Official Nikon D300 sample with greater dynamic range
Initial impression from these images - a particular photographers ability to compose, light a subject and post process an image rather than the technical competence of the camera. It looks like the photograph is supposed to relay a sense of soft dreaminess. These D300 samples are excellent for judging shadow noise, looks like no noise at all in the shadows, very clean. According to Bjorn D300 has an increase of 1.5 , 2 stops over the D200. Nikon is telling us that D300’s iso 200 is better than D200 at iso 100 with greater dynamic range of 1 stop without compromising on noise from higher pixels.
The picture is quite under-exposed, yet with shadow recovery you can now read what’s on the tires, with no noise distraction. Any perceived improvements in higher iso for the D300 would mostly be software driven. People Would be happy if it’s 0.5 stop better than D200. Both samples are soft due to diffraction (f/14 and f/16).The original sample was taken with Sharpening=0, where possible values are A or 0-9. You can extract a lot of shadow detail from this image. Boosting the gamma to ridiculous levels revealed JPEG artifacts and typical posterization, not noise. These are jpegs, that means they’re 8-bit images. Even if they stareted out as 14-bit, at some point they had to be converted to JPEGS. Any additional tweaking, resizing, etc. that you’re seeing here is being done to 8-bit images. Pre-order Nikon D300 from Amazon.
Reference: Nikone D300 Sample, Dpreview D300 forum
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