Mike Mahoney wrote:
An earlier post of mine in this thread has the Rockwell link, and I found several more by googling "D300 high iso samples".
Seems Rockwell set his in-camera NR to the point where it obliterated detail. I've never been a big fan of in-camera NR and would like to see some files with a good NN profile.
Yea, either his NR was cranked or every D300 shot was OOF, because even his ISO 200 seems OOF and surely there was no NR there.
"The D300 has the least noise of the Nikons at high ISOs, but that's because it's also FUBARing (blurring) the image almost to beyond all recognition at high ISOs just to smother the noise."
^ I thought he was experienced with cameras I've used D50, D70, D2H, D2Hs, D200, and now D300 all in the last couple of years. D300 is already light years ahead of the D200. In the tests, I don't know anyone who would want to shoot above ISO 3200 and he even states that the D300 was the only true ISO 6400 as the others were pushed to ISO 6400 in Photoshop.
Unfortunately I don't have a Canon 5D at my request, but maybe I can ask some friends so I can do my own testing.
I've used D50, D70, D2H, D2Hs, D200, and now D300 all in the last couple of years. D300 is already light years ahead of the D200. In the tests, I don't know anyone who would want to shoot above ISO 3200 and he even states that the D300 was the only true ISO 6400 as the others were pushed to ISO 6400 in Photoshop.
