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Digital SLR / DSLR Camera Question / DSLR Thread 2

brichter said:
I have 2 myself... couldn't ever see a need for 3. :thumbup
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Played around with CLS and damn, CLS was F-U-N. Nice way to get single person portrait lighting without having to carry around full strobes. And I also do not need to worry about needing power on location shoots...

Only downside is, not as much power as a full strobe, but nothing beats the portability. :thumbup
 
D800 announced.

36 megapixels

What the FUCK, Nikon.

We wanted better image quality. Not a higher MP count.

:rant

Looks like the landscape photographers and studio-only shooters have their camera, at least. Provided the lenses are good enough, which remains to be seen.
 
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cycle61 said:
D800 announced.

36 megapixels

What the FUCK, Nikon.

We wanted better image quality. Not a higher MP count.

:rant

Looks like the landscape photographers and studio-only shooters have their camera, at least. Provided the lenses are good enough, which remains to be seen.
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Here's a little snippet from the article:

Naturally, there are a huge number of professionals to whom these omissions won't matter either - wedding and event photographers for example, or those who work primarily in a studio. To these people, resolution at low ISO sensitivities is probably of more pressing importance than speed or high ISO performance.
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Since when do wedding and event photographers not care about high ISO capability? Not all wedding and event people shoot with an onboard flash and a Gary Fong diffuser.
 
Seriously!??!?

I have so much freaking resolution I can do a 20" print and you can see the roundness of nose-hair follicles taken from 30 feet away. And I have ~2/3 that resolution!

Seems very silly - I could maybe understand it if they're using it as some kind of magic noise-reduction system (averaging groups of pixels), but not seeing that in the literature.

Or if the sensor was 80mm across.
 
^^^I think that Nikon is getting a kick back the memory card makers. All of a sudden, non-professional Nikon shooters will need to buy more 32Gb memory cards.
 
D4 for low light/high fps, D800 for studio/landscape. simple enough i'd say. The D800 only has 1 stop less standard ISO range than the D4

I'd imagine the D800 will be as good as or better than the D700 when it comes to ISO (same standard ISO range). Even if it's a bit too many megapixels, 3 years of tech is powerful
 
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BrassPremier said:
I'd imagine the D800 will be as good as or better than the D700 when it comes to ISO (same standard ISO range). Even if it's a bit too many megapixels, 3 years of tech is powerful
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I don't know.

Nikon has been tooting their horn pretty loudly with the high ISO capabilities of their other bodies, but NONE of the sample images I've found yet are above ISO 640. That's not a good sign.
 
you can get nice point n shoots that rival DSLR's in iso ability today. The D7000 has great high ISO, and if you were to just enlarge the sensor to full frame size and keep the same pixel to area ratio, you'd basically have the D800. I wouldn't be too worried.
 
RAWR. It looks sweet, I've been waiting for the D700 replacement to finally move to FX format. But damn 36MP is a bit much. I can't wait to see low-light samples...
 
BrassPremier said:
you can get nice point n shoots that rival DSLR's in iso ability today. The D7000 has great high ISO, and if you were to just enlarge the sensor to full frame size and keep the same pixel to area ratio, you'd basically have the D800. I wouldn't be too worried.
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Yeah, but what kinda noise? I have 24,000 ISO or something silly, that's so stupidly noisy it's basically unusable. And not even a nice, photo-grainy kind of noise, just epic stripes and banding.

I mean, for surveillance, sure. For anything resembling good quality, hell no.
 
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The D800'x max ISO is 25,600. I'm sure it looks like ass at that point.
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Yeah, that's my point. It'd be nicer if they had fewer, bigger pixels and therefore better high ISO performance. I've *never* thought to myself, 'oh, if only I had a higher pixel density', but I've thought, many, many times, 'I wish this an even better high ISO performance' (although it's pretty amazing at 6400).
 
Just messin' around.

Po' mans "macro lens"

Hard to judge the distance and the framing.

Eye can see you!!! weird looking.

Nikon D5000 18-55 + 50 1.8
Off camera SB600 + cowboy trigger + diffuser

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Can someone school me on lighting? I wanna start doing real portraits but idk where to begin for the lighting. Should i get a couple soft boxes or umbrellas? What size? Etc. Right now I only have 1 sb600 but I wanna pick up another flash and I can fire them with my d300s in commander mode. I'll be using 2 lenses... 50 f1.8 and 28-70 f2.8.
 
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