Nikon D750 & D780

Leebert said:
Thanks (y) It was on shutter speed. I don't recall the rest of the settings but I must have had the aperture too open or the ISO too high to cater for the whole set. Something to pay closer attention too next time.


I agree. Although getting up at 4am and thinking proved to be too much on this occasion :D
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Why are you on shutter priority for landscape? I choose Aperture priority with ISO on 100 if using a tripod, or auto ISO if handheld. Aperture is the main priority as traditionally you want large DOF.
 
snerkler said:
Why are you on shutter priority for landscape? I choose Aperture priority with ISO on 100 if using a tripod, or auto ISO if handheld. Aperture is the main priority as traditionally you want large DOF.
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On one of the bin shots I still have (before the Sun rose), it was on aperture priority and ISO100. Unfortunately, I didn't keep a set of the bracketed shots of the actual sun rise to check those as I may have experimented with other settings but I don't think I did?
 
Leebert said:
On one of the bin shots I still have (before the Sun rose), it was on aperture priority and ISO100. Unfortunately, I didn't keep a set of the bracketed shots of the actual sun rise to check those as I may have experimented with other settings but I don't think I did?
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Ahh, I see. Are you saying that shutter speed wouldn't change enough to give you your bracketed shots not that you were in shutter priority?
 
snerkler said:
Ahh, I see. Are you saying that shutter speed wouldn't change enough to give you your bracketed shots not that you were in shutter priority?
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Yes. The shutter speed went up to 1/4000th/s on two of the five shots. I can't have been firing on all cylinders at the time. I'm guessing I left the camera on a higher ISO for the star trail shots I was doing earlier :banghead:

Edit: That doesn't stack up with the pre sun rise shot exif? I have no idea what I did then!
 
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Leebert said:
Yes. The shutter speed went up to 1/4000th/s on two of the five shots. I can't have been firing on all cylinders at the time. I'm guessing I left the camera on a higher ISO for the star trail shots I was doing earlier :banghead:

Edit: That doesn't stack up with the pre sun rise shot exif? I have no idea what I did then!
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Note to self always put camera settings back before putting the camera away ;)
 
Note to self as well... Don't bin shots that I don't like because they haven't turned out how I wanted them to without finding out where I went wrong first :rolleyes:
 
Merry Christmas to all of you. Today, we will celebrate Christmas in Rome - the eternal city. We will be in Florence and Pisa as well after Rome.Taking only two lenses - 24-85 and the Samyang 14 2.8. Will post pics in New Year
 
anibap said:
Merry Christmas to all of you. Today, we will celebrate Christmas in Rome - the eternal city. We will be in Florence and Pisa as well after Rome.Taking only two lenses - 24-85 and the Samyang 14 2.8. Will post pics in New Year
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Rome is a lovely place. :) Love the Pantheon. :D

I don't know how long you are in Pisa, but try to see more than the tower square. The area around the tower is mostly new and horrible, and if that is all you see, you'll have a bad impression of Pisa. The river is a nice walk. And there is a street called Borgo Stretto where a lot of the locals hangout. The town seems very empty otherwise. :LOL:

If you go up to take pics over Florence from the most popular view, Piazzale Michelangelo, it is very busy. I saw pics by a chap earlier in the year, and he took pics from the cemetery above and behind the Piazzale Michelangelo. I wasn't able to take advantage when I was there in July as the Cemetery closed before sunset. :rolleyes: :( I still got some nice pics from the Piazzale Michelangelo though. :)

Of course if photo's are not your primary purpose, just have a good time. ;) :)
 
I'm officially a member of this gang. Still getting used to the camera, but one thing that's weird is the previews all appear to be heavily processed jpegs. If, for example, I take a shot at ISO 6400 and check the screen it looks awful. When I load it into lightroom it looks like an unprocessed RAW. Am I missing something because this has never been the case with my other Nikon bodies.
 
The23rdman said:
I'm officially a member of this gang. Still getting used to the camera, but one thing that's weird is the previews all appear to be heavily processed jpegs. If, for example, I take a shot at ISO 6400 and check the screen it looks awful. When I load it into lightroom it looks like an unprocessed RAW. Am I missing something because this has never been the case with my other Nikon bodies.
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The Picture Control might be set to vivid or similar, try altering it to something less garish like Standard, Neutral or Flat.
 
