Archives for 2017

This is the tenth post in a series of Nikon D850 tests. The series starts here. The D850 has a feature that will allow the camera to do automatic focus bracketing with AF lenses. You focus the camera to the minimum distance that you want, tell it how many steps and the (not absolute) distance between… [Read More]

This is the ninth post in a series of Nikon D850 tests. The series starts here. In this post, I reported on the autofocus accuracy of the Nikon D850 using both contrast-detection (CDAF) and phase detection (PDAF). As Horshack pointed out, in AF-S mode with PDAF, the camera does not refocus if it likes the phase… [Read More]

This is the eighth post in a series of Nikon D850 tests. The series starts here. At least one person has complained that their Nikon D850s have the wrong flange focal distance, so that the lenses think they are a different distance from the sensor than they really are. This can be a serious problem for… [Read More]

This is the seventh post in a series of Nikon D850 tests. The series starts here. Actually, this isn’t really a D850 test. It’s a test of a Nikon 105 mm f/1.4 lens that happens to be mounted to a D850. The performance of the combination is what I’m testing. We saw some anomalies in the D850… [Read More]