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<blockquote data-quote="nilo" data-source="post: 763352" data-attributes="member: 2613"><p>Μετα την εμφανιση της d700 για να παρει καποιος την d3 πρεπει να ειναι sports reporter. Ολοι οι αλλοι δεν εχουν λογο να την προτιμησουν εναντι της d700. Αυτο υπαγορευει η λογικη.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Personal Comment (απο Thom Hogan)</p><p></p><p>I've now had the chance to shoot with the D300, D700, and D3 on extended trips. Which would I pick? Well, it's looking like the D700, as that's the way my Ready Kit is packed. For the first time in a long time I'm close to where I was when I was shooting film. There are basically four scenarios in which I shoot:</p><p></p><p>Landscapes/Macro. My preferred photography. A D700 with a couple of wide angle lenses plus my trusty 70-180mm Micro-Nikkor. That's all I really need. Right now the wides are a Zeiss 24mm and a variety of things I'm testing, including my old 20mm. But I suspect that eventually those will become the Zeiss 18mm and my newly arrived Nikkor 24mm PC-E. Trying to do landscape kit with a D300 puts me on a zoom, either the Sigma 10-20mm or the Nikkor 12-24mm. Both are good, but those primes are hard to beat.</p><p>Tooling around. When I'm in foreign cities walking around (waiting for the plane that'll take me to wilderness ;~), I need flexible. Right now that's a D700 with a Tamron 28-300mm, which has turned out to be far better optically than I'd expected. Too bad I've got DBS problems with it.</p><p>Wildlife. Here it's a tough call. On the one hand the D300 puts more pixel density on most subjects with the same lens, on the other the D700 allows me to shoot with near total impunity at ISO 800 and at ISO 1600 if I need it. I'm leaning more and more towards the D700, but I'll almost always bring the D300 as a second body in these situations. Lenses I use for this are currently the 200mm f/2, 200-400mm f/4, and 400mm f/2.8. If I stick with the D700, I'm going to have to consider the 500mm f/4 instead of the 400mm.</p><p>Assignment. When someone else's money is paying my way, it's a D700 with the 14-24mm, 24-70mm, 70-200mm, and a box full of i-TTL flashes. For certain assignments, I'll obviously pick a lens tailored to it (for mostly portraits I'd be using my 85mm f/1.4 and 135mm f/2 DC, for example). But I'll almost always bring the "f/2.8 kit" with me.</p><p></p><p>So the questions you probably have are these: why not the D3? I don't usually need the extra performance, and size/weight is almost always an issue when and where I'm shooting. The one exception I'd make is if I had a sports assignment (hey Chris over at SI, you listening?). Why not the D300? At a pixel peeping level it just can't quite match the cleanliness of the D700 file, nor the usable dynamic range. Moreover, since I shoot wide a lot, I'm stuck with a zoom for that, and as good as some of the wide angle zooms are, they don't match what I can get with wide primes on the D700 (and the 14-24mm, which can match some of those primes, is huge, heavy, and can't take filters when needed).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nilo, post: 763352, member: 2613"] Μετα την εμφανιση της d700 για να παρει καποιος την d3 πρεπει να ειναι sports reporter. Ολοι οι αλλοι δεν εχουν λογο να την προτιμησουν εναντι της d700. Αυτο υπαγορευει η λογικη. Personal Comment (απο Thom Hogan) I've now had the chance to shoot with the D300, D700, and D3 on extended trips. Which would I pick? Well, it's looking like the D700, as that's the way my Ready Kit is packed. For the first time in a long time I'm close to where I was when I was shooting film. There are basically four scenarios in which I shoot: Landscapes/Macro. My preferred photography. A D700 with a couple of wide angle lenses plus my trusty 70-180mm Micro-Nikkor. That's all I really need. Right now the wides are a Zeiss 24mm and a variety of things I'm testing, including my old 20mm. But I suspect that eventually those will become the Zeiss 18mm and my newly arrived Nikkor 24mm PC-E. Trying to do landscape kit with a D300 puts me on a zoom, either the Sigma 10-20mm or the Nikkor 12-24mm. Both are good, but those primes are hard to beat. Tooling around. When I'm in foreign cities walking around (waiting for the plane that'll take me to wilderness ;~), I need flexible. Right now that's a D700 with a Tamron 28-300mm, which has turned out to be far better optically than I'd expected. Too bad I've got DBS problems with it. Wildlife. Here it's a tough call. On the one hand the D300 puts more pixel density on most subjects with the same lens, on the other the D700 allows me to shoot with near total impunity at ISO 800 and at ISO 1600 if I need it. I'm leaning more and more towards the D700, but I'll almost always bring the D300 as a second body in these situations. Lenses I use for this are currently the 200mm f/2, 200-400mm f/4, and 400mm f/2.8. If I stick with the D700, I'm going to have to consider the 500mm f/4 instead of the 400mm. Assignment. When someone else's money is paying my way, it's a D700 with the 14-24mm, 24-70mm, 70-200mm, and a box full of i-TTL flashes. For certain assignments, I'll obviously pick a lens tailored to it (for mostly portraits I'd be using my 85mm f/1.4 and 135mm f/2 DC, for example). But I'll almost always bring the "f/2.8 kit" with me. So the questions you probably have are these: why not the D3? I don't usually need the extra performance, and size/weight is almost always an issue when and where I'm shooting. The one exception I'd make is if I had a sports assignment (hey Chris over at SI, you listening?). Why not the D300? At a pixel peeping level it just can't quite match the cleanliness of the D700 file, nor the usable dynamic range. Moreover, since I shoot wide a lot, I'm stuck with a zoom for that, and as good as some of the wide angle zooms are, they don't match what I can get with wide primes on the D700 (and the 14-24mm, which can match some of those primes, is huge, heavy, and can't take filters when needed). [/QUOTE]
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