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Modified 20-Mar-16
Created 20-Mar-16
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Fortunate enough to be borrowing a Nikon D700 from a friend. This professional grade full frame DSLR was originally released in July 2008 and represents Nikon's second "FX" camera to market. It has the same 12MP sensor as the legendary D3, and together they brought a huge advancement in high ISO capabilities. Even by today's standards (8 years later) - the D700 has extremely good image quality. Thanks to its big fat pixels, noise is well maintained in low light shooting, and has a pleasing, film like grain appearance. Pushing a D700 raw NEF file 2, 3 even 5 stops to lift shadows still leaves a very usable image... with almost no pattern noise, linear banding or color shifts. This is a very welcomed improvement over what I'm used to when processing Canon raw files. Highlight recovery is great, too. Overall I've noticed that there's just a ton of adjustment/tweaking latitude when working with these photos in Lightroom. This is due in large part to the full frame sensor versus the crop sensors that I'm used to shooting, but also the technology difference in the Nikon/Sony sensors over Canon. Even Nikon's consumer D7200, D5500, and D3300 crop cameras produce incredibly clean output. Canon has a lot of catching up to do, although the recent tech advancement in the 1DX Mark II and the 80D (on sensor ADC) looks very, very promising.
A few images from the Nikon while visiting the local park.