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Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:28 am**

I had to take a pic.... now just waiting for it to charge !!

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:30 am**

Very nice. Look forward to seeing snaps from the other side of the sensor.

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:35 am**

mmm... D3 (drools)

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:35 am**

I'm envious! you should have had a battery charged and ready though - you know better!

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:44 am**

woh! Envy!!!!

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:56 am**

My very first pic... (on a battery with 5% life)

no editing, just point, shoot and resize.

ISO 6400, f/5.6, 1/40, 24mm

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:00 pm**

Wow, I looked at the shot, and thought.. hmmm messy room, then at the ISO 6400 and then... where is the noise ?

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:29 pm**

very nice. I shot some ISO 1600 this weekend in a theatre... oh so noisy...

this looks great.

I'm getting a lotto ticket for christmas!

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:31 pm**

bloody hell! very nice indeed

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:34 pm**

PiroStitch wrote:bloody hell! very nice indeed

Hein, can you bring your D3 to the Melbourne "Pro for a day" jan 19?

Please

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:35 pm**

Nice, real nice.

That 14-24 is a monster. I wants one. I wants a D3.

Say..... whats your address again...... :wink:

Now get out there and take some images!

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:36 pm**

my savings account is so happy that I almost always shoot at ISO 100

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:40 pm**

Oz_Beachside wrote:
PiroStitch wrote:bloody hell! very nice indeed

Hein, can you bring your D3 to the Melbourne "Pro for a day" jan 19?

Please

I would love to but I have a wedding to shoot in Perth...

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:10 pm**

some high ISO examples.

all these following pics were ISO6400, f/5.6 and 1/25 to 1/40... (ap priority mode with no ev compensation).

there's no editing done at all except for resizing.

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:24 pm**

Clearly, you're not at all a happy person.

I can understand your disappointment in these images.

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:30 pm**

gstark wrote:Clearly, you're not at all a happy person.

I can understand your disappointment in these images.

This camera has impressed me so much (after a dozen or so shots around the apartment) that I think I'm going to sell both my D200's and buy another D3. I was going to keep them as backups... but there's no point. I would be so disappointed if I had ever needed to use them, even in an emergency.

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:36 pm**

Hien,
Can you comment on the sharpness at high ISO compared to your D200 ? Does there appear to be an sacrifice in sharpness for a cleaner image ?

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:53 pm**

Alpha_7 wrote:Hien,
Can you comment on the sharpness at high ISO compared to your D200 ? Does there appear to be an sacrifice in sharpness for a cleaner image ?

at higher ISO it's a lot sharper. the d200 would break up after ISO800 odd but even at 6400 on the D3 there is distinct differences in the border colours with really fine grain thats not chunky like the d200.

Also, higher ISO allows me to shoot at faster shutter, so I can now shoot at say 1/100 instead of the 1/30 slowest shutter speed i was using before.

Happy is an understatement right now. It's worth every cent.

Going to slap the 70-200 on and see what it looks like...

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:06 pm**

methd wrote:
Alpha_7 wrote:Going to slap the 70-200 on and see what it looks like...

Bloody awesome I'd image

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:08 pm**

and 100% shots for those interested...

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/228042453-O.jpg

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/228042400-O.jpg

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:23 pm**

Had a quick walk around tjust then. It was raining but it didn't stop me.
Here are a few pics from around Melbourne city.

All various ISO shooting AP prio f/2.8.

Originals can be downloaded with exif attached.

The images havent been edited in any way at all and came straight out of the camera. I boosted the contrast up in the jpg custom menu but everything else is set as normal.

http://www.lumensphotography.com/gallery/3929551

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:30 pm**

Raining in Melbourne? Who'd a thunk it?

Nice images. How are you enjoying the Full Frame format?

Get out into the roadway, with the 14-24, 14mm, 1/15, and start shooting the passing traffic.

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:43 pm**

gstark wrote:Raining in Melbourne? Who'd a thunk it?

Nice images. How are you enjoying the Full Frame format?

Get out into the roadway, with the 14-24, 14mm, 1/15, and start shooting the passing traffic.

Next plan is to go back out at 5.30PM odd for some high ISO street shooting with the 24-70

more streets and laneways, rather than candids and ppl.

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:05 pm**

so you live around the top end of town do ya?

very nice photos - enjoy the FF

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:14 pm**

The pics look good, what of them wanted to come through the ADSL link in the time I took to read the text :wink:

Raskill wrote:Nice, real nice.

That 14-24 is a monster. I wants one. I wants a D3.

Say..... whats your address again......

And from a man of the law :shock:

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:27 pm**

oh la la

oh la la

again, oh la la :lol:

what a performance at high ISO

would love to have a D3 but cannot afford and justify it. :cry:

enjoy and keep posting,

regards,
CD

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:12 pm**

For Sale : one D300 hardly used..

WTB: D3 any condition......

MATT

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:11 pm**

I shouldn't have stumbled on to this thread... :lol:

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:23 pm**

I was contemplating a secondhand D2x, but might be worth waiting and getting one of these babies......

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:39 pm**

wedding in perth hey?!

where and when? i'll have to whack you across the head with my 300 and make of with that and some new glass!

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:23 pm**

MattyO wrote:wedding in perth hey?!

where and when? i'll have to whack you across the head with my 300 and make of with that and some new glass!

haha ! i wouldnt mind trying that 300 out on the d3!

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:32 pm**

fine by me mate

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:30 am**

You realise that you have now ruined photography for everyone who uses a sub D3 camera....

The shots on SmugMug are a great reason to save save save : )

Cheers
Greg

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:44 am**

greg wrote:You realise that you have now ruined photography for everyone who uses a sub D3 camera....

Just shoot film, and you'll be just as happy

Better still, shoot medium format film

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:40 am**

greg wrote:You realise that you have now ruined photography for everyone who uses a sub D3 camera....

The shots on SmugMug are a great reason to save save save : )

Cheers
Greg

For those interested, I took a few shots around the office and storage areas behind it at ISO25600.

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/3935545

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:59 am**

and a wildly narrow DOF shot FF + f/1.4 with the 50mm...

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:12 pm**

methd wrote:
greg wrote:You realise that you have now ruined photography for everyone who uses a sub D3 camera....

The shots on SmugMug are a great reason to save save save : )

Cheers
Greg

For those interested, I took a few shots around the office and storage areas behind it at ISO25600.

http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/3935545

They don't look too bad, but one must remember this is 7 stops faster than ISO400, which is where I would probably want to take the D200 at the most.

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:26 pm**

I didn't know you were a sox fan too

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:42 pm**

Well Im glad that grain does finally appear... at 25600ISO!!! :shock:

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:03 pm**

Alpha_7 wrote:I didn't know you were a sox fan too

hah no idea who's hat that is ! (you're not meant to be looking at the items.. but rather, the noise !

)

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:18 pm**

methd wrote:
Alpha_7 wrote:I didn't know you were a sox fan too

hah no idea who's hat that is ! (you're not meant to be looking at the items.. but rather, the noise ! )

Sorry I couldn't see the noise

so I started looking at the stuff.

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:36 pm**

Ooh, that's a healthy little tax bill

Maybe you should have been paying it rather than buying a D3 :wink:

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:01 pm**

who wrote:Ooh, that's a healthy little tax bill

Maybe you should have been paying it rather than buying a D3

haaha

yes.... Im surprised you noticed that!

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