Nikon D200 review on CreativePro

"Thomas T. Veldhouse" writes:

cjcampbell wrote:

David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Bill writes:

Yeah, well, my technique is lacking. I can't reliably enough time the
shot to get the musicians with their heads sharp if I'm shooting at
1/4 second. So I end up shooting at high ISO a lot.


1/4 second? Yeah, it does sound like your technique is lacking.


While his technique *may* be lacking, I fail to understand what you are
alluding too here. If he has a slow lens and dim light, then he may indeed
have to increase the ISO or use a slower shutter speed (obviously the latter
requires a static subject for a sharp image). So, how is his technique
lacking if he shoots at a higher ISO?

Especially the "dim light"; I rarely use a lens slower than f/2 for
this sort of thing, with the 58mm f/1.2 NOCT available for the worst
cases. (The 1/4 second is what I'd end up with *without* high ISO).
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David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

While his technique *may* be lacking, I fail to understand what you are
alluding too here. If he has a slow lens and dim light, then he may indeed
have to increase the ISO or use a slower shutter speed (obviously the latter
requires a static subject for a sharp image). So, how is his technique
lacking if he shoots at a higher ISO?

Especially the "dim light"; I rarely use a lens slower than f/2 for
this sort of thing, with the 58mm f/1.2 NOCT available for the worst
cases. (The 1/4 second is what I'd end up with *without* high ISO).

So, unless the OP owns such a lens and isn't using it, I don't think it is
actually an issue of technique. I don't think 1/4 second is appropriate for
anything that moves unless it is for an artistic effect (i.e. motion blur).

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cjcampbell wrote:
Frank ess wrote:

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Seems like a nice review. Too bad he did not like the button layout,
but that, as he says several times, is extremely subjective and largely
a matter of what you are used to.

What a shock: the Nikon is noisier than the Canon at ISO 1600. Oddly,
although I use Nikons and I shoot a lot of night pictures, I have never
really found that this bothers me a lot. Possibly it is because even my
night pictures are usually no more than ISO 400. It is a habit that I
developed from the old film days, so maybe I just adjusted more easily
to Nikon.


I think, also, that a lot of tests don't really show the true capability
of digital cameras. I am a Canon user, but I like any camera that takes
good shots. I took a dislike to the Nikon D70s purely due to its test on
a site, it showed a lot of noise at ISO 400. A friend of mine has that
same camera and we have been doing some comparisons between his Nikon
and my Canon EOS 20D and his noise level is not that much higher than
mine; both cameras have very little noise from our experiences. I think
the quality of the images off his camera are fine. They would surely be
a LOT better off the D200.

Even on DPreview.com I have seen out of focus images taken on cameras
which have 1st class focusing systems.

Regards,
Brian.