Topic: Nikon announces two new SLRs

[Frank in JC]

I took these yesterday, so happy with this camera.

Sanjay, where do you live?  (assuming that's where you took the photos)

The first one might be begging for perspective correction, but even better, some really grainy and contrasty B+W treatment.  Spooky with that sky. 

Sunsets are still hard with digital but that's really nice.  It's amazing that the silos aren't underexposed!  I wonder if a handheld DSLR will ever get close to color slide film for sunsets--wouldn't that be amazing?  I got ugly posterization effects when I tried it with the D200.

[dgodwin]

both those photos are from the Buffalo area

[Sanjay]

Thanks Frank, Godwin was right they're both Buffalo places although I no longer live here.

The first is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.H._Richardson_Complex
I can't find a history of the grain elevator but it is one of several on the buffalo waterfront.

I corrected the perspective a bit and converted it to B&W, let me know what you think.



here are some others from that day including an alternate view.

[Frank in JC]

Thanks Frank, Godwin was right they're both Buffalo places although I no longer live here.

The first is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.H._Richardson_Complex
I can't find a history of the grain elevator but it is one of several on the buffalo waterfront.

I corrected the perspective a bit and converted it to B&W, let me know what you think.

I actually tried it myself and found it's not possible to correct the perspective because the right side of the tower gets cropped!  B&W almost makes it look ageless, though.  If you get the urge I recommended picking up the Imagenomic suite of plug-ins.  RealGrain gives you a lot of tweakability in converting to B&W, for example.  Fred Miranda's "BW Workflow Pro" Photoshop action is also pretty good (and cheap) and gives you enough to fiddle with, but no grain effects.

[Frank in JC]

My office is on the 10th floor, a few blocks southeast of the Empire State Building, so I finally took a snapshot this morning for the heck of it.  In-camera sharpening was set very low, and I didn't zero post-processing other than resizing, so these aren't nearly as sharp as they could be.  Still, I'm surprised at the level of detail in the 100% crop!  Maybe the extra 2MP isn't just a marketing trick. 

The lens is the cheap, all-plastic 55-200 f/4-5.6 VR, but it obviously gives amazing performance for the price. 

[Edit: This was hand held at 200mm, 1/80 second @ f/16, which is probably responsible for some of the fuzziness, even with VR]

[moewu4u]

I am curious if anyone has gone with the D3?  My wife is a pro and she is considering making the switch to Nikon because she says the ISO and WB out of the D3 is absolutely SICK!