Kens on it...D300 review

[herc182]

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d300.htm

[herc182]

not the best in the world (the review!)

[Gintaras]

From Ken "The real reason to love the D300 isn't resolution or noise, it's its much improved AF system and overall usablity. It may also be battery life; Nikon rates it highly and my D200 never shots much on a charge."
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sorry Nikonians, Ken thinks high ISO on D300 is not ground breaking, you probably have to wait for D400 to beat Canon!

seriously speaking this was the most bizzare useless review i have ever seen. would you tell me who is this Ken Rockwell???

[erichlund]

From Ken "The real reason to love the D300 isn't resolution or noise, it's its much improved AF system and overall usablity. It may also be battery life; Nikon rates it highly and my D200 never shots much on a charge."
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sorry Nikonians, Ken thinks high ISO on D300 is not ground breaking, you probably have to wait for D400 to beat Canon!

seriously speaking this was the most bizzare useless review i have ever seen. would you tell me who is this Ken Rockwell???

Why, you pretty much nailed it right there? Ken's the poster boy for the "Think before you speak campaign." He's the one laying on a hospital bed, dying of emphysema, with a cigarrette in his mouth. "Don't let this be you."

Remember, Ken's the guy who doesn't get the point in shooting RAW.

[herc182]

Why, you pretty much nailed it right there? Ken's the poster boy for the "Think before you speak campaign." He's the one laying on a hospital bed, dying of emphysema, with a cigarrette in his mouth. "Don't let this be you."

Remember, Ken's the guy who doesn't get the point in shooting RAW.

it was a pretty shite review. sorry people. i pasted the link, then read to the end and thought "you are an idiot"

[Gintaras]

Remember, Ken's the guy who doesn't get the point in shooting RAW.

LOL

[Gintaras]

herc, nothing to be sorry about. internet became home to thousands of uneducated idiots.

as for D300 reviews, we will have to wait for Jeff here and dpreview to do it. honestly speaking new cameras are becoming all more perfect that it becomes a big problem to choose one.

i admit i would want both nikon and canon with best lens line up if have enough money to waste. yet, one must be real

[e_dawg]

More vintage Ken-isms:

"I cranked the color a bit to match roughly the D300 (which I set to +3 saturation as soon as I turned it on)"

... naturally, that's the first thing he does to any camera, presumably so we can see more pics of his kid in his signature style bright orange and reddish-pink sunburnt skin tones

"Multi-CAM 3500DX sensor and numerous selection modes few people will ever figure out. The good news is that my other Nikons always work great, even if no one really knows what's happening inside."

... meaning he has no idea what's happening inside

"I have no reason to believe that the AF of the D300 is anything other than spectacular; lets hope the finder isn't obliterated with AF sensors so we can compose clearly."

... meaning he hasn't actually evaluated the AF himself or even really looked through the viewfinder

"Very sensitive as most AF systems, rated down to EV -1. "

... is he just going by Nikon's specs or did he actually evaluate the AF system's sensitivity?

"Canon has had a significant advantage because Canons have had a broader range of adjustments, so I can crank up my colors more vividly on my Canons than I can on my Nikons. Of course Nikon's narrower range of adjustments make it almost impossible to destroy your images by using the wrong settings, as I can do on my Canons."

An admission of ineptitude?

"My Nikons set to their maximum saturation (Color Mode IIIa and + Saturation in Optimize Image > Custom) are about equal to my Canons set at +2 saturation. My latest Canons go to +4 for saturation."

BFD... it's like saying "I can crank the volume all the way to 20 instead of 10"

"I'm unsure of the D300's performance here; it may be the same, but hopefully it's been expanded. "

Did you actually use the camera, Ken?

"Active D-Lighting lets you select this trick before you shoot. No big deal, in fact, these filters usually look so bad and obvious in previous cameras (they use very large filtering radii so they often leave dark rings around the lightened areas) that this feature may permanently ruin many of your images, if Nikon hasn't updated the algorithms from the D40 and D80. Use with care!!!"

So he hasn't even used it yet and he's spreading FUD about it?

"Hopefully Nikon has fine-tuned this so it works subtly and well. I fear that my readers, too many of whom worry too much about the gear and software and not enough about lighting the subject properly in the first place, could start making crappy images that scream that they were made this way. Look at most real estate listings and you'll see lots of overuse of Photoshop's Shadow/Highlight filter at it's ugly 50% default. I hope that Nikon has gone easy on this and that it won't screw up images when left on."

Yeah, he definitely is spreading FUD on Active D-Lighting without having touched it.

"If it works well, then it's brilliant and will make real images in the real world that will be far better than Canon, whose cameras still haven't figured out auto contrast, as Nikons have done for 8 years. Auto contrast, the default in Nikon's cryptic "Tone Curves," lets Nikon cameras adapt automatically to changing contrast as our eyes do.

I hope this works great, and you can tell I'm still skeptical based on the crappy D-Lighting in my D40 and D80. "

So either it's crappy or it's brilliant, but he has no idea because he hasn't really used the camera yet before spewing forth a review and some FUD on the Active D-Lighting.

[herc182]

More vintage Ken-isms:

"I cranked the color a bit to match roughly the D300 (which I set to +3 saturation as soon as I turned it on)"

... naturally, that's the first thing he does to any camera, presumably so we can see more pics of his kid in his signature style bright orange and reddish-pink sunburnt skin tones

"Multi-CAM 3500DX sensor and numerous selection modes few people will ever figure out. The good news is that my other Nikons always work great, even if no one really knows what's happening inside."

... meaning he has no idea what's happening inside

"I have no reason to believe that the AF of the D300 is anything other than spectacular; lets hope the finder isn't obliterated with AF sensors so we can compose clearly."

... meaning he hasn't actually evaluated the AF himself or even really looked through the viewfinder

"Very sensitive as most AF systems, rated down to EV -1. "

... is he just going by Nikon's specs or did he actually evaluate the AF system's sensitivity?

LOL. I wonder how he found out about having children....

[Gintaras]

U KNOW WHAT??? the most hilarious is that some people read him seriously & what is more hilarious is they donate money so this Ken boy can afford his camera and lenses. BIG LOL