Relaxing "Mini"

sweet!

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Originally Posted by marko

Very well done Maw - I favour shot 1 as the cat's face is lit better.

Just curious - what's the noise like at 3200 in the raw file at 100%?

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What noise? :D It's very, very minimal. The noise there is, you have to go looking for and when you find it, it's very filmic, more like grain. No banding whatsoever. The E-3 noise was in the color info showing up as little green and red dots usually c/w banding.

Here's a very close crop of an area between the cat and the carpet, though it is now a jpeg it shows what I think is really acceptable noise levels at this ISO.

http://www.redzonefilms.com/pics2/noise.jpg


http://www.redzonefilms.com/pics2/crop.jpg

Very nice!

What a beautiful cat - it seems, both sides are her choclate sides :-).

Thanks for the detail shot Maw!!!!!

I used a D700 for a week and loved it, but now you've had yours a short while. Anything you hate or dislike about the camera?

Nothing to dislike or hate at my end. My only grief is the weight of the system with th70-300mm mounted. I'm not one to drape the camera around my neck, preferring to wrap the strap around my wrist and hold the camera by the side grip. After a couple of hours walking around in the bush, my arm and wrist are aching. I have to drape it around my neck some of the time now. I'm really looking forward to the day I can afford some pro glass, but I knew that would be a while going in. It's certainly the camera I really wanted but couldn't afford last year when I bought the E-3. Glad I made the switch:)

That's funny - the weight was one of the first things I noticed about that camera as well. Maybe do some wrist curls or other activities to strengthen your forearm.:D