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Are all of your older Complete Guides still available? Do you ever update your works? First of all, I am reasonably satisfied with the D My main gripes is the exceedingly bad battery life, and the now surpassed high ISO performance. Of those two, the battery life is the worst. I never get more than a couple of hundred exposures before a recharge is required.
I bought a second hand MB-D battery grip, but I was very disappointed to learn that the it actually depletes the batteries even when the camera is turned off. Battery power is used to brighten the viewfinder display. This is impossible to turn off, and I have to take the batteries out of the grip to prevent power leakage. Secondly, I do not see a clear upgrade path.
The D s is too similar to justify the cost, and the D would require me to upgrade the lenses also. I have seen rumors of a D90 replacement coming "soon", which may or may not be relevant.
Video, on the other hand, is not important to me. I don't think I'd ever upgrade unless there was a specific issue that could only be cured by doing so. You mention a few, so I'll give my thoughts on them. With the battery life have you tried new batteries? They do lose their oomph over time. Did you buy a Nikon battery grip, or was it a third party one? If it was the latter, would a Nikon prevent the battery-drain you describe? Or is the battery grip faulty? A new battery grip is cheaper than a new body, and cheaper means you have more money to spend on other things lenses and accessories.
As for the noise at high ISOs, I guess the only question you can really ask yourself is if you need to use high ISOs a lot, and is the noise so bad that you can't fix it in post Noise ninja, or Lr3, for example if you only encounter it rarely. It does sound like new batteries would solve a lot of your issues, if you haven't already tried them. Personally, I would wait.
There are a lot of pretty neat features that aren't quite done in the current generation of camera bodies video is a big one, and low light performance just seems to get better and better , and putting things off will help. The battery question was answered sufficiently elsewhere, but I'll chime in on the upgrade path to D and beyond. I found myself in a very similar position a few months ago, and decided to pick up a used D The important question you want to ask yourself now is, what do you want your gear bag to look like 5 years from now?
Consider that lenses matter much more than your camera body when it comes to getting reliably good shots. For most serious photographers, the lens collection cost dwarfs the camera body investment over time. So think about whether you want to stay committed to the prosumer lens line DX , or do you cut and run at this point, sell your gear, and upgrade to FX and start fresh.
Where do you take your pictures? If you tend to shoot in well-lit environments outdoors, sunny climate , then you don't have much use for the low-light performance of the professional cameras. But most professionals want the flexibility to shoot anywhere, so they pay a premium for incredible high-ISO performance.
I like to get nice saturation close to transparency quality. HD video would be a nice added feature so I can also shoot stock video. They seem more washed out, less saturated versions. Perhaps some decent software also you could recommend for getting the best images from Raw. Thanks folks. Any current DSLR from any manufacturer is going to give you much better results than the D, even the cheap ones.
Managing noise is so much better nowadays, you'll be amazed I think. That's the trouble, I was hoping to avoid buying all again from scratch because of the expense.
I could sell it all I suppose but I wouldn't get anywhere near the amount I paid in I do like the idea of buying an slr that takes hd video. Just like all technology, the price of digital cameras fall dramatically. I gave my D away since it was all but worthless. You can find a decent D90 or D for not that much money and notice that the colors and noise are much better than the D If you do not want to sell the D, consider converting it to a infra-red camera. Gel-O Shooter. I just upgraded my D to a D If all you have are DX lenses, be prepared to drop another couple thousand on some decent full frame lenses.
I have found that photos taken with my old DX lenses on a D body look like crap. Also be prepared to upgrade your computer equipment. I got an external 1T harddrive, and that helped. It still has an excellent 16MP sensor, and it does HD movies. Your DX lenses will work fine on it too. Hope this helps. Will I notice a massive jump in quality from the D to the above examples you mentioned, or just a little?
Massive jump I think. I went D70 - D - D - D and each time there's a big shift upwards in quality of image. But surely if the camera is good enough in the beginning and the lenses are good what are you really getting for a few hundred more? Isn't it the image making that is key?
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