christopher_ellington Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 <p>Has anyone here seen any results of the D800 from the Olympics yet?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans_janssen Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 <p>Probably seen, but not aware off. I've have seen some 'smaller' Nikons at the judo arena, but couldn't identify them.</p> <p>And I saw an awfull big Canon rocketlauncher with a camera attached. I think they were operating it with twomen.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Garrard Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 <p>I took my D800E to Wimbledon on Sunday. I have some images that I'll try to post when I'm not on a conference call. :-) They're not especially professional, but that's more to do with me than the camera (although a little to do with not being able to take the lens I wanted).</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soeren_engelbrecht1 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 No, but I actually saw an accredited photographer with a 4x5 inch camera. He was really changing those film holders in a hurry :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Garrard Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 <p>Soeren: ! I joked about taking one to the 100m final in a thread about the right camera for the job, but I didn't imagine someone would really do it. Where were they?</p> <p>(I'm still waiting to get a 5x4 - the last one I held was lighter than my F5, so I'm not that scared. Fuji's impending film discontinuations worry me a bit.)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christopher_ellington Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 <p>Sorry guys. I really was thinking about the D4. Not the D800....I know the D4 is what Nikon seems to have been pushing for the Olympics in speed and quality</p> <p>my mishap</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry_sousa Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 <p>I think it would be hard to tell, which pro digital camera was used for a photograph. But the 4X5 is another story. The LF photographer seen by Soeren could well have been the one and only, David Burnett. </p> <p>http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/an-olympic-photographers-endurance/</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wade_roth Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 I ran across this the other day. It looks like there will be at least 12 of them flying around. Nikon D4 wielding robots arms will shoot at the Olympics http://www.nphotomag.com/2012/07/26/nikon-d4-wielding-robots-arms-will-shoot-at-the-olympics/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Garrard Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 <p>Jerry: Thank you for the link. Cool!<br /> <br /> Christopher: I just had a look through my images of Sunday. There were at least three single-digit D-series cameras there (on one side - I think there were a couple on the other too) but I'm too far away and on the wrong side of the body to tell whether they were D3s or D4s; I think at least one was a D3 from the shutter angle. Output? Not seen any yet.<br /> <br /> As for my D800E...</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisae Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 <p>Andrew, may I ask what focal length you used for this photo? </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soeren_engelbrecht1 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 <p>I was quite suprised to see the LF photographer. It was during a post-game interview (women's handball, which is big for us in Denmark), and he was sat in the near background, seemingly taking several pictures on 4x5. Though I could watch him constantly for about 20-30 seconds, I couldn't see what he was pointing the camera at, and there was definitely no sports going on. Strange. He also used a Leica M, BTW, but I only saw the front of that camera, so no telling, whether it was film or digital...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iso200 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 <p>Mark Rebilas is using a D800 and a D4:<br> http://markjrebilas.com/blog/?p=15594<br> http://markjrebilas.com/blog/?p=15622</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Garrard Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 <p>Hi Lisa. That was an 80-200 at 200mm (no teleconverter), using DX crop mode, and that image is about a quarter of the frame (half width). So full-frame equivalent would have been about 600mm. I was behind the royal box, about three rows from the back - not ideal. Thank goodness for the D800's pixel count. Even so, I've only got under 2000 pixels of height, and it's not really tack sharp (and 1/800s, f/4, ISO 1100 [on auto]). I can see why being court side with my 200 f/2 would have helped, but we work with what we've got...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisae Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 <p>Andrew: thanks. I'm planning to buy a new camera before the end of the year. I hadn't planned to move to FX, but I'm starting to rethink that after taking photos of gymnastics at J.O. Nationals last week from the stands. I'm weighing the advantage of a DX camera over the extra pixels to crop from the D800. Maybe I'll rent one for a few days.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph_smith3 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 <p>While not a D 800, this is a Nikon D 4 with the new Nikon 800mm f 5.6 lens:<br> <a href="http://www.leonneal.com/blog/2012/07/31/nikon-800mm-f5-6-preview/">http://www.leonneal.com/blog/2012/07/31/nikon-800mm-f5-6-preview/</a></p> <p>Joe Smith</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 <p>Strange to see a player not wearing an all-white outfit at Wimbledon.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Garrard Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 <p>Lisa: No problem. A bigger lens would have done me better (if I'd been able to track people with it), but I might not have got in with one. Most of my shots inside the arena were in DX crop (in the interests of not blowing my memory card - both write speed and filling it - with unnecessary edges), so a D7000 would have done just as well with the lens I had available - the reason not to would be that you can crop including the edge of the frame (and I do have a couple of images where I would have liked to include something just outside the image), but bear in mind the autofocus points are all in the middle, so it's not the common case.<br /> <br /> For gymnastics, if you can get in, I'm sure there's no substitute for physical aperture (600mm f/4 on FX, 400 f/2.8 on DX being roughly equivalent in light gathered over the frame). I would imagine that you'd have a good chance of predicting movement in gymnastics, so leaving spare pixels isn't so relevant. A D7000 is faster than a D800, the finder makes cropping more obvious (although I didn't have the problem seeing the DX rectangle that some people have reported) and probably a better choice if you're mostly planning to crop, even ignoring the price difference; of course, if a D400 appears soon...<br /> <br /> Having made that argument, it wasn't a trade-off I actually had to make. I don't own a D7000, or any other DX Nikon, so I may be missing something.<br /> <br /> I did take a few full-frame images with my fish-eye and my 14-24, for what it's worth.<br /> <br /> Shun: I agree, it was freaky. I'm very grateful to Andy Murray for wearing a lens test chart (the quarter-Union Flag kit for team GB is a nice focus target).</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisae Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 <p>Andrew: thanks. I'm thinking in terms of final image quality - if cropping from a full-frame image would give me better images than zooming in from a crop sensor. I don't think the D800 is the perfect camera for me. I'm just trying to weigh the compromises. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Garrard Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 <p>Belatedly (sorry, been away): cropping a D800 frame down to DX size should give better images than using a shorter lens and cropping the DX frame down similarly. If you use a longer lens on the D800 and use it full frame, you should get better results than using a shorter lens on a D7000 and using it full frame (assuming decent lenses and no need for teleconverters). If you use a D800 and crop it to the DX frame compared with a D7000 and not cropping it at all, however, the D7000 should be just as good (and faster).</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisae Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 <p>Andrew: thanks. That's what I've been thinking. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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