So what will you get? So let me just
zoom out a little bit, and make some space and we'll bring it
in the d 300 version of this image now
on both cameras i used Iso 1600
to shoot these becuse i wanted to have a bit of a look
at.. woops i'll do it right in a minute,
sorry, the I so performance and compare the two
we're looking at them both at that size
the exposure is obviously
lot brighter in this d3x image than is in mind
de 300 image the D 300 to see all of this brightness in the sky
and generally darken the shot down a little bit so the stones look a bit
darker
but there's more detail in the sky the d 3x has
come up with a brighter more vibrant image so it's lost a bit of that Sky
detail
but I would say the overall the d3x image does look nicer because
it's a shot of the stones it's not really shot of the sky
although it's a blending of the two these are Jpeg files which have been processed out by
the cameras
and I haven't filled with me anyway this is exactly as they left
the camera there are ways to capture that detail if you're shooting raw and you do a little bit of
post-production
but i just want to see what the camera delivers left to its own devices
I say we certainly have nicer colors with the d3x than the D three hundred
which looks just slightly muddy even though
it does have plenty to offer but what about
our grain? let's have a look at these at
the actual pixel levels now this is the d three hundred image down here and
I'm
to be honest I think looks pretty good 1600 I so is very high
let's have a look down here in this corner because it's often in the shadow areas
where you start to really notice the grain
the d3x image lovely and bright, where is
the, oh i can't even find where it is i'm supposed to be looking, there we go,
I said isn't really anything to choose between the two
and the d3x is possibly slightly smoother
this for actually more noise in the day three hundred image but it's a very
subtle thing you may not be able to see this
in the video noises little tiny
colored pixels which don't really belong there grain is that graininess you
used to get in the old black-and-white film
so the d300 I would say obviously has
an edge over the, sorry the d 300 has an edge
over the three hundred when it comes to I so performance and also have to say the
colours
and clarity and kinda overall brightness of the D 300
uh the d3 X image so annoying they have got
threes in the title, the D 300 image looks just slightly
muddy compared to the d3x
so it swings and roundabouts we got less guide detail
and better rock detail with the d 3x and better sky detail and
less rock detail with the D 300 let's have a little look at the
rocks going out into the sea, so here's the D three hundred version and i'd say that
looks pretty good we've got
pretty good rock detail, we've got lot's of sky
detail, yeah it looks quite nice I say that i have no qualms with that the d3x image
and the same shot is again brighter
now I was very careful to make sure that I hadn't got exposure compensation on by
accident or anything like that because
I did notice it was shooting a brighter image at the time of shooting
but it wasn't they were both set the same so again
the d3x has kinda got far more detail in the shadow
areas than it has in the highlight where's the other way around with the D
300
but the d3x image still has that
better colors slightly richer its slightly
sharper more vibrant but it's only very very fractional
let's take a look at our
house by the sea picture so that's the D 300 image in I would say that looks fine
i'm
very happy with that I think the colour is pretty good obviously got plenty
sharpness and definition
now let's go to actual pixels here
so you can really see yeah I'd say that's nice and sharp and clean was
using the same
on aperture on both cameras
but the d3x is using a very very expensive lens compared to the one that
I was using so let's take a look at
the d3x image sorry about the pause there,
trying to gode my brain into action
well actually straight away I think I can see the d3x image
is so much cleaner than the D 300 image in this case
so that's the D 300 just make it full screen for you
and this is the d3x
the d3x images got that edge that vibrancy it's just a little bit more
bitey a little bit more sharp
if I'm going to the actual pixels of this image here look at the same place
ah i can see straight away and you possibly can too, if you look at
this concrete wall here behind the rocks
let's go and get it on the d300 image
there is a very definite
edge to the d3x image
as you would expect coming look at the price difference its enormous
but another place that you're gonna find the differences in file size:
and image size the D 300
is a 12 point five megapixel camera
and the this image size is if i bring it up here's a 14 inch by 9 inch
image which is pretty big and you could easily pump that up to sort of thirty or forty
inches and not lose any
definition at all
the d3x file size:
we gotta 20-inch by 13-inch image which is
much much bigger so if you're into really beautiful landscape you like to make
them really really big prints and obviously the d3x is going to have an enormous edge
over something like the D 300 now one of the reasons i wanted to put these
cameras against one another
is because they're both professional cameras it's just that one is
a lot more expensive than the other
but as you can see both take very very similar pictures
d3x does record more detail as you would expect if you're going to spend
that kind of money
but it's not an enormous difference so the question is
monetary value the difference is there and it's notable
but what value do you place on that difference
spending the bucks wont make you a better photographer but it will give you
a better quality image file you possibly wouldn't have to do quite so much
post-production work
if your business that of course that of course is tax reductable, when my
d300 is up for renewal the dx is the way i'd like to go,
something to bare in mind is the d3x is
a full-frame
sensor which means I can't use my lenses
on the d3x so if you can upgrade to something like that
you have to replace the lot, all your lenses, everything
so there you go there is the difference between thousand-pound professional camera
and a five thousand-pound professional camera if you include the lenses you got
fifteen hundred and seven grand
it's your call what's that worth to you to have that little tiny bit
of an edge.
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