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| sent on 14 Giugno 2022
Pros: Overall yield
Cons: slow buffer writing
Opinion: My S5 and D200 are fixed pairing for portraits. The D200 is better for speed, buffer and color rendering, but the S5 is appreciated for other features that make it indispensable and for this reason the two bodies integrate perfectly. The camera body is identical to that of the D200, they change 'only' the sensor, the firmware, the battery and, of course... surrender. Compared to the D200 the S5 with the standard parameters, shows a more magenta color rendering, which objectively must be corrected to have a more attractive color (but it must be said that the color parameters of the D200 are still unattainable today and we have not yet understood if it is thanks to the CCD or the firmware); on the other hand, the S5 recovers the highlights very well, and on this it has a step further than the D200. At high iso, always compared to the D200, the S5 has a 'more digital' rendering with the presence of artifacts where the D200, on the other hand, has a noise effect very similar to the grain of an analog film, but, used on black and white from 200 to 3200 iso (excellent yield at high iso) the S5 with the appropriate calibrations (film std simulation, dynamic range 400%, hard tone, std engraving) produces jpg already finished and very beautiful, which do not need any pp. And then: what is the purpose of using today machines 15 years old and moreover with few mpix and a remarkable noise? It's counterintuitive but... the S5 and D200 have peculiar characteristics that make them indispensable tools like an excellent vintage lens. As I have already written: put together they constitute a winning combination for portraits: the S5 that works fixed in B / W without paying any attention to sensitivity because even at 3200 iso (fondocorsa) the images are perfect, the D200, instead works fixed on the color always up to 3200 iso (fondocorsa), with a detail: the 'analog' grain of the D200 is far preferable in the B / W at 1250-3200 iso, but it requires a bit of PP to correct the contrasts that are otherwise quite flat, and unless you need special pictorial renderings, this makes you prefer the S5 that produces ready-made and beautiful files. Unfortunately the S5 is a 'slow' machine, made three-four shots in raw, the loading of the buffer slows down its use, so it is more suitable for reasoned shots, in essence it is not a camera for sports use (something in which the D200 excelled -at least for its period-). The images: to believe that a 2022 camera takes better photos than one of 2005-2006 is wrong, each camera has its own character, which must be known and chosen as you would choose a genre of film to achieve a certain yield. For this reason, thanks to the very particular and -perhaps- today inimitable rendering, the S5 (as well as the D200) must be evaluated, used and appreciated for the undoubtedly very original character of its images. |
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