djhanson2000 wrote:
Initially, that was the thought, but may in fact be the opposite if you shoot very continuously. Rob Galbraith interviewed a Nikon Sr Mgr/Eng at the CES. From Rob's article, "...the real-world charge life of the EN-EL18 in the D4 should end up about matching or slightly exceeding the D3S and EN-EL4a":
Fascinating. Thank you for posting. I have seen a lot of people moan about the 'apparent' decrease in battery life so I think this will make an iteresting read for those. I will start a nhew thread I think.....
jolahern wrote:
Was it mentined anywhere if you can capture RAW still images images while capturing video?
Never had a DSLR that could shot video, find it hard enough just to do the stills at a wedding so trying to think if the how you could juggle doing the two, trying to see if you be doing something like shooting video of the bride coming into the church and then take a few still images for the album?
It can capture a 2MP image while recording video according to te guy at the table, if you want full res, you have to switch over to regular capture then back to video - takes a few seconds.
If Nikon could come up with 14-bit RAW video capture, it could give RED a run.
jolahern wrote:
Was it mentined anywhere if you can capture RAW still images images while capturing video?
Never had a DSLR that could shot video, find it hard enough just to do the stills at a wedding so trying to think if the how you could juggle doing the two, trying to see if you be doing something like shooting video of the bride coming into the church and then take a few still images for the album?
Rats, not exactly something you could use in an wedding album, except maybe as a small image.
I think the Panasonic micro 4/3 cameras can save a full res still while using video, if the D4 could do that I would be tempted to see if I could sell a kidney to fund an upgrade of my D3
Steve Perry wrote:
It can capture a 2MP image while recording video according to te guy at the table, if you want full res, you have to switch over to regular capture then back to video - takes a few seconds.
jolahern wrote:
Rats, not exactly something you could use in an wedding album, except maybe as a small image.
I think the Panasonic micro 4/3 cameras can save a full res still while using video, if the D4 could do that I would be tempted to see if I could sell a kidney to fund an upgrade of my D3
The Nikon V1 will do that! Full res. jpgs, not raw mind you, w/o interrupting video recording. Although, I doubt that you'd want to use the V1 as a main camera. As a 2nd cam., though, it just might work.
Thanks for the heads-up on the D4. There's been talk of the improved DR on the D4 and beautiful tonality and skin tones. If it does indeed produce those + 1 stop better iso (as per Nikon's claim) + native iso 100, that is a lot of improvement. Almost forgot the big improvement in video (because it doesn't really matter for me)
I played with one at Imaging USA. Two interesting things I noted
1. A lot lighter than the D3
2. Was able to capture 60 RAW images to the card before the buffer was full, and this was on a 3-year old Sandisk non-UDMA CF card rated for 30/mb sec read speeds. So in other words, nothing fancy. The XQD slot was empty.
Wow, at base ISO, a stop and a half more dynamic range than a D700/D3/D3s! I was planning on getting a D800, but if it doesn't have that same huge jump in DR, I'm sold on the D4!
When i asked what was the hi ISO advantage of the D4 verses the D3s I was told 3/4 to a full stop by one Nikon CES counterman and, later, "more than a full stop" by another. I guess that averages out to one stop?
If a one stop hi ISO improvement over the D3s (that's two stops over the D3) with a 12 to 16 mp rtoo is the "Only" upgrade then that's a big thing for my work. That makes all my lenses 1 stop faster gathering light and advances my default indoor ISO to 12,800.
With the new 85mm F 1.8 the D4 felt very light. Small improvements such as a vertical hold joystick
are welcome to move the AF box. There are other tweaks that ownership will reveal. I trust Nikon not to do something stupid so I have a D4 on order.
so trying to think if the how you could juggle doing the two, trying to see if you be doing something like shooting video of the bride coming into the church and then take a few still images for the album?