jasoncallen
Registered: Feb 07, 2009
Total Posts: 2038
Country: United States
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Here's a few from D2H from back in the day. Just looking back Id forgotten how much I hated it at anything above ISO200. ISO320 was awful!
That is one aspect of the D2H that I don't particularly miss, though I found my results to be acceptable up to ISO 640 or in some situations, 800 *IF* I was shooting in RAW and processing the shots afterwards. For straight-out-of-camera JPGs, my old D2H gave me so-so results beyond ISO 400...
...that said, I always admired how film-like the noise pattern was on the D2H for anything B&W containing lots of contrast. I found that I could push the camera's ISO to 1600 and get printable out-of-camera JPGs in B&W. That would have been (or may yet still be...) my main reason for having a D2H around as a backup camera. It was like shooting Tri-X 400 film all over again (without the hassle of developing and printing!), especially with my old 50mm f/1.4 AI-S and 105mm f/2.5 AI-S lenses mounted.
By kane513: yep, jason, I have been putting your D2H to good use. I love it. Will post shots soon!
Are you Doug N. from VA Beach, VA by chance? If so, you owe me some pictures taken by my former D2H! I've been eager to see how the camera's been working for you. We should meet up for coffee and go shoot locally sometime! If you're not Doug, I'm still eager to see some shots, but disregard the rest 
Man, they are worth so little these days why didnt you just keep it??
While I'm nostalgic about the D2H now, and I do miss it, I didn't take too bad of a financial loss on mine, as I bought it once the prices fell extremely low, and sold it before prices dropped much farther. I think I put about 10k clicks on it before I passed it along to the subsequent owner, but it served me well across 2 weddings, 6 or 7 portrait sessions, and a whole lot of hobby shooting in the few months I owned it.
I bought it as a refurbished body-only with a battery and charger for $800, and I sold it for $800 with a ton of good quality CF cards that I would no longer use after the D2H found its new home. In my eyes, I got enough use out of it to justify selling it at the minor loss I took (the cost of the CF cards). I needed a camera that'd be more flexible than the D2H in lower light situations where an ISO over 400 would be required. I needed a more practical camera for paid shoots in the dim environments that I often found myself shooting in, and I opted to order a Nikon D90 about 1 week after they were announced (which I mostly paid for with the money from my D2H sale).
I'm almost 25,000 shots into my D90, and I love the image quality out of the D90's JPGs. Beyond ISO performance and JPG image quality, the D90 can't even remotely compare to the D2H's build quality, big 'n' bright viewfinder, ridiculously awesome AF speed and tracking across all 11 sensor points, matrix (or ANY) metering with older non-CPU manual lenses, and of course the mighty 8 FPS rapid fire continuous frame rate for anything action-oriented. In use, my D2H was the F5 I always dreamed about getting in my early film days, but without paying for roll after roll of film, and with better flash performance (thank you, Nikon i-TTL!). 
Great images, everyone! I LOVE the owl shot, Lisa Nicely composed portraits, Firewireguy.
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