Tell me that D300 is tack sharp...

but first of all lens, then technique, then postprocessing skill.

For example



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what lens was that on the bug shot?

mr_pedro said:

Here is a handheld macro shot from today:



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You'll be fine... The camera is great. Do not worry...

reddust said:

Those are really sharp.

Thanks !
Hope that with my set of lens (Tamron 17-50, Nikon 35 2.0, 28-105
macro, 50 mm 1.4) to be able to achieve same level of sharpness.

Reddust

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Great shot, Mario. Any EXIF information like camera and ISO, as well as lens?

Thank, Alan

ISO 400, OOC JEPG full size, F 5.6 with Zeiss 25



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Thanks. That was shot with D100 and Nikon 60 mm f2.8 macro lens, ISO 200 with SB 80 DX.

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My new D300 is actually much sharper than a tack. Seriously you will not be disappointed with the image quality of the D300 . It is superb. High iso much better than D200. Also lighter , better AF ,faster FPS. A major upgrade over the D200 in every respect. BUY ONE!!! Steve P

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Uh-u Mario, thats an incredible shot!

Mario said:

Thanks. That was shot with D100 and Nikon 60 mm f2.8 macro lens, ISO
200 with SB 80 DX.

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It helps that the president keeps his plane clean.

At default settings (standard picture control w/ sharpness set to 3), I find it's too sharp - oversharpened for some things, actually, so if you see a sample of a d300 that's too soft, it's the photographer who messed up.

The D300 is not a perfect camera, but being soft is absolutely without any question NOT one of it's flaws...

-m

Great shot !!! What type lens were you using?

Thanks !
Sharpness is what I want.

Reddust

... you'll just need to be aware and adjust for any Front / Backfocus with your lenses. Good thing the D300 has AF Fine Tune built in.

reddust said:

Seems that a lot of pictures are soft.
Waiting for my new D300.
Nervous about that.

Reddust

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18-200 @ 82mm f8, iso400, SB800, 14-bit NEF conversion & PP with LR & CS3, 1/60, handheld



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My sample is tack sharp. But the default in camera sharpening is on the soft side - 3 on a scale from 0 to 9 - in the sharpening menues. That is simply a matter of turning up the in camera sharpening. For my taste 9 is too much, but 5-6 works OK for me for most purposes, if I don't intend to PP apart from distorsion correction. If I expect to do PP later I will set the in camera sharpening more conservatively and then sharpen later, when the other tweaks have been done on the computer.

Before the D300 came out many people claimed that the 18-200 lens would be useless on the D300, because it wasn't as sharp as first rate primes and pro zooms. Well, with the D300 my 18-200 is considerably sharper than on my D100 that preceded it, though I can also see that the D300 has resolving capabilities beyond what the 18-200 can deliver. But I have to look at 100% or sometimes even 200% pics to see that at all. That goes for JPEGs out of the camera, whereas I used RAW exclusively on the D100. Carefully PPed RAWs out of the D300 may likely yield even better results, but I haven't done that much, because Capture NX works hopelessly slow on my computer (I used to use Bibble, but it haven't come with D300 support yet).

When talking about sharpness there is a delicate balance between sharpening and noise reduction. There are no hard and fast rules here, it's a matter of personal taste.