I Still Shoot Film

September 7th, 2010

What do you think of the d300s

hmmm…. long sigh…. how do I feel about the D300s…. well I bought it, so obviously it has strong points. One of them being that it works with all of the lenses I had for my Nikon FM2, even the manual ones from the 70’s and 80’s. It also has very low noise even at a high “ISO.” It takes nice pictures… although personally I feel like the color is always on the red side even when I customize the white balance, so I am definitely color correcting 100% of the time. But it still doesn’t compare to my film cameras… a full resolution scan of a medium format negative completely blows it out of the water.

I feel like it’s necessary to have a digital SLR from a practical working standpoint - sometimes you have to do it fast and cheap… and for that purpose I think the D300s is a good option. But whenever I have the choice I prefer to shoot film.

September 6th, 2010

Zoom

New Jersey Night Sky | Shot with a Nikon D300S

July 20th, 2010

Bourbon Street by Night

While I was in New Orleans, I took advantage of playing around with my Nikon D300s a little more at night. I can’t use film all of the time, some clients just won’t have it, so I needed a digital SLR that would work with the lenses I already had for my Nikon FM2. My main other concern was digital noise, which I hate, and editors hate. I love natural light, and try to get away with using it whenever I can… which is usually easier in film because film grain is pretty and digital noise is ugly. However, I had been told that the D300s had very little digital noise at 1600 and higher, so that was a definite selling point for me.

(All of these are no flash, shot on ISO 1600, with a manual 28mm wide angle lens. I also did some minor color adjustments because I feel like the D300s has a tendency to shoot on the red side…)

April 25th, 2010

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Nikon D300s HD Video Test:

I’m testing out the HD video funtion of my new Nikon D300s; this is my friend’s daughter Emma, who came over today and is so ridiculously adorable. I shot with my 28mm wide angel lens from my FM2.

I feel like the image quality is really good… although I am sure that is mostly because of my old lens. And I have to admit that so far I have prefered every photo I’ve taken with the D300s in black and white… not sure what that means…