尼康好兄弟 再見!尼康D3S

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Hello my friends, welcome back
Do you remember this camera, the D3S?
The one that made my channel exist, in fact, I would say
It's an important day today because
My D3S is living somewhere else
But why, why, why on earth am I
selling my D3S and my Nikon gear?
Well, since several years
I have been juggling in two worlds
The Nikon F mount system
And on the other side, the L mount aliens
You know, I started with the Lumix S1R
For those who follow me, you know a little bit of the story
Now my system is that
I have too much gear in both Nikon and L mount aliens world
So the reason for this Nikon equipment setting
Is that I need to make some clarification in my photography gear
But yes, you can still trust in this camera
Even in 24 or whatever the year
As soon as you don't care having 12 megapixel sensor
You don't care the noise of the SLR
And what if you don't care about the size
Of course of the camera, it's a big one
But and as soon as you get very good lens to put on it
And if you have a compact flash card reader
Or if you don't mind downloading the files
Even with the cable to your computer, that's good
You don't have any Wi-Fi communication or whatever
So you're not going to take pictures
And on the go send the pictures on your phone
So the difference is a real professional camera
And that's from another time where you just took pictures
Yeah, also the point is that I never switch to the Z mount
Because I prefer the user interface of the Lumix S1
S1R, S5
Compared to the Nikon Z mount interface
The Nikon Z mount is not that far from the F mount
You feel at home
I mean you can find all the stuff that you are used to
But the autofocus system has become very complex
You need to choose before you shoot
You need to choose a lot of things
To be sure that you will not miss your focus
I tried the Z6 too
You're always going to the autofocus parameter
To be sure that you are in the right place
On the contrary, if you take a DSLR
It's very, very simple
You just press the AF on button
And you make the focus
You're not always trying to change the things
And also the reason why I prefer
The L mount is about the lenses
Like I said
The L mount lenses
The Leica lenses are so gorgeous
But it's time to decide to
Okay, let's switch on the L mount
And don't live between these two worlds
For years again
So it's time to decide
Moreover with the S5 two weeks now
There is no issue
No longer issue with the autofocus
But however, it's not to say that
That Nikon is outdated
It's quite the contrary
The D3S is still delivering
And I wanted to share with you some pictures
So let's see them together
Just to show you the proof of
How the D3S is working today
And you can still trust it
And go out and take very nice pictures
So let's see right now
There are some pictures
So the first series of pictures is
About night show
It's called the Seine-au-ferry of Saint Blancet in France
And as you can see
The D3S with a
I think I had the 300mm f4
VR
I had the
Sometimes 85 1.4
But I didn't like the result
I had also the Tamron
One
150 to 600 yes
And as you can see on the pictures
I always nail the focus
And
It was really rich in colors
The subject
The eyes of the characters
And portraits that I made
If you look at them
If even if you close
To the pictures
With only 12 megapixels
Very very impressive
And as you can see
It's mainly the glasses
That makes the picture
Looks more or less
Beautiful
So if you put very nice glasses
On this camera
As on any other cameras
You would get this
Nice bokeh
This nice
Crispy details
Focus point and so on
So these were taken during
Night show
Another example of
What I did with D3S
Was
Corporate photography report
But as you can see
The portraits are very nice
This
This woman
Showing some products in her hand
Is smiling at me with
Focus nailed in the eye
You don't need to have face
Face
Detection
Eye detection
Continuous focus
You just need to
To know how to use camera
And where to put your
Focus point
And that's it
You can nail eye
Eye focus
Manually
You don't need to get all these
Artificial intelligence
New
Solutions
As soon as you know how to
To take camera and use it
You will be
Very happy with it
But if you look at all these pictures
My customer was really pleased by them
No point
No
No way for him to distinct
Both taken with D3S
And both taken with D850 or D750
I don't remember
No
You have
Believe this camera
Believe me
You can trust this camera even today
As soon as you can
Work with 12 megapixels
Some customers
Some specific
Large prints
Will require some
More
More megapixel sensors
But with 12 megapixels
You already can print A2
Also I wanted to show you these
Pictures taken in a
Street session
Street photography session in by night
In the town of Lyon in France
And again
Very rich in colors
Crispy details
Where the focus is
Is made
Rich colors again
I mean
No
No fear to take pictures during the night
With the D3S
This Lyon
Is
Is taken with a manual focus lens
A specific one
Kind of pancake 50mm f1.8
AIS
And this lens
As you can see the background
The bokeh is specific to this lens
It's like a vintage lens
And I like this effect
And
And sometimes
You want to
Come back to this kind of effect
And not always having this very nice
Circular balls
Like you have on Sigma ART lenses
Okay it's clean
It's sharp
It's sharp and so on but
Sometimes it lacks of
Sensitivity or
How can I say that
You
You don't feel the atmosphere or whatever
It's just
Precise lens
Without any mood
Without any character
And this old
Very old pancake 50mm manual lens
Okay it's soft
You don't have very sharp
Focus point but
You have this bokeh that you don't have with
Modern lenses
Again this one
It's in a
Kind of
Tunnel
It's a tunnel where cars
Are going and people can walk
Through
And you have some specific
Lights
Like as you can see
Here they
I played a little bit with the D3S
And I remember for this picture
When I was taking picture
You know you have this sound
It was
A little bit
Scary for the people
Because I was hidden behind
Car that was parked
On the other side of the street
In the tunnel
Which is in the concrete in dark
Except the light
Where the light is
Touching the walls and so on
And I saw that people
Had some fear when they
Hear
Hear the sound of the camera
Click click click click
Was a
It's well it's a story behind this picture
Some other pictures as you can see
That are taken with the D3S by night
Again
Again it's the night here
And
The colors are very very good
And
You can
Raise the ISO
2800
So
No problem with that
And all these session was done
With manual lenses
At the 50 millimeter
I have the 105
And
I guess that was
That's all
Yep
Nice
Nice pictures also
I love all these
This session
But also you can see that
You can have fun
Playing with the D3S
Also in a zoo
For instance like this tiger
This funny
Monkey
With the 300 millimeter for instance
Which is a small
Small lens
The 300 the VR
F4 is very very interesting for
D3S is also
Quite good in portrait session
As you can see
Here was for fun with some
Friends of mine
Look all the focus is made on the eyes
Just impressive
Impressive look
With this one in black and white
Is just amazing
And
And so on and so forth
This one
Was maybe the I guess 85 and 58 millimeter
1.4
And that's it
That's it
You can have fun with portrait session
Also with D3S
And last but not least is a race car
Competition
So I was in Dijon for
For a car race
As you can see
Again D3S as soon as you can
As you know how to
Work with the camera
You can make nice pictures
Tell me what you think in the comments
Just that
Let you
See all those pictures of this car racing
And you can
Go into the video
Back and forth
Just to look again at all these pictures
Taken with a Nikon D3S
And believe me
It's leading to
To someone else
And I'm sure we will
Use it with a lot of
Trust and
It will be happy with the camera
As you can see it's
Really
In mint condition
No problem with this camera
Everything is on board
And
I guess the
The new user of the camera
Will be happy
To play with it again
Next video maybe would be
To talk to you about the D3X
Because
As you remember D3S was
Launched
The same time of
Nearly the same time as the D3X
Which was the only
Only full body like this
Up until now in the DSLR world
That had 24 megapixels
So yeah the D3X
Is still
And I have it here on my desk
This is a D3X with a
Camron G2
150-600
And the D3X
Is a very very good camera also
So maybe next video we'll talk about the D3X
So
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See you
Goodbye
