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Yet another photographer has written about his first impressions of the Nikon D3 and D300. Matjaž Intihar has tested both cameras for two weeks and this is his conclusion about the D3:
“I’m quite sure that if the competitors don’t introduce something major within a year, most reporters will replace their worn out Canon bodies with Nikons. So, regardless of image quality, the ball is back in Canon’s court, and Canon has to kick it hard or lose the game”
Nikon has released a set of full resolution pictures taken with the D3 by photographers Dave Black, Joe McNally and Michael Corrado. You can find the pictures at the official Nikon USA here but be warned, the server currently is nearly unreachable under the load. Obviously many are interested in the pictures 🙂 If the server is still not available, as an alternative check out Rob Galbraith site, he has the pictures too.
In the meanwhile, the German photograph Rainer Martini has posted his first test pictures made with the D3. Nothing spectacular, but he compares the D2X and the D3 at different ISO levels. See yourself…
[Update 1]: Today he posted new examples, D3 pictures at ISO 5000 and he says
“even at bad light the pictures are brilliant as if you had taken the pictures at good light. White balance in mode A works perfect!“
And another set of examples, this time with both the 17-35 and the 24-70 lenses.
[Update 2]: Today he posted a comparision between Nikon D3 and Canon MkII.
Two new comparisions between the high end models of Nikon and Canon are available, the first one at Popphoto.
The second one is a thread at Dpreview, starting out here and with pictures to compare here. UPDATE: A new thread comparing the two with new pictures!
Of course, one might question the sense of the comparision between a 21 MP and a 12 MP camera, nonetheless it’s interesting 🙂
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