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I am thinking of upgrading my D80 for something of a bit higher spec without braking the bank.
Has anyone got any suggestions.My main intrest is in sports photography I would love a D3 but thats out of my price range .
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Mark
 
A rough budget would help, also, what lenses do you have?
What is the D80 lacking and why do you think you need to upgrade?
 
pete.rush said:
A rough budget would help, also, what lenses do you have?
What is the D80 lacking and why do you think you need to upgrade?
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You sound like my wife , I was looking for some support from you guys ha ha ha....
But your right There is nothing wrong with the D80.I have always been interested in photography but have never took the time to really get in to it in a big way.I would really like to learn a lot more about the art of sports photography and feel a better camera would help.The lens I am using at the moment is a Sigma 170 - 500 mm apo.
I am looking at a budget of around £1000 or so.
 
i moved from a d80 to a d300, the difference is quite remarkable, the build quality and feel of the d300 is worth the upgrade in itself!.

with the better iso controll on the d300 would help you keep cleaner images with your comparatively slow lens.

i should think there would be some good deals to be had with the d300 at the moment following the release of the d300s last year. the d300s will offer no benifit over the d300 unless you want to shoot HD video too. i think its a shame camera makers are putting video technology into their SLR's though.
 
DoubleT said:
i moved from a d80 to a d300, the difference is quite remarkable, the build quality and feel of the d300 is worth the upgrade in itself!.

with the better iso controll on the d300 would help you keep cleaner images with your comparatively slow lens.

i should think there would be some good deals to be had with the d300 at the moment following the release of the d300s last year. the d300s will offer no benifit over the d300 unless you want to shoot HD video too. i think its a shame camera makers are putting video technology into their SLR's though.
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Thanks for that
I am quite new to this game but do enjoy it .When you say slow lens what do you mean
Thanks
 
I had a D90 and it was a very good camera, went to the D300 and like that even more. For me, it feels better to hold and has more buttons - so its easier to change settings, plus it does feel more solid. Second hand they go for £650 or so.
 
kramnosbig said:
Thanks mate
D300 Sounds good and something I have been looking at.Have you used this model yourself.
Mark
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Yeah, I've used the D300 and it's a brilliant camera. The build quality, focusing, ISO handling, well, the entire lot just reeks of quality. It's probably one of the best all round cameras out there, but that's just my humble opinion. The 300s is even better for those into sports and wildlife, or that's what I've gathered, I might be talking *******s on that one ;)
 
D300 and D300s are both fantastic cameras, I'm sure you would notice a difference. D300s has 51 AF points and is fantasic for sports and wildlife as well as everything else. But deffinately read up about it and go into Jessops or somewhere and try 'em out ;)
 
kramnosbig said:
Thanks for that
I am quite new to this game but do enjoy it .When you say slow lens what do you mean
Thanks
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the sigma 170-500 has a maximum apature of f6.3 at 500mm . to hand hold a lens of that length you need to be shooting at around 1/500th of a second and with a restrictive aperture that may be hard to acheive in lower lighting meaning you would need to bump the ISO up on the camera to acheive a faster shutter speed to prevent camera shake. luckily with the better ISO perfromance of the d300 compared to the d80 this isnt too much of a problem, you can shoot at 800-1250 quite confortably as long as your not planning at blowing up the picture too much.
 
WP-UK said:
D300 and D300s are both fantastic cameras, I'm sure you would notice a difference. D300s has 51 AF points and is fantasic for sports and wildlife as well as everything else. But deffinately read up about it and go into Jessops or somewhere and try 'em out ;)
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who actually uses the 51 piont AF? i know i dont, i just keep it to single focus and piont where i want to focus, maybe im not using my camera to its full potential?
 
Rayn said:
Yeah, I've used the D300 and it's a brilliant camera. The build quality, focusing, ISO handling, well, the entire lot just reeks of quality. It's probably one of the best all round cameras out there, but that's just my humble opinion. The 300s is even better for those into sports and wildlife, or that's what I've gathered, I might be talking *******s on that one ;)
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Thanks for yor thoughts mate , I am looking at sports photography as something I would really like to do more of in the future.
The D 300 is sounding like the one for me !!!!!
 
DoubleT said:
the sigma 170-500 has a maximum apature of f6.3 at 500mm . to hand hold a lens of that length you need to be shooting at around 1/500th of a second and with a restrictive aperture that may be hard to acheive in lower lighting meaning you would need to bump the ISO up on the camera to acheive a faster shutter speed to prevent camera shake. luckily with the better ISO perfromance of the d300 compared to the d80 this isnt too much of a problem, you can shoot at 800-1250 quite confortably as long as your not planning at blowing up the picture too much.
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Thanks for that
I have tried messing with the iso settings on the D80 but did struggle to get the correct exposure in poor lighting conditions.What else could I do to improve exposure when shooting sport in poor light ?
 
theres not a huge amount you can do, open aperture as much as you can, bump up ISO as much as you feel comfortable with, .

have you tried using shutter priority on your camera? set it to a matching speed as your chosen focal length and let the camera work out all the best settings to acheive the faster frame, this may result in dark pictures though but if you shoot in raw you maybe able to rescue it ... worth a try anyway.
 
DoubleT said:
theres not a huge amount you can do, open aperture as much as you can, bump up ISO as much as you feel comfortable with, .

have you tried using shutter priority on your camera? set it to a matching speed as your chosen focal length and let the camera work out all the best settings to acheive the faster frame, this may result in dark pictures though but if you shoot in raw you maybe able to rescue it ... worth a try anyway.
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Thanks mate I have never tried that so will give it a go next time out .
I have also never shot in raw , thats something else for me to master !!!
Quick overview please master
Mark
 
Tbh , i dont shoot in raw ,for what I use my photos for the extra detail and quality is not needed plus it means alot more time sat at the computer ,

But basically a raw photograph is just that, a photo that hasn't been put through any editing software in camera which is what turns it into a jpeg. A raw photo has something like 65 thousand brightness levels at 16bit were as a jpeg only stores 256 brightness levels at 8bit
Basically meaning more detail and more to play with help to get better results when editing , but you need a large memory card when out shooting sports for the day!
 
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