To say that wedding and portrait photographer Cliff Mautner was pleased with the D3 would be the understatement of the year.
He’s positively raving about the camera and the images he got out of it in his Nikon D3 impressions, and the pictures he shared are superb – all 14 of them!
All straight out of the camera! That’s right – JPEGs, no post-processing, no post-editing, nothing, except for resizing.
The images have been resized for web viewing, and Chris made it clear that he’s not allowed to share the full-sized samples, but note the freedom at which he must have felt to be able to shoot ISO 1600 to ISO 6400 photos with absolutely no doubts that the image quality would hold up to close scrutiny.
Needless to say, the colors, contrast and composition skills are very evident on the photographs. I really like the Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 shot. I count a total of 5 lenses used:
- Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G AF-S
- Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G AF-S
- Nikon 50mm f/1.4D AF
- Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G AF-S VR
- Nikon 85mm f/1.4D AF
To echo Chris’ reaction … WOW! … just WOW!
You might also like to read reactions to Cliff’s post on DPReview’s Nikon forum, and Canon forum.
Tags: nikon 14-24mm, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G, Nikon 50mm f/1.4D, Nikon 70-200mm, Nikon 85mm f/1.4D