Sep 29
Here’s a page that contains six more sample shots from the new Nikon D3 taken by photographers Dave Black, Mike Corrado and Joe McNally. They are all jpeg images and, so, that means they’ve been processed either by the camera or Nikon’s Capture software. This means we are probably not seeing the full range of the raw image presented to us - for instance, the background in the McNally image is showing some banding. I hope that we won’t see that in the final production camera.
Otherwise, I’m pretty impressed with the overall quality. Noise levels are low enough in the high ISO images to be quite usable, and probably acceptable to places like Getty Images and other stock houses (my benchmark for acceptable imagery).
