Holy Cow!!!

12 years ago 2
Posted in: Pilgrim's Chronicles, The Learning Center

 

Well it’s day two and the thrill has not worn off!  If anything, it’s intensifying!  My intention was to further test the High ISO noise, but that will have to wait for tonight.  This morning, Scott Diussa, Bill Pekala, Francis Yeh, and I went back out to the warbirds area to shoot some more, I continued to try and learn “the” camera.  I attempted this morning to compare the D4 and D800 and work further on learning how the gradation works with this camera.  Above is a full frame jpeg fine image of a Mustang’s tail.  Notice below how smooth gradations are  (smooth transition of tones), in the severe crop directly form the image above.  Also, keep in mind you’re viewing 72 dpi images of full 300 dpi full files!!!!

 

 

Another set of image and cropped area:  Notice the smoothness of the metal tones in the crop!  Nothing short of amazing….

 

 

 

 

Another great thing about this much resolution is the ability to crop if needed.  I am a big believer in filling the frame in the camera, but some subjects simply can’t be captured without extremely long lenses, below are a couple of shots one straight out of the cameral the second cropped to show just how much detail holds, these images were made hand held by Scott Diussa, D800 with the 70-300 AFS-VR. This example  is simply amazing, I can say that since I didn’t shoot it!  So can you get sharp images hand holding the D800,  1/250th of  a second at f 13, zoom setting at 240 mm.

 

Wow, Holy Cow, Holy  Moly, I’m loving this camera….

 

Today the Lord blessed me mightily when Carl Turner came over to shoot some and hang out, what a great brother!!  If that were not enough I met a young man at the Media Center which Nikon is sponsoring, name Brian Kissinger, his mission after two bouts with brain cancer is raising money for research nd spreading his great love for our Lord, a great young man and a real blessing in my day!!   You can check out his ministry at   http://www.brainsflight.com/

 

Be blessed and expect more!

 

the pilgrim

 

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2 Responses

  1. Richard Small says:
    March 28, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    Boy the gradations are amazing!! Nikon is truly in high territory with this machine!! Keep the pics and reporting coming!!!

  2. Ed Dombrowski says:
    March 30, 2012 at 9:46 am

    Thanks for posting the pictures Bill. I have seen a lot of samples lately and am very tempted by the D800. That being said I tend to do more portrait photography then anything else. I was interested to not only hear about the noise but the impact a 36 MP file has on your workflow. I currently have a D7000 and was waiting for the D800 but I think now I am going to wait until the D300 replacement is announced. I thought the interesting thing was that the D800 has roughly the same pixel density as the D7000 so i am hoping that there is a stop or so of low light improvement over the D7000 on the next DX iteration. If that is the case I may end up sticking with DX for a while. At least until I upgrade my PC!