Sunday, November 9, 2008

Beacon Cyclocross and New D700

Saturday was the Beacon Cyclocross race being held in Bridgeton NJ. Even though I was not racing, Beacon is one of my favorite courses and was where I got my start into cyclocross racing a few years ago. The weather was mixed for the day - overcast with on and off rain showers causing difficult shooting conditions especially since a lot of the course is covered in trees. I just picked up a Nikon D700 body which is a Full Frame camera. I thought this would be an excellent day to put it to its "High ISO" test not using any flash. All I can say is I was greatly impressed with the camera. I ended up shooting quite a bit at ISO levels up to 6400 and was amazed at the low noise levels. The slide show I am running below is showing examples of some high ISO images (3400-6400) with the D700. Since the Slide Show only shows small, low resolution captures of the larger image - if your interested you can view larger versions of the images here:
High ISO Images


Unfortunately one of the buttons on the back of the D700 body ended up getting stuck causing none of the buttons on the camera to work :( so I only got to shoot with the body for about 1/2 of the race, the rest I had to shoot with my D300 and needed to use flash.

Complete gallerys of the Beacon Race can be found here:
Beacon Cyclocross Race