For those of you who are interested, here’s some video (quickly) put together with the D90. More to come, hopefully.
D90 Macro Video from Jeff Wischkaemper on Vimeo.
Additional D90 Shots.
Headed out with James yesterday for some more D90 action, followed by some D300 action today with Katie using the D90.
My first impressions with the 90 are positive, at least so far as image quality is concerned. The biggest failing to me at this point is the AF system. The D90, for those of you who care, retains the focus system of the D80/D200 – an 11 point AF sensor with one high precision point in the center, while the D300 has the same focus system found in the D3, which has 51 points and 15 high precision points. While both the D90 and D300 use a 3d tracking system between the points, the bottom line is it works considerably better on the D300, which isn’t really surprising given that there are over 4 times as many points for it to track between. In addition, the focus speed (whether on screw drive or AF-S lenses) is noticeably slower, though for most situations this isn’t going to be a dealbreaker.
My biggest issue, though, is the D90’s stubbornness when it comes to taking a picture if it is even slightly out of focus. The D300 seems to be much more forgiving in this regard, which at first glance might seem like a negative thing, but at least when taking macro shots, you often rely on being close and using a large depth of field in order to get sharpness and focus in the image. There were several shots I had lined up yesterday that the camera point blank refused to take. I think in general photographic terms this might not be the biggest issue, but certainly I have concerns about the performance of the AF system for what I do.
That said, the D90 is certainly capable of taking great pictures, and if anything my comments reflect the excellence of the D300’s focus system more than anything lacking in the D90.
Shots from yesterday:
Winter Wonderland (sort of).
Last Wednesday, we got snow. Real snow. Never mind that most of it didn’t stick, and never mind that it was 60 the next day, it was snow, and while it lasted, it let us pretend that we have something in this part of the world called winter.
jeffandkatie.wisch
After ignoring it for a few months, we’ve finally done some updates on our webpage. We expect to have more content up soon and to be rather intentional about posting what’s going on there. Of course, since we lead boring lives, that might include trying to fabricate content, but hopefully we’ll be good about it.
I will, of course, still be updating things here, and this will continue to be my primary blog, but we’ll have more “us” related things over at the other.
(more) XHTML compliance
After noting that certain posts on the blog broke IE 6 and 7 enough that they had to be restarted, I decided to do a bit of housecleaning yesterday and found that virtually nothing on the blog was XHTML complaint. While the image posts still aren’t and the video posts probably never will be, at least a big step has been taken to remedy the errors.
If anyone encounters a browser error while browsing through the site, please let me know.
Honeymoon
Posted this on the videoblog a few days ago, but here it is on the main site now. I’ll try to post some pictures at some point. Our honeymoon was fantastic – relaxing in every way. Getting back into the real world… not quite so…
images.wisch.org upgrade
We’ve recently updated our wedding and image websites. Head over and take a look!
Also check out a new place you can buy my photos.
jeff and katie
Sorry updates have been infrequent… Things will be queued soon.
For now, however, as promised a long time ago, a site giving a bit more information about Katie and I, which after the wedding we’ll turn into a blog to keep everyone up to date with what’s going on with us.
Custom White Balance Video Tutorial
Additional Nikon D300 Sample Images
Since my first post about the D300 is generating some traffic, I thought I’d post some additional pictures here. If you want to see full resolution shots of any of these images, please feel free to contact me.
