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Eric said:
@Bland - When you get a chance you might consider a CF card. The extra speed is nice with the D800. I'm using LR4 now and it seems to handle the d800 raw files just fine on my computer (Mac Pro).
I'll go get a CF card in the morning and try formating it. Fingers crossed! :)
Bland said:
I'll go get a CF card in the morning and try formating it. Fingers crossed! :)
If you can - go for a 90mb/s+. If you need to shoot fast, that clears the buffer quick enough. I have a 32gb CF and SD both rated at 95mb/s. Both off brand that the local shop sells and they have had really good luck with them. I tried those next to the SanDisks 128mb/s? I think that was the speed and buffer cleared at pretty much the same rate.
I'll have to try the format thing with the CF card out.
I just got back from the camera store and the owner said I had to have 700 speed or better for the D800. So the CF card I got is 64gb 1000 speed) and a 16gb SD (700 speed) card.
It's taking pictures great but when I hit format it just seems to do nothing. No DONE pops up and it doesn't delete my pictures. I've tried both the menu format and the body format function.
But the good news is it's taking great pictures and I have no problem downloading them.
Bland, when your screen flashes "All images on memory card will be deleted. OK?". Make sure you'press the OK button and not the center button on the multi-selector dial.
Thanks Rx4, that is exactly what I was doing wrong!
Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and this is my first post ever. Let me introduce myself a bit: I am an amateur photographer, I know nothing to little about photography, just having some good luck with some of my pictures :) So, in 2009 I had my first Nikon D300 and later I managed to get some decent glass for that camera. Yesterday, after long consideration and with a lot of fear of getting a lemon, I went to Memory Express in Richmond, BC, Canada and purchased a Nikon D800. At the time of the purchase, another person wast there returning a 2 days old D800 for a left AF issue. The sale person was testing the stock they have in hand and out of 4 tested cameras 1 appeared to be ok so that customer got the exchanged unit. My hope to get D800 sank as the sale person told me they mah not have any rouble free D800 as they tested out almost all of the cameras and the new batch was now most likely sold out. However, I asked for another try on the left cameras and oh joy, there was one with no apparent left side AF issue. The test in the store was far, far from perfect, no tripod, the light was not perfect but using the Siemens chart the difference in the LF are was evident very easily compared to the results with the camera I bought. The test was done with a 1.4 50mm Nikon lens. At home I put it at a test again with my 24 - 70, 2.8F lens. Here is what I used: 100 ISO, Manual, 3 seconds delay, no in camera corrections, single focus, lens wide open at 24mm and a distance of about 4 feet, camera parallel to the wall. What I discovered was at live view the further most focus point appears much more to the left compared to the view finder point. I run 2 different tests: One with the left focus point of the view finder and the live view one being at the same spot despite the fact that in Live View this was not the most left focus point and the other test was done using the further most left middle focusing point of the Live View mode and then I moved the target to the right on the same wall to put it in the range of the further most middle focus point when using the View Finder. The results of both test were identical and I did not find a difference between the 4 pictures or at least not enough to trigger my alarm. I am happy so far with my camera and I wish you all to have a good experience with yours.
Happy pictures taking to all of you :)
@SeeAndShoot - Glad your D800 doesn't have the problem. Please excuse me if I am asking the obvious, but have you calibrated the AF for all of your lenses yet? It sounds like your 24-70 must be pretty close, but I have found that all of my lenses need to have AF fine tuning done.
No, I did not do further lens testing,I just got the camera 24 hours ago :) so now I will have to spend the time and try it with all my lenses when I have more time. My biggest worry was the left side AF issue and I am relieved to see it absent from my camera.
SeeAndShoot said:
No, I did not do further lens testing,I just got the camera 24 hours ago :) so now I will have to spend the time and try it with all my lenses when I have more time. My biggest worry was the left side AF issue and I am relieved to see it absent from my camera.
Welcome to NRF....and it is a good thing to all of us when we get a camera which is without problems. Something to remember for all of us, however, is the incredible complexity of the camera system we have chosen. And it is built by humans. I suspect Nikon will be coming up with some plan to handle the large numbers of D800s which do have the left focus problem, just as car manufactures do this will their cars.
And as Eric suggests, calibrating the AF for each lens, lens combination, will help as well. Interestingly enough, in spite of having over 11,000 clicks on my D4, I have not done this yet, but it needs it. My long lenses focus about three or four inches behind the subject at 75 yards.... only an issue when the subject is relatively "thin".... not an issue with cars, for example.
But, it all takes a lot of time and some of us seem to be off doing, when we should be calibrating....ha, ha, ha...
...and as msmoto has so wisely implied, unless you are actually out taking pictures, nothing about the camera, its' focus, or calibration matters.
