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Official Nikon images from D3

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Steve Saunders

New member
The Nikon Watch site has some of the sample images that Nikon supplied. The ISO6400 shot of the band guy is especially impressive, as is the ISO3200 of the blonde girl;

http://nikonwatch.com/

I believe that Nikon have actually set a very high barrier now in terms of digital image quality.
 
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Joel Schochet

New member
Steve,

The ISO 3200 & 6400 shots are IMHO awesome! I've seen 1DIII images at 3200 which were wonderful, as well. I'm glad that Nikon shooters FINALLY get good high ISO performance.

I know this doesn't say anything about the noise from D300, but I hope I can get good ISO 3200 photos from it. It will make shooting wedding a lot easier by using the flash a lot less.

Of course, without the flash, I have to remember to bring my WhiBal! ;~)

Joel
 
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ron_hiner

New member
Whoa! -- I thought I was the only one around here that has heard of these 'Nikon' cameras.
Much to my surprise, there is a section for us misfits!

I'm torn between D3 and D300.

My dream camera is a D2x that is smaller and lighter, and produces great high-iso files.

The early word is that we have a winner on both criteria, but it's going to take two camera bodies to do it. (and some serious cash)

My concern with the d3 is that my various 200mm lenses won't be long enough. I came THIS CLOSE to buying a 200 f2 a month ago.... but now I'm thinking the 200-400 is a more versatile choice with a full frame high iso camera. And my concern with the d300 is that it won't a whole lot better than my D2x at high ISOs. Please prove me wrong Nikon!

Ron
 
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nyschulte

New member
I can see the interest in high ISO performance, but my concern is the 200 iso native sensitivity in Studio use. With the D200's ISO 100 i am already run some strobes at the minimum power level.

Until a review clarifies this issue i do not think that the D300 will be a go for me.

Nicolas
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Ben Rubinstein said:
The iso 3200 image is horribly smoothened and plasticy, the 6400 is far better, not sure why.
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Hi Ben, are you referring to the RAW file or the camera generated JPG? Also what is the ISO limit at which the image is still good and shows no plastic-look degradation?

Asher
 
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Ben Rubinstein

pro member
I'm talking about the jpg files provided by Nikon as referrenced above Asher. The smearing in the iso 3200 file is typical nikon noise reduction as seen with the D200 (albeit at far smaller iso's!) the 6400 seems to be far better with noise reduction but no smearing. It would seem to me that a model with smooth skin and makeup is inviting the kind of smoothing seen here, the camera is seeing very litte detail and cannot diffrentiate between noise and obvious detail. The iso 6400 image has a far more rugged facial texture with loads of detail such as stubble, big pores etc and therefore the camera has been able to see the detail to leave in. If they were applying the lesser reduction to all iso's then they would be fine, the model in the 3200 image is ruined by that horrible plasticky effect. RAW anyone?
 
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Bart_van_der_Wolf

pro member
Steve Saunders said:
Actually Bart I just remembered it was DRP that I read this on, in this thread;

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1021&message=24898378

Note about half-way down the post where it says;

"According to Nikon engineer, there's NO on-chip noise reduction at all."
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Thanks, but I doubt that Nikon's, or Canon's or any other's, engineers are at liberty to make such statements in public. So we'll have to wait for some Raw files to dissect. We'll get to the truth, it just takes some patience. You can also bet on it that the Astrophotography buffs will be looking at these new generation camera outputs, as they did with earlier models.

These are great times.

Bart
 
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