So I did it-- sold off all my Canon stuff and now I'm shootin Nikon. I hope I can figure out all these knobs and buttons before the weekend!!

I'll tell you what-- I've never taken a picture as sharp as the first one yesterday with my D700 and the Nikkor 24-70 2.8. I'm blown away. I came from shooting 5dii and 35L and whatnot.

Where is the facebook "like" button? Good luck this weekend.

You'll love the high ISO capability and film-like feel to the noise and colours.

Don't forget to download and install the Nikon RAW profiles to get the best from the files in PS or LR.

Also, get familiar with CLS. The on-board flash is a genius little remote transmitter. No reason not to shoot off-camera flash with a D700!

The menus are a touch overwhelming to begin with as you can customise the camera to suit whatever you want, but after a while it all becomes pretty natural. Its a fantastic combo. Happy shooting!

Tim

phase wrote:

Don't forget to download and install the Nikon RAW profiles to get the best from the files in PS or LR.
Tim





Where are those at? That is something I have yet to do! Thanks!

I'd love to hear more input on your experience.. I've been thinking of doing the exact same thing...

You can find the optional picture controls (portrait, landscape and 3 D2X modes) at
http://www.nikonimglib.com/opc/index.html.en

Iīm not sure wether PS or LR will read these, though.

Check the picture controls, I for example donīt like the "Standard" setting (to saturated for my taste), I shoot with Neutral and sharpening to 5.

lmao why?

I switched because I wanted lenses and bodies that stepped up to the plate. With the Canon stuff I always have a feeling of hope rather than confidence. I was tired of having one body that was good for this and another body that was good for that. The 580 EX II has a mind of its own as well. My decision to switch was spearheaded by one of my 2nd's switching this summer and seeing his files really did it for me. Awesome color right out of the cam, natural grain pattern, consistent focus--- sharp as hell.

From what I can tell so far, my wish list for a camera is the D700. I'm telling ya-- I was riding the Canon prime bandwagon this past year but I can't tell you how impressed I am with this 24-70 nikon zoom. I picked up a 50 1.4 for the super dark stuff but for now I'm pretty thrilled. The new 70-200 is out this month and all indications show it will be very impressive.

I'll be happy to share my experiences after the two jobs this weekend.

Welcome to the dark side !

You'll probably be blown away by the AF system, the auto WB, the high ISOs and the reliability of those bodies.

hendrikm wrote:
You can find the optional picture controls (portrait, landscape and 3 D2X modes) at
http://www.nikonimglib.com/opc/index.html.en

Iīm not sure wether PS or LR will read these, though.

Check the picture controls, I for example donīt like the "Standard" setting (to saturated for my taste), I shoot with Neutral and sharpening to 5.

Whoa, this is new to me. Just dloaded these for my D700's. Now what do I do with the "D700_PT.NOP" file? And this only affects jpgs, right?

Thanks,

-m

You save them onto a cf card, put the card in the camera and load it from the menu. It affects NEF and JPG files, BUT I assume that Photoshop and Lightroom disregard this information (like they ignore the active D-Lighting, one of the coolest features the new Nikons have...)

If you really go to the dark side (real dark) and use Nikon software (View and Capture NX), then you can use all these things and change/finetune, load back into the camera and so on.

NX is a nuissance for wedding photographers, but the results are great. But it is more work than flow

Thanks hendrikm.

You will love it. Do not forget nikon capture and RAW
Same for me ... Neutral in picture control, standard to saturated for wedding.
Try auto ISO , since 2 years now for me and It work perfectly.
set iso max to 6400 and your minimum speed you want in A or M.
Most of my wedding 97% natural light with D3.

Good luck

Fyen

www.photofyengagnon.com

There is nothing more frustrating for me than getting the right color
profile for my Nikon in LR. I've been using the ACR profile for all my RAWs.
I find myself tweaking color for every single photo. I hate it.

My friend has a 40D Canon and the colors look perfect right out of the cam
with RAW shooting. I've been digging and asking questions to resolve this, but
I still haven't found a solution.

I havea bad feeling that the only way to fix this is to shoot one of those stupid
color charts under studio conditions and adjust things manually for hours.

fyen wrote:
You will love it. Do not forget nikon capture and RAW
Same for me ... Neutral in picture control, standard to saturated for wedding.
Try auto ISO , since 2 years now for me and It work perfectly.
set iso max to 6400 and your minimum speed you want in A or M.
Most of my wedding 97% natural light with D3.

Good luck

Fyen

www.photofyengagnon.com



Fyen - I have tried auto ISO and it's good, but (unless I'm missing something) when you mount a flash it defaults to 200?

Also, mentioned above, the same reason I jumped to the dark side, the 580 flash system. Nikon blows it away in consistency. JM2C thomas

Welcome to the Dark Side.

You'll have to get used to the accurate focus, film like noise, and ridiculously nice zooms.

What Nikon does to Canon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTbCvixekuc&feature=related

Well, the Auto ISO shooting is something which came up recently for the available light shooters. Put your camera to Auto ISO, shoot M, select aperture and time and AUTO ISO will make a good exposure.

BUT:
You canīt do an intentional underexposure in M now, because Auto ISO will correct the underexposure.
And if you once in your life need a sensitivity like Hi2, you need to turn off Auto ISO first, because for Nikon Auto ISO is stronger than the sensitivity the user selected.
And using a flash sets you back to 200 ISO and 1/60th if you are in P or A mode.

I personally prefer to set sensitivity myself. Just hold down the ISO button and turn the rear wheel. Itīs fast and easy - and Iīm deciding.

Fyen - I have tried auto ISO and it's good, but (unless I'm missing something) when you mount a flash it defaults to 200?

Also, mentioned above, the same reason I jumped to the dark side, the 580 flash system. Nikon blows it away in consistency. JM2C thomas

Hi curryphoto,
yes, It does stay at 200, with flash mount (inside) , you have to set it up to 400-800 for minumum , but it will go up again if for example the sealing is to high for indirect flash.

fyen

www.photofyengagnon.com

I made the change earlier this year and I've never had to worry less about gear and focus on photography. The stuff just works at a very high level and gets out of your way. What more can we ask but not to have to work around our tools?

- trr

Folks, please. I forwarded this post to my husband and I fear all of our canon gear will mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night and be replaced by nikon...