Finally, the mourning of my D7000 has come to an end.

An Exception · 10 Sep 2011 at 20:38

All I can say is... Wowzers!

Mr Jones · 10 Sep 2011 at 20:42

Update your sign time

I am loving mine and I'm sure your D700 will bring you much joy.

Derek W · 10 Sep 2011 at 20:47

looks faulty......its got N I K O N written on it instead of Canon

TRNC · 10 Sep 2011 at 20:56

Derek W said:
looks faulty......its got N I K O N written on it instead of Canon

All the best kit has

An Exception · 10 Sep 2011 at 21:23

Mr Jones said:
Update your sign time
I am loving mine and I'm sure your D700 will bring you much joy.

It already is, it feels like my D7K I had (and loved), only bigger, heavier, faster, but most importantly, FF.

An Exception · 10 Sep 2011 at 22:59

A quite image quality test.

SOOC with LR3 defaults.
Lens: 50mm 1.8G
Aperture: F1.8
SS: 1/160
ISO 2000

100% Crop

Sharper than I expected tbh.

oO Stevie Oo · 10 Sep 2011 at 23:26

Ejizz said:
A quite image quality test.

SOOC with LR3 defaults.
Lens: 50mm 1.8G
Aperture: F1.8
SS: 1/160
ISO 2000

100% Crop

Sharper than I expected tbh.

Rips the **** right out of my max usable iso200 haha
quality purchase, This is also the model I'm considering upgrading to

Congrats

An Exception · 10 Sep 2011 at 23:35

^^^
A D7K is a good alternative if you crop sensors, the chap I sold mine to actually had a D80.
This D700 though, is something else (from what I'm used to anyway), especially high ISO sharpness.

oO Stevie Oo · 10 Sep 2011 at 23:39

I didnt even realise it was a 700 lol even better
Title says D7000 which is what i'll be going to next :cool:

oO Stevie Oo · 10 Sep 2011 at 23:41

And now I've just realised you said your were mourning your D7000 so just ignore me,
Need some sleep haha

Raymond Lin · 10 Sep 2011 at 23:43

Ejizz said:
A quite image quality test.

SOOC with LR3 defaults.

You are you under exposing your shots?

An Exception · 11 Sep 2011 at 00:01

Not for these examples lol, why are they a bit too noisy for ISO2000 would you say?

Raymond Lin · 11 Sep 2011 at 00:02

lol, I meant to say

Why are you not under exposing your shots?

narh, they look great for ISO 2000, that's FF for you.

An Exception · 11 Sep 2011 at 00:03

One thing does seem weird, I'v never been able to see vignetting before, not that I mind tbh.

Raymond Lin · 11 Sep 2011 at 00:04

Ejizz said:
One thing does seem weird, I'v never been able to see vignetting before, not that I mind tbh.

Well, you never used the edge of your glass before

An Exception · 11 Sep 2011 at 00:08

Raymond Lin said:
lol, I meant to say

Why are you not under exposing your shots?

narh, they look great for ISO 2000, that's FF for you.

Not a contrasty scene

But seriously, yes I will be underexposing if I'm out again on a sunny day, however now there are more clouds in the sky there isn't much need to atm, and I can dial in little if any, negative exposure.

An Exception · 11 Sep 2011 at 00:12

Raymond Lin said:
Well, you never used the edge of your glass before

Another welcome difference is, I have also been able to notice improved sharpness wide open, I guess that's the benefit of the sensor being able to use more of the glass to record an image...

Raymond Lin · 11 Sep 2011 at 00:15

Ejizz said:
Another welcome difference is, I have also been able to notice improved sharpness wide open, I guess that's the benefit of the sensor being able to use more of the glass to record an image...

Not really, the lens wide open is the same with FF or cropped. with cropped you are just seeing less.

It is likely a better sensor, or the lens matches this camera in terms of calibration better.

An Exception · 11 Sep 2011 at 00:26

^^^
No all my lenses were perfect on my D7K, AF literally couldn't get any more accurate (according to my Focus Genie (yes for my sins, I'm a pixel peeper)).

Lenses actually have more effective resolution on FF, so when the lens is the bottleneck, an FF sensor will increase the effective sharpness.
I imagine (not that I actually know) it is a similar effect as what happens when you reduce the size of an image in photoshop that has slight mis-focus, the reduced magnification masks the softness and makes the image appear sharper.

D.P. · 11 Sep 2011 at 01:51

It is just the sihye of the pixels that makes the differences. 12MP over a FF is much more forgiving than the 16MP of an APS-C frame in the D7000. If the pixel density of the fullframe camera is high then you get the same problems. Hence on the 21-24MP FF sensors you need top lenses stopped down to get close to the theoretical resolution into the edges.

Congrats on the purchase. I decided to wait out for the D700 replacement and instead have speant several K on lesnes, tripods and gadgets, meaning I am fully kitted out when it comes to upgrade.