Author Topic: Nikon D850 previews, commentary - first reviews (Read 87145 times)

Eddie Draaisma · « **Reply #195 on:** September 16, 2017, 12:41:40 »

Quote from: Frank Fremerey on September 16, 2017, 00:39:20

Good.

Someone interested in the topic still?

Tonight I experienced in important shots that my eye on the ground glass was reliable, but the green dot was completely off. Even if I positioned it in the eye of the person.

I got really great shots that will pay lots of bills but there is something wrong with the VF and green dot. They have always worked in sync till D850. Strange!

Technical: D850 & 1.4/35mm Ai-S

Strange indeed.

IMHO the "green" dot is more accurate on MF lenses than ever before, given proper lighting conditions (not too dark). I notice a very good sync between OVF and dot.

There is no popup flash anymore obstructing the aperture scale on MF lenses when looking "from above", this may sound as insignificant chatter from another internet nitwit, but imho it makes working with the old MF lenses just more convenient and fun.

Frank Fremerey · « **Reply #196 on:** September 16, 2017, 14:07:13 »

I will check how the green dot reacts to different AF settings

Currently AF is set to af-s single point sharpness priority and it seems to work. I cannot get focus peaking to work WITFM???

Frank Fremerey · « **Reply #197 on:** September 16, 2017, 16:08:33 »

Ok page issue solved.

Go to profile / modify profile / look and layout / display topics per page & display posts per page.

Forum default is 20, mine are set to 50 both, I do not mind scrolling but I hate loading new pages every few seconds. Must have set that long ago and then forgot about it...

Frank Fremerey · « **Reply #198 on:** September 16, 2017, 16:13:44 »

Impressions after 9 days of intense work: great analogue look of the files. Very responsive camera in all aspects. View finder not good for manual focus I certainly need a replacement screen.

golunvolo · « **Reply #199 on:** September 16, 2017, 16:15:59 »

Frank, Im very interested in the silent mode. It will be very useful for live shows. Can you elaborate some about how it works in real life, strength and shortcomings?

Frank Fremerey · « **Reply #200 on:** September 16, 2017, 17:27:58 »

I do not see shortcomings yet. Because of the viewfinder problem with my MF lens yesterday I have used it as plan b and it works so well that I might turn into plan a for certain applications.

Live view is very responsible, transparent I would say. Earlier implementations were a tad delayed video show. This is gone. Now I have enabled focus peaking which seems to work pretty well. Yesterday live view silent shooting was the only way to get the pictures I needed, now I found it is a powerful tool. I use mode one which means three frames per second at full quality. Mode two is many more frames per second but only jpeg normal no raw.

You do not get an acoustic feedback though

golunvolo · « **Reply #201 on:** September 17, 2017, 00:13:34 »

Thanks Frank. I'll have to try myself to see how useful it will be for me but sounds very promising.
How about shutter lag in silent mode? Timing is crucial for dancers

Frank Fremerey · « **Reply #202 on:** September 17, 2017, 10:35:14 »

No lag if focussed. The camera is fast in all modes. Only the life view AF is very very slow.

Eddie Draaisma · « **Reply #203 on:** September 17, 2017, 16:07:37 »

After more than a week in use some tidbits:

- Typical file size (for 14-bit lossless compressed raw) varies between 47.1 MB and 74 MB

- All my AF-S Nikkors can do without AF fine-tuning except the 58/1.4G; the value needed (+13) for this lens doesn't inspire confidence

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- The Snapbridge connection (I use it for location data and time syncing only) with my iPhone 6s seems reliable until now (hurray), hopefully it stays that way after we all upgrade to iOS11 next Tuesday

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Be aware that it takes a few seconds (after power-on or sleep) for the connection to establish (set f9 to lcd backlight and info, a simple flick of the power switch to the right will then bring up the info on the monitor, the bluetooth icon can be checked top-left).

- I really like the performance of the new 28E on this body, very very nice. The zoomfish does very nice too.

- The older MF Nikkors I tried until now do well too (e.g. 24/2.8Ais, 35/1.4Ais, 50/1.2Ais, 105/2.5Ai, 180/2.8ED Ais), no reason not to use them on this body

Frank Fremerey · « **Reply #204 on:** September 17, 2017, 22:52:18 »

Also the loved 1.8/85G does very well:

Eddie Draaisma · « **Reply #205 on:** September 17, 2017, 23:09:42 »

Michael Erlewine · « **Reply #206 on:** September 19, 2017, 05:28:01 »

Got a notice today that B&H has shipped my D850. A very long wait for a new camera from when I first ordered the Hasselblad X1D in June (I believe) of 2016. And now for the moment of truth: will I like it?

Frank Fremerey · « **Reply #207 on:** September 19, 2017, 07:44:27 »

Michael: we wait in awe. Your case scenario is different from all others I guess and I wish your work will profit from the low ISO performance!

schwett · « **Reply #208 on:** September 20, 2017, 07:13:12 »

my d850 arrived today. i ordered from b+h perhaps 20 minutes after they opened the orders.

i had a very busy day at the office and just one lens in my bag (105 f/1.4), so my impressions are quite brief. it does feel slightly bigger and heavier. very solid, the grip is very nice, the screen is very nice, and the enlarged finder is beautiful. setup took just a minute or so to match up to my other nikons. i really wish nikon would include GPS.

i took about 45 minutes to shoot on my walk home from the office.

hard to say much about the image quality - it's great, i was shooting handheld without much discipline, the autofocus was dead to nuts accurate with any focus point or subject i selected. some pics follow.

(apologies if these don't belong here, mods, feel free to edit.)