Fuji S5 Pro or Nikon D300

puddleduck said:
nope..I stand by what I say d lighting should be a factor when choosing his camera..

I don't understand why you think this in an important feature though? For anyone who doesn't shoot JPEF or use NX, its not doing anything apart from a meter bias, and any competant photographer who knows how to expose will expose for the highlights and Pp shadows later in a typical D-Lighting use case.

I'm really not having a go, or trying to labour the point here... but you seem to think its doing something its not. And it isn't.

.nikon did not put dlighting on the camera for a laugh.

They put it in there for JPEG shooters. And it works fine for that.
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I wish you would stop editing your posts that i have replied to....I know a few of us hobbyist who only shoot jpeg due to time constraints and pc hardware issiues..like having a crap computer.
 
paulc said:
I have only seen D lighting first hand on the D700 and I was truly impressed by it..it may be different on the d200.
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On the D700, D-Lighting is a bit more aggressive, and applies more of a shadow boost, as the shadows are very clean.

On the D300, D-Lighting is quite conservative, and applies less of a shadow boost, as the shadows can get noisy (noise lurks in underexposed areas, and D-Lighting underexposes)

I don't find it that impressive on my D700, but I am used to real sensor level DR with my S5 Pro.
 
I've had a S5 a while now and the out of camera JPEGS are something to behold, the colour & tones are like nothing I've seen from Nikon or Canon. The sensor is unique in that it has 2 x 6 Megapixel arrays with normal and high dynamic response photocells so you can recover a lot of data from an image if it is over-exposed. All this in the superb D200 body and it's fully compatible with F-mount Nikon lenses and speedlights.
 
Must admit this has got me thinking - could get a brand S5 for under £480 - would save me about £200 over a D90 which would go a long way towards a sigma 10-20mm. Have come to the conclusion my interests lie in urban, architecture and people photography so 1.5fps would be fine. Very very tempting...
 
I have got the old fuji s2 pro and the jpegs are also something to behold and now I have got myself a battery grip for it, I use it more than my D70 for general stuff, there is nothing quite like Fuji colours right out of the camera .
 
Foggy said:
Must admit this has got me thinking - could get a brand S5 for under £480 - would save me about £200 over a D90 which would go a long way towards a sigma 10-20mm. Have come to the conclusion my interests lie in urban, architecture and people photography so 1.5fps would be fine. Very very tempting...
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It actually nudges 3 fps if you turn the dynamic range down to normal and shoot jpeg, but the S5 isn't a paparazzi sports camera and was never marketed as such. Quite a lot of the snags such as the magenta colour cast, flaky WB, AF response and crap image preview zoom have been ironed out over the last 12 months with firmware updates. The on-line reviews don't seem to have kept pace with this.
 
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