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Dec 9, 2017 09:31:53   #
cameraf4 Loc: Delaware
 
A while back I posted that I had done a short test with my various Nikon DSLRs. [http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-499318-1.html]. Jery said that he would be interested in seeing some of what I found. I sent him this and he said I should post it here in case others would be interested.

This first image is "the scene" as it appeared to me from camera position. That brown thing 90feet away is a box I chose because it is roughly the same shape as my monitor and it has readable type. Next is a 1000 pixel wide image of the box from the Df images, followed by similar images from the D800 and finally the D850.


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Dec 9, 2017 09:39:01   #
CPR Loc: Nature Coast of Florida
 
Definitely better resolution from the D850 but my question is What lens?

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Dec 9, 2017 09:43:35   #
DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA
 
Thank you for posting these images and explanation. I am in the middle of a similar experiment comparing a DX body to my Df.
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-500874-1.html

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Dec 9, 2017 09:46:48   #
Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.
 
CPR wrote:
Definitely better resolution from the D850 but my question is What lens?


From the OP's original post "my trusty Nikkor 50mm f1.4 AF-D"

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Dec 9, 2017 09:51:58   #
Novicus Loc: north and east
 
What a Difference....and yes , What Lens ?...remembering from the lenses you mentioned in the other thread , there was a standard lens , is that the one ?

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Dec 9, 2017 09:53:37   #
Novicus Loc: north and east
 
Rich1939 beat me to it :-)

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Dec 9, 2017 09:55:16   #
cameraf4 Loc: Delaware
 
Lens was AF Nikkon 50mm f/1.4D set at f/8 which, as I recall from lens tests by various mags when it was new, is its "sweet spot."

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Dec 9, 2017 09:56:02   #
CPR Loc: Nature Coast of Florida
 
These results would not be unexpected - the more pixels in the capture - the more detail. Doesn't the D850 have about 45mp.

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Dec 9, 2017 10:02:47   #
Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.
 
I'm curious about the D800 image and how the white(ish) border a little more than half way down is flared. I don't expect there is a quick answer to that but ouch

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Dec 9, 2017 10:04:26   #
joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois
 
cameraf4 wrote:
A while back I posted that I had done a short test with my various Nikon DSLRs. [http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-499318-1.html]. Jery said that he would be interested in seeing some of what I found. I sent him this and he said I should post it here in case others would be interested.

This first image is "the scene" as it appeared to me from camera position. That brown thing 90feet away is a box I chose because it is roughly the same shape as my monitor and it has readable type. Next is a 1000 pixel wide image of the box from the Df images, followed by similar images from the D800 and finally the D850.
A while back I posted that I had done a short test... (show quote)


Nikon vs Nikon vs Nikon:

I'd say Nikon wins.

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Dec 9, 2017 10:17:17   #
kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA
 
joer wrote:
Nikon vs Nikon vs Nikon:

I'd say Nikon wins.


I don’t know. I’d have give the Nikon the edge. It is just a tad better than the Nikon. Just my opinion.

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Dec 9, 2017 10:22:43   #
cameraf4 Loc: Delaware
 
Rich, quick-and-dirty. The box was sealed with clear tape and I was taking these shots in direct sunlight. I'm thinking that, for that image, the sun was in a perfect spot to shoot some specular highlights back at me.

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Dec 9, 2017 10:28:14   #
Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.
 
cameraf4 wrote:
Rich, quick-and-dirty. The box was sealed with clear tape and I was taking these shots in direct sunlight. I'm thinking that, for that image, the sun was in a perfect spot to shoot some specular highlights back at me.

Thanks, that would make sense.

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Dec 9, 2017 10:29:58   #
cameraf4 Loc: Delaware
 
joer and kb6, just shows how quickly technology is changing. I didn't post a "close-up" from the D700 set because it was just too disappointing. Some of my favorite images were taken on a trip-of-a-lifetime to the Canadian Rockies when the D700 was at/near top-of-the-line (http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-497005-1.html). Now that I see results from the D850, I wonder how much better they all would have been if I had had that camera for the trip.

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Dec 9, 2017 10:41:41   #
kb6kgx Loc: Simi Valley, CA
 
The D700 is no slouch, either, but as you said, the technology has gone leaps and bounds over what it was when the first DSLR came out. Yes, I'd love to have a D850, though for what I like to do, a D500 would be ideal.

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