Now this is an uber first impression: 3am, full auto mode, less than a half dozen snap shots. I must say I was astounded by how great the results looked and how different it... felt.
It feels so nice to have your hands wrapped around a more substantial camera and be looking through a viewfinder as opposed to fingertipping the PS camera at arms length while looking at an LCD. And when you release the shutter there's a nice, meaty "clack" and a subtle yet satisfying jolt from the camera from the operation of its mechanisms that feels so nice and...photographic (best word I could think of). I definitely love the tactile feedback, it just feels better and manlier than the little mousy "click" that comes from the PS.
And the quality of the pictures are noticeably better immediately, and that's without fiddling with any of the settings. This is gonna be great.
Shot taken with PS. Low light shot = impossible. So you have to use the flash. Look how washed out and crappy this looks. Look at the washed out background and shadows and...this sucks. Plus for this to even be possible you have to get right up on it.
Look at this! Damn! This was taken in the same light, standing far back, using the SB-400 flash set to 90 degrees (bounced off the ceiling). That just means that the flash head swivels to bounce the light all around it and in this case it uses the ceiling as a reflective surface. Look at how rich and balanced the colors are, nothing is "washed out", background colors are intact and beautifully presented. I LOVE it.
Same distance, just zoomed it a bit. Note how stable the shot is and how nice the colors are...in the middle of the night in a dining room.
Zoomed into 55mm from same distance. Awesome.
So there it is, the first impression. So far so good. Hopefully I'll get some good shots of the kids today and we'll really see how this thing handles.
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Wow, that is an amazing difference. What's also odd is that the first shot is what so many of us have come to expect from a photograph. Crappy flash reflections, shadows, blurry edges, etc.
ReplyDeleteI know! And to many people it's perfectly fine! I feel like Remy in Ratatouille just KNOWING that that sucks and there's a better way!
ReplyDeleteIn defense of PS, that first one wasn't that bad. I agree w/ what Josh said about the noticeable flash reflections and slight blur, but it's not something I'd wipe my ass with.
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, the snaps w/ the Nikon are higher quality, much more natural (esp re: color). If that's what you can do w/ low light, can't wait to see what you can do when you're free to make adjusments!