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Nikon D5300 body is $850.00 in Toronto
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 07:38:23 +0100, David Taylor
wrote: On 25/10/2013 00:02, RichA wrote: Priced about average, given it's plastic and not metal. Whose $? US, CAN, AUS? Nice camera, though. Would love to try one! He said Toronto... Canada. Some reviewers say it has some features better than the 7100. I'm thinking of getting one to replace my D90. |
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Nikon D5300 body is $850.00 in Toronto
On 27/10/2013 2:56 a.m., David Taylor wrote:
On 26/10/2013 02:01, wrote: [] He said Toronto... Canada. Yes, but RichA frequently omits key pieces of information! Some reviewers say it has some features better than the 7100. I'm thinking of getting one to replace my D90. It's lighter, has Wi-Fi, and for me the most important features would be the swivel LCD and GPS. Likely much more sensitive than the D90, but I've not handled either to compare build and robustness. The D5300 pentamirror viewfinder might be disappointing - if you're used to the quite reasonable (size and brightness) pentaprism finder in the D90. |
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Nikon D5300 body is $850.00 in Toronto
On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 10:49:35 +1300, Me wrote:
On 27/10/2013 2:56 a.m., David Taylor wrote: On 26/10/2013 02:01, wrote: [] He said Toronto... Canada. Yes, but RichA frequently omits key pieces of information! Some reviewers say it has some features better than the 7100. I'm thinking of getting one to replace my D90. It's lighter, has Wi-Fi, and for me the most important features would be the swivel LCD and GPS. Likely much more sensitive than the D90, but I've not handled either to compare build and robustness. The D5300 pentamirror viewfinder might be disappointing - if you're used to the quite reasonable (size and brightness) pentaprism finder in the D90. I didn't know that... the view is the main reason I use SLR cameras! I wish todays cameras had the view I was used to with my old film cameras like the Minolta F9. |
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Nikon D5300 body is $850.00 in Toronto
On 27/10/2013 1:12 p.m., wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 10:49:35 +1300, Me wrote: On 27/10/2013 2:56 a.m., David Taylor wrote: On 26/10/2013 02:01, wrote: [] He said Toronto... Canada. Yes, but RichA frequently omits key pieces of information! Some reviewers say it has some features better than the 7100. I'm thinking of getting one to replace my D90. It's lighter, has Wi-Fi, and for me the most important features would be the swivel LCD and GPS. Likely much more sensitive than the D90, but I've not handled either to compare build and robustness. The D5300 pentamirror viewfinder might be disappointing - if you're used to the quite reasonable (size and brightness) pentaprism finder in the D90. I didn't know that... the view is the main reason I use SLR cameras! I wish todays cameras had the view I was used to with my old film cameras like the Minolta F9. It's something for which a visit to a real camera store is needed - reading specs or reviews talking about xx% view at yy% magnification isn't IMO a good guide as to what to expect. Beware with "hands on" that the lower end cameras with pentamirror may also often have a slow consumer zoom fitted in the store, the higher end models may have an f2.8 zoom or faster prime lens fitted, exacerbating the difference. Given that the standard screens fitted to even FX dlsrs are nearly useless for critical manual focus, the advantage of better viewfinders might be overstated, but if you'd been used to say a D90 and looked through the VF of a D5300, you may find it a very underwhelming experience. |
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Nikon D5300 body is $850.00 in Toronto
"Me" wrote:
It's something for which a visit to a real camera store is needed - reading specs or reviews talking about xx% view at yy% magnification isn't IMO a good guide as to what to expect. I find that there's a big difference between 95% and 98%. The latter allows you to compose critically in the viewfinder and rarely be surprised. With a 95% view and wide angles, the stuff you so carefully composed out of your picture sneaks back in. Sure, you can crop it out in post, but then your 17mm lens just became a boring 20mm lens. I doubt that I'd find a difference between 98% and 100%, though. (The sleaze here is that it's 95% of the linear dimension, so you lose 10% of the area with a 95% viewfinder, but only 4% with a 98% viewfinder. Missing 10% of your field of view is pretty big, 4%, not so much.) Given that the standard screens fitted to even FX dlsrs are nearly useless for critical manual focus, the advantage of better viewfinders might be overstated, but if you'd been used to say a D90 and looked through the VF of a D5300, you may find it a very underwhelming experience. Do most crop cameras still suffer from tunnel-vision viewfinders? Having used the 5D and 5DII, there's no way I'm going back to those. (I remember falling in love with the Nikon F100 viewfinder way back when; I decided to go MF, so never bought one. But the MF viewfinders are poor in comparison. Sigh.) It ought to be possible to make a crop camera without the tunnel-vision effect, I'd think, but I haven't seen one yet. Sheesh, that's one ugly camera: http://www.dpreview.com/previews/nikon-d5300/2 -- David J. Littleboy Tokyo, Japan |
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Nikon D5300 body is $850.00 in Toronto
