In making the bookcase pictures for the two previous posts, I got to try out the Nikon D810’s new-and-improved live view. Wow! It’s an amazing improvement, not just because it’s so good, but because the D800/D800E live view was so bad. The D810 is right up there with the Sony a7R in the live view… [Read More]
Archives for July 25, 2014
Nikon D810 push processing: ISO 12800 to 400
I repeated the tests of the previous post over a higher ISO range. Here are the results: And the tight crops: You could criticize the noise in the ISO 400 image if you were feeling picky, but again, this is virtually ISO-less performance.
Nikon D810 push processing: ISO 2000 to 64
Graphs are fine as far as they go, and, for some purposes, they’re better than pictures, since they avoid confirmation bias. But they’re not the be all and end all. In fact, in photography it’s better tho think of the graphs as supporting the conclusions reached from the images, rather than the other way ’round…. [Read More]