Nikon D810 / Photomatix
May 16, 2015 19:26:31 #
I have two questions:
1. When I upload pics taken with my D810, I get "flowers" rather than a tile of the pic. Someone said I need to download a driver. If so, could someone provide a link?
2. For HDR, I take several brackets depending upon the scene. Previously, with my Nikon D300s, I had no problems processing them with Photomatix; however, with my new D810 the end result processing is not good. Has anyone had a similar problem? I have not changed anything other than the camera I use.
1. When I upload pics taken with my D810, I get "flowers" rather than a tile of the pic. Someone said I need to download a driver. If so, could someone provide a link?
2. For HDR, I take several brackets depending upon the scene. Previously, with my Nikon D300s, I had no problems processing them with Photomatix; however, with my new D810 the end result processing is not good. Has anyone had a similar problem? I have not changed anything other than the camera I use.
May 16, 2015 19:32:53 #
In your search engine enter codex for Nikon d810. Download and install
May 16, 2015 19:48:07 #
BillH wrote:
In your search engine enter codex for Nikon d810. Download and install
Thank you so much for your prompt response. Will do right away.
May 16, 2015 21:09:32 #
BillH wrote:
In your search engine enter codex for Nikon d810. Download and install
BillH: Question 1 answered, followed instructions to download and it worked. Thank you. Now if I can get a response to Question 2.
May 16, 2015 21:42:42 #
tnwaltz wrote:
I have two questions: br br 1. When I upload pics... (show quote)
In answer to question number 2 you do realize that a 3 shot bracket in raw is over 100mb and a 5 or 7 shot is 150+ or210+ mb? My computer would freeze trying to work with a 210 mb photo.
According to Photomatix to work on a 100mb picture requires a minimum of 4gb ram just to tone map & merge 3 exposures. so I would guess a 150mb group would take 6gb ram. That would not leave any extra for running any other program on your computer. Converting to .jpg would help some, but not a lot.
Also to add to the conundrum your D810 takes a picture 3 times the size of your D300.
May 16, 2015 22:45:44 #
jethro779 wrote:
In answer to question number 2 you do realize that... (show quote)
Jethro779, thanks for your response. To answer my question as you did brought light to me. I never thought about the extra large files being processed by Photomatix. Would it help if I used 24 megapixels as opposed to 36?
May 16, 2015 22:51:09 #
tnwaltz wrote:
Jethro779, thanks for your response. To answer my question as you did brought light to me. I never thought about the extra large files being processed by Photomatix. Would it help if I used 24 megapixels as opposed to 36?
You are still going to be twice as large as the D300. I would try a 3 shot bracket and see if that worked then try a 5 shot. My guess is a 3 shot would work. It would also depend on your computer more than your camera I think.
May 16, 2015 22:59:08 #
jethro779 wrote:
You are still going to be twice as large as the D300. I would try a 3 shot bracket and see if that worked then try a 5 shot. My guess is a 3 shot would work. It would also depend on your computer more than your camera I think.
Thanks again, Jethro779. I will give that a try and see if they turn out better. It may very well be time for a new computer.
May 16, 2015 23:00:38 #
tnwaltz wrote:
Thanks again, Jethro779. I will give that a try and see if they turn out better. It may very well be time for a new computer.
You are welcome. I hope it works.
May 17, 2015 05:50:25 #
BillH wrote:
In your search engine enter codex for Nikon d810. Download and install
It's a codec. You can get it here:
http://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/products/170/NEF_Codec.html
But you already found it and it is working, so this is for anyone else looking at this thread.
To the OP, what are the specs for your computer. I use a D800 and routinely process 5 shot HDR, but also do 30 shot focus stacks, and the largest pano I've merged is 18 frames, for an image that is 41,000x7300 px which results in a 300mp image. My computer is slow as expected, but it doesn't crash.
May 17, 2015 06:41:30 #
I switched from D300 to D800e with no issues in Photomatix. Do you have the latest version? As an experiment you might try converting your NEFs to 16 bit Tiffs and then combine. It might be an issue with Photomatix's raw converter.
If you get any result at all it is not a computer issue...
I routinely do 9 EV brackets without any issues with 8GB of RAM. Yes, somewhat slower than using the D300 raws, but not bad.
If you get any result at all it is not a computer issue...
I routinely do 9 EV brackets without any issues with 8GB of RAM. Yes, somewhat slower than using the D300 raws, but not bad.
May 17, 2015 06:42:45 #
Gene51 wrote:
My computer is slow as expected, but it doesn't crash.
How much memory does your computer have?
May 17, 2015 06:51:52 #
jerryc41 wrote:
How much memory does your computer have?
Jerry, the computer has 32 gb ram, and my NVidia K2000 card has 1 gb, so the graphics display function does not use any system memory. I have a small scratch disk, which is on the 1 TB system drive which is cached with a 60GB SSD.
May 17, 2015 06:57:29 #
tnwaltz wrote:
I have two questions: br br 1. When I upload pics... (show quote)
Photomatix converts Raw to Jpegs before merging and tone mapping. So for HDR you might as well shoot jpeg's and give Photomatix and your PC less work to do
May 17, 2015 07:06:32 #
Billyspad wrote:
Photomatix converts Raw to Jpegs before merging and tone mapping. So for HDR you might as well shoot jpeg's and give Photomatix and your PC less work to do
Or shoot raw, adjust some parameters (white balance, lens corrections, etc) in the converter, then export the 16 bit tiff to Photomatix. I've done it both ways, and many of the images seem to have greater color depth and smoother tone and color transitions when you start with 16 bit files.
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