This is one of the main reasons I love shooting Nikon, as a nature / adventure photographer. AIS lens compatibility, DX crop lens compatibility.Strobists and pros will scoff at the use of a pop-up flash, but it is very handy for a quick, dramatic portrait or other type of image where I would otherwise not have the time to fiddle with pocket wizards and cables and stuff. Built-in pop-up wireless commander flashĪnother awesome feature.Even then, with the D600 I barely ever need to shoot HDR’s anymore! It’s great if you love that “HDR-y” look, but for natural tonality in a traditional landscape photograph, I still prefer to do it oldschool and merge RAW images in a program such as Photomatix Software. Now with a D600, I would probably use the built-in intervalometer a lot less, and I would make time-lapse videos a lot more often too. I’m used to my Nikons having a built-in intervalometer, but with that feature I was stuck shooting hundreds / thousands of RAW frames just to come up with a few seconds of footage. Here are a few points that few are mentioning, but I was very interested in:Īwesome! Great quality, great interface, all you need to do is fiddle around with the in-camera processing settings (Standard VS Neutral VS Vivid, etc.) …and you can create time-lapse videos that need little or no editing whatsoever. The camera body feels strong and robust, but is pleasantly lighter than a D700, D800, D300, …and even lighter than the D7000 from what data I can gather. There’s really not much to say other than that the rest of the camera doesn’t get in the way of taking pictures, for most photographers. Does this make much of a difference in the real world? No, the bottom line is just that the D600 image quality is stunning. It is a noticeable leap beyond any other Nikon sensor, save the D800/D800E, and a considerable leap beyond any Canon sensor, period. The dynamic range is the star of the show for me, but the ISO performance and overall IQ are also stunning across the board. I’m not even going to list the general specs until the end of this review. It will be straight and to the point, I will talk about what I like, what I don’t like, and who I think should or should not buy a D600. So this review will take that approach- I will give my account of using the D600 in the field, shooting all kinds of things from wedding photojournalism to landscapes. I do appreciate scientific rankings, but what I do best is real-world performance testing. To be honest, I always imagine them being narrated by Ben Stein. There are already plenty of great reviews out there, but as usual they are mostly lab-style reviews with test charts and objective descriptions of features. Over the past couple weeks while personally testing the D600, I have been totally blown away by Nikon’s new $2095 full-frame DSLR. One month ago, I called the D600 a considerable disappointment based on it’s limitations for flash use by professional photographers and strobist nerds. Self-portrait, Nikon D600, Nikon 24-70 2.8, 1/6 sec f/2.8 & ISO 3200Ī few months ago, I predicted that the world wasn’t even ready for “affordable full-frame” because crop-sensor camera bodies already performed so well.
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