My 2 month old D4's mirror locked up (at a wedding) the mirror won't come down. I was unable to see out the viewfinder but the live view was working. I thought that the shutter was louder than it should have been from day one. It's sent off to Nikon to be looked at repaired. Tried resetting to factory settings, turned off the histogram stuff, updated firmware, nothing :(
UPDATE: well i have just received notification a Nikon technician has my camera and is currently fixing my af issues and i should get it back withing 4 days all in all it will have taken just over a week to get it to them and back again if that correct. missing my D800 :(
One of our newer members, peteralvey, is having problems with his D4...exposures all over the place. Hopefully he will post something here.
He has stated. "These examples are aperture priority, F8, no EV compensation, bracketing flash, straight shots. The exif shows 1/500 on some (correct) and 1/4 or 1/8 on others. So its not the lens not stopping down, the camera thinks its correct!" and posted a sequence of exposures maybe five stops over/under and some on.
Maybe a bracketing mis-function?
It does sound like bracketing. Perhaps a reset and making sure that the bracketing is set to 0 frames would help.
Is there anyone using a D4 who is really in love with the 3D AF system for high frame rate sequences? If so, would you care to comment on how you get the most out of it? I keep going back to single point AF and exposure comp (if necessary)...
Eric said:
It does sound like bracketing. Perhaps a reset and making sure that the bracketing is set to 0 frames would help.Is there anyone using a D4 who is really in love with the 3D AF system for high frame rate sequences? If so, would you care to comment on how you get the most out of it? I keep going back to single point AF and exposure comp (if necessary)...
Same here, Eric. I blamed it to the fact, that the speed of the moving subjects i have tried it at, is not constant enough. But I miht doing something wrong
Jürgen
Jürgen - I think msmoto feels the same way. I read these positive reviews, and feel like I must be missing something. I have seen some impressive results on occasion, but for some reason I remain skeptical...even though I try to use it fairly regularly. I wonder if I am doing something wrong, but can't quite figure out what it might be. I was hoping someone here would be a real fan just so I can verify I am using it right (I think I am).
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Hi everyone,
I knew everyone would say bracketing, And tired to show you some images but it was a contact sheet and wasn't allowed.
Anyway the camera has been exchanged now for a new one.
I think it may have been the update to 1.02 which caused the problem, the new one is shipped with 1.01. Anyone else updated to 1.02? This is supposed to change the gamma of the rear screen to remove the green tint.
BUT while it was with Nikon NPS in the UK they said it had also added other menu items they had not seen, including Matrix metering adjustments and tuning.
Interested to know what firmware others are using.
Thanks.
peteralvey said:
I think it may have been the update to 1.02 which caused the problem, the new one is shipped with 1.01. Anyone else updated to 1.02? This is supposed to change the gamma of the rear screen to remove the green tint.
Yikes, with 11,000 tics on mine, I am still on Version 1.01, 1.01, 1.004. I could care less about the so called "green tint". I have never relied upon the image in camera for color balance, but instead use PP to make adjustments. Or in a venue I know is problematic, make adjustments, but only to get closer. This may come from the old days of 10 yellow 30 magenta for cool white florescent tubes in the '60's and 70's....
I think I will wait before dropping in the latest version 1.02, if this is the result. Thanks for the input.
hey everyone,
dunno if this was discussed, but there seems to be dust/sand that gets into my viewfinder!(D800)
and no thats not the outside of the viewfinder. it is however a picture of the mirror, because taking pictures of the inside was hard to focus on
this pic shows that its not on the outside... well sort of, you can see it better(most likely on the full res)
i should note that the grain next to the focus is the most concerning
is this covered in the D800s warranty, since the body is supposed to be weather sealed? Thanks for your help.
@ starralazn.... I think I had some of this stuff in the prism of my D4. I got rid of it by holding the camera body face down, lens out, and gently blowing the air from one of those "clean" air cans into the area of the mirror and prism, and all the little dust particles disappeared. The body is only weather sealed when a lens is on it. Dust seems to be attracted to the inside easily when the lens is out. Certain conditions can do this more easily. I try to just be cautious if possible, and change lenses only in a controlled environment. Like, closed car, no A/C or fan running.
eh, no amount of air seems to blow it out. i'll just send into service i suppose
Bummer
How to copy settings from a D800 to a D800E - I tried to ask this question before and I was cut off and told to post here. So I will try again.
I was wondering if anyone knew the limitations of saving the settings under store and then moving the CF card to another camera. Specifically from a D800 to a D800E. Does the firmware need to be all the same? The D800E only has L 1.04 but the 800 is at 1.06. A and B are the same. When I put the card from the D800 into the D800E, the camera has grayed out the load. I see NCSETUP8.BIN and NIKON001.DSC. Which one is the setup file that it can't see. Does it need to be in a certain directory? Does it only work with a certain size of CF or SD card?
I would appreciate the help. The manual makes it sounds like it should just work. I agree - but it doesn't.
Thanks for helping
As I read the manual it says "between D800 cameras". And one might guess it should work between a D800 and D800E. A suggestion is to make certain the card in the primary slot is formatted in camera. Then save settings. On the second camera, reset to the default settings, then load the card with saved settings into the primary slot in the second camera and it should work as you said when you select load settings.
We will see if others have tried this....
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