Nikon D2x
Posted by: count.d on 25 February 2005
Well, it's the big release day today and I'm waiting at door looking through my letter box.
Are you all getting excited?
Are you all getting excited?
Posted on: 25 February 2005 by Derek Wright
errr - no <g>
Posted on: 25 February 2005 by count.d
So you can all sleep tonight, I can inform you that in spite of a deposit, it never arrived.
Pah!
I will keep you posted as soon as I have news.
Pah!
I will keep you posted as soon as I have news.
Posted on: 28 February 2005 by Johns Naim
Please keep us informed as to how things progress. It promises on specs at least to be a superb camera. Heh, we're not all Leica die-hards in here, or 78rpm record fans either. Some of us enjoy living in the future, not the past...:-)
Cheers
John... :-)
Cheers
John... :-)
Posted on: 02 March 2005 by Derek Wright
Count D
Has the D2X arrived yet - how is it
Has the D2X arrived yet - how is it
Posted on: 02 March 2005 by graham55
John
I'd be interested to know how you manage to live in the future. Are you a time traveller? Even if the D2X has just been released, it's of the past, not even the present.
No offence intended!
G
I'd be interested to know how you manage to live in the future. Are you a time traveller? Even if the D2X has just been released, it's of the past, not even the present.
No offence intended!
G
Posted on: 02 March 2005 by count.d
Derek,
No sign of the elusive body yet.
No sign of the elusive body yet.
Posted on: 02 March 2005 by nodrog
Count,
I have had a play with the D2X in one of the big camera stores here in Tokyo and it is an impressive machine. Handles like the D2H. There's so much new stuff to play with in the menus. I especially like the in-camera editing options. Better get some huge CF cards to go with it, though!
Peter
I have had a play with the D2X in one of the big camera stores here in Tokyo and it is an impressive machine. Handles like the D2H. There's so much new stuff to play with in the menus. I especially like the in-camera editing options. Better get some huge CF cards to go with it, though!
Peter
Posted on: 24 March 2005 by count.d
Well it's arrived!
First impressions are that it's an impeccably finished piece of engineering.
I've only just taken a few images outside and the contrast is handled well on a white building lit by the Sun. Images are very crisp after photoshop. Monitor is superb. Quietest camera I've ever heard.
Plenty of menus to go through, so until I've mastered them, there's no point in posting images yet.
First impressions are that it's an impeccably finished piece of engineering.
I've only just taken a few images outside and the contrast is handled well on a white building lit by the Sun. Images are very crisp after photoshop. Monitor is superb. Quietest camera I've ever heard.
Plenty of menus to go through, so until I've mastered them, there's no point in posting images yet.
Posted on: 24 March 2005 by Roy T
A few page of revier and testing of the D2X in the British Photographic Journal 16/03/05, 23/03/05 and some more next week. Might be worth trying to pickup the editions from your high class local good mag shop.
Posted on: 05 April 2005 by count.d
Derek,
The resolution is amazing. The amount of detail in the shadow areas is amazing, which effectively gives you a wider tonal latitude.
The ease of handling is superb. Images are stored fast and displayed instantly.
I had to buy a Sandisk Extreme 2gb card, as the file sizes are extremely large. I've had to buy more ram, I probably need faster processing chip and need to buy a dvd writer to store the giant files. An image shot raw, then saved as a tiff, is a massive 80mb!
In a way, this camera is ahead of it's time. Photoshop CS doesn't open raw files automatically, so you go through Nikon Capture 4.2.1 which is painfully slow.
The battery is incredible. I did a day's location photography last week, shot 170 raw and 300 jpegs, using the monitor all day, and the battery still showed 80%! when I'd finished I shouldn't have bothered buying a spare.
The downside to all this positiveness is the amount of chromatic aberration I'm getting towards the edges of the image. Whether this is the resolution of the camera showing up lens faults or a characteristic of the cmos ccd I'm not sure. I've done a search on the net and it seems a common complaint, but I have not read a good justified reason for it.
The resolution is amazing. The amount of detail in the shadow areas is amazing, which effectively gives you a wider tonal latitude.
The ease of handling is superb. Images are stored fast and displayed instantly.
I had to buy a Sandisk Extreme 2gb card, as the file sizes are extremely large. I've had to buy more ram, I probably need faster processing chip and need to buy a dvd writer to store the giant files. An image shot raw, then saved as a tiff, is a massive 80mb!
In a way, this camera is ahead of it's time. Photoshop CS doesn't open raw files automatically, so you go through Nikon Capture 4.2.1 which is painfully slow.
The battery is incredible. I did a day's location photography last week, shot 170 raw and 300 jpegs, using the monitor all day, and the battery still showed 80%! when I'd finished I shouldn't have bothered buying a spare.
The downside to all this positiveness is the amount of chromatic aberration I'm getting towards the edges of the image. Whether this is the resolution of the camera showing up lens faults or a characteristic of the cmos ccd I'm not sure. I've done a search on the net and it seems a common complaint, but I have not read a good justified reason for it.
Posted on: 05 April 2005 by Derek Wright
C D - I am impressed but not envious - I find that handling large quantities of my relatively small files to be getting close to a challenge -
I have read that recordable DVDs are not as data secure as recordable CDs and they still have the capability of of degrading so you have an ongoing data back up process to build in to your workflow.
However enjoy the new beast<g>
I have read that recordable DVDs are not as data secure as recordable CDs and they still have the capability of of degrading so you have an ongoing data back up process to build in to your workflow.
However enjoy the new beast<g>
Posted on: 05 April 2005 by Huwge
new version of PS due in May should make it easier to manage the RAW files