Archives for 2016

This is part of a series of posts about the Nikon D5. The series starts here. I have read posts that say that the D5 has a self-heating problem, so I was curious to see what would happen when I subjected it to my usually self-heating test, which has proven to be stressful to Sony… [Read More]

This is part of a series of posts about the Nikon D5. The series starts here. In the previous three posts we looked at dark-field noise as a function of camera ISO setting in the Nikon D5. We now turn our attention to the way that dark-field noise varies with shutter speed. Here are results… [Read More]

This is one in a series of posts about the Nikon D5. The series starts here. Now we’re going to look at the histograms of a 200×200 pixel central patch in a series of dark field images made with the D5 at various ISO settings. Because the noise behavior in the preceding post was so interesting… [Read More]

I got my hands on  a Nikon D5 today, and I’ll be reporting on how well it tests out over the next week or two. The first thing I do when I get a new camera is test for read noise by making a series of dark field exposures. Without removing the body cap, I… [Read More]