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Anyone considering it? http://www.adorama.com/INKD810.htmlI would love to get this camera! It has all the features I've been waiting for in a DSLR. FF, EFSC, no AA filter. Would love to hear opinions to convince me one way or the other...Ray |
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What will be the intended use? Outdoor wildlife photography,landscapes,astronomy pics?
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United States
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That's a LOT of money for a camera.
And that's okay if you'll use it a lot.
Notice that the price is for the body only.
It will cost you another $1000 for just a general use zoom lens.
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What will be the intended use? Outdoor wildlife photography,landscapes,astronomy pics? Coin photography! But because it's a Nikon I might carry it around as well, though that goes against my philosophy. Right now I use my HRT2i only for coins and carry around my D7000. I love the D7000, and it works with all my old Nikon lenses. If the D810 works with the old lenses as well, which I assume but am not sure about, I might trade-in the D7000. The D810 really is very expensive. It would need to offer some significant advantages over the HRT2i to make the upgrade. Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.com |
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Life is short & you can't take the $$ with you. If it fits within your budget why not.
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Heck, that's entry-level for a FF dSLR. All the features that make us favor Canon, and 36MP. That's going to be tack-sharp, downsized for posting.
Ray, how will our "el-cheapo" lenses do on FF? I should think they'd be fine, having been originally designed for 35mm, but it'll show the limitations of the lesser among them.
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The general rule for enlarger lenses is that they cover equal to their focal length, ie their image circle is equal to their focal length. So the 75mm EL-Cheapos I've been linking to should cover the FF sensor very easily. "Officially" (ie from an EL-Nikkor brochure!) coverage is as follows:
50mm: 24x36mm (35mm film or FF DSLR)
63mm: 32x45mm
75mm: 60x60mm
80mm: 60x70mm
105mm: 60x90mm
135mm: 90x120mm
150mm: 100x130mm (4x5 large format film)
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I pre-ordered one just a couple hours after it went live on Adorama and B&H.  I was already considering the D800 for my work, but for just $300 more, there were a number of new features that made it a no-brainer. It will also be cool to take video through my Nikkor macro lenses. I'm not buying it for coin shots, but I'm sure I'll get back into that eventually. |
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I'm not buying it for coin shots, but I'm sure I'll get back into that eventually. Not that it matters - you can take a tack-sharp pic of a coin with a potato.  |
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A lot of the coin macros here rival something a major museum would have a hard time bettering.  Thanks...I'll guess I pushed the point-and-shoot as far as it would go. I picked up a used Nikon dSLR a while back, now it's time to upgrade and push my lenses as far as they'll go. |
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There's not a lot of reason to use that level of camera for coin photography, but it's definitely a beast. Are you planning on printing 40x60" prints of your individual coins? :)
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There's not a lot of reason to use that level of camera for coin photography, but it's definitely a beast. Yeah--and if you're just going for max. megapixels, you can get a 24mpx camera for $2K+ less. But with a dSLR like this, it's not just megapixels, but dynamic range and color bit depth. The colors/tones of a coin, spread over a large dynamic range w/ 12-14 bit depth, should result in some pretty interesting color subtleties. I find the colors of toned silver and bronze just as interesting as overall sharpness. But hey--many photographers here demonstrate that much better than I do! Edited by DVCollector
07/02/2014 2:50 pm
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most cheap APS-C and 4/3 based cameras have had 14 bit depth for years now. There is a lot of talk about the increased Dynamic range of newer Sony sensors (used in Nikon D810) but you aren't going to get that kind of range in a coin. It's more for a landscapes where you are trying to show the shadows under a tree while not blowing out the white clouds.
I'd wager 99999/100000 people couldn't tell the difference between a D810 shot and a Nikon D3200 shot, if both were done with decent macro lenses and controlled lighting.
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most cheap APS-C and 4/3 based cameras have had 14 bit depth for years now. Yes--many cameras save to 14-bit raw now. I'm stating the obvious, this impacts how much you can pull out of the image in Camera Raw when you go to RGB or LAB--that's its main strength. Quote:
...but you aren't going to get that kind of range in a coin. It's more for a landscapes I guess my point was this--whether you shoot a landscape or a piece of metal (ie coin), that same dynamic range and bit depth is applied to the field of view--with proper exposure. Even with a somewhat more monochromatic subject, a more capable sensor, ie increased dynamic range (and bit depth) means that more possible color values can be assigned to each pixel representing the coin. More dynamic range + more bit depth = capturing more color information. More color information (and more highlight/shadow detail) makes a more interesting image. These are some details which distinguish the higher end sensors from cheaper imagers/processors. Apologies if I'm reiterating the obvious here. Edited by DVCollector
07/02/2014 4:36 pm
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Posted 06/27/2014 06:32 am
Its a superb camera and once you own I doubt you will want another camera for a very long time 
