Hi Don, Having played about with 500+ exposures I'm now starting to set myself some structured tests. Up till now I have not used the Active D Lighting, and many other features, but over the next week or so {weather permitting} I'm going to repeat the Springfield Park lake shot one as is, the other with Active D. At the moment I am shooting large jpegs with only occasional RAW - I do Normally shoot Raw. I have to say that I have NOT found any over or under exposure problems. With my D2x - when I load into Photoshop I always turn the picture down one stop - not because it needs it but because it is a personal thing I automatically do for my monitor. I don't do it if I'm printing. I am also using the D2x mode III setting that I downloaded from Nikon.
The above birds were just an extreme test of the full 51 auto focus sensors and I think it handled them very well. I will be repeating this with the Bigma in the near future.
I am happy with the program mode, and very happy with the Aperture priority mode. I have not yet tried out shutter priority or manual - that is still to come.
First impressions are as above - better than a D200 equal to a D2x.
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