http://blog.warehouseexpress.com/a-look-at-the-nikon-d800/
L'auteur avait les mêmes craintes que tout le monde. Résolution trop élevée, gestion des noirs, ...
A la fin, sa conclusion est encourageante:
"To summarise my thoughts on the D800 in one final sentence though…
…I’m now starting to regret not putting a pre-order in!"
Les doutes:
1) 36mp is a lot of resolution! I’m not a
landscape or studio shooter, and I certainly don’t remember the last
time I had need for an image to be printed 100 feet wide. With no need
for that resolution I wasn’t prepared to accept what I thought would be
the downsides, including…
1a) Noise. Granted high ISO is far from the
be all and end all of image quality but having gone from a D3 to a D3s
and soon a D4, I do have a bar set in my head for what I find
acceptable, whether that’s right or wrong. At 36mp, I had a big concern
over how that will affect the noise in the D800.
2) It’s slow. 4fps? For me and what I do, that sounds slow, very slow.
3) I don’t like half size bodies. Full size pro bodies just feel better in the hand, it’s a personal thing.
It’s safe to say all of my preconceptions about it’s size and build went out the window within seconds of holding it. It’s not as weather proof as the D4, but I was informed it’s on par with the D700. I also noted the on/off switch is larger and flatter than on my D3s, with a slightly more solid feel to it.
La vitesse:
The D800 is not initially designed to compete for camera bag space with sports and press photographers. It’s aimed primarily at landscape, portrait and studio shooters who can take their time to get the shot just right. And so this camera is not a rapid shooter. I asked if it was a hardware or software limitation keeping the fps at 4 and it was confirmed it is a hardware limitation.
The lack of XQD was also in part due to the fact that this camera’s typical shooting environment is expected to be a slow paced one (I’d have liked to see it included though, so as to streamline the different types of cards needing to be purchased).
Les ISO:
All I can do is tell you how it was perceived by me from taking shots and looking at the back of the camera, and relaying what information I was told.
One thing struck me, where is the noise? This was too good! So I had a quick look through the settings to discover the noise reduction was set to High.
There was noise at 3200, but it was a lovely film grain like noise and it was very unobtrusive and refined, to the point that I had to go back to the noise reduction settings to make sure it was still off and not just reduced to medium or something by mistake.
It has the edge over the D700 in the high ISO game (and as it shares the same sensor, the D3 its safe to say). Consider that for a second, here we have a camera that has better noise handling than what, not that long ago, was the best camera in the world for high ISO, but now we have it with 3x the amount of pixels. I can’t begin to explain how much that one thing changed my opinion of this camera around!
Les pixels:
lets consider this (I’m keeping this review in simple terms, but just to put my geek hat on for a second), the D7000, which is a 16mp DX camera is generally well regarded for it’s image quality, yet it has a pixel pitch of 4.78 microns, compared to 4.88 microns for the D800. What does that mean? Taking the geek hat off and explaining simply, the higher the pixel pitch number, the larger the pixels. The larger the pixels the more forgiving they are of camera movement and more light they gather (more light means better noise control). But let’s keep it clear, your camera technique will need to be good to make the most out of the D800. I’m simply throwing the D7000 in as a reference so as not to let people think the D800 is going to be a totally uncontrollable monster because in theory, the D7000 is a harder camera to get good results from but is often praised but those who use it!
Conclusion:
My preconceptions were wrong and I don’t mind admitting it. Everything I expected to hate about the D800 I loved. It’s solid in the hand, comfortable even without the grip and the image quality is beyond what I was expecting. More speed would always be welcome of course, but I understand who this camera is aimed at and I understand adapting it to my needs would come at some compromise, and I’m ok with that (plus there is still the option to drop to DX mode and get an extra 2fps with the grip). Sure 36mp is a LOT, and as I’ve said, not needed by the vast majority who will buy it. But that doesn’t matter, it is here, it is high quality and it is in an all round nice package at a price point that to be honest, is nothing short of incredible! But remember, the cost of owning this camera doesn’t stop at the camera itself, you are going to need a pretty powerful computer to edit the files once you start adding layers etc in Photoshop!
Richard Peters is a professional photographer based in London, whose main interest is wildlife and nature photography. As well as taking his own images, Richard has been on the judging panel for photography competitions for both the BBC and Nikon Europe. He blogs at http://www.richardpeters.co.uk/blog/
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