Latest Nikon D3s Camera will change my world.

Latest Nikon D3s product is just arriving on the European market. I just had in my hands the very first D3s received by Nikon France. Rather than an update of the top professional D3 FX standard camera I am already equipped, new features are proofs that this camera is a revolution in photography.

Using the Nikon D3, I could set the Camera up to 6400 ISO without loosing sharpness and contrast too obviously, and with fair noise reduction results. Up from 6400 it is possible to shoot with the D3 but with too much noise increase every step augmented with a Hi... Things change with the Nikon D3s as I tested it at 12800 ISO inside a room lightly flooded with light, and without any flash on it. Really the quality of the frame was that of the Nikon D3 set at 6400 ISO. Serious I do not need more than 200 ISO to shoot still - or slow moving - subjects (even at night, please dial ISO 100 or 200 on your cameras and use a tripod if you are serious).

But as an aviation reporter hunting for fast jets or birds in the darkest conditions, at low light, or through the fog www.sky-lens.com/articles-air-shows.php , I will be more than happy. Wildlife photographers having tested this D3s on tasks flanked by Nikon engineers and using the highest ISO rates under rain, or cold weather, have managed to take pictures of bears and birds at 102.400 ISO (H-3) with a 400 mm f/2.8 telelens at night. They did obtain the same noise level as with the D3 at 25.800 ISO.And they add though the pictures were noisy they were even more surprised that the photos revealed things they were not able to see with their own eyes.

Being a video user, I have been waiting for long for a photographic camera that would also do video. Nikon invented the video implemented technology on the D90 a year and half ago, but it transpired that never it would enable photographers to do serious video or let's say cinema shooting. Being a film producer has nothing to do with the photographer's job. Seriously ou need MPEG standard video equipment on a heavy tripods to shoot sequences.

Nikon has introduced so-called D-Movie technology with the D3s. Filming is under Motion-JPEG format and does 1280 x 720 pixels videos (at 24 vps). The problem with the D3s is that you have to use the liveview system and frame through it to shoot a video, as you can't watch what you are shooting through the viewfinder. So this system does not make a real video equipement as it will be difficult to shoot as properly as your eye would into a Sony camera : it is a nightmare to make a movie without being able to fully control the border of your frame if you don't have it into your eye, with the camera tightly held .

But to my point of view, D-Movie photography introduce new possibilities that may make a small revolution to cinema : with the FX frame the user can shoot in D-movie anything, keeping a fully blured background - the so-called ' bokeh ' effect. Please try to do that with conventional videos.... So in a near future my world will also change with the D3s, and that's what you will experience in Sky-Lens'Aviation' website.