jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Here is a film that was shot with the D800. This must have been a tough shoot - lots and lots of cuts. The film window is toward the right.

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Fortunately, I have all DX lenses, so I won't tempted to buy this one.

PhotoArtsLA Loc: Boynton Beach

The D800 delivers 15+ megapixels to its DX format, and 36.3 megapixels in its FX format. Finally, a DSLR which is beginning to approach film resolution. I refer to my olden days shooting black and white film. One film, Technical Pan from the now dying Kodak company, when processed correctly for continuous tone in a correctly temperature controlled darkroom (my darkroom was held to 0.1 degree accuracy) delivered results that, by digital standards, approached perhaps 700 megapixels, as it could be enlarged about as well as a 4x5 sheet film. Grainless, and starving for acuity from your lenses, that is, it had more resolving power than any lens of that day. It could also be coaxed into interesting contrasts. The ISO was between 6 and about 50, depending on the developer and intent.

But I digress... I plan to order two D800s in the near future for feature film work. It has uncompressed HDMI output like the D4.

The picture attached was shot on Technical Pan. The digital world does not do it analog justice, even though it was scanned on a drum scanner. Maybe I need to upgrade my Flextight scanner.

The grainless, amazing Technical Pan, as Scanned.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Why would so many professionals be shooting films with DSLRs, rather than video cameras? I'm thinking cost and interchangebale lenses. Still, it seems that a dedicated camcorder would do a better job. Initially, I though they were making these short DSLR films just show that it could be done.