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A D800 at last (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Neil
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stoop
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Really beautiful photographs, Neil, thanks and for the feeback re" tripods.
I was still almost going to wait for a new DX camera update (esp, with today's 24mp D3200 release) but the clarity of all the D800 pics make me very excited about that camera.
Maybe I should get all of 'em.
I was still almost going to wait for a new DX camera update (esp, with today's 24mp D3200 release) but the clarity of all the D800 pics make me very excited about that camera.
Maybe I should get all of 'em.
GYRob
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Some great detail there Neil if i wasn't tied in to canons system i would have one myself.
Rob
I was jealous of you Canon guys before I got the D3.
One of the main things I like is the fast AF in a light weight body. The 4/5 frames per second isn't a problem at all as it locks on faster than the D3s. Also having the ability to AF with a 2x tele on an f4 lens is a big plus.
Neil
The D800 and Zeiss lenses are a match made in heaven,
Your pics look really good Neil.
Regards,
Leon
rdspalm
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First Impressions
I received my nice new D800 just before Easter. I was going to New York for Easter but did not have any time to learn the camera before I went. So the photos below are my first results.
My initial impressions are excellent, The 36mp allows for excellent cropping. The Booted Eagle photo is a heavy crop.
I wonder about the high ISO performance. I thought the grain was quite prominent at 800 & 1000. I must do some direct comparisons with the D700 on a fixed subject, more on that later.
I have not got the hang of the video as yet but I find in general that the D800 is fairly similar to the D700 to operate.
Follow my Flickr link for more photos (Mallorca Birds April 2012).
Richard
I received my nice new D800 just before Easter. I was going to New York for Easter but did not have any time to learn the camera before I went. So the photos below are my first results.
My initial impressions are excellent, The 36mp allows for excellent cropping. The Booted Eagle photo is a heavy crop.
I wonder about the high ISO performance. I thought the grain was quite prominent at 800 & 1000. I must do some direct comparisons with the D700 on a fixed subject, more on that later.
I have not got the hang of the video as yet but I find in general that the D800 is fairly similar to the D700 to operate.
Follow my Flickr link for more photos (Mallorca Birds April 2012).
Richard
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ericbowles
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I'm post processing using Capture NX2. Hardware is a relatively new PC running Windows 7 with 8 GB of RAM.
With D7000 and D300 images, post processing is relatively fast and there are no issues. The images form the D800E are significantly larger resulting in slower downloads and in slower processing of images. I am getting occasional error messages that "the Temporary folder is near full". No crashes yet, but the processing speed is an issue.
With D7000 and D300 images, post processing is relatively fast and there are no issues. The images form the D800E are significantly larger resulting in slower downloads and in slower processing of images. I am getting occasional error messages that "the Temporary folder is near full". No crashes yet, but the processing speed is an issue.
Dave Williams
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I see that NX2 is being offered as a free extra on the D800E only here in the UK if you purchase from Grays.
I am amazed that it's so slow in everything it does compared to Canon's freely given DPP system and that's handling smaller D300 files compared to the IDMK1V's which are roughly 50% larger.I can imagine the huge D800 files are painfully slow.
Both crash but Nikon's is far more susceptible.
ericbowles
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Crashing is very rare with the latest version and my D300 and D7000. I don't recall Capture NX2 version 2.3 or later ever crashing.
The files from the D800/D800E are 40-60MB compressed - and 75 MB uncompressed. Opened and working the files are nearly 200MB. The software works best on a single image at a time. The delays come from rendering a JPEG for use in the viewer or as a thumbnail - and even that JPEG is pretty big. The biggest issue is when you have a lot of editing steps.
The files from the D800/D800E are 40-60MB compressed - and 75 MB uncompressed. Opened and working the files are nearly 200MB. The software works best on a single image at a time. The delays come from rendering a JPEG for use in the viewer or as a thumbnail - and even that JPEG is pretty big. The biggest issue is when you have a lot of editing steps.
Thanks for the comments on processing D800 images. At the moment I use NX (I haven't upgraded to NX2) and Elements. As I suspected it looks as though more RAM will be required which means upgrading to 64 bit Win7 which in turn means a clean install as I understand it. Oh well, at least all my data files are already backed up on an external disc.
Bill
Bill
I took the D800 to the local park today and shot it on the Kowa Lens/scope Prominar with it's 850/9.6 module. No AF of course but the Zoom magnification in Liveview makes it easy to focus.
The first image was taken with the Nikon 105/2.8 AF lens.
Neil
The first image was taken with the Nikon 105/2.8 AF lens.
Neil
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The Kowa is a hybrid system - a manual focus lens system as well as a prism unit to turn it into a spotting scope that takes all their attachments
http://kowa-prominar.com/new/telephoto101103.htm
There is a thread on it in the Kowa section too.
It's a very light-weight 350/500/850 mm lens system.
Neil
I'm loving the ability to use the 300/4 AFS lens with a 2x teleconverter as my travel camera. My first postings were from my trip to Sydney and here are some from a recent trip to Florida.
With Crop Mode it's equivalent to 900 mm with 16 megs.
Neil
Nikon D800 and Nikon 300/4 AFS and Nikon TC 20E 111 (2x)
Florida,USA
April,2012
With Crop Mode it's equivalent to 900 mm with 16 megs.
Neil
Nikon D800 and Nikon 300/4 AFS and Nikon TC 20E 111 (2x)
Florida,USA
April,2012
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