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Camera upgrade...? |
I am looking to upgrade some of my equipment. I currently carry a Nikon D200. Anyone know a good camera for outdoor(mainly weather, lightning, and astrological)photography? Please explain why. Thanks! In all honesty, I don't even think you really need to upgrade your camera. For the sort of photography you're doing, I would think that 10 megapixels should be more than enough for what you're doing, but if you need more, then you could consider the D300 or D3. I think the more important upgrade I think would be to any accessories you need to accomplish your photography. Before I get to the accessories, I'll just elaborate a bit on the camera body itself. At least for astrophotography, in which you're probably doing some long exposures, it's critical that you have a low-noise camera to begin with, or at least one with good noise reduction algorithms. You might gain something from going to the D3(00), but I really don't think the gains would be earthshaking over the D200, which is pretty darn good in the first place. The D3 is a full frame camera, and full-frame sensors offer really superior high-ISO and noise performance (the Canon 5D is the stellar model when it comes to this in the Canon series), but I'm not sure it would be worth the cost to you. The one positive I could note would be the use of LiveView on the D3(00), because if you have the camera on a tripod, it might make it easier to check framing and so on without having to bend down and look through the eyepiece. How's your support system (tripod, head, etc)? If you don't have a very advanced system, you could consider upgrading that. If you're doing outdoor stuff, you need a good support system to help get rid of variables like wind that can cause lesser tripods to shake. Companies like Bogen, Kirk, RRS, and so on make high-end support systems and heads for tripods. One accessory I think would be cool, especially for astrophotography, would be the MC-36 multi-function remote (link 1). You can do time-lapse photography by setting the interval of how often the cameras snaps a picture, and that way you don't have to sit there and hold the shutter the whole time! Do you have adapters to mount your camera to a telescope? There are tons of adapters available out there that can connect a dSLR to a telescope. I've seen lots of great moon pictures from people hooking their cameras up to a telescope. Just a few ideas to get the creative juices flowing. Source(s): 1) MC-36 remote: http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat... |
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