p.3 #1 · D300, a bit underwhelmed at high ISO performance
I'd worry more about getting a proper exposure than the noise levels on a D300. Any DSLR underexposed at high ISO will generate excessive noise. Even with your underexposed shot, the noise in the image if far less at ISO 1600 on digital than what you would see out of any ISO 400 film on the market.
p.3 #2 · D300, a bit underwhelmed at high ISO performance
Brent Ferree wrote:
Bear in mind that the Nikon cameras have the meter reversed when compared to Canon - which would mean exposing to the left in this scenario using a D300 camera. The Nikon meter default display is +....|....-
Use custom setting f10 if you want to reverse the meter.
Yes I was aware of that but was referring to the histogram array location. Which is to the right when slightly overexposed .. for both Nikon & Canon.
p.3 #3 · D300, a bit underwhelmed at high ISO performance
The fact of the matter is that my computer is slow. I recently shot a wedding where all of the formals were a bit warmer than I'd like, and when I brought them into ACR they turned into a soupy green. I decided to finally try out NX and the files looked much much better.. but the workflow is atrocious.
I have to batch all of the files and have them be reprocessed just to make a minor change? Why? How could they not have taken a note from ACR and Bridge. I can't wait an hour to batch process all of my pictures to change the white balance and then have to go back and batch half of them when they are slightly off. It takes way to long to process a very large amount of photos, and it saddens me.
I tried just converting to Tiff's and opening in ACR, and while NX processed the files with its color and noise control there is a limited white balance option and no way to correctly tweak it without weird color options..
My D80 files at higher iso look great though when processed through NX because I did pretty good on the exposure, and thats the key.
p.3 #5 · D300, a bit underwhelmed at high ISO performance
I have had a great experience with my D300. As with new tech, there was a learning curve to get it to maximize the work of the gear, but overall, I think the noise levels are great at ISO 1600 and 3200. I never would have shot a wedding at 3200 with the D200.
In fact, I would never shoot a wedding above ISO 1000 on the D200 unless it was ABSOLUTELY necessary.
I would shoot a wedding at ISO 1250 or 1600 without much concern if I felt it needed it.
p.3 #6 · D300, a bit underwhelmed at high ISO performance
Terry D wrote:
I'm of the opinion, and have read similar reviews, that Adobe caters to Canon. It is a universal software, but I think they are still pi$$ed at Nikon for that WB issue a few years back and don't go out of their way to make Nikon images really shine, IMHO.
Terry
I wish it were so! (Well, not really, for my Nikon buddies). For example, the ACR profile for the 1D3 is significantly less good than that for the 5D, in my experience. I have to use Capture One of DPP with that camera for accurate color.
I don't think there is an anti-Nikon bias; I think Adobe's camera-specific profiles are simply haphazard.
