I don't like this camera at night though. I think my D800 is better in the night time long exposure shots. This thing can't focus for shit in the dark. My D800 focuses superbly. I tried single point and group focus point in the dark, and neither are anything to brag home about.
My shots at night were all ISO 64 at 30 plus seconds or more. I think one of them is even at 190 seconds. ISO 100 was a slight improvement. I think in the DARK, the D800 has the advantage with better focus, and target aquisition. With a little more light though the D800 at it's lowest base ISO is better at night, with not a lot of light around. When i get mine back from Nikon i'll test them both side by side and see what's up.
I got my D810 today, and I love it. But I have been surprised and generally annoyed by a few things on the D810 (which is my first camera with "pro" controls), coming from the D7100/D600:
- Lack of support for infrared remotes. You have to use a wired remote, or put a big antenna on the front of your camera? Really?
- Lack of U1/U2 settings, and the settings banks suck
- Giant wireless and GPS adapters. I'm sad that it doesn't support the nice slim wireless adapter that the D7100 does.
- Separate OK button seems pointless, and it makes it annoying to use some menu items, which will only accept "OK" and not the center button of the directional pad
- It seems pointless to have the WB/ISO/metering buttons on the top, where they are hard to reach, rather than on the back like the D7100. Plus it's just a waste of buttons -- now the buttons on the back do nothing while you are in shooting mode, and can't be re-bound.
- Can't add sub-menu-items to the My Items menu, such as 14-bit/12-bit for RAW (you can do this on the D7100).
It's as if the D7100/D600 are the flagships and the D810 is still lagging behind with old tech in many areas (10 pin remote/GPS connection, can't really save profiles in a useful way, doesn't support infrared wireless remotes, pointlessly large).
I just wanted to vent. With all of that said, I'm really looking forward to getting out and taking some actual pictures with it :-).
OccAeon wrote:
I got my D810 today, and I love it. But I have been surprised and generally annoyed by a few things on the D810 (which is my first camera with "pro" controls), coming from the D7100/D600:
- Lack of support for infrared remotes. You have to use a wired remote, or put a big antenna on the front of your camera? Really?
- Lack of U1/U2 settings, and the settings banks suck
- Giant wireless and GPS adapters. I'm sad that it doesn't support the nice slim wireless adapter that the D7100 does.
- Separate OK button seems pointless, and it makes it annoying to use some menu items, which will only accept "OK" and not the center button of the directional pad
- It seems pointless to have the WB/ISO/metering buttons on the top, where they are hard to reach, rather than on the back like the D7100. Plus it's just a waste of buttons -- now the buttons on the back do nothing while you are in shooting mode, and can't be re-bound.
- Can't add sub-menu-items to the My Items menu, such as 14-bit/12-bit for RAW (you can do this on the D7100).
It's as if the D7100/D600 are the flagships and the D810 is still lagging behind with old tech in many areas (10 pin remote/GPS connection, can't really save profiles in a useful way, doesn't support infrared wireless remotes, pointlessly large).
I just wanted to vent. With all of that said, I'm really looking forward to getting out and taking some actual pictures with it :-). ...Show more →
When you get used to these you'll see them as advantages and you won't believe you once liked the D7100/D600 controls
John Skinner wrote:
Those aren't the controls found on the D1 D2 D3 D4 models..
It was a joke But since you mention it, yes they are (lack of U1/U2, no infrared remote, upper controls, separate ok button, same GPS adapter, same menu implementation)