The23rdman said:
I'm officially a member of this gang. Still getting used to the camera, but one thing that's weird is the previews all appear to be heavily processed jpegs. If, for example, I take a shot at ISO 6400 and check the screen it looks awful. When I load it into lightroom it looks like an unprocessed RAW. Am I missing something because this has never been the case with my other Nikon bodies.
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Happy with your new toy? Congrats :)
 
I found the problem. High ISO NR was on. :D
 
I have been using the 750 and 35mm Art for approx a week and I kinda wish I still had my D700 and 35mm 1.8 to do some comparison tests re ISO/noise levels. I am not sure if I have a setting wrong (I hope I do tbh) but some shots I think the noise is not great even at low ISO's, it is like there is a constant level of noise. I shoot RAW and do not use flash (one reason I upgraded) so low light is quite important to me.

With my 700 I had my max ISO setting set to 5000 so I presumed that the 750 would handle 5000 no problem and I could increase that to 6400 without too much of an issue.

If I view a 100% crop on two photos, I presume that the reason the 750 'appears' noisier due to it having twice as much resolution over the 700?

High ISO NR is set to off. Is there any other settings that I should check that could affect ISO performance.

Maybe it is me just expecting too much, I thought I would be amazed at the difference between the two but not quite convinced as yet, maybe I just have not used it enough, just curious if anyone else had a similar view after upgrading from another FX camera. Also if anyone else uses max ISO, what would you set it to for it to be acceptable?

I know I need to get some samples together.
 
I use fairly high ISOs a lot of the time and reckon the D750 is a markedly better than the D700, at least on a par with the D3S (I have auto ISO on both set to a maximum of 8000). But I compare pictures at viewing sizes (print or screen).
 
I use max 6400 for weddings and it's perfectly useable! Certainly go album size prints. I was shooting yesterday at up to 8000 for some family shots and they are still great,

Some weddings photographers are using it at 12800 if needed and happy with results.
 
daygo30 said:
I have been using the 750 and 35mm Art for approx a week and I kinda wish I still had my D700 and 35mm 1.8 to do some comparison tests re ISO/noise levels. I am not sure if I have a setting wrong (I hope I do tbh) but some shots I think the noise is not great even at low ISO's, it is like there is a constant level of noise. I shoot RAW and do not use flash (one reason I upgraded) so low light is quite important to me.

With my 700 I had my max ISO setting set to 5000 so I presumed that the 750 would handle 5000 no problem and I could increase that to 6400 without too much of an issue.

If I view a 100% crop on two photos, I presume that the reason the 750 'appears' noisier due to it having twice as much resolution over the 700?

High ISO NR is set to off. Is there any other settings that I should check that could affect ISO performance.

Maybe it is me just expecting too much, I thought I would be amazed at the difference between the two but not quite convinced as yet, maybe I just have not used it enough, just curious if anyone else had a similar view after upgrading from another FX camera. Also if anyone else uses max ISO, what would you set it to for it to be acceptable?

I know I need to get some samples together.
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You can't compare apples with oranges. The D750 has twice the pixels and therefore viewing at 100% is much closer to the action than the D700. It's not about actual noise anyway - it's how much detail is maintained. The D750 files are full of detail at high ISO allowing you to add some NR if you need to, but at normal viewing distances or in print it's the kind of noise that disappears.
 
The D750 also has far superior dynamic range than the D700/D3. That allows us to push the shadows an incredible amount.
 
The23rdman said:
The D750 also has far superior dynamic range than the D700/D3. That allows us to push the shadows an incredible amount.
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Or pull back the highlights. I'm still amazed by what there is in those white skies I seem to get all the time. :)
 
Ed Sutton said:
Or pull back the highlights. I'm still amazed by what there is in those white skies I seem to get all the time. :)
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Yes, that too, but there are other cameras that allow you to pull effectively. There's no other that can push five stops without image degradation.
 
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