I just ordered the D600.
refurb from adorama. I am looking forward to the improved iso and all that but for some reason i am really looking forward to the timelapse/intervalometer features just as much.:clap
D700, D600
14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
85 and 50 1.4
45 PC and sb910 x2
http://www.danielkimphotography.com
14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
85 and 50 1.4
45 PC and sb910 x2
http://www.danielkimphotography.com
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Congrats.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
85 and 50 1.4
45 PC and sb910 x2
http://www.danielkimphotography.com
Regards.
Marcelo
The main reason the D600 is awesome is, of course, everything else about it. If it weren't for the 6D, I'd call it the absolute champion of adventure cameras. But for any Nikon shooter of course, it is indeed the adventure champion...
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Okay in my experience, in most situations iso 3200 is very serviceable on my D700 (if properly exposed) with just a touch of NR in post. From all the reviews and sample images i have seen on D600, it appears iso 6400 is about the same as iso 3200 on the D700. Curious where do you see the "useability" limit?
14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
85 and 50 1.4
45 PC and sb910 x2
http://www.danielkimphotography.com
Look into getting an MC36 if you want timelapse capability. I just shot my 8 year old daughter's birthday party with a frame taken every 2 seconds with a fisheye lens. 3.5 hours of 14 little girls having a pretend sleepover party. The resultant 3.5 minute video is hysterical.
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Same with me. I shoot at 3200 all the time during weddings, in fact I'm looking at a wedding right now and out of 6,000 photos, 3,000 of them are at ISO 3200. Yeah. Whereas I shot at 6400 just five times at that same wedding, just like my 2nd shooter who had a 5D mk2. ...So, only in emergency situations.
What I was trying to explain in my other response was the fact that this habit would not change much, if I got a D600. I would use 6400 maybe a little more liberally, but not for 50% of the wedding like I do with 3200. I just don't see the entire whole stop of improvement. The noise levels are great, and I might consider them acceptable for a respectable 20-30% of my wedding shooting, but overall the skin tones, shadow noise, overall detail acuity, dynamic range, etc... Like I said, it's a great improvement, but not an entire, full-fledged stop.
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Yeah, that was the biggest bummer for me as someone who has been used to almost identical controls from the D700 back to the D300 and even the D200 for the most part. The D600 is missing one feature I cannot live without as a working professional, and that is 1-click 100% zooming during playback. I love how my D700 goes straight to 100%, even off-center if I'm using an off-center AF point. And I loved how the Canon 6D added this feature, in fact it got it's own dedicated quick zoom button that I can reach with my right hand! Loved that. But all in all, as a general photographer I felt like the D600 would be totally fine. I'd love to use it for landscapes, nature, basically anything that wasn't extremely demanding of my time while shooting. Such as a wedding.
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5D3 has this too. You can set the magnifying glass button to go straight to 100% during playback.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
Exactly. I have been enjoying such a function since ~2006 with my D200, while I couldn't stand not having it whenever I had to shoot with a 5D or 5D mk2. I was absolutely thrilled when they put such a feature into the 5D mk3, and it was one of the points that made Canon finally an acceptable solution for me as a wedding photographer. If I had to start all over right now I would definitely consider a 5D mk3 and a 6D combination just as equally as a D700 + D800 combo, or something similar...
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14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
85 and 50 1.4
45 PC and sb910 x2
http://www.danielkimphotography.com
Daniel I remember seeing some of your exposures at 6400 on the D700, So obviously you know how to get the correct exposure to exploit the Camera. My Rental of the D600 showed me that it was easily better SOOC at 6400 than the D700. The most noticeable thing was how Nikon managed the noise. IMO Nikon had tended to destroy the finer details in an image (D700) once you went above ISO 6400. Not so with this Camera. You'll get noise right on up to the ceiling, but the details are still there.
I've owned D200 x 2, D300, D700 x2 and feel I can operate these bodies with my eyes closed. I like the button functions and layout. In the heat of an event, I can make necessary changes on the fly.
D800 in my future for this reason.
Maybe I'm just too old to change!
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Even the D800 is slightly annoying to have to get used to, although it does have a couple new customizations and controls (such as the face-detect scrolling during playback zoom) ...that almost make up for the other changes that are drawbacks for me. (The dedicated REC button, the loss / re-design of the AF tri-switch, the re-assignment of the dynamic AF point switch...)
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Whose D700? Mitchell's? Not mine, cause I'm shootin' it into the ground!
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And compared to the D700, I prefer the D800's AF mode switch button over the lever/switch system, because I often knocked it into a different mode without knowing..
Let us know how the D600 compares to the D700, Daniel!
D800
16/2.8, f1.4G primes, f2.8 trio, 105/200 macro, SB900.
It never gets easier, you just get better.
Can't have mine either!
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14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
85 and 50 1.4
45 PC and sb910 x2
http://www.danielkimphotography.com
The bottom line is this: It went away if you get your sensor cleaned after the first 2,000-4,000 clicks.
I don't know if newer shipments of the camera have had the oil cleaned off the shutter a little bit more, but I would presume so.
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