Re: D300 review at DPReview

Focus wrote:

> Uncle Phil is still a Canon fan, obviously, because he compares the
> D300 with a 1.8 50mm against the 40D with a 1.4. C'mon Phil! That's
> BS. He thinks the ergonomics and handling of both camera's is the same.
> Right. Try to change aperture and shutterspeed in manual mode at the
> same time and you'll see he's wrong.
> Then he has sharpness on 3 of 9, because he says the picture will
> suffer from artifacts. I've been taking pictures from the very start
> on 9 and have no such problem. Maybe it's Phil?
> With the samples he shows that he's really not a top photographer:
> very uninteresting, flat shots, no action shots (in which the D300
> excels) and no shots that use the Active D-Lighting feature.

The crux of the problem is most Canon shooters aren't used to seeing sharp
images when they use L glass.  This is one major complaint when a Canon
shooter switches to Nikon, the razor sharp images with creamy bokeh is too
much for their mind to comprehend all at once.  This is why Nikon has
taken
into consideration of putting in a "Canon" mode in their pro bodies.  This
mode will emulate all the blurriness and focus problems associated with
most
Canon bodies.  There will also be an "Error 99" emulator as well.

> All in all: I've seen much better reviews.

True!




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