40Driggs wrote:
I'm a canon shooter who decided to check out the images from this camera. A few things I noticed
1.) Amazing cropping ability. The level of detail after heavy cropping is amazing and appeals to me a lot as a wildlife photographer.
2.) Great sharpness. Almost all the images appear to be very sharp. Is it because of the extra detail?
3.) The colors are very pleasing to me. The rendering of blue and green especially stand out (to my eyes) as being excellent.
Thanks for sharing such compelling images everyone!
Since there is no pixel blurring with the E you can literally crop at 100% if you've got good enough glass and good light/good technique when you took the shot.
One from today with the 80-200/2.8 AFS wide open at 135mm. Excellent central frame pixel sharpness at 100% even without any sharpening. At 200mm not so much, though it's still very very good.
Overall the "old" 80-200AFS still does very very well on the D800.
40Driggs wrote:
I'm a canon shooter who decided to check out the images from this camera. A few things I noticed
1.) Amazing cropping ability. The level of detail after heavy cropping is amazing and appeals to me a lot as a wildlife photographer.
2.) Great sharpness. Almost all the images appear to be very sharp. Is it because of the extra detail?
3.) The colors are very pleasing to me. The rendering of blue and green especially stand out (to my eyes) as being excellent.
Thanks for sharing such compelling images everyone!
I made the switch and am happy that I did. While all of the things you noted are true, for me the biggest difference is in the DR. The files hold up much better to massaging without imposing a noise and/or banding penalty. This gives one tremendous latitude to adjust the micro contrast. The other two big deals for me is that the exposures are much more accurate than with Canon and the flash system actually works.
There are downsides as well. You must use good technique or camera shake will eat your shot. Having shot with a 7D (approximately the same pixel density) as one of my cameras I didn't expect this to be a real issue. It is. Not sure why yet and I have countered it by upping my shutter speed and working more off of a tripod.
There are downsides as well. You must use good technique or camera shake will eat your shot. Having shot with a 7D (approximately the same pixel density) as one of my cameras I didn't expect this to be a real issue. It is. Not sure why yet and I have countered it by upping my shutter speed and working more off of a tripod.
That's interesting. I did have to up my ss and be more careful of my long lens technique when I moved from a 40D to a 7D. I'm surprised that the D800 would be worse since it has a similar pixel density.
40Driggs wrote:
That's interesting. I did have to up my ss and be more careful of my long lens technique when I moved from a 40D to a 7D. I'm surprised that the D800 would be worse since it has a similar pixel density.
I owned a 7D as well and agree with Henry that the 800 does seem to be more motion blur prone but in my case only with certain lenses. This might be an IS vs VR thing. Any of my lenses with VR2 seem motion blur free, and those with original VR or no VR are tougher to handhold. With the 7D I shot mostly the 70-200 IS2 and 70-300 L.
