My first post from my D700.
To see a much larger version for more detail look here.
This was shot at Breuer Hill - built c. 1800 in Princeton's Battlefield-Stony Brook Settlement Historic District. It is part of the gardens on the beautiful property.
It is quite different from the D200. It reacts very differently in terms of how it renders colors and meters exposure. It is much more accurate than the D200...hence I will have to take time getting used to it. My D200 tended to have flatter colors and tended toward underexposure. The D700 is the exact opposite. The colors are so vibrant and I am tending toward overexposing.
The menus are very familiar but they moved one or two things and I have had to hunt for them a little, but I suppose I will adjust.
The low light is way beyond what I imagined it would be. I really bought the camera for that very reason and it really performs beyond what I had hoped even at ISO 6400 I get AMAZING images. Here is a quick unedited example of ISO 6400 in low light. I did post this link a few days ago but wanted to show the example again. As you can see it is an extremely usable image.
There is very little in terms of post processing needed. Pretty much all I've done was RAW conversion in Lightroom. I have only used CS2 to resize images so far. I know that I probably don't even need to do that but I am used to doing it that way because I usually do curves adjustments but haven't needed to do any curves on these images. I tried doing some but tossed them because the original still looked better. Old habits die hard though.
Today is election day so for all those who can legally do it...
Don't forget to VOTE!
Pssssst...tomorrow is my youngest son's 16th Birthday!!! I can hardly believe it! Time just flew by!
Happy Birthday Jon!
Coming back to AM3 after a long hiatus. I hope to be more active in the coming months.
NIKON D700
1/200 second
F/2.8
ISO 250
40 mm