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Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D300
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This is a tough, mixed lighting, moderate-contrast scene that
attempts to show issues with images. Some of the colors (red roof)
will go out of gamut in some of my tests—this is intentional. White
Balance is set to
Auto
. ISO is 200. Other camera controls other
than the ones being tested are at the camera default. While the
image looks bright, it is properly exposed—the slight lack of
definition in the white is caused by Nikon’s change in gamma
(
Brightness
setting).
One word of warning: go by what I write, not necessarily what you
see. First, I’ve evaluated a lot of different images to make my
conclusions. While my test setup is geared to generate some basic
data for evaluation, JPEG compression can and does render
different scenes differently. My comments are the accumulation of
shooting a number of different scenes using these settings. Second,
the multiple compressions these images go through to get into the
PDF file and the non-100% view you’re likely to be looking at
make it tough to evaluate fine detail from the eBook pages.
