Getting the best out of D800: hypotheses/tips for your consideration

I think so, its the one you sent to me by email.

It has more contrast, which makes the noise more visible in some gradients - but once you lower the blacks on the v1 version it gets that contrast and visible noise aswell, I think.

Also, since its registering the REALLY dark stuff as black, that has less noise.


Im still doing some tests and its all quite subjective, im not an expert so don't take my word. Alot has to do with the overall asthetic of the colours in the shadows that I like better when they are less saturated.


Overall I just get a bit depressed with the bad low-light performance on the D800. I mean even ISO 400 has alot of noise in darker shades. The D5300 seems very tempting!
 
well, I like the v1 better, but they are very very close, so, if that's the one you like... :)
it may be because you're using an external recorder, so you don't have the codec issues in the shadows that I was seeing with internal recording
 
I also think that its probably quite a big difference in noise between D800 and D5200. On my D800 the v1 flaat10 has a little more DR than flaat11p beta for example.
 
On external recorder: I don't use it, but when I do HDMI-out to my 24" screen or my tv, the noise is so much more smooth and grain-like. The internal compression does not seem to keep up with the noise, creating more blotchy areas in the dark tones. I think this might be the biggest gain in recording external. Just a shame that it does not really make sense to use in a run and gun scenario.
 
Yes, the two advantages of external recording are 422 if you're doing greenscreen, and shadow noise. This H.264 codec really trashes shadow detail.
 
@ Stokstad

1. Could you give us an example of the bad shadows?

2. Which lense and which f-stop you are using?

thx
 
Not sure how this will end up but in these two shots the first one is a flatter profile (portrait with contrast dialed down) and the other one is a more punchy one, ISO is 800 on a manual 50mm 1.4 nikon lens. They way noise and compression play together is a bit problematic. Luckily the bitrate hack on nikon hacker seems to help with this.

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