leica] OT: My new Nikon D3
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Sat Feb 23 07:37:47 2008
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I am not a fan of either the Nikon or Canon software.  Clearly developed by
people who don't use it.

I'm looking at upgrading from my d200 so I'm interested in d300-d3
comparisons.

Leo

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Christopher Williams <
leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> I've only used the D300 on one photo shoot using 1000iso and 1600iso.
> While the high iso on the D300 is also amazing, the D3 still
> has cleaner high iso images. D300 shows more noise at 1600 and 3200iso.
> But the noise is 100% improved over D200,D2x files. With
> either camera, you're going to enjoy shooting low light Nikon images like
> never before.
>
> www.zoeicaimages.com/Thea&EricUpload/
>
> I used NEF/RAW 14bit lossless compression on these D300 images and the
> same for the D3 test images.
>
> By the way, the free Nikon NX software that comes with the D300/D3 is
> almost useless on 14bit images, unless you want to take an
> hour lunch while the images are opening. And this is on 4gb iMac. Maybe
> it's usuable for 1 or 2 images. Lightroom had no problem
> opening the images in just a few seconds. I've been a Nikon Capture user
> for years and have always like the NEF processing but while
> NX may be good for small adjustments, it's just too darn slow compared to
> Lightroom or CS3.
>
> Chris
> NOLA
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "leo wesson" <leowesson@gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: My new Nikon D3
>
>
> > Chris,
> >
> > Don''t you have a d300 also?  how do the high asa ratings compare twixt
> the
> > 2?
> >
> > Leo
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Christopher Williams <
> > leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >
> >> So after less than 6 hrs of use and shooting erratic crazy models, I'm
> >> posting a few Nikon D3 images. All are shot at
> >> 1600iso,4000iso,5000iso,6400iso. I'll have some better samples this
> week but
> >> for now you'll have to just view my crazy model tests.
> >>
> >> www.zoeicaimages.com/D3Test  - I realized that the 2nd image is listed
> >> wrong, it should say 6400iso instead of 1600iso.
> >>
> >> 6400iso is completely awesome! Can't say I'll use it too much but it's
> >> damn nice to know it's possible.1600iso on the D3 looks like Nikon's
> >> D200,D2x 320iso. Extremely clean images at high iso's. I can set the
> camera
> >> to Auto ISO and have plenty of faith in the images now. I used to do
> this
> >> with the D200,D2x but limited it to 800iso.
> >>
> >> AWB does a pretty good job so far, shooting inside with household
> lights
> >> and a mix of TV light. By far the best Nikon AWB yet. I'll still stick
> with
> >> Kelvin for serious shooting.
> >>
> >> 2 card slots! Yes, one for shooting RAW and one for Jpeg. Sweet.
> >>
> >> I'll have to practice with this 51 point 3D focusing thing, that's
> allot
> >> of focus points!
> >>
> >> Bring on those dark Cathedrals!
> >>
> >> Having fun,
> >> Chris
> >> NOLA
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > 817.733.9157
> >
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Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157

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