Nikon D800

[DiploStrat]

Why don't you just rent one?

The trip is doing enough violence to the budget and besides, the D200 is quite adequate to document the limits of my technique!

 

[Lost Canadian]

Update

Next week will be my first landscape outing with the D800 and 14-24mm combo so I am putting this setup through the paces now to see what it can do with respects to dynamic range and resolution for landscape. Pretty solid stuff I must say! Here is a very tough test I setup today and the result is about all I could really ask for. D800 and 14-24mm naked, shot into the sun early morning with a hint of haze in the air, check the histogram. No blown highlights or crushed shadows. And detail, even at the extreme corners of the image is remarkable. Can't wait until next week!

The Set Up

The Histogram

The Full Image

100% Crops

100% Crop Near Center

100% Crop Extreme Upper Left

100% Crop Extreme Bottom Left

 

[Tucson T4R]

Pretty impressive results. I'm looking forward to see what you capture with this combo on your trip.

 

[taco2go]

Cool, cool, cool

 

[Ryanmb21]

We are loving our D800. Here is a shot that my father-in-law took of my wife and our unborn kid. (shot with the old push-pull 80-200 2.8)

 

[Tucson T4R]

Cool shot Ryan. That will be a memory jogger over the years. Very nice.

 

[cbradley]

I'm digging all the photographs from the D800s.

I finally got my D800E. Let me simply say, I love this camera!

Here are a couple test shots I took:

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This image was shot at ISO 2800. I think the sensor noise is rendered pretty well, especially with the harsh lighting.

 

[Lost Canadian]

Nice shots guys. Had another wedding this weekend in which I incorporated some video. I haven't got around to grading it yet but I thought I'd share the profile I used. Some more advanced HDSLR shooters are probably familiar with Simalaar's custom flaat profiles. Much like Technicolors Cinestyle, Simalaars Flaat profiles are designed to increase dynamic range and give you a nice flat starting point for video edits. I uploaded the flaat 10 and flaat 11 profiles into my camera and loved them, 11 really is an awesome starting point for vids, way better than the native options. Anyway, just thought I'd share. You can download the profiles here. You just save it to an SD card, and load it into your camera.

 

[cbradley]

Trevor, thanks for the tip on the Flaat profiles. They look like they will be pretty useful, even for a video newbie like me. Now if I could just figure out this color grading thing...