I thought everyone might be interested in checking out the product of some playing around with the new beast a few nights back. My only comment so far is that is blows anything else I have ever used out of the water. I can't wait to start making prints with this bad boy.
Posted by David Bostedo on April 11, 2012 at 9:28 PM
I'd actually like to see a 100% crop if you could Joe.
Posted by David Graham on April 12, 2012 at 7:45 AM
You lens did a magnificent job. The box it was attached to apparrently can deliver a 1/500 sec exposure!
Ho Hum.
O.K. Yea, well, it's really nice!
Really!
Dave Graham...you know...your green-eyed friend in SD
Posted by Carol Nichols on April 12, 2012 at 1:48 PM
Joe, you've really got some great equipment now. I can't wait to see what you do with it!
Joe - this is a terrible shot. The camera is a wreck.
I'd be happy to take if off your hands, and will even pay shipping.
Sandy
Posted by David Edwards on April 14, 2012 at 6:24 AM
Wonderful clarity Joe. I got my D800 about a week ago and I am astounded and the image quality from the test shots I have taken. Hope you don't mind me adding one of my own? This one is a 100% crop of an in-camera JPG image taken this morning with a 35mm f/1.8 DX (1.5 crop factor) lens, hand-held f/8, 1/250sec, ISO 100, with a medium image size setting producing a 2400x3600 px photo of 2.87MB. No additional processing.
I'm right in the middle of moving house at the moment so I don't have any landscape images yet, but once I've moved and life returns to normal I can't wait to get out there and capture some landscapes again!! Good luck with yours Joe, looking forward to seeing some more images posted.
Posted by Larry Fischer on April 14, 2012 at 11:17 AM
I've read where the D800 out does the D4 at low ISO but the D4 takes over above about ISO 800.
So low light issues might be an issue for landscape photographers might look at the D4 [cost aside].
Also HDR users get quicker shots with the D4, up to 11 fps. D800 I think comes in a 4 fps.
And the D800 is 36 mp and will load up computer memory significantly faster, or make one delete the lagging attempts better than in the past.
Regardless, both look to be fine cameras. I'll ride with my D700 for quite a while because of funds.
the fisch
Posted by David Bostedo on April 14, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Larry - As far as ISO, I'd be willing to bet there's a relatively small difference with the D800 at high ISO over the D4 when the resolution is factored in. Sure, the smaller pixels in the D800 are going to be noisier... but if you downsample the D800 to the D4 resolution, that will mostly go away.
The DxOMark testing backs this up. They show about a 1 stop difference in noise at all ISOs (which probably isn't visible up to about 400 or 800). But when the data is normalized to a common resolution, the camera's noise is almost identical.
So if you really want that high res capability of the D800, you can still get potentially match the D4 low light performance by down-sampling.
I think we're splitting hairs here guys. If you say one is better than the other, it may be true, but to what degree??? If one does 10 or 20percent better than the other at 100% will that even be visible at "normal" viewing situations? I imagine the difference will be much less than 10 or 20 percent. I've heard/read that the D800 out performs the D700 up to iso6400. If this is true, then I'd say that's pretty darn good! All I know is that I'm expecting a pretty big improvement over my D200!
I'm jealous.
I put my order in to B&H at 6:30 am Feb 7 (First pre-order day)
I'm still waiting.
And headed out to the Grand Canyon on Thursday.
Oh well....
Nice to see some folks with their new gear.
Chris I agree 100%... I'm using the D300s now and cant wait to get the FX sensor and putting that to work.
Good luck to all.
I've read a lot of forum talk while waiting for my D800, and there is a lot of conjecter out there. But in the field (mine arrived the other day), it really shines. As I suspected from 36 pixels, I can shoot a bird that's too far away and crop in very tight. I've got pixels to burn and that's a nice feeling.
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14 repliesI thought everyone might be interested in checking out the product of some playing around with the new beast a few nights back. My only comment so far is that is blows anything else I have ever used out of the water. I can't wait to start making prints with this bad boy.
Camera: Nikon D800
Lens: 600mm F4 VR
ISO: 400
Aperture: f/8
Shutter Speed: 1/500th
Heavy crop
Ho Hum.
O.K. Yea, well, it's really nice!
Really!
Dave Graham...you know...your green-eyed friend in SD
I'd be happy to take if off your hands, and will even pay shipping.
Sandy
I'm right in the middle of moving house at the moment so I don't have any landscape images yet, but once I've moved and life returns to normal I can't wait to get out there and capture some landscapes again!! Good luck with yours Joe, looking forward to seeing some more images posted.
So low light issues might be an issue for landscape photographers might look at the D4 [cost aside].
Also HDR users get quicker shots with the D4, up to 11 fps. D800 I think comes in a 4 fps.
And the D800 is 36 mp and will load up computer memory significantly faster, or make one delete the lagging attempts better than in the past.
Regardless, both look to be fine cameras. I'll ride with my D700 for quite a while because of funds.
the fisch
The DxOMark testing backs this up. They show about a 1 stop difference in noise at all ISOs (which probably isn't visible up to about 400 or 800). But when the data is normalized to a common resolution, the camera's noise is almost identical.
So if you really want that high res capability of the D800, you can still get potentially match the D4 low light performance by down-sampling.
Chris
I put my order in to B&H at 6:30 am Feb 7 (First pre-order day)
I'm still waiting.
And headed out to the Grand Canyon on Thursday.
Oh well....
Nice to see some folks with their new gear.
Chris I agree 100%... I'm using the D300s now and cant wait to get the FX sensor and putting that to work.
Good luck to all.