I mounted a Zeiss 135mm f/2 APO-Sonnar on the D810 and repeated the tests of the previous two posts. Here’s what happened, first in landscape orientation, measuring the edges perpendicular to the shutter motion: And in portrait orientation, also measuring the edges perpendicular to the shutter motion: EFCS really earns its keep here. I would expect… [Read More]
Archives for July 2014
Nikon D810 EFCS vibration w/ 50mm lens in portrait orientation
[This post, like the previous one, was extensively revised on 7/28/2014, and for the same reason.] I repeated the tests of the previous post with the camera in portrait orientation. This is a more severe test, since the shutter moves in the left/right direction when the camera is oriented with the long side up and… [Read More]
Nikon EFCS vibration w/ a 50 mm lens in landscape orientation
One of the new features on the D810 is the electronic first curtain shutter (EFCS), which should in conjunction with raising the mirror well before the exposure, reduce vibration. The EFCS controls on the S810 work quite differently from those on the Sony a7 and a7S. Like the Sonys, there’s a menu item to turn… [Read More]
Nikon D810 manual focusing
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]
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.
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