I'm a photojournalist and I'm still shooting with my old trusty and somewhat battered D100. I love it. Faults and all. I rarely shoot over 320 iso and I shoot a lot of low light stuff.
I never shoot raw and why should I? I nail my exposures and know how to use PS properly. I can stretch my images to make gorgeous 16"x20" prints and my images are published regularly. The trick for me is using old AI primes. They work just fine on the D100 but will not meter. However, experience has not failed me yet in guessing the exposures. I have a handheld meter but never use it. In fact, I don't even take it with me anymore. One can become so sensitive to light levels as to be able to immediately know what the exposure should be. It's instinctive now.
Mind you, I'm keen on this D80 I must say. Maybe it's time to retire my old pal though it continues to serve me well.
My old primes are the 24mm f2.8, 35mm f2 and 50mm f1.8. I keeps 'em small so as to be able to blend in and not offend. Nobody likes a frying pan stuck in their faces.
I do have one request of Nikon and that is that they design and build some gorgeous new fast small DX primes. Then they'd be kicking ass.
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I'm a photojournalist and I'm still shooting with my old trusty and somewhat battered D100. I love it. Faults and all. I rarely shoot over 320 iso and I shoot a lot of low light stuff.
I never shoot raw and why should I? I nail my exposures and know how to use PS properly. I can stretch my images to make gorgeous 16"x20" prints and my images are published regularly. The trick for me is using old AI primes. They work just fine on the D100 but will not meter. However, experience has not failed me yet in guessing the exposures. I have a handheld meter but never use it. In fact, I don't even take it with me anymore. One can become so sensitive to light levels as to be able to immediately know what the exposure should be. It's instinctive now.
Mind you, I'm keen on this D80 I must say. Maybe it's time to retire my old pal though it continues to serve me well.
My old primes are the 24mm f2.8, 35mm f2 and 50mm f1.8. I keeps 'em small so as to be able to blend in and not offend. Nobody likes a frying pan stuck in their faces.
I do have one request of Nikon and that is that they design and build some gorgeous new fast small DX primes. Then they'd be kicking ass.