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 p.2 #15 · First D200/D300 Comparison Shots | |
Elan II wrote:
Yep, another vote for the D2x modes, especially mode-1. We all went through these Picture Control setting issues, tweaked and re-tweaked them and got things looking fairly okay. Then Nikon came out with the D2x modes and made everything look great effortlessly. If you want to keep your images crisp like the D200, a couple more things to do are to set Active D-Lighting to low or off and leave noise reduction off altogether.
I did look at the download page at NikonUSA for the D2X modes the other day, and looked at the installation pdf file. It specifically says to connect the camera to computer with USB chord. It makes no mention of using a CF card as they do for upgrading firmware. Has anyone used your CF card to install the controls on the camera?
Jammy Straub wrote:
I think the simple answer is don't shoot jpgs. Shoot raw on your $1600 camera. 
I shoot mostly jpg’s, and usually shoot RAW for important shoots where I know I’m going to be selling prints. As a sports shooter, jpg’s work just fine. If I need to print one, I’ll convert to tiff in ACR. Works well. I don’t feel like coming home with 500 to 700 RAW images, but I don’t want to get into a jpg vs RAW discussion here.
panos.v wrote:
According to the EXIF, the shutter speed on the D300 shot is 1/2500. The D200 shot is 1/3500. Which makes the D300 shot a bit overexposed, hence a bit muddy, lacking contrast and detail.
As for your DOF issues, I do not see what you mean, the leaves in the background have obviously moved with the wind which creates a different background.
So basically, it's a crap test 
FM takes the shutter speeds and adds zeros to them for some reason. The shutter speeds are really 1/250 and 1/350 sec. If you download the images, all the exif that CS3 keeps will still be there, but as I said before, I should have shot manual, so that is a weak part in this test, but I said these quick and dirty tests in my first post.
It was windy yesterday. I hadn’t thought of that for the DOF thing. Airport, about 1 mile away as the crow flies, had winds in the mid 40 mph yesterday, tho it wasn’t quite that bad at the house.
I wouldn’t say it’s a crap test, it’s just not technically correct. However, it was interesting to do and get feedback. Interaction with other forum members about photography is part of why most of us post here. This may have helped someone also, and maybe not. It definitely pointed out my error with the shutter speeds, something I knew about, but wasn’t thinking about, and probably might not have noticed if someone hadn’t pointed it out. I might do this over again, and post the results back to this thread, but this time I will use my Sekonic light meter and shoot in manual.
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Gary
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