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07-02-2012, 05:04 PM
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What a lovely looking beast this looks. Would seriously consider going Nikon for this.
I want 
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07-02-2012, 05:17 PM
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Hmm, lots to drool over but not sure I'd want 36 megapixels! And it's got me worried that they'll be pushing up the pixels on the D400 whenever it's announced. I don't want that; I want better noise handling at high ISOs. I want to be able to shoot at ISO 800 and get results like I'm currently getting at ISO 200 and the higher they go on the pixel count the less chance I'll have.
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Mmmm.... wonder what the raw image filesize will be
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07-02-2012, 06:03 PM
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I just read about this too. Lordy! how many megapixels. I'd consider this but I'd definitely like to see what a D400 (or whatever it ends up being) does.
And I'm with Dave here, definitely would like to see a definite improvement in noise handling over a massive increase in MP.
Now what can I sell to raise some money 
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07-02-2012, 06:07 PM
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It's be a mega pain to edit 36 Meg in Photoshop on an oldish machine, particularly something like a rotate!
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07-02-2012, 06:10 PM
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I can't see this being of much interest to wildlife photographers.
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07-02-2012, 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Boddie  What a lovely looking beast this looks. Would seriously consider going Nikon for this.
I want | If you cross over to the Dark Side, i'll take that little Canon thingy off your hands for you. 
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07-02-2012, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by BillyPilgrim Mmmm.... wonder what the raw image filesize will be | Uncompressed 14bit Raw - 74.4MB
Compressed 12bit Raw - 29.0MB
JPEG Fine - 16.3MB
TIFF - 108.2MB
To paraphrase the movie Jaws - "We're gonna need a bigger hard drive"
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07-02-2012, 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by rogpow Uncompressed 14bit Raw - 74.4MB
Compressed 12bit Raw - 29.0MB
JPEG Fine - 16.3MB
TIFF - 108.2MB
To paraphrase the movie Jaws - "We're gonna need a bigger hard drive" | Not only a bigger HD, but some serious processing power to PP a TIFF image. There'd be no point in PPing the smaller JPEG and then saving it as a TIFF.
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08-02-2012, 08:22 AM
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I think it's memory that's key. I've been playing around with some chunky stitched panoramas recently - 1.5GB uncompressed tiff - and I'm pretty sure that it's memory causing my PC to struggle.
I'm with Graham - this model is aimed at commercial studio photographers and landscape artists. It's not really for wildlife.
Although if anyone wants to buy me one I won't complain!
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