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From what I've seen, the 180MM F/2.8 can be had at some pretty attractive prices on the used market, and it's a lot smaller and lighter than the 70-200 or 80-200 to boot. Of course you lose the convenience of a zoom, but you do get a powerful tele lens at a relatively bargain price.
Hi all. My first post here, though I've been using my Nikon for a few years now.
Gotta say, I really like the VR 18-200mm for close up shots at telephoto.
Great for flower or animal shots.
I was lying right next to my cat. Couldn't have been more than a few inches, but the lens was able to focus on her. Makes it so easy.
The VR 18-200mm replaced my 18-55mm DX and 70-300mm G.
Just recently though I picked up the 50mm 1.8D to use as a portrait lens for indoors. I hope it works out good. That's my first fixed focal length lens, so I'm still having a bit of trouble getting accustomed to it. Boy I'm spoiled.
One of the strongest arguments for D3 and D300 is the extremely high sensor sensitivity, allowing a large depth of field even with low light and without flash/vibration reduction/tripod.
Another nice feature is the «active D-Lighting» (contrast optimization during exposure).
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McCormack UDP-1 → Corda Opera → AKG K 701 / Zu Mobius → Sennheiser HD 650
McCormack UDP-1 → Stax SRM-727II → Electrostat 1 / Electrostat 2
Foobar2000 v0.9.4.2 → Bel Canto DAC2 → Corda Aria prototype / Corda Opera → AKG K 701
iAudio 7 → Etymotic ER-4P (mod.) / Sennheiser PX 100 (eq.)
Ken Rockwell has been posting tests on the D3 and D300 on his site, and although they're great, the D200 is still in the same ballpark. It has to get very dark and you have to blow up the image very big to see a difference. If you can afford a D300, go for it. But the difference between a D80 and either a D200 or D300 is much greater than the difference between a D200 and a D300.
Ken Rockwell has been posting tests on the D3 and D300 on his site, and although they're great, the D200 is still in the same ballpark. It has to get very dark and you have to blow up the image very big to see a difference. If you can afford a D300, go for it. But the difference between a D80 and either a D200 or D300 is much greater than the difference between a D200 and a D300.
Unfortunately the difference in price between the two models (new) is just marginal. Moreover one of my co-workers is hesitating to give me his (used) D200 because he seems to fare even better with exchange offers (for a D300) from internet stores...
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McCormack UDP-1 → Corda Opera → AKG K 701 / Zu Mobius → Sennheiser HD 650
McCormack UDP-1 → Stax SRM-727II → Electrostat 1 / Electrostat 2
Foobar2000 v0.9.4.2 → Bel Canto DAC2 → Corda Aria prototype / Corda Opera → AKG K 701
iAudio 7 → Etymotic ER-4P (mod.) / Sennheiser PX 100 (eq.)
Ken Rockwell has been posting tests on the D3 and D300 on his site, and although they're great, the D200 is still in the same ballpark. It has to get very dark and you have to blow up the image very big to see a difference. If you can afford a D300, go for it. But the difference between a D80 and either a D200 or D300 is much greater than the difference between a D200 and a D300.
I'm not sure I'd agree with that.
Although I haven't seen any in-depth looks at the D300 yet, I'd wager the difference between it and a D200 is larger than with a D80 vs. D200. If I remember correctly, D80 has almost the same sensor (a different version of the same model) as the D200, where as the D300 definetly has a new and improved model. The biggest difference between D200 and D80 is the metering - I believe the general consensus was that the D80, which has the older metering engine, exposes more for the shadowss and the D200 for the highlights.
Not to bash the guy, but I wouldn't place too much faith on Rockwell's writings... the man's tests and views are a bit weird most of the time, in my opinion
What Rockwell found is that at high ISOs, the D300 is a tiny bit cleaner, but it applies more post processing to smooth out the noise. That processing fuzzes the image up a bit. I'd prefer to do that in Photoshop myself and control the degree of the tradeoff. I like Rockwell's site because I can see exactly what he's doing and where he's coming from. He doesn't do in depth scientific tests, but he has a lot of common sense and knows how to apply the technical stuff to the way things work every day. That's rare in this internet full of people citing specs without understanding what they mean.
The D300 just started shipping. There's a delay between the orders and the deliveries on Nikon stuff. When that lag gets pulled up, you'll see the D200 come down in price I bet. If you can wait a couple of months, the D200 will be a lot cheaper than it is right now.
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