D200 Banidng Rant

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D200 Banidng Rant

Postby pharmer on Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:24 pm

Here we go, rant time - I knew that I'd eventually get this and it seems to pop up pretty routinely these days.

Any shot over ISO 250 and blown highlights or deliberate high key effect induces banidng around the highlight.

My D200 was brought in June (grey import) and my friends D200 in June (Maxwell stock) - his does the same (and told by Maxwell thats its acceptable and "in-spec". All D200's short b*nd apparantly and it cannot be fixed

An example - straight RAW file to JPG conversion

The Full image:
Image

The b*nding: (100%)
Image

Is this acceptable and in-spec? I hope not, considering no other DSLR I've ever used (D50, D70s, 30D, 5D) does this with blown/highkey shots

Thoughts or opinions. Am I been too picky with a $2100 camera?
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