I got on well Bob, but more practice is definitely needed! Now I've worked out the best options for panning generally I need to get better at following the subject and snapping at the right times - I found it very easy to take literally hundreds of pictures, of which only a smallish percentage really work. My little friend really wants some cool pics showing him sharp but the background very blurred so is very happy to model again.

I also tried the auto ISO function for some indoor candids and really liked it. Once you've set the paramaters the numbers of adjustments required as light changes are much reduced and so I could concentrate on catching expressions and got lots more 'keepers' than I normally would. I wouldn't have thought of it but for this thread so thanks very much.

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Glad its all working out Eileen, my daughter had our first grandchild this week and my wife and I have been with her every day so I'm going to be missing for a wee while I think, but the D300 has already taken loads of great images of her. I have posted one but more of a trial of colour balance than anything else, I have a new printer and I'm getting different results on screen and printer than I would expect so I have royaly screwed up my settings.

Have you posted any of the shots you took, it would be good to know what lens you used and the setup that worked best for you, I have a chance of taking shots of some birds of prey in flight that will be challanging

Bob

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Hi everyone, just found this site and have read with interest some of your comments, and that cd on using the D300 think I might buy that, I would like your thoughts and others on here on the pricing of the D700 seems to me your paying almost double just for a sensor and a few minor differences, and from what i have read so far the image quality is the same as our D300's bit less noise reduction so really how do they come up with the price difference, any comments?

Many congratulations Bob - great news.

I haven't posted any yet as I'm really behind with processing my images. I hope to catch up soon and I'll post a few with settings details. Look forward to seeing a few of the new family member in exchange.

Alco, I believe the sensor is the same as that in the D3, and that it also has the same processing engine. I think also that the build quality is even more solid. The D3 is a pretty revolutionary piece of kit with exceptional image quality and ISO range and I imagine that the D700 is a way of getting value out of the R&D effort. I think that a full frame camera is quite a different beast from the D300 and not a simple upgrade. The list price is expensive just now but I should think it'll become cheaper fairly soon. The nearest equivalent is the Canon 5D, which is a few years old now and still costs around £1350.

I am curious about how many they'll sell in the early months, as many of their potential customers will have recently bought either the D300 or D3 and few will either want or be able to afford to buy another new camera so soon. Canon owners are likely to be waiting for the D5 upgrade, and I hear that some of the other makers are also planning full frame DSLRs. Interesting times...

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Nikon have relesed 2 more picture controls for the D300, the camera came with

Standard, Neutral,Vivid and Monocrome, browsing the site I've found Portrait and Landscape. Full instructions are given on the site of how to download and install them, I recomend you read it it only takes a few mins, my first attempt to load them failed I decided to put both files on the chip and try adding them both at the same time and that worked, I put it down to not reading the instruction hence my warning, RTFM as my dad would say ( read the Fn manual) I've not tried them out as I've just loaded them but the shots inside the house show good results.

Bob

 

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HI BOB, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE 3 D2X DOWNLOADS FROM NIKON YOU CAN ADD TO THE FIRMWARE D300_M1.NOP M2 AND M3 THEY ARE 3 DOWNLOADS FROM THE D2X GIVING YOU 3 EXTRA SETTINGS FOR PORTRAIT LANDSCAPE AND PEOPLE IF NOT I WILL FIND WHERE I GOT THEM FROM AND POST ON HERE.

BACK AGAIN, FOUND IT, GO TO NIKON USA THEN CLICK SERVICE AND SUPPORT SEE DROP DOWN BOX AND CLICK NIKON KNOWLEDGE DATABASE, YOU WILL SEE SEARCH BY PRODUCT CLICK DIGITAL SLR THEN SEARCH BY CATAGARY CLICK SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD  THEN  KEYWORD TYPE D300 YOU WILL SEE A BIG LIST AT THE TOP YOU WILL SEE D2X MODE PICTURE CONTROL OPTION FOR D300 ITS AN EASY DOWNLOAD AND TRANSFER TO YOUR D300 EVEN I MANAGED TO DO IT FULL INSTRUCTIONS ARE GIVEN ON SITE I USE IT ON MY D300 AND THE RESULTS ARE FANTASTIC GOOD LUCK ,ANY QUESTIONS JUST ASK.

Turn off caps please!

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WHY why whats the difference????

Hi alcoop666 its adifferent link to the one I found, mine was on a Nikon Japan site but I guess the results will be the same.

ADSW turn off caps, well caps is considdered as SHOUTING! so he was just pointing out a minor point of webicet., then when you use caps we will know you ARE shouting at us.

 

Bob

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Hi Bob, have you looked at nikon usa and seen if it actually is the same coz if its not i would be interested in the one you found, details please if its not.

http://nikonimglib.com/opc/index.html.en

This is the link to the site I used, I suspect the configurations will be very similar to the ones you got from the USA site. There is of course no reason why we don't create our own as that's one of the fantastic things about the D300. Good luck let me know if you have any results you are fond off. The problem is the same image will look different depending on the monitor in use at the time, so we could be chasing rainbows

Bob

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Yep its the same had a look anyway good luck.P.S. notice i stopped SHOUTING LOL

Good man

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Two of my focus exercise shots below as promised. Still some work to do but getting better with practice I think.

This shot was taken at 1/200 sec, on continuous servo mode and dynamic area AF. I find this combination increases the number of shots that are in focus when I'm shooting moving subjects. It was taken in single frame release mode.

The next is an attempt at panning, so settings much as before but I used continuous release mode. It's quite hard to try this in a smallish garden so I think we need to try next in a larger space - perhaps running along the beach front.

Amateur Photographer are doing a feature on getting the best from the D300 next week, and are to major on the AF system so you may want to invest in a copy.

Has anyone else tried new techniques or options with the D300 recently?

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