hey just to ask, what picture controls do you guys use with the camera? I'm on standard and shoot just jpeg. I tried landscape and vivid and they are a bit too inaccurately punchy.
aFrIcanSH wrote:
hey just to ask, what picture controls do you guys use with the camera? I'm on standard and shoot just jpeg. I tried landscape and vivid and they are a bit too inaccurately punchy.
hm.. what would be great analog analogy to jpeg in film age...
let me think.....
jpeg is like shooting with UV filter on cheap film and developing it in walmart
Kittyk wrote:
hm.. what would be great analog analogy to jpeg in film age...
let me think.....
jpeg is like shooting with UV filter on cheap film and developing it in walmart
JPEG is evil
whats the point of shooting raw if i'd process them to how SOOC jpegs would end up anyway? Thats how i see it, cause i've tried it. Nevermind.
D800 shooters, how much time have you spent with the face detection and fast lenses? I'm wondering how well it works with off center subjects and wide open glass such as the 85 1.4, 200 2.0, 24 1.4. Not so concerned with fast moving subjects as, will it reliably hit focus and free you up to watch composition and expression?
aFrIcanSH wrote:
whats the point of shooting raw if i'd process them to how SOOC jpegs would end up anyway? Thats how i see it, cause i've tried it. Nevermind.
of course jpeg will not look better then jpeg. what about SOOC 16bit TIFF? Why to own such great camera when you will then remove half of the data it captures?
JPEG is crotch for slow internet connection. It is evil and should be avoided for anything except what it was made for: slow internet connections.
workerdrone wrote:
D800 shooters, how much time have you spent with the face detection and fast lenses? I'm wondering how well it works with off center subjects and wide open glass such as the 85 1.4, 200 2.0, 24 1.4. Not so concerned with fast moving subjects as, will it reliably hit focus and free you up to watch composition and expression?
live view AF is still as bad as it always was. no miracle here. we still have not fast and reliable enough autofocusing since tens of years it is in development, would you really hope some gimmick as that to work one to another generation?
^ Oh I did not understand that it was functional in live view only. If that's the case, not interested.
Even on full frame viewfinder, when I try to MF at minimum DOF I almost always get fewer keepers than I will with AF. I've accepted that my eyes aren't what they used to be.
So anything to up the keeper rate even further is of interest to me
learn to use green confirmation dot, let your eyes checked and calibrate viewfinder (with the diopter correction) so you see sharp.
then your MF should be fast enough
This shot was with a 50mm 1.4D F-10 1/400 ISO 400. Shot raw and converted with ViewNX2 cropped with PS5. I have no idea how far you could crop a picture and make it look bad!!! Crazy camera!
workerdrone wrote:
D800 shooters, how much time have you spent with the face detection and fast lenses? I'm wondering how well it works with off center subjects and wide open glass such as the 85 1.4, 200 2.0, 24 1.4. Not so concerned with fast moving subjects as, will it reliably hit focus and free you up to watch composition and expression?
If the 85 and 50 F1.8 AFS lenses could be considered "fast", then I might add something... :-)
You question isn't really related to the camera. (!)
If the outer points will work well depends on the amount of curvature of field in the lens, and also the amount of astigmatism. And you have to realize that the error will be hugely more important if you shoot the 24mm at F1.4 than if you shoot the 200mm at F2.0. Angular distance varies a LOT with wide-angles, and almost not at all with telephoto lenses. As icing on the cake, WA lenses often have very much more curved focus-planes also...
Doing "focus&recompose" at a static target with the 200mm lens will not actually hurt the accuracy very much. But put a lens like the 24 or the older 28/2.8AIS on the camera, and you're in for a world of pain.
And WHY shoot static targets at maximum aperture? Isn't extremely short DoF getting kind of old by now?
The face-recognition in itself works very fast, as as far as I can see right now, also very accurately. But the result will vary with the lens you put on the camera. With the 50mm lens I have no problems at F2.8, but I wouldn't want to try it with the 24/1.4 wide open.
aFrIcanSH wrote:
hey just to ask, what picture controls do you guys use with the camera? I'm on standard and shoot just jpeg. I tried landscape and vivid and they are a bit too inaccurately punchy.
I shoot exclusively RAW. I normally shoot in Aperture mode for regular shots and Shutter mode for sports.
