Comments on: Fielding Your Questions on the Nikon D3

By: Khalid

Khalid — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:14:42 +0000

Please I have a new D3 Nikon could you tell me what i am doing wrong,if i take a photograph on a lovely day with a lovely blue sky ,the sky is either white or light blue,the rest of the picture is fine.
I have used all different setting ,eg shade, sunny & Auto result is the same
How do I you do a factory reset?

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:01:11 +0000

Scott

I am the new owner of a D300 and still learning how to use it. Well, I forgot to switch from incandescent lighting to outdoor lighting and shot about 50 pictures of family and wonderful memories I would like to keep. It was kind of bright outside and everything looked good, but I realized I had goofed when all I could see was Blue faces. Is there anyway of switching inside the camera to turn all of the now “Blue” photos to look normal, if not is there a way of doing it through the Nikon Capture NX program that came with my camera… Thanks for any help… Tony

By: Jerry Litynski

Jerry Litynski — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:00:31 +0000

In ‘A’ mode, using a older AF lens (i.e., the AF 200mm f4D Micro-Nikkor) — does the Nikon D3 not have the control wheel ability of the D200? I’ve check the manual and cannot find out why this is happening. I can manually set the f-stop but since the lens is a AF Nikkor (not AF-S,) this seems a bit odd.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:25:27 +0000

apart and aside from the high ISO low noise comparisons that are flying about what about portrait comparison between the 5D and the new D3

By: Mark Jansen

Mark Jansen — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:42:34 +0000

Scott,

I’m going to be printing 36″x48” prints. Do you think the D3 can produce quality print of this size. I’ve read that that had prints of this size and larger at the Tokyo premier, and they looked amazing! I’m on the fence with this camera. No one seems to know. I don’t know if it will be much of a improvemet over the 5D, or the maybe upcoming 16meg 5D. Put I’m getting the impression the D3 in in a whole new ballpark and the 12 meg sensor, and the way it processes the image, it will not matter much on a 36×48 print and it will stand up against 16 meg offerings from the other guy.

Thanks, Mark

By: paul

paul — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:29:31 +0000

hi Scott, thanks for sharing your experience on the D3
how good is the camera on low iso. Is iso200 better than iso100 on the D2X/
Thanks

By: JT

JT — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:34:54 +0000

First off, I love Nikon, but is the D3 going to be worth shelling out that much money? I’ve heard rumors in the past of Nikon not going full frame because of loss of information around the edges… does the sensor in the D3 rectify this?

Thanks, and keep shooting amazing pictures!

By: Del Tanner

Del Tanner — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:22:37 +0000

I too am very anxious to know how the camera does at high ISO in low light. If you could take some pictures under these conditions and show us that would be great!

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By: Carlo

Carlo — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:31:24 +0000

I guess my most concerning question is: How difficult is it going to be to buy in the near future and what do you recommend to be one of the lucky first buyers?

By: Michael Shaw

Michael Shaw — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:00:38 +0000

A follow-up on Jared’s question. My D80’s RAW files are compressed as well. Other than the higher bit in the D3, are you aware of any other differences in the compression algorithms between the RAW files?

By: janet

janet — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:02:23 +0000

hi scott,
thank you for taking the time to field these questions. I started out with the d70, then upgraded to the d200. I do feel that the d200 had been everything that I need, but so would prefer the full frame of the d3. I shoot portraits and plan on traveling quite a bit. The size of the d3 is probably cumbersome for travel, but the d300 is on the same level of the d200 with newer technology.

for the portrait photographer who wants to take the next step and upgrade up a level should go with the d300 or d3? is this a no brainer? I’ve never had the d1, d2 etc and I would be going from the d200 - the d3. I also shoot mostly with iso100.

janet