Hired a big bad camera for the day

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Location
Bangalore, India
Name
Rajiv
I hired a Nikon D800 for a couple of days to try and figure out for myself what the fuss was about.

It was everything I expected it would be.

Big, ungainly, and frankly not something I see myself lugging around at all.

But then it did something that I didn't quite expect.

Here's what it did -


I underexposed this image till I could barely make out any details in the shot
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Then I just dragged a slider and this showed up
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That's very good
In fairness though I've had similar surprises off my F660EXR but probably not as clear
 
Next time don't underexpose.

The FF cameras are wonderful beasts, allowing non-pro-photographers to attain pro-quality results and pro-photographers to attain pro-quality results without pro-quality attention to silly details (like exposure).

In all honesty, what do you think of the camera/files/images?

Gary
 
Next time don't underexpose.

The FF cameras are wonderful beasts, allowing non-pro-photographers to attain pro-quality results and pro-photographers to attain pro-quality results without pro-quality attention to silly details (like exposure).

In all honesty, what do you think of the camera/files/images?

Gary

This image was underexposed to this degree on purpose of course. To test what I could pull in post.

The files are HUGE to work with. Photoshop was putting out tiff file size of 150+mb. The RAW files from SOOC were at 70+ mb.

I enjoyed working on the files in post though. There was a lot of latitude. Especially colour information and the amount I could push it around.

Even in very uneven lighting I could pull out a clean edit.

However, if I get this camera, I will need to update my computer. No question about it. Having multiple files open are not an option on my current setup.
 
I think all the cameras are getting better in that regard. Forum member Livnius posted a shot on flickr last week from his X100s that just blew me away. There were some areas that were buried in shadow...they looked like they were at true black. Then he showed what he turned it into in post. If you click through to his photostream, you can see the before and after here...... Fuji X100s DR test (out of camera) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
 
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