all nikon F mount cameras .. any Nikon with a D prefix

Bristolian said:
I've always had a soft spot for the colours that the D200 produces. Nice photos :giggle:
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Thank you. I only recently got a Nikon D200. I have decided to shoot jpeg exclusively with it, it's easier and quicker than raw, and I like the photos straight out of the camera so much that I'm barely editing them for the most part, sometimes not at all.
 
When I bought my Z8 I sold my D500 to help fund it , sold it to a good friend ,who has only used it twice and can’t get on with it . He just messaged me this morning if I wanted to buy it back .. oh yes indeed was my reply .watch this space

Had a long hard think about it and decided no . It will only do the same job as my d7200 at the end of the day the z8 handles all the fast stuff
 
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A few parting photos, all taken with the Nikon D810 and the AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8 G ED VRII lens. An awful lot of camera for the money.








 
just spent a hour checking out my d7200 +80-400G on b.i.f before I take it on holiday to turkey , fair bit lighter than my Z combo , only thing i've altered is a change from shutter focus to BBF ,everything else is working fine
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just bought another 70-200 mm f4 , sold mine when I needed to pay for my z8 but regretted it as soon as it went ,so just bought a mint boxed one from WEX
 
Just done a deal with my mate that bought my D500 and got it back , he’s had it nearly a year and not used it .. it’s like having a old friend back ,be taking the D7200 to turkey then that’s up for sale on my return
 
I need your opinions on my questionable GAS please.

I remember vividly when the D3 and D700 were released and that awestruck feeling seeing the images they could produce. At the time I was using a used D2H which I loved the feel of, but not the images it made. I never could afford or justify the cost of moving to full frame. So I never did get one.

My journey took me via a D300 (nice upgrade from D2H) and then a D7100 (sidewise step that I was never 100 happy with) before I ended up with a Z6 (very nice and have no desire to 'upgrade'). I'm living with an FTZ for the considerable future given the price of Z glass vs used F glass.

But now I'm looking at used prices and getting nostalgic for a D3 (s)/D700. YouTube has loads of people still raving about them, which hasn't helped matters.

I have recently been trying to reduce my thoughts about sharpness and noise being so important - I now much prefer images with some noise in them. I'm more keen on photos that look like memories rather than forensic crime scene clinical documentary photos. I also don't do video.

So would you buy a D700 or D3 today?
Am I blinded with rose tinted glasses of nostalgia?
 
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there ya go first shots with my D500 + 18-200vr my big lens is packed ready for my hols.. think its going to be hard to decide between this and the z8 as the files and colours seem better on this
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firewireguy said:
I need your opinions on my questionable GAS please.

I remember vividly when the D3 and D700 were released and that awestruck feeling seeing the images they could produce. At the time I was using a used D2H which I loved the feel of, but not the images it made. I never could afford or justify the cost of moving to full frame. So I never did get one.

My journey took me via a D300 (nice upgrade from D2H) and then a D7100 (sidewise step that I was never 100 happy with) before I ended up with a Z6 (very nice and have no desire to 'upgrade'). I'm living with an FTZ for the considerable future given the price of Z glass vs used F glass.

But now I'm looking at used prices and getting nostalgic for a D3 (s)/D700. YouTube has loads of people still raving about them, which hasn't helped matters.

I have recently been trying to reduce my thoughts about sharpness and noise being so important - I now much prefer images with some noise in them. I'm more keen on photos that look like memories rather than forensic crime scene clinical documentary photos. I also don't do video.

So would you buy a D700 or D3 today?
Am I blinded with rose tinted glasses of nostalgia?
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certain cameras and trust me I've had more than a few tend to stand out for there exceptional iq , my fave over the years have been canon 1Dmkiii think I had about 6 in total sold them regretted it bought another etc , the nikon D300s had about 3 I think the Olympus e.m1x is another .. those bodies tend to stick out in my memory .. as soon as I sold my D500 I regretted it luckily it was to a good friend who didn't like it so its come back nearly a year later as sold ,just exchanged for a unused lens of mine

don't think this will help you but shows your not alone in nostalgia
 
The D3 was great in it's time but the D3S is noticeably better in the dark. I still use one sometimes.

If you loved the D2 colours then the D3 and D700 can replicate them with the right picture controls.

All the D3 series have awesome ergonomics and just feel nice to use. They also have really good colours (The Canon 5D, 1Diii and 1DSiii do skin tones better in my opinion).

The D700 is a bit over rated but solid in good light. The D3 is effectively the same but nicer as long as you don't have to carry it around much. A D300 is about the same but you lose a stop of low light ability

The D3X is still a great studio camera for that sort of work.
 
Erty said:
The D3 was great in it's time but the D3S is noticeably better in the dark. I still use one sometimes.

If you loved the D2 colours then the D3 and D700 can replicate them with the right picture controls.

All the D3 series have awesome ergonomics and just feel nice to use. They also have really good colours (The Canon 5D, 1Diii and 1DSiii do skin tones better in my opinion).

The D700 is a bit over rated but solid in good light. The D3 is effectively the same but nicer as long as you don't have to carry it around much. A D300 is about the same but you lose a stop of low light ability

The D3X is still a great studio camera for that sort of work.
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Thanks. I'm thinking that given current prices I could pick one up and in a year or so decide whether to keep it and probably loose very little on it.

Despite my better judgement I'm now looking at a D3s just to have that feel of the big body again. Paired with a 50 1.8G and 70-200 it would make a great setup.
 
My finger slipped on a D3s when I wasn't strong enough to resist. Looks in decent enough nick and under 125k shots for just £300. Seems like a bargain to me.

Now to convince the other half I've always had it...
 
firewireguy said:
My finger slipped on a D3s when I wasn't strong enough to resist. Looks in decent enough nick and under 125k shots for just £300. Seems like a bargain to me.

Now to convince the other half I've always had it...
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Excellent. That is a very good price. You might find it has some hot pixels so it would be worth doing the cleaning function trick to map them out.

Once she gets used to the D3S you can get a D3X and pretend it is the same camera.
 
For cameras with a vibratory cleaning function if you do it twice it maps the bad pixels. This seems to work:

Take a picture with the lens cap on at high iso (noise reduction off). Straight after this run the sensor clean twice. Then take another picture on the same settings.
 
Well the D3s arrived today and it all looks good.... until.... you take a photo. There's regular banding stripes across every image regardless of settings and it basically makes it unusable.

Example crop below. I can't imagine any portraits looking good with such striping through them.

But other than that it's a nice camera. It's big heavy, feels good in the hand, has the loudest shutter of any camera I've ever experienced, focusses well and is a very nice thing to have in your hands.

But it has to go back. The same shop has two others D3s's, one is the same price but the rubber is lifting a little - I'm unsure if I want to deal with that (is it just a case of a dab of superglue?). The other is in better health but £50 more. So decisions...

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New D3s arrived this afternoon. As ever on a Saturday afternoon, the most exciting place I get to go is an industrial estate whilst the eldest goes and does his sports.

I have to say I'm not that keen on the screen on the camera, it makes every photo look not sharp but once imported in to PhotoLab with the default lens sharpening applied they look good. These have basically no edits other than crop and maybe a tiniest exposure comp change (plus some NR on the high iso one).

Here are a few samples with the 50mm 1.8 G.

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ISO 12800 with a touch of NR in Photo Lab:
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The colours are really nice
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This was recovered 2.5 stops over exposed:
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