Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
Well here in Kansas and felling a bit chilly, this is not the desert folks. Well the D300 went into service today and it scored very high marks but left me in the cold too a little. Not it's fault though the 24mm shift was not wide enough and I had to press into service the 17-35 which worked but I really wanted to use the 24 shift . BTW it is sharper than the zoom . Which is nice to know and brings me to some final conclusions but first some highlights. Okay live view is no freaking joke it is extremely useful and I used it a lot today. I am in some extremely small aircraft with lights out because i need to fire the strobes with model lights out and drag the shutter for the screens. So you bloody can't see and worse yet makes it really hard to focus. Live view to the rescue. So how doe live view focus in the dark. Ah ha caught you, SB 800 to the rescue there is a button on the SB800 that gives a almost continuos light for about 4 seconds with hundreds of pulsating light which was enough for AF to kick in and focus than i switch the lens to manual so it would not hunt. Old dog learned great trick today. I also can't tell you how nice the info is in shooting mode. Basically the top deck info on back LCD when you can't move and look on top this is a guardian angel . now a 3 inch LCD is something to write home about , Art director and me chimping all day with no need for laptop plus the zoom and pan on this are as fast as it gets. Okay image time this was with the 17-35 and it is lit for a specific purpose . I still need to clean up and such but a good idea