Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
Hi everyone, first sorry I have been a little quiet. Okay you can stop cheering.:ROTFL::ROTFL: But I am still in NY shooting a Model and Talent convention and it is all stage work that I have been shooting. This is sort of a test for MF and can it really do it as well as shooting the D300 . Well the answer is yes and no. It can do it , no question but obviously shooting the D300 would be easier on me. Having zoom lenses would help for one and I am limited to ISO 800 which is actually doing a great job at it and i was thinking if I really need more either get a P30 plus or a Noise software program but the results are damn good and i really love shooting it. All that I am showing is ISO 800 with various lenses the runway stuff is all with a Mamiya 300 mm AF lens 4.5 shot at 5.6 and the damn lens is a razor and even the AF is keeping up fairly well . Obviously not a Nikon D3 speed but I really felt I was not wanting at any time for more speed. This exercise shooting MF is maybe not normal for most folks doing this stuff but for me why hold unto a Nikon system if i can get it done with MF without too much pain. Obviously more work and i do NOT need the huge files but i even like the look better than the Nikons by a mile .
So i will update more later need to get back out there and shoot but here are some samples. Now the noise looks great with well lit backgrounds but the shots with dark backgrounds you can see some noise, now they don't show on the Nikon files because it simply does not have the DR of the MF which the shadows go black and the MF you can see into it. I left the MF files alone but could have easily knocked out the noise just by applying more dark to the shadows and brought the DR actually down. Anyway need to run but check this out. Shot all of this on tungsten WB and just left it alone
So i will update more later need to get back out there and shoot but here are some samples. Now the noise looks great with well lit backgrounds but the shots with dark backgrounds you can see some noise, now they don't show on the Nikon files because it simply does not have the DR of the MF which the shadows go black and the MF you can see into it. I left the MF files alone but could have easily knocked out the noise just by applying more dark to the shadows and brought the DR actually down. Anyway need to run but check this out. Shot all of this on tungsten WB and just left it alone