D800 User Thread I
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zoom3
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Rain5533, don't loose sleep over this. How often in real life shooting conditions will you use the outmost left focus point wide open at 28mm ? You have not experienced any problem so far in actual shooting, right?
So just keep on shooting and send in for calibration at your convenience. If have to pay, then just pay lor.....
So just keep on shooting and send in for calibration at your convenience. If have to pay, then just pay lor.....
rain5533
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yes all you right..
maybe using macro in wide open will be effect my AF on left hand side,
BTW got time just bring in to NSC for pass it few days only.. haha
reject
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My memory cards have arrived
Congrats! Looks like more than enough. Arrived from where?
rain5533
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what lens are you guys using on your D800??
I have the 35mm f1.4G, 14-24mm and 70-200mm VR2.
35mm f1.4G is very soft on the D800. I shoot quite a lot on f1.4 on the 35mm. There really isn't much improvement for the D800 vs D700.... In fact I think the AF on the D700 is more reliable and thus the lens performs better on the D700.
14-24mm is a mixed bag. I have to dial a -12 AF finetune else the lens shows serious back focus at 24mm. Maybe that is why people say it is soft on the D800. I don't have to do any AF finetune on the D700.... After fine tune, the lens looks much better. But the 14mm is close to showing a slight front focus at f2.8. The AF at 14mm and 24mm is not sync... But after tuning the AF, the lens looks pretty sharp, only slightly soft at f2.8. Probably not an issue as I usually step down the lens to f5.6 anyway.
70-200mm VR2 is perfect. Zero AF fine tune. Very sharp even at 100% with the D800. After spending lots of time on "optimizing" the 35mm and 14-24mm, I was very happy that the 70-200mm does not need anything.
Which makes me wonder, did Nikon over emphasize the AF for tele lens? All the problems reported online seems to be for 24mm and wider lens....
I have the 35mm f1.4G, 14-24mm and 70-200mm VR2.
35mm f1.4G is very soft on the D800. I shoot quite a lot on f1.4 on the 35mm. There really isn't much improvement for the D800 vs D700.... In fact I think the AF on the D700 is more reliable and thus the lens performs better on the D700.
14-24mm is a mixed bag. I have to dial a -12 AF finetune else the lens shows serious back focus at 24mm. Maybe that is why people say it is soft on the D800. I don't have to do any AF finetune on the D700.... After fine tune, the lens looks much better. But the 14mm is close to showing a slight front focus at f2.8. The AF at 14mm and 24mm is not sync... But after tuning the AF, the lens looks pretty sharp, only slightly soft at f2.8. Probably not an issue as I usually step down the lens to f5.6 anyway.
70-200mm VR2 is perfect. Zero AF fine tune. Very sharp even at 100% with the D800. After spending lots of time on "optimizing" the 35mm and 14-24mm, I was very happy that the 70-200mm does not need anything.
Which makes me wonder, did Nikon over emphasize the AF for tele lens? All the problems reported online seems to be for 24mm and wider lens....
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