In this case, both new lenses will become more useful for photographers to capture the image they looking for.![]()
Yeah.. switch to DX if not enough reach.. ;p
In this case, both new lenses will become more useful for photographers to capture the image they looking for.![]()
but sometimes i feel that old lenses liek 17-35 and 28-70 can be much better.
Well, lets see how the nano-crystal coating perform on the 2 new lenses.![]()
Yeah.. switch to DX if not enough reach.. ;p
i don't think switching to DX will really matter in terms of reach. switching to DX will only give you 5.1mp with the D3. just shoot in FX then just crop off the part that you don't need. it will still look like you zoomed in but you might still end up with a higher resolution image.
You'll end up with the same resolution... you tried cropping in RAW mode before??![]()
You get to see the crop before you shoot.. ;pi don't think switching to DX will really matter in terms of reach. switching to DX will only give you 5.1mp with the D3. just shoot in FX then just crop off the part that you don't need. it will still look like you zoomed in but you might still end up with a higher resolution image.
new trinity? 14-24, 24-70, 70-200 vr (all f/2.8)? after all, it does offer all the way from 14-200 in f/2.8, unlike the current 1 which starts at 17. apparently the 3mm makes a world of a difference.
haha
wat do u guys think?
You get to see the crop before you shoot.. ;p
i just checked again the specs of the d3 at www.dpreview.com and you'll only get 5.1 megapixels in DX formatwhy not just shoot in FX then just crop the parts you don't need? you won't get 12mp in DX format
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True... but if all you need is what the DX can offer you in the focal length, you'd end up with the same small res... I shoot with my D200 and crop off about 50% off the original image and normally I'd end up with 4 - 5 Mp res..
i agree with you!
i am not telling people not to use DX lenses. it is only my opinion that DX format doesn't really increase the focal length since you also use less sensor thus ending up with 5.1mp.
if both FX and DX will end up with 12.1mp then you might have probably increased the focal length. but since you ended up with less resolution then you actually didn't get to zoom in. it is just like shooting in FX 12.1mp then i just crop 1.5x of the image and end up with DX 5.1mp
i myself own 2 DX lenses and i do enjoy them. i am not implying on not using DX...![]()
yes i agree with you with your statement above but i think we are talking about extending the reach and not seeing the crop before you shoot
DX is 1.5 crop. then you effectively cropped the image 1.5. why not just shoot in full frame and maybe you only need to crop 1.2 parts of the image. you'll end up with a higher resolution image and also probably an image with more impact![]()
Yeah.. probably.. But Nikon's provision of the DX crop is actually more for the frame rate than anything else because we can crop in post.
with the sample, you actually didn't get to extend the reach right? if both FX and DX will give you 12mp then you actually extended the reach. but this 1 does not.
i am not saying anything about frame rate. all i am saying is that using DX mode doesn't really increase your zooming capability![]()
Yeah.. I know what you mean. ;p My view was that if you don't need the resolution, you could just do an in camera cropping to give you a narrower FoV at the expense of resolution. You could just use the JPEG straight out of the box regardless whether it's 12MP or 5MP, it's already a correctly framed image which is ready to be published. I think in press photography, this is important rather than the news house not knowing what you're trying to shoot because of the surrounding stuff and then rejects the image because it's too messy.
For example, I just brought a 70-200/2.8 but was not able to get a good crop of, say, the US president because of the crowd and I'm already zoomed to 200mm, I just need a little bit of reach, I could sacrifice resolution and do a DX crop, zoom slightly out to, say, 180mm and get my perfectly framed picture and WLAN it to the press house. How about that?
i was really excited to see the 14-24 but its such a let down to see it being a G lens....
poof.. dreams of using it with my fm2 gone...