Rodolfo Paiz wrote:
Then you probably don't need 36MP in the first place, do you?
Probably not before computer screens have higher resolution. But you can still need low noise and be interested in the difference between the D700 and D800. So the "print argument" isn't the only valid one.
The comparison is not about sharpness and detail it is about noise. Noise can be seen in out of focus areas just as clearly as in focus areas. No different then looking at bokeh.
Thanks for posting this link. Of course having the D700 out of focus makes it a bit more difficult, the "noise" is pretty easy to pick out. Especially if any of us who have used the D700 in the past, the noise of it is easy to see. The fact that the D800 shots are sharper, make this a good comparison, because it's the D800 we haven't seen yet, so to see how it handles the noise as the ISO goes up is really nice.
I like how clean it looks from ISO 3200 to 6400, which would be the range I am most interested in as I often shoot late night landscapes with stars.
Thanks for posting this link. Of course having the D700 out of focus makes it a bit more difficult, the "noise" is pretty easy to pick out. Especially if any of us who have used the D700 in the past, the noise of it is easy to see. The fact that the D800 shots are sharper, make this a good comparison, because it's the D800 we haven't seen yet, so to see how it handles the noise as the ISO goes up is really nice.
I like how clean it looks from ISO 3200 to 6400, which would be the range I am most interested in as I often shoot late night landscapes with stars.
Makten wrote:
Probably not before computer screens have higher resolution. But you can still need low noise and be interested in the difference between the D700 and D800. So the "print argument" isn't the only valid one.
The comment to which I responded was not about which camera is better, but about whether upsampling one or downsampling the other is a better way to compare them. I think it's a little silly (at best) to suggest that you upsample the D700 to compare it to the D800 if your output is going to be for screen, don't you?
I do think that the "print argument" is the correct way to address the issue I was actually discussing.
Rodolfo Paiz wrote:
The comment to which I responded was not about which camera is better, but about whether upsampling one or downsampling the other is a better way to compare them. I think it's a little silly (at best) to suggest that you upsample the D700 to compare it to the D800 if your output is going to be for screen, don't you?
I do think that the "print argument" is the correct way to address the issue I was actually discussing.
Well, you said it was simple to compare once you know what print size you want to do, so I just wanted to point out that prints is not always the medium people show or view their images with.
Downscaling to similar size is the most reasonable comparison method in my opinion, unless you intend to print so large that you'd have to upsample both images.
