Planning to upgrade to a d800 soonish from a d7000! finally man! any tips on how to check if i'm getting a fresh model in terms of serial number wise? and has the left focus issue been relatively solved yet? cheers!
Planning to upgrade to a d800 soonish from a d7000! finally man! any tips on how to check if i'm getting a fresh model in terms of serial number wise? and has the left focus issue been relatively solved yet? cheers!
Planning to upgrade to a d800 soonish from a d7000! finally man! any tips on how to check if i'm getting a fresh model in terms of serial number wise? and has the left focus issue been relatively solved yet? cheers!
Planning to upgrade to a d800 soonish from a d7000! finally man! any tips on how to check if i'm getting a fresh model in terms of serial number wise? and has the left focus issue been relatively solved yet? cheers!
D800 takes some computing muscle, you will need
An i7 processor
SSD Hard Disc helps a lot
16GB of ram helps too
all the best!!
Disagree... even my old AMD athlon with 8gb ram and normal hdd crunches through d800 raw files just fine.
Fresh or not fresh, if there is a problem update the firmware. If update firmware still have problem, send it into Nikon and it will be fixed.
What i can say is that i have owned a D800 since april of 2012 and the camera went with me to -30 degrees conditions over 12 days, sometimes under wind and snow earlier this year and it never had a problem. So, if it was manufactured earlier and sitting on a shelf till you got it would not make a difference.
The left focus issue is somewhat random and for my friends and I who use D800, it did not become a problem for us. If it does, go to NSC to have it fixed because there was not an official recognition that a certain serial number batch have problems so no one knows for sure.
It is not so simple. Things like focus hunting cannot be fixed. I thought the d800 focusing is less sure than d700. Not just me, other people also report same thing
With a D800, likely one will not need to upgrade for years to come :bsmilie:
With a D800, likely one will not need to upgrade for years to come :bsmilie:
And hunting for a specific batch of D800 will eliminate the risk of focus hunting on a D800?
Anyway, the few D800 I tried focuses just fine... and seems on par or better than the D700...
There are too many variables in play. I carry 2 lens 35mm f1.4 and 70-200mm f2.8 and 2 bodies D700 and D800. I use my 35mm far more often so I really wanted to mount the 35mm on the D800 such that most of my shots will be done with the D800.
After 2 trips and many shots later, my conclusion is it is just not worth it. I am losing too many shots due to AF error and the D800 resolution adv is basically gone due to slight misfocus.
For me, it all depends on the lens I am using. The 70-200mm f2.8 focus perfectly on the D800 and I see a big improvement in the IQ.
If I am using the 35mm f1.4, frankly I don't see much of an improvement using the D800 vs D700...
This is just my experience for my 2 lens and 2 bodies... your mileage may differ..
For the ones I used, the different copies of D800 have been able to nail focus faster than any of the two D700 bodies I own without hesitation, and in darker environment where D700 is known to struggle, with lenses ranging from Sigma 24/1.18, Nikon 24-70, Sigma 50, Sigma 85, 16-35VR to the 70-200VR2.
And I am not talking IQ here. I am just saying AF acquisition.
Well, it might be true for your case and your copy of D800. i think you need to send in your D800 to get it looked at, because it is not normal.
I did sent it to NSC. The tech says my D800 is normal. I think the AF issue is quite complicated and it really depends on the lens.
During AF, your lens is wide open so I think how good your lens optically (wide open) affects your AF. The 35mm f1.4 has quite a lot of CA at f1.4 so maybe that is affecting my AF acquisition. The 70-200mm VR2 nails the AF almost EVERY SINGLE time on my D800 and can out-resolves the 36MP sensor...
Also my subject is rarely static and subject tracking comes into play. There is just too many complexities for me to even tell NSC where the problem is....
At the end of the day, what I have ended up is D800 on the 70-200mm and D700 on the 35mm. Not ideal but a workaround.
Planning to upgrade to a d800 soonish from a d7000! finally man! any tips on how to check if i'm getting a fresh model in terms of serial number wise? and has the left focus issue been relatively solved yet? cheers!