Absolutely nothing about those mediocre pictures in that article look like portra 400 in any regard, least of all tonality which is called out. Are these people blind, or am I missing something?
Dexter75 wrote:
Thats no Hasselblad though. You can get a D200 for under $100 right now, no need for a 2MP Olympus point and shoot 😃
Or you can get Phase One P25 digital back, 645 df camera and 80mm f/2.8 lens for around $2k-3k with near 645 format digital sensor. Still cheaper than most cars and probably cheaper than Leica system.
RoamingScott wrote:
Absolutely nothing about those mediocre pictures in that article look like portra 400 in any regard, least of all tonality which is called out. Are these people blind, or am I missing something?
I concur. Pictures in the article do not back the story up.
OTOH, best skintones I ever saw were captured either on film or on CCD sensors. CMOS ones I also have in my Flickr's favs, but they are usually bold, with vivid colors and high contrast. And on film or CCD they could be quite subtle. And that's the quality I like.
This one was shot by one of the few colleagues of mine that share my passion to old CCD cameras. This particular photo was taken on Fujifilm S3 Pro, but he also shoot on S5 Pro, Kodak DCS 760, Kodak SLR, Kodak Pro Back, Phase One P25+ and some others. In the past he has a lot of CMOS cameras, but now the only CMOS I see from his current pictures is Kodak SLR.
This one was shot by another colleague with passion to old CCD cameras. He shoot with Mamiya 645 and Kodak Pro Back exclusively now and also has same experience with CMOS cameras in the past but returned to CCD only.
Yea, those samples didn't look good to me either, but I believe they were shrunken down for illustration. The are plenty of good examples from the Leica CCDs out there.
Those profiles aren’t available for downloading any more….
atnpro wrote:
You can get almost identical D200 look in the D700 using Nikon's D2X picture control profiles, which are bundled in Nikon's Picture Control Utility 2. You can transfer the three D2X profiled to a CF card and then load them from the card to your D700. The D700 offers much better low light performance.
ACEG wrote:
Those profiles aren’t available for downloading any more….
They're available. Just download and install the current NX Studio and Picture Control Utility 2 on your computer.
In the NX Studio, you will be able to select one of the D2X profiles from the second dropdown box in the "Picture Control" tab under the "Basic Edit Palette tab, and you to change the Picture Control's first dropdown box from "The Latest Picture Control" to "Camera compatible". Here's a screen shot.
But if you just want to apply a D2X profile look to jpegs in camera, you'll need to upload those three D2X profiles to your D700.
To do that, open the Picture Control Utility 2, select "D700" as the product and one of the D2X profiles, and then you can save it either to your computer or to a CF card. If you need to save all three, just repeat the process till you get all of them saved to a CF card—assuming you have a CF card reader attached to your computer. The software will create a subfolder under Nikon folder on the CF card, so when you put the CF card into the D700, the camera can allow you to load them into the camera's picture control profile bank. It's under [Shooting ] Menu -->> [Manage Picture Control] -->> [Load/Save]
supra28 wrote:
Anyone have experience between the d200 and d70? Kinda interested in the lower resolution 6mpx of the d70s
I had both and still have the D70s. It's been a decade since I had D200. I had pursued it after owning D80, seeking the more "pro" control layout.
D70s has the colour modes like the D2X/H. I loved Mode Ia at the time. It was a little more "polite" and generally cooler tones to skin, less green greens and less heavy reds for plants/flowers. Much easier also to get sharp pictures out of it. Much easy to blow highlights in daylight though and under exposure gets punished with shadow noise. With today's software though, the latter is much less an issue. I still love it.
D200 felt better. Colours were much closer to what my eyes saw. If you like CCD output, it is the one to have(or the D80). I seem to recall battery life not being that good. I loved the controls, the much better LCD screen and more options for flash control. I didn't think the 11 point AF was significantly better than the 5 points of the D70s though. D80 was the D200 with more basic controls. Natural successor to D70s if that body style is preferred.
Sep 25, 2022 at 07:48 PM