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Just completed a weekend of shooting cheer. Over 30,000 images taken in just two days. The D5 performed like a champ. Here are the pros and cons at a glance along with some real shoot samples under a variety of ISOs under consistent Par Can lighting which IMO is really a better way to judge since you don't have to deal with the inconsistency of cycling indoor lights which will always be bad no matter what the camera is.
Pros...
1) The AF is amazing. Hardly missed a shot and everything is tack sharp. This under erratic moving cheerleaders that are moving fast.
2) ISO, of course. For me, ISO 8,000 all the way to 25,600 is not only acceptable... it's very usable. Starts to breakdown a bit after that, but still usable to 51,200 with a little massaging. I will let you be the judge.
3) 16,000 shots under a single battery charge. Minimal preview time, high speed drive, high ISO of course, Active-D set to low.
4) Buffer is unreal. Never fills up.
5) Preview of images in camera... also unreal. Hold onto the button and you can scroll through photos as fast as the camera shoots.
6) Touch screen is cool and nice. Don't know how practical it will be under time constraints. Zoom in and out feature is kinda cool. Still, I think the buttons are faster.
7) The amount of custom function buttons that you can assign frequent commands to has increased from ONE to FOUR. Lots of options!
Cons...
1) Voice memo no longer exists. Sort of. You have to assign it to Fn3 on the back. So, you gain a custom function button, but lose it just as quick if you are a voice memo guy like me.
2) Creating and displaying in camera folders for all you event shooters... a little different. If you put this in your custom menu, you'll have to put both storage folder and playback folder in the menu as well. You create the folder in the storage folder menu. You display it in the playback folder menu. It's now a two menu process. It's different. Not a drawback, really, just different. The con really is that if you choose to SEE your display folder in the menu, you can only review pix in that folder. You cannot review photos from a different folder unless you change playback to ALL, but then the current folder doesn't display either. You can't have it both ways... at least not that I can figure out yet.
I have to explore a lot more. I immediately only researched the items that I needed so this is a very SHORT list. Onto the samples... I gave both an edited version showing what can be done with a little NR and some editing as well as links to the original out of camera photos. Images were shot with a 70-200 with shutter speeds ranging from 1000 to 4000 at f/2.8 to f/4.5. Before you say... wow, the lighting was really good. It actually wasn't. But when you push the camera to ISO 51K, it opens up the options to shoot at a high shutter and stopped down aperture. We were regularly shooting at ISO 5000 at SS 1000 wide open this weekend. Not the worst indoor lighting, but definitely not the best. Camera Kelvin was set at 3000K which wound up being a tad warm, but we kept it since the athletes like a warmer shot. In-Camera sharpening set to 6/9, saturation +1, contrast – 1. All images shot at JPG Medium, NORM... so even more room for improvement shooting Large FINE or even RAW.
Photos were edited in PS, with sharpening at 100% at a radius of 0.3 and threshold 0.0. Topaz DeNoise set to moderate.
Here are the edited photos with ISO settings. Original links with no downsizing at the end.
ISO 12,800....
http://www.lispn.net/D5/PVA_1285edit_12800.jpg
http://www.lispn.net/D5/PVA_1315_edit_12800.jpg
ISO 25,600...
http://www.lispn.net/D5/PVA_0378edit_25600.jpg
http://www.lispn.net/D5/PVA_0429edit_25600.jpg
ISO 51,200...
http://www.lispn.net/D5/PVA_9295edit_51200.jpg
http://www.lispn.net/D5/PVA_9383edit_51200.jpg
Originals...
ISO 12,800
ISO 12,800
ISO 25,600
ISO 25,600
ISO 51,200
ISO 51,200
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but it is certainly great to know where modern camera tech is.