BobF wrote: I didn't know that... the view is the main reason I use SLR cameras! I wish todays cameras had the view I was used to with my old film cameras like the Minolta F9. Check out the Nikon D600: 100% view pentaprism finder, same 0.7x mag as the D800. If it's anything like the F100, you'll love it. With the D600, there's no reason whatsoever to put up with APS-C any more. -- David J. Littleboy Tokyo, Japan |
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Nikon D5300 body is $850.00 in Toronto
On 27/10/2013 3:12 p.m., David J. Littleboy wrote:
"Me" wrote: It's something for which a visit to a real camera store is needed - reading specs or reviews talking about xx% view at yy% magnification isn't IMO a good guide as to what to expect. I find that there's a big difference between 95% and 98%. The latter allows you to compose critically in the viewfinder and rarely be surprised. With a 95% view and wide angles, the stuff you so carefully composed out of your picture sneaks back in. Sure, you can crop it out in post, but then your 17mm lens just became a boring 20mm lens. I doubt that I'd find a difference between 98% and 100%, though. (The sleaze here is that it's 95% of the linear dimension, so you lose 10% of the area with a 95% viewfinder, but only 4% with a 98% viewfinder. Missing 10% of your field of view is pretty big, 4%, not so much.) Given that the standard screens fitted to even FX dlsrs are nearly useless for critical manual focus, the advantage of better viewfinders might be overstated, but if you'd been used to say a D90 and looked through the VF of a D5300, you may find it a very underwhelming experience. Do most crop cameras still suffer from tunnel-vision viewfinders? Most - as in largest volume sellers are at the entry end - then yes, pentamirror is normal - one reason why perhaps "side by side" the mirrorless offerings with EVF don't seem so crippled. Having used the 5D and 5DII, there's no way I'm going back to those. (I remember falling in love with the Nikon F100 viewfinder way back when; I decided to go MF, so never bought one. But the MF viewfinders are poor in comparison. Sigh.) It ought to be possible to make a crop camera without the tunnel-vision effect, I'd think, but I haven't seen one yet. Sheesh, that's one ugly camera: http://www.dpreview.com/previews/nikon-d5300/2 Available in black, red, or what looks like a metallic dark grey paint. Nikon's rumoured new "DF" could be interesting - well at least if there was some consistency to the rumours: FX format Switchable OVF/EVF with pentaprism OVF and "normal" PDAF system - or EVF mode (throught the eyepiece) with full MLU, on-sensor hybrid PDAF/CDAF. Then the other part of the rumour is that it's a "retro" concept as if it's a digital version of a Nikon FM, which seems inconsistent if it does in fact have a hybrid OVF/EVF - and probably all the other goodies that one has become accustomed to expect, hence it would be as loaded up with electronic and electro-optical trickery as anything else - or perhaps more so. We'll find out in a week or two, apparently. |
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Nikon D5300 body is $850.00 in Toronto
On 27/10/2013 3:25 p.m., David J. Littleboy wrote:
BobF wrote: I didn't know that... the view is the main reason I use SLR cameras! I wish todays cameras had the view I was used to with my old film cameras like the Minolta F9. Check out the Nikon D600: 100% view pentaprism finder, same 0.7x mag as the D800. If it's anything like the F100, you'll love it. With the D600, there's no reason whatsoever to put up with APS-C any more. D610 perhaps, unless you want to gamble that not all D600s suffer from oil/crap being splattered over the sensor. But it depends what you want. The D7100 outperforms the D610 in some ways (AF system in particular), yet is about half the price. The pentaprism in the D7100 doesn't give quite as large view as that in FX models, but is streets ahead of pentamirror Dx format dslrs. Base ISO dynamic range is better than many FX dslrs, high ISO performance shows the 1 stop theoretical advantage that FX offers, resolution is the same. Meh. Unless there was a specific reason to "need" Fx (low light shooting, legacy glass, need for extra shallow DOF) then FX is probably false economy for many folks. Nikon and Canon don't want you to believe this though - not when they have a monopoly on FX dslrs. |
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Nikon D5300 body is $850.00 in Toronto
On 10/26/2013 10:54 PM, Me wrote:
snip Nikon's rumoured new "DF" could be interesting - well at least if there was some consistency to the rumours: FX format Switchable OVF/EVF with pentaprism OVF and "normal" PDAF system - or EVF mode (throught the eyepiece) with full MLU, on-sensor hybrid PDAF/CDAF. Then the other part of the rumour is that it's a "retro" concept as if it's a digital version of a Nikon FM, which seems inconsistent if it does in fact have a hybrid OVF/EVF - and probably all the other goodies that one has become accustomed to expect, hence it would be as loaded up with electronic and electro-optical trickery as anything else - or perhaps more so. We'll find out in a week or two, apparently. I did a hands on withe the new Sony FF mirrorless, and was impressed. I suspect the sensor is an upgraded version of the D800 sensor. It's handling is great; the EVF is weird, it has an articulating screen, and has the ability to know which viewfinder I am looking through. My major reasons for not jumping in: So far the converters, will not work with autofocus; There are rumors of a convrter that will do autofocus, but I will wait and see; I do not always like to be the first kid on the block with a new toy. -- PeterN |
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