Jeff Singer94142
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Ok, ok, I know.. .this has been done to death... but I just got my D60 today and need to decide which to put up on Ebay... my D30 or D60. I am very new to this (photography in general and SLRs). To be honest, I probably couldn't even tell you what a properly exposed pictures looks like. But i do know that the D60 was constantly "darker." By how much I couldn't tell you. THAT ALSO DOESN'T MEAN I DON'T PREFER THE D60 PICTURE. Out of the 17 pairs of pictures I took, I preferred the D60's 11 times.
So, this isn't really a "why is my d60 underexposing" thread... its more of a "which do you prefer" thread based on my sample pictures. Being a beginner I'd like peoples opinion on how off the exposure is (if at all) and which version people with more experience than I prefer.
To bypass the rest of my blabbering, here is the link to the images:
http://www.pbase.com/jhsinger/d30vsd60
The cameras were shot with the same lens and same settings. I used my "sharpest" lens, a 50mm f/1.4. I would take 3 pictures with one camera and then retake the same three pictures without moving with the other camera. The pictures are close, but obviously not an exact match since this was handheld. I also varied the aperture for each pair. The sky was overcast and there was no variation in lighting from one camera to the next. These are just point at the first thing I see pictures and not meant to be good... I just wanted anything.
Both cameras were set to partial metering. One thing I though people meant when they said the D60 was underexposing was that the actual exposure settings were being detected differently by the cameras. But with the exception of a couple pairs, each pair had the same exposure settings. The difference in the pairs that are different are likely due to my error rather than the camera or lighting.
I did nothing to the pictures except resize it (I know, full size is better). The pictures were shot in raw mode and converted with BreezeBrowser as non-linear files with in camera defaults. They were then resized with photoshop.
I was going to remove the camera information from the gallery to have a "blind" test, but that would be more difficult since you would have to say "I like number 1,3,5,14, etc, etc." Hopefully knowing which picture was taken by which camera won't influence your decisions (subconsciously of course ;-) )
To my untrained eye, this is what I saw:
D60 is darker... I don't know if this is considered an underexposure or not though.
D30 always seems to have more of a red cast to it
D60 seems to have a green cast at times
D60 seems sharper... is this due to a darker image?
I think overall I like the D60 better. I imagine its easier to fix the slight underexposure than it is to fix a slight blown highlight. Please give me your opinions on the D60 vs. D30 images... which would you want.
Anyway, hope I get some replies here
Anyway, here is the link again:
http://www.pbase.com/jhsinger/d30vsd60
thanks,
Jeff
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http://www.pbase.com/jhsinger
D30, 28-135IS, 50mm f1.4, 75-300IS
So, this isn't really a "why is my d60 underexposing" thread... its more of a "which do you prefer" thread based on my sample pictures. Being a beginner I'd like peoples opinion on how off the exposure is (if at all) and which version people with more experience than I prefer.
To bypass the rest of my blabbering, here is the link to the images:
http://www.pbase.com/jhsinger/d30vsd60
The cameras were shot with the same lens and same settings. I used my "sharpest" lens, a 50mm f/1.4. I would take 3 pictures with one camera and then retake the same three pictures without moving with the other camera. The pictures are close, but obviously not an exact match since this was handheld. I also varied the aperture for each pair. The sky was overcast and there was no variation in lighting from one camera to the next. These are just point at the first thing I see pictures and not meant to be good... I just wanted anything.
Both cameras were set to partial metering. One thing I though people meant when they said the D60 was underexposing was that the actual exposure settings were being detected differently by the cameras. But with the exception of a couple pairs, each pair had the same exposure settings. The difference in the pairs that are different are likely due to my error rather than the camera or lighting.
I did nothing to the pictures except resize it (I know, full size is better). The pictures were shot in raw mode and converted with BreezeBrowser as non-linear files with in camera defaults. They were then resized with photoshop.
I was going to remove the camera information from the gallery to have a "blind" test, but that would be more difficult since you would have to say "I like number 1,3,5,14, etc, etc." Hopefully knowing which picture was taken by which camera won't influence your decisions (subconsciously of course ;-) )
To my untrained eye, this is what I saw:
D60 is darker... I don't know if this is considered an underexposure or not though.
D30 always seems to have more of a red cast to it
D60 seems to have a green cast at times
D60 seems sharper... is this due to a darker image?
I think overall I like the D60 better. I imagine its easier to fix the slight underexposure than it is to fix a slight blown highlight. Please give me your opinions on the D60 vs. D30 images... which would you want.
Anyway, hope I get some replies here
Anyway, here is the link again:
http://www.pbase.com/jhsinger/d30vsd60
thanks,
Jeff
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http://www.pbase.com/jhsinger
D30, 28-135IS, 50mm f1.4, 75-300IS
