D4 - do not get too excited

gecko2010 said:
Hi James0b57

Thanks for the response...Ill be producing content of heritage buildings in our city to be delivered on smart phones.... tourist interactive information kind of thing. it will be on a crane to doing time lapse the d4 with remote control and monitoring + built in time lapse seems to fit the bill. also after this im going to a snake infested island of the north coast of Tasmania called Chappell and them tigers move quick in the dark lol

Cheers
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Great, then you've chosen a good camera for the job. Best of luck.
 
Good point you cant put filters on it. I will use something that can. i do like a good lens strike...this one smashed through the filter and scratched lens while i had hold the camera... remote control will be less stressful....i wonder if face recognition will work
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I like everything about that except the highlight clipping, where it gets really harsh. I suspect some diffusion filters targetted purely at clipped highlights could fix that though.
 

A little more conjecture...

I randomly came across the video above. At the 7min and 15sec mark, the guy in the video is testing the D4's buffer by shooting large JPEGs at 10fps continuously, which he states starts to slow a bit after 15seconds of continuous shooting.

So, that may or may not reflect on the 24fps 2.5MP images shooting time, but could be an indicator. Anyway, I am liking the HDMI out look so far, just hop nikon gets a better curve for cinema style shooting.
 
gecko2010 said:
Good point you cant put filters on it. I will use something that can. i do like a good lens strike...this one smashed through the filter and scratched lens while i had hold the camera... remote control will be less stressful....i wonder if face recognition will work
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That's a crazy rad picture. You are going to be having fun! =)
 
A little off topic, but according to the DxO Mark tests, the Nikon D7000, yes 7K not 700, ranks at #2 for dynamic range @ 13.9 stops maximum, whereas the 5D mkII ranks @ 43rd with 11.9 stops max DR.

Makes one wonder why the D7000 was beat by the 5DmkII in the Dynamic Range segment of Zacuto shoot out of 2011. Nikon is not utilizing their full potential for video.

Also, the NEX7 seems to pop up high on the DxO lists.

The D4 ranks 11th with 13.1 stops max DR. (below the NEX7@13.4)
 
The Nikon D4 has near triple(300%) the ISO performance of the 60D. The Nikon D7000 has 50% better ISO than the 60D.
(of course, when dealing with 1080p video, noise reduction can go a long way into changing real world application.)
 
DXO isn't something we can accurately apply to the video side of DSLRs but it is interesting. The ISO scores are more applicable to video than DR. I think the D800 will take the DR crown but man those 36 megapixels will be a challenge on the video front. I expect the MKIII to score very well too.
 
The problem with Nikon on the video side is that they have very poor picture style controls: if you could only tweak the in-camera profiles with the in-camera controls, the 7D would have 9 stops of DR (I've measured that: 9 stops) - it's the fact that you can install something as extreme as Flaat_4 that gets you to >11 stops (CineStyle is not enough, that one gives you 10 stops) - but yes, in RAW stills mode, that 16 mpix APS-C sensor is a DR monster, at least at low ISO (at ISO 400 and beyond, the D4 has MUCH better DR)
 
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