MORE IMAGES ADDED, see bottom of post!
I'm so stoked! I just received my new Nikon D3 camera and 14-24mm f2.8 lens tonight! I'll be posting more of a detailed review soon, but I'm very impressed so far with many of its features. The white balance, for one, seems to be great just set to Auto... haven't had time to try anything other than that yet. It's heavy too... weighing in at 2.7lbs without battery or cards, it's heavier than it 2.4lb predecessor, the D2X. More to come...
I have a beautiful indoor wedding this weekend and I can't wait to try it out in a real-world scenario, but in the meantime, here are a few preliminary test shots....hardly scientific tests, but you get the idea. I'll be comparing my D2X in some of them.All of these were hand-held (not easy at some of those slow shutter speeds) jpegs straight out of the camera with auto WB and default settings. The only light source in the room was the one candle in the first series and one desk lamp in the next group. I thought that there would be no better subject for my initial tests than the Nikon FM that my dad gave me when I was 8 years old!
This image was taken tonight outside of my studio. It was quite dark, to the point of my not being able to make out the outline of the cars passing on the street with my naked eye. This first image is straight out of the camera, and the second one is... also straight out of the camera? Yep. You might be asking yourself, 'say what?', but indeed they're both out of the camera, both the same exposure, and both untouched in any image processing software. The second image is using the camera's D-Lighting function. I'm not sure if it's a practical option for common use, but it's interesting nonetheless.
A full-resolution version of the D-Lighting image can be downloaded by clicking here.
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