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Year One of modern digital

Superb camera !! impresses me, even after 16 years

see here : duel with Nikon D500

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Good idea ! :)
 
Won't the fellows that are amazed that the D500 can do landscapes be amazed that you could do it in 1999 with a Dx body as well! :) They'll never believe it.

Some nice shots there with the D1. Can't agree with you 5.0 rating though. Nothing is a 5.0
 
My rathing 5.0 is a collector notes (I like this camera )
Thank you for your visit :)
 
And duel between the first digital SLR cameras from Nikon (1999) and Canon EOS (2000)

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Nikon D1 (1999-2000) / Canon EOS D30 (2000)

(L’an un) les Premiers / (Year one) the first digital Nikon / Canon
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Nikon D1 / Canon EOS D30

Nikon D1 / Canon EOS D30
Nikon D1 / Canon EOS D30



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Tests et comparatifs de la petite histoire du numérique de 1991 à aujourd’hui …
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I still have my Nikon D1x in pristine condition - just picked up a couple of new battery packs - it still takes AMAZING images that one can't tell apart from modern DSLRs under most normal conditions. Though the younger gen might laugh, it has a 6MP wonder sensor that was engineered to perfection. As long as I'm not printing over 16x20 (I use my D800 for much larger), most can't guess what MP the camera. Sensors are like film - they each have their special, but subtle look - and the D800 is classic.

Mike
 
I also realized a mini comparison between the D1X (2001) and the D500 (2016)

Just for fun :)

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Nikon D1X (2001) / Nikon D500 (2016)

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Nikon D1X (2001) / Nikon D500 (2016) 100%
Nikon D1X (2001) / Nikon D500 (2016) 100%

Happy Holidays time !

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Love these comparisons and dare I say that the D1X still yields richer, denser, and overall better color than the D500?

Wish we could have access to the RAW files and that done of the photos involved portraits with skin tones in play.

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For their time the Nikon D1, H, X was excellent !

Flickr does not yet accept RAW files (one day may be)

Thank you and Happy Holidays time !
 
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Once again you just had me spend another 20 min going through your work . Photographs normally don't bring music to mind but yours does . A song by a guy named Milton " In the city " and Michael Frante's refrain " All the freaky people make the beauty of the world " . Camera wise ,You just strengthened the proposition, Its not the wand it's the magician . Keepem coming .

mike S.
 
Thank you! and

Happy New Year 2017 :)
 
When one compares sensors on different cameras they obviously have subtle differences . Whoever was into film had to choose his spots according to what the film could handle and what they wanted to accomplish ..your comparison of sensors to film is one of the best statements on here. One is not better than the other, only different . New isn't necessarily better than old or vice-versa. To me the demise of Kodachrome was one of the greatest tragedies in my lifetime along with the death of Stevie Ray Vaughn. It could be archived for over 100 years +. Also can be viewed without electricity. Maybe you should repeat your post once a day for a month .Maybe it will sink in with those who refuse to see it. Enjoy 6 MPX and happy New Year.

MikeS.
 
Thank you and happy new year :-D
 
Michael Firstlight said:
I still have my Nikon D1x in pristine condition - just picked up a couple of new battery packs - it still takes AMAZING images that one can't tell apart from modern DSLRs under most normal conditions. Though the younger gen might laugh, it has a 6MP wonder sensor that was engineered to perfection. As long as I'm not printing over 16x20 (I use my D800 for much larger), most can't guess what MP the camera. Sensors are like film - they each have their special, but subtle look - and the D800 is classic.

Mike
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Epic post award. Totally agree with your sentiments.
 
I can instantly see that the D1 renders the blue of the car as purer blue, towards violet, and the greens as more pure green. While the D500 shows a more green kind of blue, and the green is less differentiated from red in the leaf shots. The 3 leaf shot is curious, are you sure you have a comparable white balance because the mud in the D500 shot is reflecting blue.

From experience I know how tempting it is to warm the white balance ;)
 
I know I know !! It’s not a mud but rather rock :)

And yes I process the photos in the same way, as much as possible !
In LR with WB ‘’As is’’ or Auto (for both)
Anyway ! This is not a White Balance Comparison, but a test under real shooting conditions.
 
Bought my D1 in spring of 2000, when we were still living in Hawai'i. Within a week I had put all my film cameras up for sale--F5 (x3), F4s, N90s, N6006, 35Ti, 28Ti, four Action Touches (probably all flooded), and never shot another roll of film. Frankly, I thought the output of the D1 was crappy at base ISO compared to the E100VS or Velvia I had been shooting, but the fact that I could shoot at ISO 800 with usable results on one shot and ISO 200 on the next was a game-changer for me. The D1 suffered from other issues too--Nikon's flash system, superb on the F5, was suddenly broken, AF was indifferent, again compared to the F5, Matrix Metering was not as reliable as previously, and the usual Nikon flair for styling seemed to have taken the day off--it felt clunky.

Other than the fact that it was a great excuse to switch to digital capture, I don't think of it with any fondness. It was certainly ground-breaking, but compared to all the other DSLRs I've owned (D2h, D200, D300, D500 and several Canons, it was not a very good camera; I have thousands of files from it that I can use to compare to those taken with my other Nikons any time I need a reminder (I recently updated a number of them in NX-D using current picture controls and it did make quite an improvement, but still, it's a 2.7mp sensor).

Here I am with it, a 300.28 AF-S and TC-20E a few minutes from our house at Makapu'u Point in 2000, selfie taken with Nikon CP990:

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and a JPEG from it:

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Photos like this at ISO800 taken with pushed 800/1600 Ekta or Fuji slide films had washed-out colors, burned highlights, detail-less shadows and ugly grain. Had to pay extra for the privilege, too! By today's standards this is terrible, but it was amazing back then to be able to just set the camera to ISO 800 and shoot away (D1 with 85/1.4 AF-D):

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Danny W.
 
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