Nikon D800 with video features

[Henry Coll]

Great fashion video shot with the D800

The Nikon D800 and Photographer John Walsh on Vimeo

[Emmanuel Plakiotis]

Funny but at the end of the video it says 2011...


I have one question for the forum. As you know D800 can shoot at 20mp and 9mp without cropping. Does that mean that the low light performance improves?

[Jacques Mersereau]

Originally Posted by Henry Coll

Great fashion video shot with the D800

The Nikon D800 and Photographer John Walsh on Vimeo

The footage looks good, but as one person remarked, "Where's the shadow detail?"

A) It's on those cam that cost $20K and up.

But seriously, I am wondering about HDMI output and whether what we see in the current examples is a codec crushing the blacks to save space. I hope so and that the HDMI retains good looking shadow detail.

[Jacques Mersereau]

Well, talk about an oxymoron - an 'uncompressed' D800 video test on youtube,
Michael Pappas posted this link on the CML list.

NIKON D800 HDMI V.S AVCHD TEST VIDEO Vol.01? - YouTube

It shows something, but I am most interested in highlight and shadow capabilities of the D800 when recording HDMI out.

[Tim Polster]

Interesting that higher bitrate footage often shows more of a detail gain than "color" improvement although the color sampling is what gets the attention.. Also interesting how the HDMI footage had a brighter exposure. (assuming they were shot at the same time).

[Jacques Mersereau]

I am hoping that someone will soon test the D800's HDMI out in a 'real shoot' situation involving high contrast and lots of shadows. Chip charts have their place, but I really want to see if the D800 can make art.
When I know that the HDMI out is truly clean and enables shadow detail normally 'thrown out' during in-camera compression, my next step will be to round up the money to buy one.

[Chiayi Fun]

Nikon D800 Lungshan Temple ??? on Vimeo

My frist D800 video.

Nikon D800
14-24mm F2.8
ZEISS 50mm F1.4 ZF
ZEISS 85mm F1.4 ZF

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Adobe Premiere CS5.5

Skyler minitrack dolly .

[Emmanuel Plakiotis]

According to DXoMark, D800 boasts the best sensor so far, topping all categories:

DxOMark - Sensor performance

[Henry Coll]

Originally Posted by Chiayi Fun

My frist D800 video.

Chiayi Fun,

your great video has caused a revolution already all over DSLR forums worldwide. It's been the first video showing the D800 might have a resolution approaching that from the FS100/F3, and way beyond what the newer 5DmkIII is capable of. As it's also relatively free of artifacts and shows a great Dynamic Range, the D800 might end up dethroning Canon in the DSLR video camp.

Would you care to comment how did you shoot that video, what your D800 settings were, was it a simple CS5.5 edit with no other processing, etc?

[Tim Polster]

It is a very nice image. I really like the absence of the crushed black look so common in DSLR video.

Interesting shootouts are probably in the making!

[David Heath]

Originally Posted by Emmanuel Plakiotis

According to DXoMark, D800 boasts the best sensor so far, topping all categories:

DxOMark - Sensor performance

As a note of caution, that link seems to solely be looking at the D800 from the point of view of stills performance. It would be totally wrong to draw any conclusions from that either way about video performance.

[Chiayi Fun]

Originally Posted by Henry Coll

Chiayi Fun,

Would you care to comment how did you shoot that video, what your D800 settings were, was it a simple CS5.5 edit with no other processing, etc?

Thanks Henry

This is the original format file .

You can download the file.

Nikon D800 original format file download. on Vimeo

The video only adjust a little brightness at 01:45. The other part of thevideo just a simple CS5.5 edit .


Sorry for my poor English.

[Tony Davies-Patrick]

Nikon D800 customers may face UK delays through April (latest update 27th March):

Nikon D800 customers may face UK delays (update) news


I'm also concerned about the sudden £200 leap in price...and even larger increase with the D4!

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk...ws_311965.html

[Emmanuel Plakiotis]

I wonder, the price hike was due to a system error, as they claim, or due to unprecedented demand?

[Tony Davies-Patrick]

There is no real excuse for this 'blunder' by Nikon. UK buyers are already sending shock-waves...and cancelling orders.

Mistake leads to Nikon price increases [update 2] - British Journal of Photography

To say that it was a 'computer error' is ridiculous.

As Thom Hogan remarked: "...The net overall price increase just made measures out to a bit over 10%. Hard to figure how you miss by that much and not notice it somewhere in your organization the first week, let along the second, third, fourth, fifth, right up to the 11th week.

But wait, they did it twice. The D800 was also changed in price this week by Nikon UK. So six weeks after its price was announced, we suddenly have a realization on Nikon's part that their numbers are wrong?"