Hi all
Guy said to get in there and post so here I am, posting. I'm around on several forums both Nikon and Leica. I've been lurking here for a bit and now I've signed up. I once bought an M6 from Jack years ago.
So anyhow I picked up my D3 on 12/1. So far I love it. Only 2.5 years ago all I had was a D70. I surprised myself and a few others when I bought that being pretty adamant that all I needed was TX and a scanner and that was as digital as I needed to be. That D70 quickly turned into a D2H after handling a D2 body. The D2H became a D2HS (sold yesterday). I bought a D200 3 months ago to shoot a cookbook I will most likely sell now that the book is done.
I've been shooting since I was a kid, '68 I think it was. I did 22 years as a pro shooting everything from 35mm to 8x10. I've been with Nikon since '77 and Leica since '80.
So anyway the D3 reminds of comparing 35mm to a larger format which is something I did alot. Let me explain that. I read other people thinking the D3 isn't as sharp as it could be or should be. Tonally it is smoother. I remember printing nice snappy images from my Leica M2, TX in Rodinal or HC110. Real snap in those images. I'd then print a larger format and at first glance they seemed softer than 35mm. After doing this it just came down to a smoother tonal gradation, nothing as abrupt as TX in Rodinal. Details were represented in a different way.
So really the D3 is new stuff. It is nice to use primes again like back in the day. I'm really pleasantly surprised that I can manually focus again, that the Nikon primes are good out to the corners and in general I have no immediate rush to replace lenses. I'm not a zoom guy and I hope some nice new AFS lenses make it to market.
The D3 will create some new PP procedures like sharpening. Needs it and takes it differently than the D200 or D2HS.
I will post some images here soon once I figure out how.
Neil
Guy said to get in there and post so here I am, posting. I'm around on several forums both Nikon and Leica. I've been lurking here for a bit and now I've signed up. I once bought an M6 from Jack years ago.
So anyhow I picked up my D3 on 12/1. So far I love it. Only 2.5 years ago all I had was a D70. I surprised myself and a few others when I bought that being pretty adamant that all I needed was TX and a scanner and that was as digital as I needed to be. That D70 quickly turned into a D2H after handling a D2 body. The D2H became a D2HS (sold yesterday). I bought a D200 3 months ago to shoot a cookbook I will most likely sell now that the book is done.
I've been shooting since I was a kid, '68 I think it was. I did 22 years as a pro shooting everything from 35mm to 8x10. I've been with Nikon since '77 and Leica since '80.
So anyway the D3 reminds of comparing 35mm to a larger format which is something I did alot. Let me explain that. I read other people thinking the D3 isn't as sharp as it could be or should be. Tonally it is smoother. I remember printing nice snappy images from my Leica M2, TX in Rodinal or HC110. Real snap in those images. I'd then print a larger format and at first glance they seemed softer than 35mm. After doing this it just came down to a smoother tonal gradation, nothing as abrupt as TX in Rodinal. Details were represented in a different way.
So really the D3 is new stuff. It is nice to use primes again like back in the day. I'm really pleasantly surprised that I can manually focus again, that the Nikon primes are good out to the corners and in general I have no immediate rush to replace lenses. I'm not a zoom guy and I hope some nice new AFS lenses make it to market.
The D3 will create some new PP procedures like sharpening. Needs it and takes it differently than the D200 or D2HS.
I will post some images here soon once I figure out how.
Neil