I'm just going to take a picture of some rocks over here, in fact i'm going to take two,
but there's gonna be quite a large difference between the two.
That shot just cost
fifteen hundred pounds.
This shot is a seven grand shot
Which is, I think you'll agree an awful lot of money to be spending on a camera.
So, the age-old question has always been if I spend more money on my camera...
Will I get better pictures ? Well I've come down here to have a look
to see what we can find out.
So you're watching me take the identical picture
In identical light, Identical composition
but with two very different cameras.
So is it going to affect the pictures?
Lets go and take one more.
Both of these cameras are set up
exactly the same I'm using the same focal length:
I'm using the same aperture I'm using the same ISO, the same white balance settings
I've even been into the picture set controls
to make sure the contrast, the saturation, the hue and everything else is set up identically,
so we can see what's going. I have also just change the ISO for this shot
I've gone from 200 to 1600
So let's have a little go I do like stacking a stone up, it always looks cool
when the light goes down a little bit and your looking for a shot go and make one.
Right, I've got the same thing set on
here take the same picture... focus that up
there we go,
So,just comparing and scrolling across those pictures
They're the same picture, there isn't a great deal of difference
Now some are a little brighter from one camera to the other
now is that the metering or is that just that this has a much better
quality LCD than this one will have, Well I don't know when I find out to get them
into the computer
the thing is it's you who takes the picture I know I bang on about this a lot
but you can't just spend 7,000 odd quid on a camera
see some rocks on the wall and think 'Oh that will make a nice picture!'
and then just kinda go like that and expect that shot
to another one I just took it about taking care.
So if it's not going to take different pictures What are you spending your money on?
Hasn't half got chilly...
I had to go to the car and get my coat. so what have we got... This is my nikon D300
This is now been superseded by the D 300s
Which shoots video as well this one doesn't. I've been shooting professionally
with two of these D300 bodies for about four years now I have absolutely
no complaints. It is a professional camera everything make sense, it's easy
to reach all the knobs and buttons make sense, got nice big LCD on the back
shoots lovely colors,
nice creamy RAW files and the ISO performance isn't bad either.
The body on this will cost you about a thousand pounds
That lens about three to four hundred-pounds
so were in the just under 1500 quid bracket
this is Nikon's flagship D3X
this is a very very very rugged build its very very heavy
if I was to drop that... I would probably chip a piece out of the steps here
but looking around the outside to the camera to me it makes a lot of sense, and I've often found
the top end professional cameras with it being Nikon Canon or anyone else
are often actually easy to use than their consumer brothers
There are only about half a dozen controls you ever actually need to
fiddle with when you're out on a shoot
On this camera there all on the outside I've got my
ISO. my image quality where I can flick between Jpeg and RAW
white balance, I've got my focusing modes I've got my metering modes on the top here
I can flick between program modes with that button there, I just press it and turn the dial
to go from Program, Auto, Shutter priority, Apperture priority and Manual
I've even got my exposure compensation button on the top
Where its easy to get at I can even get into my auto
bracketing with that button on the top there, if I want to on my camera have to dig
around in the menu to find that and that is
also a professional camera, a good job I don't use auto bracketing that often
On the inside that's really where your bucks are going
this is got twenty five megapixels versus my 12 megapixels
now unless your printing pictures very very big indeed is not really gonna make
a lot of difference
but I was talking to my magazine editor buddy Adam Scorey fairly recently about this
and he says possibly digital medium format is gonna die fairly soon because
the DSLRs are getting such good resolution
why would you want to lug around medium format if you can shoot it all into a
much much smaller
camera like this?.
You've got excellent optical quality in this lens f2.8 lens
which means it's a very wide aperture We've already done a
professional versus consumer lens test I suggest you go check that one out find
out more about the lens element of this
But it's a professional lens and it's a fast lens therefore
a couple grand for the lens.
You got a very very good quality high-powered processer going on inside
this which is gonna be processing your
files quickly if your shotting Jpeg its going to take the RAWS and turn them into Jpegs
for you
ever so quickly and you can probably write them to the card incredibly fast
great big raw files
my RAW files are about I think 8 to 10 megabites each
These are 25 megabites each they're very very big files indeed.
but the main thing I guess to look at is the pictures now we've already seen, I've taken
exactly the same pictures
with both cameras, I hope I've made my point that is not the camera
that takes the picture
it's the photographer but all the things we've just been discussing here
Won't really become apparent
to look at them in the computer. subscribe to our YouTube channel to be
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