Fallen for the D7000...

After seeing the below, I thought I'd have ago at using Nikon's D lighting and boosting shadow detail, as it seem this new sensor has huge amounts of shadow dynamic range, with low noise and no cross-hatch pattern.


Camera was set to expose via Av priority.

D lighting Off
doff.jpg


D lighting On 'Very High' (Scene is under exposed for highlights)
don.jpg


D Lighting On (Only PP done was to move fill-light to 46 in Lightroom)
dfill.jpg


100% Crop of shadows, no noise reduction added.
crop.jpg
 
darubio said:
the quality looks really good, does it shoot HD video as well?
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Yeh it does 1080P and has auto focus (Manual focus is currently better unless your not any good at it), although I wasn't really interested in video.

If your serious about getting into video though then a 60D is probably the better choice as it offers more video options but you will have to manual focus.

If your primary concern is still's though and are of the opinion video is a bonus you'l only use occasionally, then the D7k is the superior camera out of the two.
 
Ejizz said:
After seeing the below, I thought I'd have ago at using Nikon's D lighting and boosting shadow detail, as it seem this new sensor has huge amounts of shadow dynamic range, with low noise and no cross-hatch pattern.


Camera was set to expose via Av priority.

D lighting Off
doff.jpg


D lighting On 'Very High' (Scene is under exposed for highlights)
don.jpg


D Lighting On (Only PP done was to move fill-light to 46 in Lightroom)
dfill.jpg


100% Crop of shadows, no noise reduction added.
crop.jpg
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Swear that's a place near the "oasis" college, in croydon lol. looks awfully similar.
 
wow, i will get a shot of the place i'm referring to it has literally an identical section to that. god damn modern housing design!
 
Received my Focus Genie today along with a nearly new 35 1.8 off the bay for £150 delivered (VERY impressed with this lens) and a 20mm 2.8, which I'm not happy with, it's fairly soft at 2.8 compared to the Tamron 17-50 I sent back for front focus as it needed +20 'Micro Adjust' for focus to be correct.
I think I'l send the 20mm back and order another copy of the Tamron from a UK dealer and then just send it in for calibration if needed.

Below is a sample of the Focus Genie with the 35mm...

Focus-Genie.jpg
 
The 35 is a great little lens, I use it more than any of my other lenses.

How do you find the D7000 deals with the CA of the 35? I'm using a D60 right now, and am tempted to upgrade to a newer body, and I wouldn't mind seeing how well the CA reduction feature works in the newer Nikon bodies. :)
 
MikeHunt79 said:
The 35 is a great little lens, I use it more than any of my other lenses.

How do you find the D7000 deals with the CA of the 35? I'm using a D60 right now, and am tempted to upgrade to a newer body, and I wouldn't mind seeing how well the CA reduction feature works in the newer Nikon bodies. :)
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CA doesn't seem too bad with the D7k, although being an ex. Canon user I can't directly compare it to previous Nikons.
I found CA is rather prevalent in most primes I'v tried, both Nikon and Canon.

The best lens I'v used so far with regards to CA seems to be the Tamron 17-50 2.8.

Just curious, what method do you use to remove CA?
For me I made an action to do the following, I create a duplicate layer of the entire image, then Gaussian blur that layer by 10-15 pixels, set the layer blending mode to colour, and layer mask, invert layer mask, then paint away the CA in the problem areas.

Below is a 100% crop of the 35mm before and after this routine.

Before
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After
FG100.jpg
 
I've tried various ways of fixing CA in Photoshop but havent had much success really, I tried making separate RGB layers with layer masks, so I can re-align the RGB layers at the edges of the image do that the RGB layers now line up... It's hard to describe but it did improve things a little.

I've read a little more about the D7000 and it can correct for CA in the camera, it only does it to the JPEG however, in the same way it only applies d-lighting to the JPEG whole leaving the RAW untouched if you shoot in RAW+JPEG mode.

Take a look at this page, around halfway down, it shows an example of in camera CA correction, it looks like it works rather well... http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/D7000/D7000A5.HTM
I'm pretty impressed by that example, it's a shame they haven't added a few more as there must be some clever stuff going on in the camera...

As you said, some lenses give more CA than others, and I find I don't really get it that often, but if I was to upgrade (I'm torn between a D3100 and the D7000) then it would be nice to have this feature as I tend to use my 35mm lens the majority of the time. :)
 
^^^
Just tried NX2 and that seems to get rid of CA in raw similar to how the D7000's algorithm gets rid of it in Jpg.
From my limited usage so far, it seems NX2 is far far far superior than anything else I'v tried to use to get rid of CA. The prog. on as a whole though seems clunky and not as good as LR, so now I'm trying to work out if there is an efficient way to fix CA in NX2 and then take the image to lightroom, and then maybe photoshop if needed.
 
I remember trying out the NX2 trail a while back and while it did seem a little clunky it did seem to use the same algorithm's that were used in the cameras, but don't quote me on that. It was really handy to be able to apply d-lighting in post also.

I did try making an AHK script that would automate processing but didn't get very far.

It's a real shame that Nikon don't offer the processing power from NX2 in a PS plug-in, but I guess that's too much to ask it seems...
 
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