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Subject: [Leica] OT: My new Nikon D3
From: vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko)
Date: Sat Feb 23 07:18:09 2008
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Chris

Oh that's a beautiful Golden Retriever!

I truly feel we live in a wonderful age - to have access to the best 
film gear that was ever made, at prices which are affordable, and now, 
to step into significant improvements (and affordability) for digital 
image capture.

What could be better?   Well, winning the lottery....   :-)


Vick


Christopher Williams wrote:
> So after less than 6 hrs of use and shooting erratic crazy models, I'm 
> posting a few Nikon D3 images. All are shot at 
> 1600iso,4000iso,5000iso,6400iso. I'll have some better samples this week 
> but for now you'll have to just view my crazy model tests.
>
> www.zoeicaimages.com/D3Test  - I realized that the 2nd image is listed 
> wrong, it should say 6400iso instead of 1600iso.
>
> 6400iso is completely awesome! Can't say I'll use it too much but it's 
> damn nice to know it's possible.1600iso on the D3 looks like Nikon's 
> D200,D2x 320iso. Extremely clean images at high iso's. I can set the 
> camera to Auto ISO and have plenty of faith in the images now. I used to 
> do this with the D200,D2x but limited it to 800iso.
>
> AWB does a pretty good job so far, shooting inside with household lights 
> and a mix of TV light. By far the best Nikon AWB yet. I'll still stick 
> with Kelvin for serious shooting.
>
> 2 card slots! Yes, one for shooting RAW and one for Jpeg. Sweet.
>
> I'll have to practice with this 51 point 3D focusing thing, that's allot 
> of focus points!
>
> Bring on those dark Cathedrals!
>
> Having fun,
> Chris
> NOLA
>
>
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In reply to: Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] OT: My new Nikon D3)