New D300s

Zim

Zim

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Yes I got one and a SB-900 flash. $100 instant savings when you buy both. Plus the MB-D10 battery grip. It is a nice set up which will be mostly for my photography but I'm going to play around with the video.
 

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The price is good and I had a old SB-400. So with the $100 off when buy the 900 it was a good time.
I'm glad I did. After 25 years of Nikon cameras it is the only way I could really good. I've been shopping around but nothing else felt right.
The photography side will be great.
The video side will be more work. But you can set the aperture, lock the exposure and a few things like that so not perfect but it can be used for a few things.
 
Zim said:
Yes I got one .... but I'm going to play around with the video.
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I can´t believe it. Congratulation + hopefully you´ll enjoy this camera regarding the video mode (no doubt for photography). Why didn´t you wait for something like a d400, d700s... or whatever?
 
A D400 is a long ways from coming out and a D700s would at least $1,000 more. Plus one of my camera's (the D70s) is having some problems. I needed to get something. The D300s will meet all of my photography needs. I still have the DVX100b that is still doing what I need.

Uwe Lansing said:
I can´t believe it. Congratulation + hopefully you´ll enjoy this camera regarding the video mode (no doubt for photography). Why didn´t you wait for something like a d400, d700s... or whatever?
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But should I be the first D300s in a DVXfest? I don't remember seeing one in the Betrayal fest?
 
Look forward to hearing your informed comments on this largely overlooked camera. Be interesting to know real world differences to the D90 (the camera that started it all).
Cheers.
 
I'm going to give it a shot. I know there are limits and I'll just have to work around them.


TrueIndigo said:
Look forward to hearing your informed comments on this largely overlooked camera. Be interesting to know real world differences to the D90 (the camera that started it all).
Cheers.
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Zim said:
I don't know if it is or not. But you can set the aperture and lock exposure. Not manual for sure but you have some control.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ordbtNNKdws&feature=related
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It's pretty much the same as far as I could see from my D90 to 15 mins with the 300s in the store. As you could with the D90 you can set an aperture and lock it along with everything else but you have no idea which shutter speed it uses as well as ISO.
 
It might have got a firmware update. Some changes to it. Probably alittle more solid, but both are good camera.
 
BradM said:
It's pretty much the same as far as I could see from my D90 to 15 mins with the 300s in the store. As you could with the D90 you can set an aperture and lock it along with everything else but you have no idea which shutter speed it uses as well as ISO.
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Really? Then how come we had to have manual lenses with an aperture ring to do that on the d90?
 
Well on my D300s I put it in aperture mode. Set the Aperture, set the ISO, then turn on Live view. If I was at F2.8 at 200ISO then I record at F2.8. The ISO still shows 200. If I don't like the exposure then I change it more by pushing the Exposure compensation button and dialing it more or less. You can see the exposure change in the live view. It shows the shutter speed changing. But if the ISO and shutter speed will change if you move the camera or the lighting changes, get the exposure you like and lock it in.



BradM said:
It's pretty much the same as far as I could see from my D90 to 15 mins with the 300s in the store. As you could with the D90 you can set an aperture and lock it along with everything else but you have no idea which shutter speed it uses as well as ISO.
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I wonder why Nikon would make the camera so that in live view when you adjust the exposure compensation the shutter speed numbers change on the screen and you can see the exposure change? (talking D300s here) if it really isn't changing to those numbers?

Anyway it is a damn nice camera!!
 
Zim said:
I wonder why Nikon would make the camera so that in live view when you adjust the exposure compensation the shutter speed numbers change on the screen and you can see the exposure change? (talking D300s here) if it really isn't changing to those numbers?

Anyway it is a damn nice camera!!
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But it does change to those numbers, if you take a still.

If the liveview did do the shutter exactly as the aperture priority states, then sometimes it couldn't be visible in liveview. For example if the shutter went to 1/500 indoors, it'd just look too dark to compose your shots. Likewise if it went to 5" it'd just look white. You couldn't compose the shot in your viewfinder either because the mirror was open, so you'd be blind. So the camera automatically plays with the ISO/Exposure/Shutter visuals to help you preview things.

Canon's do the same thing. I've noticed on my 550D, when I'm in Aperture Prioty Mode and half-press to guage the shutter reading, the ISO will temporarally bump up to some unknown figure to compensate (when really if I took a still it'd be whatever setting I left the Aperture/ISO/Exposure Comp)


Also congratulations on the D300S :)

I would have gotten that too but I fell in love with the 550D.
 
Thanks Dan live view is a whole new thing to me. I wasn't even thinking about uses live view for stills!


BandanaDan said:
But it does change to those numbers, if you take a still.

If the liveview did do the shutter exactly as the aperture priority states, then sometimes it couldn't be visible in liveview. For example if the shutter went to 1/500 indoors, it'd just look too dark to compose your shots. Likewise if it went to 5" it'd just look white. You couldn't compose the shot in your viewfinder either because the mirror was open, so you'd be blind. So the camera automatically plays with the ISO/Exposure/Shutter visuals to help you preview things.

Canon's do the same thing. I've noticed on my 550D, when I'm in Aperture Prioty Mode and half-press to guage the shutter reading, the ISO will temporarally bump up to some unknown figure to compensate (when really if I took a still it'd be whatever setting I left the Aperture/ISO/Exposure Comp)


Also congratulations on the D300S :)

I would have gotten that too but I fell in love with the 550D.
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