D7100... dayum!

Michael Carter

Michael Carter

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Down & dirty jewelry shoot today with the D7100 (not a phase one kinda client).

Removing the OLPF makes a hell of a difference. You don't think of sharpness coming from a camera body, seems like that's a glass department. But very impressed.

Did some keying tests with it the other day, too (in the Nikon DSLR video thread). Amazing compositing for a DSLR. I've shot Nikon commercially since the early 90's, I haven't been this impressed with price vs. value since the N90.

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BLahey said:
does that camera have a removable OLPF?
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This is sort of interesting... many people complain about the aliasing on 1080 video due to the OLPF not being 'tuned' for that size but rather for the larger 4k (approx) still image...

Then someone comes along and takes the OLPF out, and is 'amazed' at the 'sharpness'... which of course the OLPF is supposed to roll off to mitigate such aliasing.

And as a note... the Optical Low Pass Filter (OLPF) is part of the 'optics' of the camera, just placed in the camera body.
 
j1clark@ucsd.edu said:
This is sort of interesting... many people complain about the aliasing on 1080 video due to the OLPF not being 'tuned' for that size but rather for the larger 4k (approx) still image...

Then someone comes along and takes the OLPF out, and is 'amazed' at the 'sharpness'... which of course the OLPF is supposed to roll off to mitigate such aliasing.

And as a note... the Optical Low Pass Filter (OLPF) is part of the 'optics' of the camera, just placed in the camera body.
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LOL, keep in mind, this is a photography thread, not video. We don't want no steenkin' video here.
 
Neither the Nikon D7100 or the new D5300 use an OLPF, so they will definitely out resolve any equivalent camera that does use an OLPF. ( the drawback to having no OLPF is increased moire patterning in both still photos and video images )
 
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