Nikon D200 Crop
The Nikon D200 was a great camera in its day. It was a huge step up from the Nikon D70, though not as good in terms of color fidelity as the Nikon D2X.
Time has moved on though since the Nikon D200 was introduced and the Nikon D700 is the new king of the hill.
Now cameras that are much lighter and cheaper (relatively speaking) are better in so many ways than the D200 was. My choice for the leader of this particular pack is the Nikon D5000. The trend is towards lighter cameras, so the Nikon D5000 – which also has live view – is a good choice for anyone who does not want to contemplate the Nikon D90, which does not require the use of AF-S lenses.
So now back to the photograph at the start of this article. This is a crop of a photograph I took with the Nikon D200 several years ago. The man was standing in room that was quite dark, so I shot at ISO 800.
It is a long time since I looked at this image and seeing it now reminds me that the D200 at high ISO produces images that look sketch-like. For portraits, I think this is a nice effect.
The Nikon D200 ran out of steam and started to look very grainy at ISO 800 if one was shooting anything that was composed of lots of small elements, such as a landscape. But for photographs where the subject was composed of big elements, such as a flower head, or a face, then the D200 was absolutely fine, as this shot shows.
Remember also that this is a crop of the original image and if I recall correctly, it is probably no more than 20 per cent of the full frame of the image.
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My D200 never looks that clean at ISO 800, at least not right out of Lightroom. ISO 400 is as high as I’ll dare. What do you use to convert the raw files? Or is that a jpg image? Looks great!
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It was a RAW image, and from the date when I took it, it was probably Photoshop 7 or CS.
Really nice photo, I know people hate one line comments but this picture really struck me for some reason.
I like it myself
This is an amazing crop, it looks more like an old painting than a photograph. It’s almost impressionist in feel, like a Monet or a Renoir, this face could be straight out of ‘Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette’. Beautiful,
I like this picture a lot. What would you say is the best camera to take photos of homes?
Something with lots of pixels, good white balance, full-frame to take advantage of wide angle lenses, and then it’s a question of using a good editing program that has the capability to take out lens distortions. I’ve never used the system from DxO, but they claim have a top-flight lens correction system built into their software.
Here is the link to the optics correction page on their site: DxO
Thanks a lot, this helps me.
I have to say I agree about the ISO thing. 400 on a D200 was tops. I did however love the D70 as an allrounder, especially the sync speed on the flash (up to 500) which is why it never left my camera bag
All of these cameras at a decently good ISO are very good, which I suppose is the bit no one mentions.
I have to agree.
I moved on from the D70 because I couldn’t get results I liked.
Then I saw on some shots from a photographer on Nikon Cafe that taught me that I had definitely not got the best out of the D70…