Nooooodity !

[chrisk]

while i just adore my fuji...there are some things that the fuji is just incapable of producing. the dynamic range and detail of this damn d800e is staggering. i've never experienced anything like it.

what a goddam stunning weekend we just had !!! for those of us poor souls in sydney that have endured weekend after weekend of RUBBISH weather...i hope you all got to enjoy the sun !









* why this forum softens ictures up so much i have no idea ??

[Remorhaz]

#2 is great

* why this forum softens ictures up so much i have no idea ??

I believe it's because you've sized your images at 1000 pixels across - and thus the forum resizes them down (and therefore you get softening - and that red line around your image indicating it was too large). I size mine at 925 pixels across so they don't get resized.

[chrisk]

Ahhh...thanks. Remind me again why we don't have 1000px images ? It's not that dial up thing again is it surely ?

[zafra52]

They are all great for different reasons.
I prefer 1 & 3; there is a very candit
attitude in them.

[Murray Foote]

The dynamic range of the D800 and D800E is 14.5 stops according to DxO if I remember correctly. This is certainly impressive and I wondered whether I would not need to bracket any more for HDR with my D800. I conducted a test and took a nine-stop bracket in late afternoon of a scene that ranged from black objects in shadow inside to a dead tree with a white trunk in full sunlight outside. I found that I needed all 9 exposures to capture the contrast range which therefore was around 23 stops.

Of course the extra dynamic range of the D800/E does help and does greatly reduce the need for realistic HDR especially if you do shoot RAW and adjust in Lightroom. Images 1 and 4 here, though, appear to have blocked shadows that are much darker than you would actually see them.