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Just a regular very windy day at the beach and around Peniche, Portugal..
Amazing detail in shadows with ActiveD-lighting, without blown highlights !

Shows how well the D300's 3D tracking focus works and a picture showing
details of a seagull.... shot straight at the sun !!

The wind was so hard, people started to fly around!

http://nikon-box.com/


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Sosumi

"Sosumi" <> wrote in message
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> Just a regular very windy day at the beach and around Peniche, Portugal..
> Amazing detail in shadows with ActiveD-lighting, without blown highlights
> !
>
> Shows how well the D300's 3D tracking focus works and a picture showing
> details of a seagull.... shot straight at the sun !!
>
> The wind was so hard, people started to fly around!
>
> http://nikon-box.com/
>
>
> --
> Sosumi
>

Very nice !!

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:25:46 -0000, "Sosumi" <> wrote:

>Just a regular very windy day at the beach and around Peniche, Portugal..
>Amazing detail in shadows with ActiveD-lighting, without blown highlights !
>
>Shows how well the D300's 3D tracking focus works and a picture showing
>details of a seagull.... shot straight at the sun !!
>
>The wind was so hard, people started to fly around!
>
>http://nikon-box.com/

What lens?

Don <www.donwiss.com/pictures/> (e-mail link at page bottoms).

"Don Wiss" <donwiss@no_spam.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:25:46 -0000, "Sosumi" <> wrote:
>
>>Just a regular very windy day at the beach and around Peniche, Portugal..
>>Amazing detail in shadows with ActiveD-lighting, without blown highlights
>>!
>>
>>Shows how well the D300's 3D tracking focus works and a picture showing
>>details of a seagull.... shot straight at the sun !!
>>
>>The wind was so hard, people started to fly around!
>>
>>http://nikon-box.com/
>
> What lens?

Just the 18-135mm

Why?


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Sosumi

Sosumi wrote:

> Just a regular very windy day at the beach and around Peniche,
> Portugal.. Amazing detail in shadows with ActiveD-lighting, without
> blown highlights !
>
> Shows how well the D300's 3D tracking focus works and a picture
> showing details of a seagull.... shot straight at the sun !!
>
> The wind was so hard, people started to fly around!
>
> http://nikon-box.com/

Nice job! It looks like you had a great day.



Rita

Sosumi wrote:
> Just a regular very windy day at the beach and around Peniche, Portugal..
> Amazing detail in shadows with ActiveD-lighting, without blown highlights !
>
> Shows how well the D300's 3D tracking focus works and a picture showing
> details of a seagull.... shot straight at the sun !!
>
> The wind was so hard, people started to fly around!
>
> http://nikon-box.com/
>
>
After agonising for months (not helped by trying a Canon 5d and pixel
peeping raw files from both), I've arrived home today with a D300.
Only observation so far is that the focus system seems to handle lenses
with spherical aberration (like the 80-200 AF-D) much better than older
Nikons. On the D70/80/200, the lens visibly back-focuses @ <10m
distance f2.8, yet perfect at infinity, so not "adjustable" for typical
backfocus.
The other observation is that the Sigma 10-20 on the D300 seems just
fine. It is perhaps marginally not as pixel level sharp as the 17-40l
center frame on the 5d, as expected (partly stronger AA filter, partly
full frame advantage) - but at extreme corners set at 12mm (~= 18mm on
17-40l) is quite a bit better in the extreme corners.
They were my #1 concerns - so far so good.

Fantastic images!

"Sosumi" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Just a regular very windy day at the beach and around Peniche,
> Portugal..
> Amazing detail in shadows with ActiveD-lighting, without blown
> highlights !
>
> Shows how well the D300's 3D tracking focus works and a picture
> showing details of a seagull.... shot straight at the sun !!
>
> The wind was so hard, people started to fly around!
>
> http://nikon-box.com/
>
>
> --
> Sosumi
>

frederick wrote:
> Sosumi wrote:
>> Just a regular very windy day at the beach and around Peniche, Portugal..
>> Amazing detail in shadows with ActiveD-lighting, without blown
>> highlights !
>>
>> Shows how well the D300's 3D tracking focus works and a picture
>> showing details of a seagull.... shot straight at the sun !!
>>
>> The wind was so hard, people started to fly around!
>>
>> http://nikon-box.com/
>>
>>
> After agonising for months (not helped by trying a Canon 5d and pixel
> peeping raw files from both), I've arrived home today with a D300.
> Only observation so far is that the focus system seems to handle lenses
> with spherical aberration (like the 80-200 AF-D) much better than older
> Nikons. On the D70/80/200, the lens visibly back-focuses @ <10m
> distance f2.8, yet perfect at infinity, so not "adjustable" for typical
> backfocus.

I take some of that back - there's still some backfocus at close range -
better, but not perfect.
> The other observation is that the Sigma 10-20 on the D300 seems just
> fine. It is perhaps marginally not as pixel level sharp as the 17-40l
> center frame on the 5d, as expected (partly stronger AA filter, partly
> full frame advantage) - but at extreme corners set at 12mm (~= 18mm on
> 17-40l) is quite a bit better in the extreme corners.
> They were my #1 concerns - so far so good.

On Mar 3, 8:25 am, "Sosumi" <sos...@home.nl> wrote:
> Just a regular very windy day at the beach and around Peniche, Portugal..
> Amazing detail in shadows with ActiveD-lighting, without blown highlights !
>
> Shows how well the D300's 3D tracking focus works and a picture showing
> details of a seagull.... shot straight at the sun !!
>
> The wind was so hard, people started to fly around!
>
> http://nikon-box.com/
>
> --
> Sosumi

There's some nice shots there, Sosumi, but I have to say that with my
(nowadays typical) short attention span, I found the number of images
to be offputting - how about a 'best of' gallery?

Less is more, I reckon.

<> wrote in message
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> On Mar 3, 8:25 am, "Sosumi" <sos...@home.nl> wrote:
>> Just a regular very windy day at the beach and around Peniche, Portugal..
>> Amazing detail in shadows with ActiveD-lighting, without blown highlights
>> !
>>
>> Shows how well the D300's 3D tracking focus works and a picture showing
>> details of a seagull.... shot straight at the sun !!
>>
>> The wind was so hard, people started to fly around!
>>
>> http://nikon-box.com/
>>
>> --
>> Sosumi
>
> There's some nice shots there, Sosumi, but I have to say that with my
> (nowadays typical) short attention span, I found the number of images
> to be offputting - how about a 'best of' gallery?
>
> Less is more, I reckon.

Do you mean zero? LOL!

I put the action pictures there to see for others that the 3D tracking
really works great and fast. I shot almost 500 pictures yesterday, so I
think I already cut it much.
Besides: that's why the thumbnails are there; you can choose what you want
to see.


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Sosumi