Nikon D80 10MP Camera Shots

[Biker.ie]

Very happy with it, medium size and medium quality snaps then resized to 40% - you'd probably get away with shooting 'small' format for similar sized pics. Seemingly better high ISO noise control over the D200 [itself a mini D2Xs], anyone know if shooting RAW would with produce finer detail or would web-ready jpeg distortion & compression ultimately defeat the purpose ?
[Click those images for full resolution]





www.ajpurdy.co.uk £599 - Bargain !

[_dobbo_]

Shots look good! Where did you get the finer noise control info from? Not something I'd heard but if true that's a bonus.

[dumbfunk]

Great photos!

I price matched Jessops to www.play.com at £799 for the 18-135mm lens kit version saving £150. Had to send it back in side of 24 hours due to dust/fault on the sensor but got it changed immediately - glad I didn't buy it over the web!


Dumbfunk

[poah]

why put the water marks on them?

[job38]

Cool shots

Love the vivid colours!

[heelantoe]

Biker.ie said:

anyone know if shooting RAW would with produce finer detail or would web-ready jpeg distortion & compression ultimately defeat the purpose ?

Yep shooting RAW would definetly give you better detail but there are pro's and con's to shooting RAW.
At the moment you are shooting Medium resolution which reduces the amount of pixels used in the image. The camera still shoots at full resolution (CCD's can't just turn pixels off) but then the camera gets rid of information to produce the medium size image. This data is then processed acording to the cameras settings and compressed (more data is dumped) to save the file as a Jpeg Medium compression ratio (roughly about 1:8 ratio).
A Raw image is data straight from the CCD with the same settings applied but (and this is the crucial bit) these settings can be changed at a later date. So if you shoot at the wrong white balance setting the image can be changed to the correct setting later on and will look fine. With a Jpeg the settings are fixed and your image is knackered.

The down sides are that the files take up more space on your card, take longer to write, need to be postprocessed to get the best out of them and in an ideal world you need to buy seperate software to process them in the best way (Nikon Capture NX or Adobe Photoshop elements).

Phew!! so basically RAW is better but you may need to bit a bit more work in. If your shooting only for Web use and will do nothing wlse with them then Jpeg may be the best option.

[_dobbo_]

Still interested where you got your noise control information from - I've had a fair old root around and found nothing to suggest that the D80 is anything other than the same or slightly worse than the D200 in this regard.

[Biker.ie]

_dobbo_ said:

Still interested where you got your noise control information from - I've had a fair old root around and found nothing to suggest that the D80 is anything other than the same or slightly worse than the D200 in this regard.

Nikon D80 @ 800 ISO ;

Nikon D200 @ 800 ISO ;

Canon 400D @ 800 ISO ;

cameralabs.com said:

Tonal and colour differences aside, the D80 performs very well against its rival cameras. While pretty much neck-in-neck with the Canon 400D / XTi up to 400 ISO, it delivers noticeably cleaner results at 800 ISO and above. And despite using what we believe is the same sensor as the Sony A100, the D80 enjoys lower noise pretty much throughout its entire range. Noise levels also appear lower than the D200 at 800 ISO and above. This is a very impressive result for the D80, especially against the Canon CMOS sensor which traditionally has lead the pack in terms of low noise levels.

Full Review at www.cameralabs.com/reviews/NikonD80/

[_dobbo_]

Interesting - looks quite conclusive - although I've seen a couple of other reviews that give the edge to the D200, so who knows what to believe! Whatever, I'm sure the D80 is fantastic and I'll bet you are very happy with it.

Now post us some more of your pictures, these ones were pretty nice!

[mr noble]

what lens are those shots taken with Biker ie.

They are cracking mate!!

G