D810 Owners thread anything to do with the D810

gman said:
I can't remember when I last got the D810 out, I've was too busy during Autumn and missed some landscape opportunities and since then the weather up here has been pretty crap. In what area do you mean when you say you are getting results with the K-1, is it autofocus?
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Sharpness Graham, combination of both lens and camera. The 24-70 Nikkor was also unsatisfactory on the D850 and I kept the 24-120/4 as that was a better lens out of the box. I guess I am lucky that the D-FA24-70 I have is crisp and sharp.

Gave up on Pentax AF speed a long time ago, the K-1 does take too long to acquire but as a walkaround/city break kit I prefer using it over the Nikons.
 
Peter
At least you have an excellent photo of your dog to remember by. Being not only a dog/cat lover and owned several dogs in the past 50 years, but also a kennel land cattery owner (licenced for 166 dogs and 42 cats) until retirement I know how much a pet becomes part of a family.

I also found the 24-70 Nikkor was not that good so bought the Tamron g2 version instead and what a difference that made . Not just in sharpness but also cut out totally any hand shake , it is rock solid. See in post 699
 
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welshwizard645 said:
Sharpness Graham, combination of both lens and camera. The 24-70 Nikkor was also unsatisfactory on the D850 and I kept the 24-120/4 as that was a better lens out of the box. I guess I am lucky that the D-FA24-70 I have is crisp and sharp.

Gave up on Pentax AF speed a long time ago, the K-1 does take too long to acquire but as a walkaround/city break kit I prefer using it over the Nikons.
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Oh, I didn't expect that. The sharpness on mine seems great?
 
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Peter
At least you have an excellent photo of your dog to remember by. Being not only a dog/cat lover and owned several dogs in the past 50 years, but also a kennel land cattery owner (licenced for 166 dogs and 42 cats) until retirement I know how much a pet becomes part of a family.

I also found the 24-70 Nikkor was not that good so bought the Tamron g2 version instead and what a difference that made . Not just in sharpness but also cut out totally any hand shake , it is rock solid. See in post 699
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I was trying to work out if you were replying to me or the other Peter, and I thought as a cattery owner you'd recognised a Maine Coon...:ROFLMAO:

we are continually thinking of rescuing a cat or a pair of cats. Although we love MCs we'd probably go for british black shorthair domestic as I think they are just awesome.
 
realspeed said:
I am seriously considering selling all my Nikon gear purely because of weight. This year (age 79) has hit me with feeling a lot weaker than ever before, I just don't seem to have the same strength to lug about a lot of( for me) heavy camera equipment. If I do sell it would mean buying everything in one lot,splitting means I may be left with something I can't use,

I seem to use (as my go to photographic gear ) my Panasonic DC-TZ95 compact and Panasonic HC-X1500 camcorder more often than not.

Graham
The issue with using the D810 is having to check that the shutter speed is twice the frame rate, before using the video feature. So changing from stills to video I often forgot to check first. hence getting a dedicated camcorder
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Would this not be the same with any DSLR, or are the some that automatically ensure it?
 
I am more into video than still photography now and my camcorder lets me get 4k stills from it as well. So the Nikon gear hardly gets used now. Also the compact does 4k stills the video side, well not as good as the camcorder, so I have most of what I want covered
 
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realspeed said:
I am more into video than still photography now and my camcorder lets me get 4k stills from it as well. So the Nikon gear hardly gets used now. Also the compact does 4k stills the video side, well not as good as the camcorder, so I have most of what I want covered
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Ah I see, I thought it was something specific to the D810.
 
I've not got the D810 out for a long time now, I really must make more effort.
 
I only shoot with a D810 - almost all the time with a Sigma 150 macro lens on it - I have found it to be a fab combination, one of my fungi shots - this is a slime mold called Tubifera ferruginosa, the largest of the round shapes is the size of a pinhead, unfortunately this is a reduced quality .jpg to keep it under the kb limit to be posted here so not at 100% - still looks good though

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Rincewind said:
I only shoot with a D810 - almost all the time with a Sigma 150 macro lens on it - I have found it to be a fab combination
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I've only got the Nikon 70-200 mk2 because I intended for the camera to be pretty much exclusively for landscape panos, I knew I would never be carrying it around for regular stuff, so didn't bother looking at other lenses, although the Sigma 40mm f/1.4 keeps calling to me. but the price wouldn't come down. I've just looked on camera price buster and it seems to have disappeared from the "new" section and shifted into used.
 
Times move on so does choice in camera equipment

My Nikon D810 long gone now but still miss it a bit. Decided weight was getting a bit much with bigger lenses so P/x it and went for M43 camera range. Now own two Panasonic cameras the G9 and the G9ii. to be honest these newer cameras ar much better with more features in the menu. The 80-400 nikon lens weighing 3.5 lb (1570gms) was a bit much to carry around all day. in comparison the panasonic 100-300m ( 520 g 1.15lb) is much lighter with a longer reach up to 600mm in FF terms.. To me that is a no brainer as they say.
I am not saying the Nikon D810 is a bad camera, far from it, but a bit dated now. I have had Nikons since the D70s came out so know the brand very well.
One very big advantage in swapping brands is I now have image stablisation not only in the camera but also in the lens, wheras with the Nikon D810 it was only in the lens. Using a Tamron 24-70mm lens in the Nikon was better than the Nikon version for stablisation but it is only a fraction of what I have now with Panasonic.

So I ask myself would I go back to the nikon D810? definately not. Why? because cameras have come a long way since then and size and weight is a factor for me.
As for picture quality even I have to admit the G9ii by Panasonic is well above what I would have expected.

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brick wall test with Panasonic G9ii and 12-60mm lens@ 60mm and 8mtrs away.(unedited Jpeg)
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exposure time 1/160"
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I only recently acquired a used D810 - as an experimental move to full-frame. It may be close to my ideal Nikon DSLR. I also have a D500, a newer design, and the 810 seems better behaved in many respects - the exposure and auto white balance seem more accurate, it retains the on-board flash which has been dropped from D500 and D850, the image quality is subtly better. The size and weight of some full-frame lenses is a bit of a surprise. The 24-120mm F4 is the obvious all-rounder to succeed the 16-80mm f/2.8-4 that came in a kit with the D500 - but the full-frame lens is bulky and half as heavy again as the DX. As an aside, though, if you are finding the D810 big and heavy, have a play with a D3S. The D810 and D500 seem sylphlike after that :)
 
It was the epic base ISO dynamic range at a crazy affordable used price that drew me to the D810. As my focus was landscapes, that was the priority. However, I also like to photograph my dog and the D810 AF system whilst good can be challenging when the dog is in full flight.

In hindsight, I should have got the D850 for the better AF system as I was used to my Sony A9. I did consider the Sony A7R4 as well, but both were more than I wanted to spend. I think if I were to change, I'd probably get the Sony A7R5. The size difference is pretty significant as well.

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